Month: August 2023
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What exactly do you mean by saying, bhooloka is a less intense projection, and hell and heaven are little higher-level projection? Does it mean that it is more easy to find that bhooloka is a projection?
The possibility for disillusionment and experiencing the other extremes is more easy in Bhooloka. In Bhooloka you can extremely experience the pain and the opposite extreme of the pain, pleasure, very easily without difficulty. But in hell you can never experience pleasure; in heaven you can never experience pain. When the opposite extremes are not…
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How do we bring out the subconscious and unconscious fear and greed during the nirbhaya meditation?
When you again and again go through the Nirbhaya Dhyana, naturally in few days your subconscious and unconscious patterns open up. In cosmic law there is no separate subconscious or unconscious. Only the deeper layers on which you are not able to lay your hands immediately, you name them as subconscious or unconscious. Again and…
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When money is taken away from you, when you feel the pain that some part of your identity is dying, it is a lesson to you it was never part of you
Illusioned, expanded, identity possession is life. Life in a deluded way possesses and the possession itself is felt as its own identity because of illusion. When life feels it possesses the body and lands up in a delusion it is the body, it is life. When it feels it possesses wealth and wealth is part…
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Never work out of greed because whatever we achieve is going to be taken away at the time of death. Never become silent and inactive out of fear because there is really nothing to lose.
The question concerning Karma and Sannyāsa, responsibility and renunciation, has been asked from time immemorial, and each time it has been answered. Yet this question remains. Somebody asked me, ‘Why is the Gītā still relevant today?’ I said, ‘Because we never learned it.’ Although Gītā was uttered at least 5,000 years ago it is still…
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Depression of Success
Arjuna asks: sannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛṣṇa punar yogaṁ ca saṁsasi (5.1)?’ ‘Kṛṣṇa! Now, will you please tell me surely, which of the two: karma, action or Sannyāsa, renunciation is more beneficial ? Again and again, all of us ask ourselves this question. The mind is in dilemma! The mind asks for a single instruction! Our mind…
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A person who neither enjoys nor shares is Yaksha
There is no other book that is so clear, so direct. There is no other Master who is so straight in giving the Truth and the experiential expression of the Truth. After all the explanations given by Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna continues to ask, ‘Oh Kṛṣṇa, first of all, you asked me to renounce work and then…
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It is very difficult to connect with a Living Master, but very easy to relate with dead masters!
A person of knowledge becomes arrogant and refuses to acknowledge the limitations of knowledge. Sacrificing knowledge is far more difficult than sacrificing wealth. For a scholar to admit that he does not know is to commit suicide. He is losing his identity. Kṛṣṇa advises the seeker to sacrifice one’s knowledge and one’s intellect at His…
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Drop your mind
A small story: Once, a blind man went to a doctor to see if he had any hope of getting back his eyesight. The doctor checked him and said, ‘Yes, I can do a surgery and you can get back your eyesight. Then, you can drop your stick and start walking.’ The man replied, ‘Doctor,…
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How does Master Disciple relationship flower ?
In the Śiva Sutra, Devi asks, ‘O Śiva, what is your reality? What is this wonder-filled universe? What constitutes the seed? Who centers the universal wheel? What is this life beyond form pervading form? How may we enter it fully, beyond space and time, names and descriptions? Let my doubts be cleared.’ Beautifully, She expresses…
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Completing with your self-doubt in any field is Education
In the next few verses, Sri Krishna says that there is no happiness for those who always have self-doubts and who have no knowledge and authenticity. He uses the word ‘always.’ He does not say that from the beginning itself you should not have any doubts. Having doubts is natural; as long as you have…
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Only a man living authenticity, is a liberated one enriched with the ultimate knowledge
In the next verse, Kṛṣṇa uses the word ‘śraddha’ again. What a beautiful verse, ‘śraddhāvān labhate jñānaṁ—the one established in authenticity is enriched with knowledge.’ Actually, śraddha means faith plus the courage of authenticity to live to your highest possibility; the courage to be established in the peak of your capability. Understand, continuously committing with…