Tag: Living Enlightenment
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Liberate yourself from the clutches of your identity by cognizing the truth, ‘you are always unclutched’!

When a local gangster steps out on the first day of his job, he has a little fear. Once the people start obeying him, even if he is unsure of himself, just seeing people obey him gives him confidence, ‘Yes, now I am a great guy!’ His whole body language changes. In the same way, when…
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Isn’t Life new every new moment, then why do sometimes we feel bored or tired or sick of it ?

There is no linear connection between one thought that we have and another thought that we have. The only relationship between thoughts is that they come from the same source. But we constantly connect one thought and the next thought in a linear manner. Just as bubbles shaft nor the pain in a fish tank…
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Is pain real ?

There is a very beautiful analogy by Ramana Maharishi, an enlightened master from India. A dog chews a dry bone. As it chews, fragments of the bone will poke into its mouth making it bleed. The dog thinks the blood is coming from the bone and it enjoys the blood. It continues to chew on…
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You are not aware of all the things that are happening in front of you! You do not remember your biography as it happened, you remember it only as you want it!

How does our mind work? How do we create thoughts and how do we give meaning to them? How do we experience life? Let me give you a simple diagram to understand how thoughts flow in the mind and how you connect them. Each thought in your mind is shown here as a rectangle. Each…
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An experiment to catch our thinking
Try a very simple experiment for just ten minutes. Take a sheet of paper and a pen. Sit down alone. Write down whatever thought comes to mind as if a transcribing software has been connected to your mind. Transcribe exactly what you think. Do not edit or suppress any thoughts. It is an experiment only…
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Nithyam – dhyanam – anandam

What is needed so as not to collect gathered agamya karma, is life solutions, what I call nithyam (eternal) because you practice them daily. To dissolve the karma of this birth, you need meditation or dhyanam. That is why you see that most of our meditations are based on breathing. Altering the breathing, making it…
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Initiation

With just the help of the initiations, you can reduce the prarabdha karma’s influence over you and move towards your inherent state of joy. You can reclaim your pure and unwavering inner space. You can also stop collecting agamya karma. Initiation is the knowledge or the clicks that bring you out of these depressive thoughts,…
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Meditation and consciousness – antidotes for karma
When you have had even one glimpse of pure consciousness, no karma can influence you. Your frequency becomes much more than the frequency of karma. Karma can work on you only as long as you have thoughts. In conscious awareness you go beyond thoughts. So, naturally you will start ruling over karma. Any meditation when…
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Deities and enlightened masters, your paths to exhausting karma

There is a way to again and again remind ourselves not to collect karma and to live without the influence of the earlier incurred karma. The first step is to have a clear understanding that karma is powerless in the presence of an elevated consciousness. There is an important difference between normal human beings and…
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Enlightened Master clearing the samskaras is like you facing a thorn prick instead of suffering a fracture!

Q: What happens when someone has a premature death like in suicide or accident? In the case of premature death, the soul has to wait for the time it was destined to live, before it can take a new body. In the case of suicide, the suffering is much more intense than what would have been…
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Can our karma be exhausted by doing charitable service?

You need to see the motivation for the social service. Honestly look at yourself in the face. What do you want by doing the service? Do you feel motivated by the fear of having to go to hell if you don’t do good deeds? Is it the desire for a good name and publicity? Or…
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Will we contract another person’s karma when they give advice, or touch them? How vulnerable are we to other people’s karma?

Understand, you cannot get karma from somebody else. You have enough of your own! So do not bother about catching karma from another person. Either by touching or by giving advice or by close physical contact or physical proximity, karma can never be passed on. You may acquire the mental setup of that person in…
