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- Is Nirvana a state of being beyond all suffering, or is it the experience of supreme bliss? - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2023 from Dada BhagwanYes, Nirvana is a state that is beyond all suffering, and yes, it is the experience of supreme bliss as well. When one attains Nirvana, one attains the ultimate Moksha. So, how does one gain this Moksha? Moksha is achieved in two stages: ● In the first stage of Moksha, one experiences ...
Views: 43 - The Status of the Purusha in the Individual and in the Universal Manifestation - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe see pattens repeating from the macro-level to the micro-level. The study of fractals shows us that there are indeed certain patterns and relationships that repeat themselves in every smaller configurations as we drill down toward the micro-level. The macrocosm and the microcosm reflect the ...
Views: 50 - How Microsoft Office 365 Can Help Business With More Sales? - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2023 from Manish PatelMicrosoft is the most acknowledged operating system across the world. It hit the list of preferred operating systems among business industries as it offers an intuitive user interface and upgrades with great ease. A few years back, with the evolution of technology, Microsoft introduced Office ...
Views: 55 - Understanding Planes of Existence or Planes of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe reflect on the evolution of consciousness, how Life evolves out of Matter and Mind evolves out of Life in Matter. Nothing can evolve that has not been previously involved, just as a tree can develop out of an acorn, because the genetic coding is 'involved' in that seed and under the proper ...
Views: 47 - Becoming Conscious of the Multiple Sheaths or Planes of Our Being - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the Taittiriya Upanishad, the seeker discovers, through intensive tapasya that there are multiple layers, or sheaths, of consciousness that make up the human being. His seeking first discovers the material body, or ‘food sheath’. As he continues he recognises the vital body, or ‘prana ...
Views: 51 - What is the Alaska Airlines manage booking number? - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2023 from Helen ArmitageWhat is the Alaska Airlines manage booking number? Suppose you have to catch a Alaska Airlines Flight at Denver Airport, and you need to contact Alaska Airlines at the Airport. You can contact them in a number of ways, as Denver is the headquarters of Alaska Airlines. You can easily ...
Views: 52 - Do you believe that people have control over their own fate, or do they succumb to outside forces? - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2023 from Dada BhagwanIf we understand the core science behind our fate, we will be in a better position to relate things correctly. As per Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, the Enlightened being, “Give what you would want to receive. That is the principle of karma.” Whatever seeds of karma you have sowed in your ...
Views: 54 - Yoga as Applied Psychology to Understand and Address the Complexity Inherent in the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe evolution of consciousness involves an increasing level of complexity as successive levels of consciousness are layered and then interact with each other, with each layer attempting to not only express its own native way of seeing and acting, but also needing to accommodate the demands and ...
Views: 65 - Organizing One’s Life Around a Central Aspiration - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2023 from santosh krinskyOne of the things that spiritual seekers experience is that regardless of how strong the central aspiration of the soul happens to be within them, they experience fluctuations based on the various parts of the external nature coming to the front and asserting their own priorities. This leads to ...
Views: 53 - What is the science behind attachment and abhorrence? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2023 from Dada BhagwanFor infinite times, and in infinite births, we all have suffered in the cycle of attachment and abhorrence. Since we have not been able to understand what attachment and abhorrence is, how it is formed, and how we can get rid of it, we’ve not been able to come out of this vicious cycle of ...
Views: 57 - Understanding Conflicting Powers in the Being - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is practically a universal experience among religious and spiritual seekers, and even among people who are simply developing some kind of an inner life, that they have an aspiration, a desire to consecrate themselves to some goal, principle or idea, and yet, they struggle with opposing ...
Views: 45 - Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2023 from santosh krinskyA spiritual seeker identifies with his aspiration and the focus and actions that come about as a result of that aspiration. It may be acts of prayer, acts of giving, acts of consecration, acts of meditation, or dedicated works. During the moments that he is engaged in these acts, he feels like ...
Views: 57 - Solar Photovoltaic Glass:Features, Type and Process - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2023 from Shubham Sarda1. What is solar photovoltaic glass? Solar Photovoltaic Glass is a special type of glass that utilizes solar radiation to generate electricity by laminating solar cells and has related current extraction devices and cables. It is composed of low iron glass, solar cells, film, back glass, and ...
Views: 68 - What is the secret to the longevity in relationships? - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2023 from Dada BhagwanThe secret to the longevity in relationship is – LOVE, the real love!! The love that we see in our personal relationships always desires to be loved in return and it often seeks to control, if not grossly, in subtle and silent ways certainly. Such love is limited in scope, has conditions and ...
Views: 48 - Untying the Knot of the Ego-Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs long as an individual is locked within a framework of understanding, he is unable to truly recognise or exceed the limits of that framework. The ego-consciousness is such a frame of awareness. It creates the sense of a separate individual, apart and having his own autonomy in ...
Views: 48 - Understanding the Mechanism of the External Nature and the Way to Overcome Its Limitations - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs the seeker attempts to follow a spiritual path, he frequently finds that he struggles with old habits, desires, feelings, cravings, emotions and ideas. He believes these are part of ‘who he is’ and he thus cannot find a way to overcome them, In some cases, he is deeply attached to some of ...
Views: 50 - Contending With the Multitude of Beings That Exist Within Each Individual - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2023 from santosh krinskyAlmost everyone has the experience, from time to time, of acting out a different personality. We may say that someone “got out of bed on the wrong side this morning” when we see a normally cheerful and upbeat individual responding in a totally uncharacteristic way. We chalk this up to some mood ...
Views: 55 - Is it true we are unconscious until we spiritually awaken? - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2023 from Dada BhagwanThe essence of human life is to get awakened and remain only in ‘Self’. The Soul is the real Self. But from time immemorial, we have not known this real Self. Owing to our ignorance of the Self, we have always lived in an illusion. And years after years, life after life, this illusion has ...
Views: 47 - Understanding the Separate Aspects of Being That Make Up the Human Individual’s Personality - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyMost people look at what they consider to be their personality in a very simple and straightforward manner. The mixture of ideas, thought-process, emotional responses, vital reactions, desires and physical needs and cravings is simply ‘who they are’. When they conclude that something needs to ...
Views: 54 - Confusion About the Real Inner Self and the ExternalSurface Personality Is the Root of Our Suffering - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual takes up the spiritual path, there is considerable focus on the idea that the life of the external world is an ‘illusion’ and needs to be abandoned in order to achieve spiritual liberation. He sees that a focus on the external personality, its needs, desires, satisfactions, ...
Views: 55 - How long it will take to move on after a very bad break up when you still love that person and should I do to move on as quick as possible? - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2023 from Dada BhagwanAttain Self-Realization As Soon As You Can The first thing you need to do is attain Self-Realization!! For details, you may check out https://www.dadabhagwan.org Let’s assume there is pitch darkness in your house, such that you cannot see anything ahead of you. What happens to you ...
Views: 60 - The Psychic Being and Transformation - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs long as we remain rooted in the awareness of mind-life-body, we see the world and our existence as a fragmented collection of separate objects, beings and forces and we act as if we are separate and distinct from everything else. The spiritual transformation of consciousness involves a shift ...
Views: 61 - The Path to the Attainment of Integral Self-Knowledge - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo describes at some length what he calls ‘the refusal of the ascetic’. This refusal is caused by the focus on the attainment of the Supreme by disregarding or even eliminating the relationship of the seeker to the life of the external world and society. He eschews ...
Views: 55 - Discussing Umrah Obligations & How to Perform them Aptly? - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2023 from sitara GullUmrah is a spiritual journey that Muslims perform to get a pause from their busy worldly lives and visit the House of Allah in Makkah and then visit Masjid-al-Nabawi S.A.W. in Medina and pay their respect to the Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H. It cannot be described in words, the amount of peace, and ...
Views: 56 - What is the mystery behind attachment and abhorrence? - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2023 from Dada BhagwanAlmost everyone in this world is attached to something or the other – to a particular person or thing, to family, friends, pets, work, a typical lifestyle, some viewpoint, thoughts, etc. This attachment often seems to act as the driving force in life. One fights all odds and even achieves ...
Views: 50 - Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn our mental view of the world, we see everything separated and fragmented, and we identify separate objects, beings and forces as interacting with one another. We can intellectually conceive of the concept that all these separate entities and forces are part of a coordinated and combined ...
Views: 56 - Wisdom of St. Catherine of Siena - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloSt. Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347–29 April 29, 1380) was an Italian mystic and author who greatly influenced Italian literature and the Church. Pope Gregory XI sent her to negotiate peace with Florence and she was canonized in 1461. Below we list some words of wisdom from St. Catherine ...
Views: 58 - Supermind - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyWithin the framework of our mind and the experience of our vital existence, we are inculcated in the belief that everything is subject to duality, good and bad, happy and unhappy, light and dark. We cannot generally conceive of an existence that is not subject to these pairs of opposites. We ...
Views: 50 - Overmind - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere are further levels of consciousness beyond the intuition. The next superior level, as Sri Aurobindo has defined it, is that of the ‘overmind’. The overmind involves at least a partial shift of standpoint as it sees and understands the greater oneness and unity and factors that knowledge ...
Views: 49 - Is the mind a part of our immortal soul, which is also immortal along with the soul? - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2023 from Dada BhagwanNo, the mind is not immortal. And it is not a part of the immortal Soul either. The Soul and the mind are two different entities. Just as this body is physical, the mind too is physical and is made up of matter. Whereas the Soul is not at all physical, it is pure consciousness and has no ...
Views: 51 - Intuition - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe popular idea about intuition is tied to some kind of unexplainable process of "knowing" that people go through. If it is purely based in the type of extrapolation from past experience, or some sense that drives the decision without careful and logical analysis, it is still based in the ...
Views: 59 - Illumined Mind - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we study the functioning of the mind, we see that the essential nature is one that can receive sense perceptions, analyze, organize and then subject the objects so developed to a process of reasoning using systematic application of rules of logic. We can also see a process of recall of ...
Views: 51 - What makes you get emotionally attached in a relationship? - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2023 from Dada BhagwanIt is good to earnestly love someone. But to allow yourself to become overly emotionally attached can result in an unhealthy, troubling and even on occasions, an unnatural relationship. When you are deeply in love with someone, so much so that that person inadvertently takes over your entire ...
Views: 59 - Higher Mind - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyIf we reflect for a moment on the shift from one evolutionary principle of consciousness to another, we can see a shift of standpoint as well as a difference in the mechanism of operation. Those beings who are primarily based in the vital nature tend to react based on principles of fear and ...
Views: 52 - Unlocking The Sixth Sense: 6 Benefits For Your Personal Growth And Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from Ian ParkinExplore the profound benefits of cultivating psychic abilities, from enhanced emotional resilience to spiritual enlightenment. Delve into personal stories that illuminate the potential for personal growth and discover specific exercises for developing psychic skills. Unlock your sixth sense ...
Views: 46(1 vote) - The Superconscient - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from santosh krinskyJust as the electro-magnetic spectrum has ranges below those that we can consciously receive and translate, as well as ranges above those we can utilize, so also consciousness has ranges below and above our limits. The ranges below our limits are called subconscient and inconscient. Those above ...
Views: 51 - What is Our Basic Nature? - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from William CottringerWhat is Our Basic Nature? By Bill Cottringer He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson. A turtle was about to enter the water on the edge of a large ...
Views: 55 - Home Care Services for a Person with a Disability: Finding the Right Care with Homecarerightathome.com - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from Saba AlamHaving a disability can at times make it difficult to take care of oneself and can limit mobility. For those looking for assistance in attending to their needs, home care services can provide a valuable resource. Home care services can provide support for everyday tasks, helping to mitigate the ...
Views: 81 - We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. What does this mean and lead to? - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from Dada BhagwanTo live a life, we all need money, which can help us gather goods to fulfill our basic necessities. So we set out in search of some job or service to earn some money for ourselves and our family; and we make a living from whatever money we get. This is a very basic, standard and an ordinary fact ...
Views: 46 - The Subconscient and the Inconscient - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe are conscious and aware of forces and energies that operate within a certain specified range. Anything that falls outside that range, whether above or below, remains unseen and unknown to us, even if the forces operative in those superior or inferior ranges impact our thoughts, feelings, ...
Views: 52 - The Supramental Evolution Represents the Fulfillment of Life, Not the Abandonment of Life - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2023 from santosh krinskyFor much of human history, spirituality has been looked upon as a contradiction of an active life in the world. The anchorite in the desert, the renunciate, the Sannyasin, the monk or nun in the cloister are held up to us as the examples of dedication to spiritual growth and purpose. All of ...
Views: 54 - The Inmost Being — the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2023 from santosh krinskyFor those who live their lives on the surface, focused on fulfillment of their external lives, desires and their ego-personality, there is generally no direct knowledge of the existence of the soul. They may accept the idea of a soul without a clear sense of what that implies or means. Or they ...
Views: 47 - Environmental Consciousness — the Circumconscient - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2023 from santosh krinskyA feeling, an emotion, a thought arises within us. Do we ‘manufacture’ these, or are we the recipients of them from elsewhere? If we manufacture them, how exactly do we do that? Where does the basis for that thought or feeling come from? What causative factors are there for a specific feeling or ...
Views: 58 - Why do people search for "God" if He is already in our hearts? - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2023 from Dada BhagwanPeople are in search for God because, they do not know really who is God and where exactly His real abode is. Some believe God exists in heaven while some believe He resides in temples or churches. And for many, He lives in their heart too. But to reach God, first of all we ought to establish ...
Views: 51 - The Inner Being (the Subliminal) - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere are many times when people suddenly get a true ‘sense’ or a ‘feeling’ about something that is not directly perceptible to their senses. Sometimes one will feel that someone is watching or following, although the person cannot be seen or heard. There is some inner sense, with a wider and ...
Views: 50 - The Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the External Being - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyModern-day Western psychological researchers are finding that certain portions of the brain are related to higher cognitive functions, logic, reasoning, extrapolation, imagination, projection, analysis and classification while some parts are in charge of the purely mechanical control of things ...
Views: 56 - What are the major things that make you happy in every situation? - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2023 from Dada BhagwanThe most important thing that keeps us happy in every situation in life is ‘a happy mind’. A contented mind is an ‘always happy mind’. And contentment is an outcome of right understanding. Life is actually very simple! It really is, but we unnecessarily complicate it and make it look far too ...
Views: 53 - Understanding the Relationship of Various Parts and Planes of the Being to Our Current External Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2023 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo frequently describes going inward to discover the deepest inner being, the psychic being, or soul, as one way to come into contact with the truth of one’s existence and unify one’s being with the Divine. This is a way to overcome the artificial wall of separation that we set up ...
Views: 71 - Wisdom of Friedrich Nietzsche - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2023 from Scott & Stephen PetulloFriedrich Nietzsche (October 15th, 1844 – August 25th, 1900) was a German poet, philologist, philosopher, composer, and cultural critic whose work heavily influenced contemporary philosophy. Below we list some words of wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche. "Do you want to have an easy life? Then ...
Views: 54 - Individuation: From Codependent Chameleon to True Self - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2023 from Darlene LancerWhen we first met, I told my husband I was very adaptable. I didn’t realize the price of being a chameleon until I started recovery and my journey of individuation. By then I was dead inside. I’d spent years adapting to abuse and belittling that I’d absorbed. I was detached from my feelings and ...
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