Spiritually Speaking

THE DELUSION OF PLAYING GOD

24 Jan 2023 07:13 AM IST

Do you enjoy advising people? Often, people come to us for advice when they need help. But sometimes, it’s not just the people who need advice, but we as well. We want to help them because we want to feel important and powerful by helping them take care of their

Calmness is the Doorway To Cosmic Consciousness

24 Jan 2023 07:12 AM IST

Calmness is one of the eight manifestations of God that one can experience in meditation. Peace is also an aspect of God, though there is a difference between Peace and Calmness. Paramhansa Yogananda explained the difference in this way: Peace is an early meditative experience. Peace, like weightless waterfall, cleanses

Can God be omnipresent?

21 Jan 2023 07:27 AM IST

Omnipresence is a quality attributed to God by millions of people. Some believe that God and the universe are separate, but God is present everywhere. According to another belief, God pervades the universe and extends beyond it in time and space. Some religious cultures see the whole of existence as

CREATING A POSITIVE STATE OF MIND

21 Jan 2023 07:26 AM IST

It is said that we can have up to 30,000 thoughts a day passing through our minds. We also experience that the majority of these thoughts are superfluous or negative. Positive thinking is the ability to use the energy of the mind – that is, thought – in a creative

A CLEAN AND HONEST HEART EARNS BLESSINGS

21 Jan 2023 07:25 AM IST

Whatever we have to do, we should do it with an honest heart and in a state of happiness. Everything we do is interwoven with some very subtle karmic accounts. For example, some people think that it is perfectly alright to be paid to do 10 hours of work but

SPIRITUAL PEACOCKS

17 Jan 2023 07:36 AM IST

There are a few practitioners who love to boast about their knowledge of various spiritual practices. They will often pontificate on different techniques. These ‘spiritual peacocks’ strut about feeling important while talking about their experiences with some obscure meditation method or their encounters with some well-known gurus, or even which

Five things that keep you unhappy

17 Jan 2023 07:33 AM IST

On the surface, we all look happy. With rising prosperity, most people have basic facilities like food, clothing, and a roof overhead. After getting all basic facilities Yet people have never been so unhappy. You are healthy, have a loving family, and also have some meaning of livelihood. Still, why

Reincarnation and the Cosmic Dream

17 Jan 2023 07:31 AM IST

Yogis state that after the death of the physical human form, two other “bodies” remain: the energy body (astral) and the idea body (causal). These two exist within spheres of existence appropriate to their form: the astral world of energy, colors, shapes, forms of an ethereal nature and the causal

It is time for discipline

14 Jan 2023 07:31 AM IST

When we keep a daily discipline for the self and stick to that practice, be it through meditation, prayerful presence or silent reflection, these disciplines help to keep our mind anchored during the day. This helps to inhabit a state of conscious awareness. We become aware of our thoughts, and

CHANGE OF ATTITUDE THROUGH PURITY

14 Jan 2023 07:30 AM IST

Purity – in intention, thoughts, words, and actions – is the key characteristic of a great soul. The basis of purity is determination – to maintain an elevated consciousness. This may involve being discerning about what we watch, read, and listen to, and how we spend our time. The aim

THE LIMITED EGO AND SPIRITUALITY

14 Jan 2023 07:29 AM IST

The limited ego is the mediator or gatekeeper between my deep internal state of being and the external world. Although the vibrational frequency of all signals that emerge from my deeper internal state may start out as positive, they lose power as they make their way through the limited ego

What is the best remedy for our fears?

10 Jan 2023 07:38 AM IST

Question: I have often heard people say that we should “face our fears.” What does that mean? And how do we do it? Fears plague me enough already – why would I go out looking for them? Asha answers: In his great book, Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda recalls