Shiva 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.
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Don’t just listen and forget, implement it!
The 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.
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How to Face Challenges in this World
So 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.
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Manthan – Churning of the Mind
The 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?
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Shakti worship during Navratri
In 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.
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Sri M’s message of Hope on Guru Purnima 2022
In 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?
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Face the Reality and See where you stand
The 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.
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Watch carefully the direction of the Heart
A 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!’
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Household Duties on the Spiritual Journey
From 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.
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Consecration of Shiva Linga | Madanapalle | 2013
An 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.
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Practical steps for Peace & Interfaith Harmony
Mere 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,
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The secret of implementing a resolution
One 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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Finding Happiness in the Battlefield of Life – The Bhagavad Gita Way
Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a beautiful book. It means Song of the Lord. It is one of the Upanishads, perhaps the only Upanishad, which was taught in the battlefield and not in the forest. We are all in the battlefield of life; it is not that we are separate from this metaphor. There are so many situations before us. What do we usually do? Either we jump into it with great violence, or we try to run away from it; retire from it, and feel dejected. However, there is a middle path to this, and that is what Krishna describes in the Gita.
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What Yoga Can Do
When the vrittis are gone, there is no separate entity, it’s only consciousness. This is the meaning of yoga in Yoga Vasishta and also in the ultimate sense.
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Keep your Slate Clean
In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean. If you have a slate, and you write on it and if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off.
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