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- Individual Spiritual Change and the Collectivity - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs the evolutionary pressure begins to develop individuals who undergo the spiritual transformation we have been discussing, there is still the issue of how these individuals can impact the wider life of humanity. Isolated individuals surrounded by an untransformed mass of humanity and the ...
Views: 215 - The Divine Spark Resides Even in the Demonic Beings - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe earth is the locus of the evolutionary principle. It is said that when the gods themselves want to grow and evolve, they must consent to take birth on the earth. It is therefore important to understand that the beings who take birth on the earth-plane are, for the most part, taking part in ...
Views: 215 - The Need to Develop New Powers of Knowing - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyTo explore the hidden forces, both in our own lives, and in the larger framework of the universal manifestation and the evolution of consciousness over time, a new way of ‘knowing’ needs to be developed, one that can experience and interact with these hidden forces on a more direct and aware ...
Views: 215 - The Need to Prepare the Being to Receive, Hold and Utilize the Influx of the Higher Forces - by Submitted on May 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe raw power generated by an electricity power plant is far greater than any single house can sustain. Thus, the utility company utilizes step-down transformers to systematically bring the power down to a level that the homes and the wiring to the homes can sustain. A similar principle is at ...
Views: 215 - The Unique Truth of Each Being in Relation to the Divine Manifestation - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyRecently the question arose about how and in what form the witness consciousness survives death. This is not a question for either philosophical reasoning or religious dogma. Regardless of the opinion that these general approaches put forth, it is between the individual soul, as a unique ...
Views: 215 - An Exercise to Become Conscious of One’s Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe Taittiriya Upanishad presents a methodology or practice to gain direct knowledge of the Eternal. The seeker is asked to practice tapasya, variously translated as concentration in thought, or concentration of force by Sri Aurobindo. Tapasya cannot be easily or completely understood through ...
Views: 214 - Interpreting Actions in the World Based on Our Preconceived Ideas and Notions - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn the Mahabharata, a story is related that illustrates the inability of anyone to judge an action by the outer form it takes or the result that eventuates. The birth of Bhishma is related in the Adi Parva. Prince Shantanu fell in love with a beautiful woman he met and asked her to marry him. ...
Views: 214 - Small Vital Entities and Their Action in Human Life - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother relates two stories here about interactions she personally had with some small entities. One group were of good will and acted to remind her of things when she was otherwise distracted. She was able to pay attention to their hint and ensure that all worked out properly. It takes a ...
Views: 214 - The Call of the Divine Flute - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2023 from santosh krinskyAn individual is living out his life, following his career, pursuing education, enjoying himself, raising a family, pursuing a hobby. All quite normal things. For most people, this is the frame within which his life carries on, and he experiences the joys and sorrows, the pains and the ...
Views: 214 - The Challenge of Duality and the Conquest of Light Over Darkness - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe live in a world filled with contradictions, a world of dualities. We accept the premise that we cannot have light without dark, pleasure without pain, joy without sorrow. This appears to be the nature of the world, and it seems like an irrefutable concept. Yet, we can in fact conceive of the ...
Views: 214 - The Existential Crisis of Humanity and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThank you for your interest in this critical issue for the future survival of our entire human race. There is a positive way forward for humanity as we face the intense challenges before us. When we are under intense pressure we have the impetus to make needed changes. That is the lesson of ...
Views: 214 - The Forces and Beings Active in Places of Worship - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to attract those energies, beings and forces to us that respond to the vibratory pattern of our thoughts, emotions, feelings, desires and physical state. Keeping this in mind, we can review our relationship to places of worship, whether a temple, mosque, church or other. Some ...
Views: 214 - How Does an Individual Acquire the Higher Form of Spontaneity? - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we distinguish the lower forms of spontaneity that stem from the vital nature and its instincts and desires, from the higher form of spontaneity that is linked to unification of the being with the higher spiritual purpose, the question arises as to how the individual can develop this higher ...
Views: 213 - How to Experience the Influx of Universal Forces Directly Through the Experience of a Wider Consciousness - by Submitted on May 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis described a change in conscious awareness as representing satyam, rtam, brihat, the truth, the right, the vast. It is difficult for most people living in the modern world to gain a conception of the vastness of existence. We may know intellectually that the universe is large, we ...
Views: 212 - Individual Spiritual Change and the Collectivity - by Submitted on May 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs the evolutionary pressure begins to develop individuals who undergo the spiritual transformation we have been discussing, there is still the issue of how these individuals can impact the wider life of humanity. Isolated individuals surrounded by an untransformed mass of humanity and the ...
Views: 212 - Who or What Experiences the Growth of Consciousness Through the Process of Rebirth and the Evolution of Forms and of Consciousness? - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are quite a few anecdotes and statements by individuals about remembering past lives, and there is an entire field of study dealing with what is called ‘past life regression therapy’. Some of the more intriguing incidents involve young people who can describe a village in some distant ...
Views: 212 - The Need and Significance of Psychic Education - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur educational systems focus on training of the body, the life-force and the mind, essentially fixating the individual on the life in the external world and his role in that world. He is trained on social expectations and customs, and the use of the tools of mind, life and body in the pursuit ...
Views: 211 - The Spiritual Path and Ascetic Practices - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature craves excitement. It also craves recognition and acknowledgement, in the form of vanity, aggrandisement of the ego, and seeking for fame. The vital nature is also quite impatient and wants to see results right away. When the vital nature enters into the spiritual realm, it ...
Views: 211 - Miracles, Belief, Powers and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor most people, there is a tremendous barrier of skepticism about things that they cannot see or experience for themselves, There is also a good deal of ignorance about how things actually work in the world, which can lead to misconceptions and a tendency toward gullibility when someone appears ...
Views: 210 - Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation of Life - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we look at the immensity of the evolutionary crisis, and the failure of “tried and true” solutions that have been put forward through history, it is easy to become discouraged and pessimistic about the possibility of survival. The solution proposed, a radical transformation of human life ...
Views: 210 - The Collective Soul of Human Groupings and the Expression of Collective Karma - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe individual is not an island unto himself; he is part of a series of larger groupings, such as family, clubs, teams, tribes, school classes, corporate entities, community, states and nations, religion, etc. The collective energetic expression of each of these groupings develops a way of life ...
Views: 210 - True Freedom and Free Will Resides in the Divine, Not in the Individual Ego-Personality - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe individual drops of water that make up the ocean do not determine the movement or action of the ocean. They are carried along and partake of the larger forces that act upon and through the ocean. The are a small pinpoint ‘nexus’ of the ocean action but not the motive or driving ...
Views: 210 - The Body’s Formation Does Not Directly Correspond to the Person’s Character and Development - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe frequently try to judge the character of an individual based on physical characteristics. While it is true that there is an interaction and influence between the body, the life-force and the mind, for most people these are not at all absolute or determinative. There are well-known instances ...
Views: 209 - The Development of the Powers of the Body - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyFor the seekers who wish to depart the creation through unification with the Supreme, the body is often considered to be an obstacle, something that needs a certain amount of begrudging attention in order to allow the meditation to take place uninterruptedly. These seekers prefer to give as ...
Views: 209 - Other Domains and Worlds Exist Beyond the Limits of Our Waking Awareness - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we reflect deeply on the development of life and mind out of Matter, it becomes clear that they are not able to manifest in Matter if they do not already exist in their own right and in their own domain. Seers and mystics have described vital worlds. Teilhard de Chardin described a mental ...
Views: 208 - Mental Formations Mixing With Vital Forces - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyAn incident was observed and reported by several people which illustrates how mental formations can create entities on the vital plane which become visible to those who have eyes to see. The incident occurred in 1981 in California. An individual had come to the West and took the role of a guru ...
Views: 207 - The Cycle of Development in Nature and the Focus of Attention - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe everywhere that Nature has a development cycle, with focus of attention on what needs to take place at each stage of that cycle, rather than simply jumping ahead to an 'end result' of the development. Thus, we see that plants undergo a stage of sprouting from seed, and the first focus ...
Views: 207 - The Limitations of the Mind and the Senses in Knowing the Hidden Forces of Life - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the greatest difficulties we face in trying to understand the operation of hidden or occult forces in life is the limitations on our ability to perceive and to know what is actually taking place. Each aspect of our being has its own way of “knowing”. For our lives in the external world we ...
Views: 207 - The Resolution of the Opposition of Free Will and Determinism - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs long as we remain rooted in the external surface consciousness and ego-personality, we are firmly bound by the determinism of Nature. Nature, whether on the physical, vital or mental level, operates under its own ‘laws’ of action. The more dense the expression of consciousness is, the more ...
Views: 207 - The Separation of the Witness Consciousness from the External Nature - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe tend to identify ourselves with the specific body-life-mind complex we inhabit and which becomes the nexus for the ego-consciousness. This identification, however, makes it virtually impossible to gain real insight or mastery over the mind, life and body. The process followed by the devotee ...
Views: 207 - Can the Mind Recognise the Action or Influence of the Soul in Another Individual? - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2023 from santosh krinskyEvery aspect of life, and every plane of existence vibrates at its own unique frequency. As an individual develops, he can begin to resonate with and respond to the vibrations of various levels of existence. This also gives him the ability to feel and recognise the similar vibration when it is ...
Views: 206 - Is It the Soul or the Vital Being We Perceive? - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost people are rooted in the vital consciousness, and thus respond to the vibrations that occur within the vital realm. Unless they have contact with their soul or at least clear influence by the psychic being on the external parts of the being, they are virtually unable to recognise the action ...
Views: 206 - Recognising the Emergence of the Soul in Our Being - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many things in the world which we know exist, not because we can directly perceive them, but because we can experience their effects. Thus, we cannot see ‘gravity’ but we know it exists. We cannot see radiation, but again, we know it exists. As we continue to develop powers of the ...
Views: 206 - The Power of the Inconscient and Subconscient Levels in Our Lives - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur physical bodies operate complex functions without active oversight or intervention of the mind. We are essentially in the dark as our organs function, as our immune system automatically responds to pressures, as breathing, brain function and much more go on absent our supervision or control, ...
Views: 206 - Understanding the Meaning of Vital Formations and Beings That Arise During Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen people take up the practice of meditation, they generally do not know much about it. They follow a set of guidelines on ‘how to meditate’ and just let things happen. The result is very much dependent, then, on their state of conscious awareness, and their focus of attention. Meditation is ...
Views: 206 - How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives - by Submitted on May 15, 2024 from santosh krinskySince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital ...
Views: 205 - Observing and Applying the Hidden Forces of Life - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs an individual begins to work with various forces or powers in the world, he gains an insight and understanding of them, and gains the benefit of making use of those powers or forces in various aspects of his life. For example, someone can learn about the anatomy and physiology of the human ...
Views: 205 - Patience and Perseverance Are Required in the Path of Spiritual Realisation - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyPossibly it is a result of our relatively short span of life during which we are active and capable of conscious observation, insight and action. The period of childhood is mostly involved with development of the body, the vital force and the mind to the point where they can become functional ...
Views: 205 - The Separate Ego-Consciousness and the Universal Divine Consciousness - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe concept of maya is frequently described as the world being an illusion that mystifies our senses and our minds, such that we take it for real, when it is not the truth of existence. We are then asked to cut through the illusion to find the actual reality, the Absolute, the consciousness that ...
Views: 205 - The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen Bram Stoker wrote his classic ‘horror’ tale, Dracula, he popularized and sensationalized an actual phenomenon of vital interchange that operates mostly unnoticed and not as sensationally as his tale implies. To put it in simple terms, ‘vampirism’ is the ability of someone to utilise the ...
Views: 205 - Attaining Free Will By Overcoming the Sense of Individual Separation in the Manifestation and Our Bondage to the Cause and Effect Trajectory That Creates Our Present Opportunities and Choices - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs the mental being develops and we begin to experience the sense of separation from the other beings who are part of the creation, we also begin to have a sense that we have “free will” and make our own independent choices. To a great degree, this sense is misplaced, insofar as our current ...
Views: 204 - Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot ...
Views: 204 - Reviewing the Operation of the Law of Karma - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhether one calls it the ‘law of Karma”, ‘dependent origination, or ’cause and effect’, the operation of karma essentially states that each action will create an effect which thereby creates a line of development that impacts the individuals who participate in the situation as it develops. While ...
Views: 204 - The Limiting and Diluting Effect of the External Instruments on the Intimations of the Soul - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyDuring the evolutionary development of the ascending powers of consciousness, the action of the soul is to provide an influence from behind, while the primary attention is fixated on the needed development of the powers of the external being, body, life and mind. This severely limits the direct ...
Views: 204 - The Power of Enthusiasm Represents the Action of the Mystic Flame of Aspiration Working in the External Being - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Rishis of the Rig Veda focused, first and foremost, on kindling the mystic fire as the key to the reception and utilization of higher powers of consciousness. The altar for this flame is in the secret heart of the being, deep within, behind the physical organ, where the psychic being is ...
Views: 204 - The Process for Reviewing the Origin and Impact of One’s Thoughts, Feelings and Actions - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we acknowledge the ability of the vital desire nature to influence and manipulate the mind in its judgment process, biasing the interpretation and understanding of the motives behind the actions, it is incumbent on those who aspire to spiritual growth to find a way to root out this inherent ...
Views: 204 - Causes of Accidents - by Submitted on May 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyWestern scientists tell us that the universe is always tending toward a state of lower energy and less organisation, a concept that call ‘entropy’. While this concept was developed and applied in the field of physics, particularly in the law of thermodynamics, it has been extended and claimed to ...
Views: 203 - Distinguishing Will From Willings - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2024 from santosh krinsky“The integral yoga, which involves a deep understanding of the normal psychology of the human being, as well as the impact of the descent of the higher spiritual force to manifest the Divine Will in the manifestation, has to develop its own terminology and specific definitions so as to ensure ...
Views: 203 - Extending a Measure of Validity to Reports of Supra-Physical Perceptions and Experiences - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo makes an important point. Various aspects of reports about subtle senses and supraphysical realities as they impact our external world, have been documented, and in some cases, extensively studied and verified. Once we accept the fact that there is a real and solid basis for these ...
Views: 203 - Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot ...
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