The Guru says “Look my dear fellow you are a lion, you are not a goat. You are not this little pond of stagnant dirty water that stands there, you are the ocean.
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The Guru says “Look my dear fellow you are a lion, you are not a goat. You are not this little pond of stagnant dirty water that stands there, you are the ocean.
MoreShiva can be Shankara, as you see in form, or Shiva can be the absolute Supreme Brahman who is also called Som. In Kashmir Shaivism, Shiva has no image, He is the Supreme Being.
MoreThe very fact that we are on a journey, to a new place which we haven’t seen and somebody, let’s say, who has seen the place before, has given you certain instructions – pack a few sweaters, have your bags ready, keep your shoes, so that you know what you have to carry with you.
MoreSo we should remember that there are no permanent solutions. First accept this fact then understand that permanent solution lies within because within us is divinity.
MoreThe mind that always jumps around like a monkey? How do I make it calm and still so that I can go deep into the reservoir of all peace and energy and creativity? How do I do it?
MoreIn Navratri we worship Shakti and the different forms of Shakti, Sri Vidya, of the Devi, Tripurasundari, Rajarajeshwari etc. This universal energy is residing in all human beings in the mooladhara chakra; the lowest center. According to Saundarya Lahiri, she resides in the mooladhara, coiled three and a half times, like a snake.
MoreGanesha is usually represented as having two Shaktis, two concerts, one is Siddhi and the other is Buddhi. According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the extraordinary capacities and the powers that a yogi acquires when the connection between his Muladhara and Sahasrara is established are called the Ashta Siddhis.
MoreIn the core of your consciousness is a spark of the divine. If you are going towards that, it also creates situations for you. so , why should you wander around in other places?
MoreThe function of a spiritual teacher as has been taught by my Master is not to distribute lollipops. So everybody sucks on the lollipops and sits happily thinking this is the world.
MoreA great master once said, ‘When you leave your shoes out there and come in to meditate, leave your personality outside and come. When you go back, you have to function in the world, so put them back again!’
MoreFrom the point of view of spiritual evolution, the greatest duty of an intelligent human being is to find the Truth. And, religions have made the duties of a human being so that we may stay together as a society.
MoreIn the bhakti tradition there are several layers of bhakti. Starting with ordinary bhakti, going to the temple; ‘God I need a promotion, please help me’. That’s also bhakti because human beings need things.
MoreAn image becomes living only when there is prana pratishtha. So what I did in the morning is only a small little simplified ritual of offering water and bilwa leaves.
MoreMere social reforms however, cannot do much as we have seen in the past. What is required is the reformation and change, which is the natural outcome of the individual’s spiritual experience of inner unity,
MoreOne of the best resolutions to make for oneself and for the world at large, is to say that from today onwards, from this New Year – I will not only take care of myself,
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