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- Too Capable to Surrender - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2013 from Shavasti .Too Capable to Surrender If you were asked to do too much too soon, take on too much responsibility at a young age – either physical responsibility such as household chores or emotional responsibility – caring for siblings, a sick parent or feeling responsible for an emotionally challenged ...
Views: 1609 - TOP 10 BENEFITS OF KNOWING YOUR PAST LIVES - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2017 from Dr. Lesley PhillipsWho were you before you were you? And why might you want to know? Whether you have received past life regression, had a past life reading or started to recall your incarnations, it can be a very empowering and healing experience. There are some pitfalls, especially if you find out you ...
Views: 2899 - Top 10 Spiritual Holiday Destinations in the World - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2019 from Om SinghWhat do you miss in life the most? Ask yourself and you will be disappointed to know the answer- Peace. This is why it is important to go on vacations and Spiritual Retreats. These holidays offer you space, time alone, and a lot of opportunities to connect with people, their stories, which ...
Views: 927 - Top 10 tips to help with math homework - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2020 from Wajahat AliOne of the most difficult school subjects to overcome is mathematics. With few exceptions, there are people who can't figure out the numbers or the formulas, and that can be a difficult patch for academics. Children especially have a hard time mastering numbers and can end up feeling helpless ...
Views: 600 - Top 5 Essential Qualities of a Reliable Security Guard Services in Melbourne - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2024 from Stephen RobertIn a rapidly evolving world where security concerns are on the rise, the role of security guard services has become more crucial than ever. In Melbourne, a city known for its vibrant culture and diverse population, reliable security services play a pivotal role in safeguarding businesses, ...
Views: 190 - TOP 5 STRATEGIES FOR DATA RECOVERY FROM YOUR IPHONE - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2018 from Alvina JenniferCorporate mobile devices are an important area where corporate data is stored, and it is very important to back up everything i.e. your virtual systems, physical servers, cloud accounts, Mac, and Windows. Does the IT department of your company include mobile devices into business continuity and ...
Views: 932 - Top 7 Tips To Get The Most of Your Android Smartphone - by Submitted on May 24, 2018 from Tanvir ZafarIf you have been using android for a while now then you must be knowing that android devices become sluggish after few months most of the times. Android is an open source and highly customisable, this is the reason most of the smartphone manufactures prefer selling their devices by powering them ...
Views: 1264 - Top 8 Driving Tips for Safe Trailer Towing - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2019 from Bryan OrionThe art and science of towing a heavy-duty trailer is something that’s perfected after regular practice. Carrying a fully-loaded auto could become dangerous and cause serious accidents if not done correctly. Apart from the driver’s safety, other precious lives are also on stake when the pulling ...
Views: 630 - Top bba colleges in delhi - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaLLDIMS is one of the Top bba colleges in Delhi Offering faculties, provides placement opportunities and affiliated colleges, the solid ground that you can always trust to fall back upon. Whatever knowledge and skills you pick up during your BBA course will act as catalysts in increasing your ...
Views: 623 - Top CBSE Schools in Noida - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaLotus Valley is one of the Top CBSE Schools in Noida believe that it is a wrong notion that creativity only pertains to music and arts. In fact, creativity and technology are very much related. If you see, information technology, when at its best, is highly creative. Things like project-based ...
Views: 518 - Torture for Those Who Reject the Faith! - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2018 from saad sheikhIslam is the most practiced religion in the world. Muslims are present in almost every region of the world. It is the psychology of every Muslims to get to know about their religion, its aspects. It is the Interest of the People to get to know about the Hell and Heavens and torture of hell for ...
Views: 987 - Total Dedication to Participate in the Birth of a New World - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen people become totally immersed in something, they concentrate, naturally, all their energies and focus in that direction, without seeming effort, and experience the joy of the process. We can observe this in children at play. They become the act of play and don’t concern themselves with ...
Views: 165 - Transcend the Phantom Ego - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2012 from Craig VillarrubiaThe ego appears to be a complex web of beliefs, ideas, concepts and images that we believe we are. In its dysfunction, the ego can be a negative voice in our head that would have us believe that we are separate from Love. The ego attempts to mask the truth of who we are by telling us that ...
Views: 1786 - 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: 73 - Transformation of Human Nature Requires a Shift of Standpoint Away From Absorption in the Actions and Reactions of the External Being - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2023 from santosh krinskyTransformation of human nature is not practical from a standpoint mired within that nature. Forces push the being in one direction or another, and the individual is under the power of the divergent drives put up by the physical, the vital and the mental being, compounded by the impact of the ...
Views: 358 - Transformation of Human Nature Requires the Action of the Psychic Being Connected to the Higher Consciousness - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe external life and its conditions tend to fixate the attention for most people to such a degree, that they are overwhelmed by the needs of the body, the impositions of the life-energy and the force of desire, and the focus and attention of the mind. Just trying to keep up with all the ...
Views: 296 - Transformation of the Vital Nature of Man: Background and Introduction - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2021 from santosh krinskyA primary characteristic of human life on earth at this time is the power of the vital force in shaping not just our day-to-day responses to life situations, but to also impact our mental processes, such that for most people, the mind is under the control of the vital and its desires and ...
Views: 444 - Transformation of the Vital Requires the Action of a New Power of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2022 from santosh krinskyAlbert Einstein was famously quoted as saying: “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”. It is necessary to achieve a new frame of reference and standpoint in order to address the issues of the body-life-mind complex and the transformation of the vital ...
Views: 414 - Transformative Spiritual Experiences - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs consciousness develops in the seeker, it clearly brings with it changes in the way the seeker perceives and understands and reactions to events, situations, people, opportunities, etc. What is often forgotten is that it is not the extraordinary and massive experiences that effectuate ...
Views: 344 - Transforming Pain and Pleasure Into Spiritual Calm and Bliss - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyAll sensations carry signals through the nervous system to the brain, which then can interpret the signal. The signal may be more or less intense. It may be interpreted as pain or pleasure. Intensity of the sensation has something to do with the experience and its interpretation. There is a ...
Views: 56 - Transforming the Vital Nature, Part 2: Overcoming Difficulties and Obstacles on the Path - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe primary initial difficulties faced by the sadhak in overcoming the vital nature are related to the Gunas of Rajas and Tamas. Rajas is naturally energetic and somewhat aggressive and thus, it tackles issues with vehemence. When it becomes frustrated or suffers a setback, it tends to recoil ...
Views: 423 - Transitioning From Mental Consciousness to Spiritual Consciousness While Controlling the Vital Nature - by Submitted on May 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe mind provides a filter to manage and control the vital forces to a certain degree. While it is not perfect, without it, an individual can become subject to whatever vital energy is active and rising up within him. At the same time, the mind acts as a limitation on the ability of the ...
Views: 31 - Transitioning from the View of a Body With a Soul, to a Soul With a Body - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe primary standpoint for most people is that they are a physical body endowed with Life, Mind and (potentially in their minds) a Soul. Everything starts from the primacy of the body and its centrality in their view of their lives. This makes the purpose of life one of survival and procreation, ...
Views: 201 - Transitioning the Human Consciousness from Ego-Centric to Soul-Centric Basis - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn one of his aphorisms, Sri Aurobindo points out “the ego was the helper; the ego is the bar.” We frequently get the feeling that somehow the ego is truly an obstacle to our spiritual development, without looking at it through the lens of the evolutionary arc of the development of ...
Views: 247 - Transitioning to the Silent Mind - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2022 from santosh krinskyAssume that we succeed, through various methods of meditation or concentration, to bring the mind into a status of relative quiet. At that moment we begin to notice that there is this other running commentary going on in the background, reacting to every sense impression, bodily sensation, ...
Views: 464 - Transmission of Vibrational Patterns in the Physical World - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe transmission from one individual to another, or from an atmosphere created by a number of individuals together upon others entering that environment, is both a matter for vibration and a matter for actual physical carriers of those vibrations. The body exudes these particles as it vibrates ...
Views: 223 - Trapped by the Social and Moral Code, or Beyond Good and Evil? - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyFriedrich Nietzsche wrote that certain individuals, by virtue of their innate status as superior beings, could not be bound by social rules or morality or ethics. While the implication may be understood to apply to those who have evolved beyond the ‘need’ for such contextual social rules, the ...
Views: 398 - Treating All Work As Karma Yoga - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen the spiritual aspiration awakens in an individual, he often feels like he has to leave his employment and take up some work that is more ‘spiritual’. He tends to equate the type of work with some ill-defined spiritual nature. Thus, we frequently see spiritual people, and organizations, take ...
Views: 36 - TRUE CHARACTER TRAITS OF THE SAGITTARIUS - by Submitted on May 10, 2023 from I Am Ellehcim (Elohim)TRUE CHARACTER TRAITS OF "THE SAGITTARIUS" It is no secret that I Am a Sagittarius. Many astrologers and such, write articles or create videos whereby they are describing what they think and how they may feel The Sagittarius to be. I Am going to provide you with just a few of the character ...
Views: 439 - 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: 231 - 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: 98 - Trump's 'Better Judgment' Challenged by Examples of Morality & Healthcare - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2015 from Richard RuhlingSummary: Trump's judgment is challenged on the morality and bankruptcy of his casinos and his understanding of healthcare. Healthcare is not medical care with prescription drugs that have become a leading cause of illness and death. Donald Trump boasted of better judgment on CNN's State of ...
Views: 1095 - Trust and Faith - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe frequently remark on how young people act with a seemingly carefree attitude and take risks that older people would not take. This is due to the inherent trust they have in their body’s vital and physical resilience and powers of prevailing even in difficult or dangerous circumstances. As ...
Views: 152 - Trust Yourself - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiTrust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ― Benjamin Spock Trusting ourselves means trusting our intuition or our gut feelings. Intuition is a great self-help tool as it is with us at all time and can tell us what we really want or don’t want in our life and what we need to be ...
Views: 1023 - Truth & Faith - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2014 from Darius VaduvaSometimes I wonder what could generally be the force behind most of our activities. During the day, and perhaps so during a year, a decade or even a life, man continues to perform certain deeds as if he had been programmed much earlier and his actions seem to be automatic. It is not just with ...
Views: 1325 - Truth About Hypnosis Part II - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2019 from Scott & Stephen PetulloThe average person might think of hypnosis, based on what they've seen in entertaining stage shows, as a means to control other people. But that's a myth and hypnosis actually has many benefits most people aren't aware of. Hypnosis is defined by The American Heritage Science Dictionary as “A ...
Views: 1330 - Turn Down The Static, Turn Up The Guidance - by Submitted on May 13, 2015 from Gina CharlesWhat’s preventing you from hearing your own Guidance? Turning down the unnecessary, unfounded, negative static of the thinking mind, allows us to better hear and feel our own Guidance. The first step in doing this is to notice thought. Catch thought in action, ranting on in its ...
Views: 1019 - Twenty Myths of New Age Philosophy - by Submitted on May 04, 2012 from Frans LangenkampIt is interesting to see how much of the so called New Age thoughts are a more fashionable continuation of deeply ingrained religious beliefs. And as religions have been the expression of incomplete insight into the nature of our own self, of God and of the world, so are the modern New Age ...
Views: 2456 - Two Aids in Overcoming the Impulse of Anger - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2022 from santosh krinskyFor the spiritual seeker there are two major transformations ahead of the ultimate supramental transformation. These are the psychic transformation and the spiritual transformation. The one opens up the devotional aspiration and the receptivity of the being. The other shifts the standpoint away ...
Views: 419 - Two Conditions for Preventing Illness - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother describes two conditions for preventing illness from invading the physical being. The first condition is basically ‘not to want it’. When we reflect on this, the first reaction is that we don’t want it! This is however not the complete picture. We have to recognise that the human ...
Views: 122 - Two Forms of Protection from Attacks of Hostile Forces - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2021 from santosh krinskyThere must be some form of inner connection or resonance for any vibration to succeed in impacting an individual. On the more general basis, the physical body represents a connection to the material world, so that actions which impact the material world may obviously impact the physical body. ...
Views: 459 - Two Introductory Methods to Develop Remembrance in Work - by Submitted on May 29, 2021 from santosh krinskyDevelopment of the inner attitude of dedication, and remembrance of the Divine in work is a progressive process. Initially, most people are unable to actively keep the focus and remembrance while concurrently concentrating on the work at hand. Sri Aurobindo introduces two methods to begin to ...
Views: 476 - Two Methods for Achieving Equality of Feelings with Others - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhat causes an individual to ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ someone they meet. Some obvious reasons include similarities or differences in temperament, responses to situations, idea-sets, lifestyle, and, based on acculturation, accidental characteristics such as religion, social standing, career, or ...
Views: 477 - Two Methods for Practicing the Yoga of Works - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere is no clear line of demarcation between the 3 major paths of yoga that are based in the primary aspects of development, the yoga of knowledge, the yoga of devotion and the yoga of works. As they proceed down their somewhat different paths, they must necessarily gain aspects of and bring ...
Views: 417 - Two Options for the Seeker to Eliminate Desire - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2021 from santosh krinskyWhen the spiritual aspirant hears that he must eliminate desire from his consciousness, he frequently takes this as a message of ‘renunciation’ and thereby determines to live an isolated life free from the efforts involved in living in the world and interacting within the societal framework. ...
Views: 482 - Two Processes of Traditional Yogic Paths That Can Aid the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2021 from santosh krinskyWhile the integral Yoga does not depend on the techniques or methods of the traditional yogic paths, Sri Aurobindo has identified several processes that can be of great help in some cases. They help the seeker achieve a state of separation from the outer ego-personality and vital desire-soul, to ...
Views: 437 - Two Steps to Spiritual Experience - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2022 from santosh krinskySpiritual experience takes ‘knowing about’ something to ‘knowing’ it. What we learn from books, what we learn in school, the facts we memorize, the procedures we learn about, are all based in the intellect and while they may open the mind to new things, do not represent actual experience. The ...
Views: 396 - Two Times to Forgive - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2019 from Jon LovgrenChapter 2 from "The Magic Words, by Jon Lovgren. Two Times to Forgive Ho’oponopono The Pathway to Peace “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller Welcome to ...
Views: 996 - Two Ways to Meet the Resistance of the Nature to the Divine Force: the Way of the Self and the Way of the Psychic - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2021 from santosh krinskyWhen we reflect on the difficulty of changing basic human nature, and overcoming the general habits and patterns of universal nature expressing itself in us, we may easily recognise that none of the characteristic powers of mind, life or body will be sufficient to accomplish real and lasting ...
Views: 415 - Ujjain – One of the religious cities of India - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2015 from Heena PathakOne of the sacred cities that exist in India includes the name of Ujjain. It is because of its rich heritage and culture that everyone knows about Ujjain in India and in other parts of world. Ujjain is really a religious city and a must visit place. Ujjain is famous city of Madhya Pradesh. ...
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