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- Static Power and Dynamic Power - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are numerous types of power at work in the world and in us. Some of them can be viewed as ‘dynamic’ powers, powers with movement, action and outward facing application of force. Others can be viewed as ‘static’ powers, powers of holding, receiving and containing, powers of withstanding the ...
Views: 137 - The Power of Occult ‘Seeing’ - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyThere is a long tradition and history of individuals who have utilized a variety of methods for the purpose of obtaining ‘visions’ of events, past, present or future. The action generally takes place through creation of a state of trance that allows the surface mental consciousness to recede and ...
Views: 137 - Awakening of the Chakras Opens Up Undreamed Potential in Our Being - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we run a small current through a wire to a light bulb, but below the capacity of the bulb, it will light up, although it may flicker. If we increase the current the light bulb brightens and the illumination becomes constant. If we put too much current through the bulb, we may start a fire or ...
Views: 136 - The Reality of Subjective Visions and Objective Sight - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyModern society, influenced heavily by the scientific/technical focus of the West, puts a premium on the concept of “objectivity” versus anything that can be considered ‘subjective’, which is then treated with suspicion and largely dismissed. This implies several things. First, it implies that ...
Views: 136 - QuickBooks Enterprise Support Number 1888-705-5698 - by Submitted on May 28, 2024 from John SteinbeckIntuit designed its QuickBooks financial management software line to meet every business at its point of need, from the smallest sole proprietorship to global enterprise operations. But even the most streamlined version of QuickBooks is full of rich features. With so many functions, ...
Views: 135 - The Direct Use of the Mind as a Sixth Sense - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe are trained to believe that the mind relies entirely on the 5 senses of perception and the 5 senses of action in order to receive data or undertake action. If the mind is cut off from the senses, we believe that it is powerless and unable to either sense, communicate or act. Spiritual science ...
Views: 135 - Seeking and Attaining Mastery Over the Touches of Nature - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2024 from santosh krinskySeekers throughout the ages have struggled with the issue of how to deal with the pressures and circumstances of the external world. They recognise the swing of emotions, feelings and thoughts that occur as they receive input from people and events. They recognise that sometimes this causes them ...
Views: 134 - The Body Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to take for granted the innate consciousness and capacities of the body. Much of what takes place in the body is done by systems that are far more complex, and far more subtle, than anything the mind can actively control. In fact, we find that frequently, when the mind intervenes, or the ...
Views: 134 - Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 1 Understanding the Issues - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we recognize the difficulties of managing the energy of the vital nature, and its long habits of how it finds fulfillment and satisfaction, we can appreciate that there are no ‘simple’ solutions available. The vital, when it is cooperative with the mind and the psychic being, is an ...
Views: 133 - Objective Versus Subjective Knowledge in the Realms of Psychic Experience - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2025 from santosh krinskyPerhaps one of the biggest hurdles the Western mind needs to overcome in addressing the subtle powers of consciousness that either already are, or will be, coming forward as the next phase of evolution continues to work itself out, is the conflict between the drumbeat of “objectivity” as the ...
Views: 133 - The Potential for Emergence of the Subliminal Powers of Mind - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we begin to recognise the inherent power of the mind, independent of any reliance on the physical senses and the nerve pathways that link them to the mind, the question then arises as to how to become aware of, bring forward and train the use of these powers that are currently subliminal ...
Views: 133 - To Become a Conscious Instrument of the Divine Action - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna explains to Arjuna, at some length, the process of the universal manifestation and how individuals are essentially driven by their nature in relation to the larger forces of the manifestation itself to act in certain ways. For most of these individuals, the ...
Views: 132 - True Strength Resides in Quietude - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to equate strength with outward expressions whether it be through physical power, emotional pressure, bullying, or the use of mental will force to achieve one’s intended results. We talk about “strong man” dictators who, in particular, use threats, bullying and police power to pressure ...
Views: 132 - Understanding the Stage of Development of the Vital Man - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2025 from santosh krinskyHuman beings are not all at the same stage of evolutionary development. We can see this clearly when we observe the different interests, ways of responding and directions that people take as they grow and begin to participate in the life of the society and the world at large. We see some people ...
Views: 132 - Wise words from Blaise Pascal - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloBlaise Pascal (June 19th,1623 – August 19th,1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, writer, philosopher, child prodigy, and inventor of the mechanical calculator. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry at the age of 16. He also heavily influenced the development of modern ...
Views: 132 - QuickBooks Enterprise Phone Number : 1888-705-5698 - by Submitted on May 28, 2024 from John SteinbeckIntuit designed its QuickBooks financial management software line to meet every business at its point of need, from the smallest sole proprietorship to global enterprise operations. But even the most streamlined version of QuickBooks is full of rich features. With so many functions, ...
Views: 131 - The Mind, the Spirit and the Deeper Knowledge and Power That Can Know and Master the Universal Creation - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe can observe all around us, the steps the mental force is taking to take charge of both physical and vital nature. While much of this takes place through the development of technological tools, it is nevertheless an achievement of the mind that makes these things possible. We may debate the ...
Views: 131 - Encouraging the Dreams of Children - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe could say that it is almost a universal experience. A child expresses some sentiment, some idea about what he or she would like to do, something that soars beyond the mundane daily existence, something that makes things better, increases the beauty and harmony of life, cherishes life, and ...
Views: 130 - Observing the Influences and Suggestions That Shape Our Responses in Life - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2025 from santosh krinskyIf one practices a simple exercise, even just for a short time, one becomes aware of the numerous forces that are acting upon us, shaping our thoughts, emotions, feelings and reactions. The practice is to sit quietly and observe the various thoughts and feelings that arise while one is sitting ...
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Views: 129 - Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2025 from santosh krinskyDr. Deepak Chopra told an interesting anecdote from his own experience at a talk he gave in Chicago some years ago. Some of the details may have escaped me, so the gist of it was that he was visiting his birth home area at one point and it was recommended to him to visit a famous Vedic ...
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Views: 128 - “Simply Watch the Fish” - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor most people, the experience of losing the sense of the ego is unplanned, fleeting and even, unappreciated as it occurs. They simply shift their identification elsewhere without recognising what exactly is taking place with respect to the seat and focus of their conscious awareness. For the ...
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Views: 123 - The Soul As the True Central Being - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the West, the existence of the soul has been mainly perceived either as a matter of religious belief or scientific skepticism, neither necessarily based in actual experience. At one point, scientists decided that if the belief that the soul departs at the time of death is to be considered as ...
Views: 123 - The Universality of the Spiritual Presence in All Existence - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe are educated and habituated to focus on our differences. We see different gender, different class, different racial characteristics, different religious backgrounds, different temperaments, different interests and focus, different value sets, different philosophies of life and living, ...
Views: 120 - What is the Role of the Spirit? - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople are always asking about the difference between spirituality and religion, as well as the difference between the mind and the spirit. The term ‘spirit’ has been used in so many different ways and contexts, that it is hard to comprehend exactly what is meant by it. When ‘spiritual ...
Views: 120 - Understanding Adverse Forces and the Evolutionary Response to Their Action - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2025 from santosh krinskyHow easy it is, and how comforting, to look at someone who opposes us, or who is creating some form of havoc in the world at large and simply label that individual as pure evil, as a Rakshasa, an Asura, a Demon, or some other form of hostile being. And yet, those individuals are actually part of ...
Views: 117 - The Best Way to Help Others and Help the World - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we want to help alleviate the suffering in the world, or help solve the general concerns, or the more specific individual needs and wants, we come up with an endless number of ideas about ‘how to help’. From an outward perspective these may be highly valuable and useful activities. ...
Views: 114 - The Reality of Being Born Into the Spirit - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople commonly believe that espousing a particular religion or religious doctrine, reading scriptural texts, singing devotional songs, practicing yoga, or meditation or any of the numerous other practices often called ‘spiritual’ makes them spiritual. While these practices may help to turn ...
Views: 114 - The Value and Importance of Looking from Within - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2025 from santosh krinskyExternal impressions, sensations, impulsions, events all traverse the nervous pathways from the sense organs to the mind, which tends to react to these sensations and thereby remains in a constant state of disturbance. In the modern world, with our addiction to social media, mobile phones, ...
Views: 114 - The Power of the Soul in Relation to the Other Parts of the Being - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe development of the human being takes place in several successive stages and as individuals mature they begin to manifest and express the powers of the nature as they successively come to the fore. Not every individual develops and expresses all the powers fully in a particular lifetime. For ...
Views: 112 - The Power of the Spiritual Consciousness Is Needed to Overcome the Limitations of the Mental Approach to Existence - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyAs the mental consciousness awakens, particularly if there is an influence coming from the psychic being or from the spiritual planes pressing down on the mental being, we become aware of virtually endless problems, issues, difficulties, imbalances, disharmonies and outright conflicts in the ...
Views: 111 - The Role of the Soul - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we read in the Puranas of India, we find that there are a host of beings who are essentially non-evolutionary, static beings. They may be gods, demons or animals, or occupy any number of other positions in the scale of the manifested existence. An interesting note, however, is that if they ...
Views: 109 - The Power of the Psychic Being to Guide the Direction and Focus of One’s Life - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we look back on our lives, with the benefit of hindsight, we frequently can identify a change in direction that took an individual from a normal path of societal acceptance, career, marriage, family, social interactions and entertainment, to a life that is dedicated to some cause or purpose ...
Views: 108 - Understanding the Stages of Panic and Inertia That Arise When Facing Difficulties and Obstacles in Life - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyBoth panic and inertia are responses to situations that arise in the life of individuals. They come about when something new or unexpected comes forward to challenge the individual. In the case of panic, there is clearly a perception of danger, and the rising of fear in the being. This drives ...
Views: 108 - Basic Overview of the Vital Consciousness - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe life force brings mobility and increased responsiveness compared to the physical being. It operates primarily under the impulsion of attraction and repulsion. The predominant quality or Guna is Rajas, which brings energy, action, and progress, while at the same time, its deformations can ...
Views: 107 - The Link Between Attitude and Digestion - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe Mother provides simple, yet powerful guidance about the connection between one’s attitude and his digestive system. If we consider for a moment the times when we are ‘out of sorts’, feeling angry, or bitter, or somewhat sharp and biting in our reactions to others, we can see that in many ...
Views: 107 - The Supreme Power That Creates, Manifests, Sustains and Guides the Universal Creation - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe go through our daily lives, busy ourselves with earning a living, supporting our families, maintaining our bodies, entertaining ourselves, arguing, fighting, gossiping, and following up on hobbies or passions we are engaged in. We close ourselves into a narrow and limited existence and feel ...
Views: 107 - A Reversal of Consciousness Accompanies the Seeker’s Focus on Spiritual Growth - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe read or hear about the accounts of individuals who had some kind of experience, either dramatically uplifting, or severely traumatic, who awaken to a spiritual purpose in their lives which changes the entire direction and focus of what takes place for them afterwards when compared with their ...
Views: 106 - Transcending the Fear of the Unlimited Spiritual Consciousness - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2025 from santosh krinskyA relatively frequent occurrence for the spiritual aspirant is to reach the boundary wall of consciousness and get a glimpse or experience of the spiritual consciousness without limits. This experience, when it comes, may raise up tremendous fear in the individual and he reacts, almost ...
Views: 106 - Understanding the Stage of Striving and the Role of Instincts in Response to External Events - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyBeyond the stage of “flight or fight” we see in panic and the eventual recoil into inertia, where we see the initial reactions of instinct at play, the stage of ‘striving’ begins to harness energy of response by the vital being, albeit still very much under the influence and control of the power ...
Views: 106 - Key Differences Between Human and Animal Consciousness - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhat makes the human consciousness different from the animal consciousness? A primary factor is the possibility that a human being has for detaching himself from total involvement in the external life, and along with that, the opportunity for evolutionary growth. Dr. Dalal observes: “The ...
Views: 105 - Characteristic Relations of the Physical, Vital and Mental Beings to Life, Oneself and Others, Work and Facing Difficulties - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyUnderstanding the operation of the three Gunas, or qualities of Nature, is an important part of understanding yogic psychology. The Bhagavad Gita devotes considerable effort to describing the Gunas and their functionality. For most people, however, translating things like reactions, responses, ...
Views: 104 - Powers Within: Summary and Conclusions - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe tend to overlook, or underestimate, the powers inherent in our human existence, the powers of the body, the powers of the vital nature, the powers of the mind, the powers of the psychic being, and the power of the spirit. Some of these powers are manifest but not fully understood, explored or ...
Views: 104 - A Prayer of Aspiration, Consecration and Peaceful Receptivity to the Divine Impulsion in Life - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyAs long as we focus on outer circumstances and involve ourselves in them, we are participating in what some have called the “illusory” life of the world. The world is not illusory in an ultimate sense, since it is a manifestation of the Divine consciousness, but it is illusory in the sense that ...
Views: 102 - Does Everything That Happens, Happen for the Best? - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyMany people believe that once they become adherents of a particular religion or spiritual tradition, they need no longer make an effort. The idea that someone else is “taking charge” and taking on the burden of one’s life is particularly enticing for people. They frequently then accept that ...
Views: 102 - Introduction to Looking from Within: A Seeker’s Guide to Attitudes for Mastery and Inner Growth - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2025 from santosh krinskyHow do we look at our lives? Do we find any meaning or purpose in living? Or are we just here to live a material existence, enjoy ourselves as much as possible, try to avoid suffering and eventually die without much pain? Many people do not take the opportunity to shift their perspective on ...
Views: 101 - The Way Out of the Existential Dread That Accompanies Lack of Knowing Oneself and One’s Purpose in Life - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe development of existentialism as a philosophical viewpoint on human existence in the world took place primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries. it focused on the apparent lack of meaning in the universe and thus, human significance had to be developed from an individual standpoint of ...
Views: 101 - What is Spiritual Awakening and How to Begin Your Journey? - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2025 from Hazel SansburyIn today’s fast-paced world, many people feel a deep sense of disconnection, as if something is missing from their lives. This feeling often stems from a lack of alignment with one’s true self and purpose. Spiritual awakening is the process of reconnecting with your inner essence, ...
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