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So many textbooks are available on meditation nowadays that everyone hassome idea of what it is all about. In brief, meditation is the most wonderful adventure: ‘Discovery of self’. Meditation enables us to enjoy consciously the peace, happiness and revitalisation that we unconsciously have in sleep. Meditation lifts us above the cares and anxieties of our daily life, it enables us to overcome our

Parama-Shiva

I. Universal Principles

1. Shiva (the Benevolent) - the masculine or consciousness aspect of the ultimate bipolar Reality.
2. Shakthi (Power) - the feminine or power aspect of the ultimate bipolar Reality, which polarizes Consciousness into “I” (aham) and this (idam) or subject and object, but without separating them dualistically.
3. Sadakhya (That which is named Being [sat] or Sada Shiva (Ever Benevolent - the transcendental will (iccha) that recognizes and affirms “I am this”, with the empha

EVERYONE IS TALKING about pranayam — doing it and recommending it the others. What then is so good about this ancient art of breathing?

Pranayam, sure you know, combines parana, standing for life or life-force, and yama, for law or regulation. Combining these two, the word encapsulates the concept of the law for governance of life-force.

What is life-force? Though a delving matter for the mystics, parana can be explained as the charge that drives every bit of the living beings — in just the same w

DO YOU MIND? Do I mind? Yes, we all do mind — isn’t so? So, let’s explore the mind.

Mind is the ultimate reservoir of life souvnirs or keepsakes. It reflects creation’s resonance, harmony and the constant flux of construction and obliteration. Mind is a contrivance of thought. It’s a dynamic processor that handles multiple reverberations of thought.

Mind doesn’t stimulate thought, but thought stimulates mind. A thought is a collective cluster of vibrations, which after being set as a cognizant, g

AS WE ALL know, intelligence is astuteness of an individual. But let us see what lies beneath the casual awareness about intelligence. Let us first find out the segregation of this portfolio of intelligence. I shall both amalgamate quantum biophysics and classical biophysics to bring out an easier picture of the term intelligence.

In quantum segregation we will find three kinds of intelligence- Causal Intelligence (CI), Astral Intelligence (AI) and Logical Intelligence (LI). Today we will only un

This unusual article by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh was originally published in Bhavan’s Journal in May of 1959

It would be easy to dismiss the question by saying: “Yes, after a prolonged period of intense austerities and meditation, while I was living in Swargashram, and when I had the darshan of a number of maharshis and their blessings, the Lord appeared before me in the form of Sri Krishna.”

But that would not be the whole truth, nor a sufficient answer to a question relating to God, who is i

THE WORD, TANTRA, which is made of tan (body) and tra (application), refers to meditative rites for mystical transformation of the consciousness to transform the entire self — both body and mind. It is a sacred science.

Everyone has had tantric experiences; but it is not always simple to notice them. What a novice cannot understand, mystic can. Tantric experiences allude to astral reverberations and activation of supra-senses in whole or part of the body system. Tantra sadhana means destroying a

A really mature person cannot be serious, there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun, it is a play, a play of consciousness. And that's what meditation reveals to you - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of energy.

The same energy is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in you, in animals. It is the same energy dancing in different forms. We in the East have called it 'leela'. Leela means god's play.


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There is only one secret which is not part of the mind, and that is witnessing, watching. Thoughts are passing, desires are moving, memories are coming and going like clouds in the sky and you are sitting silently simply watching, not doing anything. If you do anything immediately the mind starts functioning. What you do does not matter - doing is part of mind. A non-doing witnessing, just witnessing, as if a mirror goes on witnessing whatsoever passes by - that is awareness. And that awareness

WILL IS SHI - VA, which made word. Would there have been a word without will, without the will to express and the will to invent means to communicate? I am no sage to elucidate will, but I dare so because will, the word, has mystical magnificence.

Will is at the core of all creation and destruction; it is what initiates, what sets off the dynamism of the omniscient on the causal, astral and physical planes. A mystic will say, “Thy will is thy truth.” I shall give a reference to quantum nuclear b

Sitting silently……..truth
doing nothing
spring comes
and the grass grows by itself.

You don’t have to do anything. Enlightenment is not your doing. And it is not a gift. You already are enlightened, just you have not looked in the right direction.

The difference between the enlightened being and the unenlightened is not much; it is negligible. One has looked into himself, the other has not looked into himself. This is not much of a difference. At any moment the other can also look into himself

It is surprising to know that in India existed a group called Sramans much before the arrival of the white race and the creation of the VEDAs...

They preached that no one can create or destroy anything

They preached that both soul and the matter are permanent, without begining,uncreated and undestructable..

They also preached that it is the nature of soul being impure sinse ANADI or beginingless and it is each soul's duty to purify and realise it's true nature............

VICTORY TO SRAMANA DHARMA !