Tag: Vasana
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The quality of your life will be judged at the time of death only based on the quality of your inner space, not the quality of your outer space.

Usually people ask, ‘Swamiji, you say that life is purposeless. Then I may as well just lie down and relax. Who will give me food? Who will pay my bills?’ Let me tell you, you can never lie down forever. You may lie down for the next four or five days or for a week…
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Just decide that life is for others! All the best things will be showered on you. You will get back to the space you were in when you were born, the purest space of life, the imperishable space!

Violence and killing are not merely physical acts. They are psychological compulsions acted out of incompletion in the physical realm. The ruler of a country who orders warfare against others is the violent one, even if he hides behind his throne. Violence of the mind carries on as the vāsana or desires; the essence of…
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It is you who chooses what type of body and which parents to take birth to based on your vasanas!

Once the life force leaves the body, within three kshanas, it chooses the next body. At the time of death the three most enjoyed experiences in that lifetime stand out as one’s last thoughts. The choice of the next body arises from the mindset based on these three experiences. These three thoughts will be based…
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If a person keeps going back to a problem time and again, it only means that he or she has not lived out the problem fully!

Vasana, samskara and karma: There are three interrelated concepts, termed vasana, samskara and karma, in Sanskrit. Vasana Vasana is the seed of desire. For example, you are walking and you happen to see a dazzling necklace displayed outside a shop. A desire arises inside you to possess it. This is vasana. Samskara Samskara is the plant…
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Go to the depths of right understanding about pain and pleasure
Today I will start with the 14th verse 2nd chapter of Bhagavad Gita. maatraa-sparshaastu kounteya sheetoshna-sukha-duhkhadaah | aagamaa-paayino’nityaah tans-titikshasva bhaaratha II ‘Oh son of Kunti through the contact of the senses with the objects there results heat and cold which in turn give rise to pleasure and pain and these have a beginning and an…
