Letting go of the ego is called freedom.
Things in our life run much more smoothly thereafter. It’s the ego that always gets in the way and disturbs the smooth flow of things. Whenever we interfere in any matter, be it merely through our opinion even, it’s actually our ego at play, and that’s ... Views: 266
A Spiritual Seeker Needs a Master who has the Right Knowledge to Guide
Master is the Guide!
Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, an enlightened being explains:
If you want to go to the station from here and get lost on the way, will you not have to ask someone for help? Whom would you ask?
The one ... Views: 265
Today, the whole world is running behind money and success like a thirsty person running badly in search of water while being lost in desert.
Rather than running behind money or success, if we pay more attention to bringing consistency and sincerity in our work, and patiently and honestly ... Views: 264
While you must continue with the medical treatment that may be ongoing for your drug addiction as well as depression, here are the two ways to overcome any barrier on the path of spirituality:
1.The Scientific way, and
2.The Technical way.
Both these ways, when adopted together, give the ... Views: 263
Since a man died under your car, a feeling of guilt will naturally come.
However, feeling guilty will neither help dissolve the bad karma of yours nor will it allow you to live in peace. Negative karma can be effectively reduced with the true Knowledge, precisely in the same way as a disease ... Views: 263
All Souls are the same! But each person is different. And the reason why each person is different is because of their karma. What are karmas? They are the effects of one’s past life causes.
Depending on the type of karma one has sown in their previous life, in one’s current life, the karmas ... Views: 262
No, nothing like that! There are so many people in this world who are not quite intelligent, yet they are always happy, isn’t it? So, it is not needed that we HAVE to be intelligent in order to BE happy.
However, remember ‘The Thirsty Crow’ story that we learnt, while in schl?! This ... Views: 261
Karmic debt means that we have bound some bad karma.
How is the karmic debt repaid?
Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, an enlightened being explains,
“There are two directions in which one can progress from a human life-form. If you have a karmic debt, which means that you have bound bad karma; you ... Views: 259
Gnani, the enlightened One, explains this through a very simple example.
Let’s understand...
Suppose we take a block of wood on which a lot of mud is stuck. We put this wood in a pond of water. It will sink right down, isn’t it?
Now, as the mud keeps dissolving, the block of wood will ... Views: 258
The Enlightened One says, “If worldly unhappiness or suffering is not there, we would never search for permanent happiness. Therefore, it is very helpful to us. Permanent happiness is not through body. It is independent of body. When there is pain, we search for safeside, ‘Where is my permanent ... Views: 256
When a lot of troubles come together in life, know that we’ll certainly get out of it one day!
And until then, the most important thing to do is: ‘Firmly resolve that come what may, I shall not get depressed.’ Be strong!
Remind yourself of the example of a butterfly being born. To become a ... Views: 256
The cycle of birth and death is extremely painful for all. There is immense pain that one has to undergo every time one’s death happens and again at the time of his / her next birth.
Only with an enlightened view, one can see the reality as is!Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan asks, “The body is ... Views: 256
Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, who later became a Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One), sharing his experience of school days, says, “In my maths class, the teacher had asked the students to find the smallest indivisible number, which is common to all other numbers (LCM = lowest common multiple). From ... Views: 255
How?
In newspapers and on news channels, day in and day out, we get to hear about hundreds of unimaginable and unexpected events that take place in the world, such as plane crashes, bombings, fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc. causing innumerable unnatural deaths. People who had no plans to be ... Views: 255
Yes, spirituality can definitely help with relationship problems!
Spirituality contributes positively to a healthy and solid relationship. Spirituality changes the way we perceive our partner and gives us a broader and healthy understanding. Through this understanding, there comes solutions, ... Views: 253
No, no, not at all!
It is in fact one of the greatest strengths in this world.
Being sensitive to others’ pain and having a selfless attitude to help people...
Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, an enlightened being states, “The act of benevolence is the highest of all human activity. Benevolence ... Views: 253
You mean to ask, if you stay patient and trust Shiva, then will He fullfill your desire?
No! It’s not so. Yes, if you stay patient and trust Him, you will fulfill Shiva’s desire for sure ☺
What is Shiva’s desire?... that we Be like Him!
Shiva is detached and desireless. He doesn’t need ... Views: 251
To leave the bad and come into good is called religion. And, when on a spiritual journey, we don’t go acquiring any good thing, nor do we go changing any bad thing; we directly go for knowing what is reality. And since you are just a young student yet, there cannot be a better age to start this ... Views: 251
In general, people believe that karma means going to work, performing meritorious deeds, doing charity, religious activities, etc. However, the Self-realized (Gnani) call this ‘karma-phala’ (the fruit of karma), as it’s a result of karma and not the original karma. The gross karmas, which can be ... Views: 251
Stress is a feeling of an emotional or physical tension
Today, so many people in this world suffer from high levels of stress. It is said, ‘Stress is our body's reaction to a particular challenge or demand. It can come from any event or thought that makes us feel frustrated, angry or nervous.’ ... Views: 250
Saint Kabir defines love as: ‘That which increases one moment and decreases the next is not love. That which resides in the heart and remains the same is real love.’
Real love never increases or decreases
Love between two people will decrease if one becomes angry with the other and they ... Views: 250
When suffering and hurt ensues within, on someone wrongly accusing us, we tend to get angry.
Come, let’s analyze how to better manage our anger in such a situation, with the help of an enlightened view of the spiritual Scientist, who has swarmed across the ocean of worldly life and knows how ... Views: 248
Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, the Enlightened being has said:
“All the religions in the world are relative and of varying standards. Everyone finds an appropriate standard depending upon his or her spiritual development. However for the real religion, the religion of the Self, you will have to go ... Views: 246
ILLUSION –
Illusion or Maya signifies something perceived to be real and permanent when in reality, it’s unreal and temporary! It’s a misinterpreted perception of claiming one’s existence in something, when actually it was never his place!
Generally, our life is guided by an array of ... Views: 246
The difference between freedom, enlightenment and liberation from the perspective of spiritual science is as follows:.
Freedom
Real freedom is when, ‘even if there is suffering all around you, yet you are free from all worldly suffering and misery.’
One experiences freedom from:
The ... Views: 245
Can Nirvana be achieved in the human realm?
Yes!
Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, the Enlightened One, has said,
“The human body is the greatest instrument for attaining moksha (final liberation). You cannot attain it in the celestial realm, nor in the animal realm, nor any other realm. It is only ... Views: 245
Gnani, the Enlightened One, explains:
Suppose we take a block of wood on which a lot of mud is stuck onto it and we put it in a pond of water. It will sink right down, isn’t it? Now, as the mud keeps dissolving, the block of wood will gradually come up. When all of the mud is removed, the ... Views: 245
Overthinking means thinking about something for too long and making it into a problem.... problem because generally, overthinking happens around negative thoughts, negative emotions, negative imaginations and negative assumptions. Mind is indulged into multiple things that don’t help you think ... Views: 244
The power of the Soul. It is the most powerful!
The brain is a mere organ of the body. It is like a machine, which once the body dies, stops operating. The function of the brain ends there; and the body is discarded.
It is due to the presence of the Soul that one knows all that is happening ... Views: 244
Let’s take the second question first, ‘How useful it is to live life?’
Not at all, provided you want to live a happy and peaceful life. This is a fact! If we believe, jealousy and greed are useful to live life, such wrong understanding would only boost these weaknesses further. Our ... Views: 243
Spirituality is about attaining a unique awareness. Spiritual growth happens when one gains higher consciousness or awareness of his Self which is beyond the awareness of the five senses and the mind-ego-intellect. For the ones who want to grow in a higher spiritual realm and be spiritually ... Views: 241
“Every moment, somewhere, someone weaker is brutally jabbed by the stronger, not only physically, but emotionally and mentally too”! Is this statement a clear, prime hyperbole or a white crime of the real world? If we ponder over this question, surely a very despondent and affirmative answer ... Views: 240
Let’s explore a scientific answer to your question of why each one of us is unique, and hence none of us match with each other.
Each one of us is standing at a different point, at a given point of time, on the path of evolution, based on our development. Hence, this results in making us very ... Views: 240
No, the Soul is completely detached from the emotion of ambition.
The Soul, by its inherent nature, is completely detached from all emotions. Rather, it is merely the knower and observer of everything, without any passion, with perfect equanimity. The Soul and the body have always been ... Views: 238
Desire is like a burning fire.
The very nature of desire is such that it torments! It keeps burning within, until the desire gets fulfilled. And the moment one desire gets fulfilled, another one starts, “It would be great if I had that also; and that also,...” Desires keep arising one after ... Views: 238
To detach yourself from the ego and mind, you need a Gnani Purush, the Enlightened One. A Gnani Purush is completely free from ego and the effects of mind. The Enlightened One dwells in the realm of the Self as a pure Soul. Hence, only He can separate us from the ego and the mind.
What is ... Views: 237
Humanity begins with an obliging nature. If a person were to follow the goal of developing the quality of humanity, he would soon attain liberation which is the end goal of spirituality.
Religion begins from the moment you give happiness to others. You will be happy if you give happiness to ... Views: 237
For us to have a Guru in our life, we must make every effort to find him; otherwise life will pass by whilst we keep waiting for him to come into our life. When you wholeheartedly set out on your quest of finding a Guru, Nature will help you in bringing about positive evidence together in ... Views: 237
You yourself can check it out! Have you ever experienced it in your case or seen someone else ‘getting healed by taking revenge’? No, it can never be!
One can never remain happy by inflicting pain on someone else - that’s Nature’s law. Hence revenge certainty does not heal.On the contrary, ... Views: 236
People are worried about bad karma because the one who binds bad karma is given to suffer the bad result of that karma; and the results of bad karma are never easy, it brings in great suffering and misery.
Lord is the one who drives us in doing good and bad things is a sheer myth!
Neither ... Views: 236
No, tobacco cannot stop you from beginning your spiritual awakening. So, attain Self-Realization! It will in fact open up the right way to stop your intake of tobacco. When you’ve overcome your habit of smoking, you will enjoy pursuing the goal of ultimate liberation, without any distractions, ... Views: 235
The Supreme Soul is present in every living being.
“What is the nature of the Soul? To see the dharma (function) of everything; to see who is performing what function and how that function is being performed. To ‘see’ - this is the function of the Soul”, says Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, the ... Views: 235
It is because the ego wants to take the accolade, it likes to be appreciated and recognised. Moreover, the ego loves to dwell in self-importance and control.
Although ego is not able to do anything, yet it believes to be the ‘doer’ of every positive task that happens, and accordingly takes ... Views: 235
Consciousness means awareness; it is the state of realizing or noticing that ‘something’ exists.
If the awareness lies in the body, it is called body-consciousness. Generally, people prevail in body consciousness only. The prevailing experience of, ‘I am John (you may insert your own name ... Views: 234
Yes, it can. However, the happiness gained from material things is always temporary.
Happiness which once it comes is not followed by misery again is called real happiness. But such is not the case with happiness received from material things. Whilst one continues to seek happiness from ... Views: 233
Soul on its own is strong; infinite strength is an inherent property of our Soul.
Yes, it’s a different thing that we are unable to experience its strength today. This is because although the Soul that resides within our body is completely pure and infinitely strong, it is surrounded by ... Views: 233
Our ego gets easily bruised because we have kept a wrong belief for countless lives!
An odd start from me, let me introduce it to you one by one.
What would that wrong belief be?
If I call you by your name, let’s suppose it’s John (you may please insert your name here), and ask you, ... Views: 233
We all have a choice either to be positive or negative. Being positive makes us happy and, contrary to that, being negative impacts us in a harmful way. So, let us look at how a positive mindset helps us become successful. And how does positivity precisely work?
Some time or the other, we all ... Views: 232
Yes, permanent bliss lies beyond our senses, and we can attain it spiritually!
Let us understand how…
Whenever we see, smell, taste, hear or touch something through our senses, we either like it or dislike it or feel neutral about it. When we like something, we experience pleasure while ... Views: 231
Instead of living in the moment, we live for the most part in our minds, cluttered with thoughts. These thoughts are in fact part of our memories from the past. These memories are either pleasant or unpleasant, depending upon whether we had a like or dislike towards them when they ... Views: 229