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Different definitions can be given from different standpoints. The earth is one of the
fields for experiencing the fruits of good, bad and mixed actions, and for performing fresh
actions. It is a Bhoga-bhumi as well as a Karma-bhumi. It is a bundle of atoms, a form of energy,
a materialization of thought, an expression of the effects of the Karmas of the individuals of
whom it is composed and to whom it is related. Scientifically, the earth is only one of the planets
which go to make the universe.

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Everything else is sand, money is sand, power is sand, prestige is sand, and respectability is sand. And people make their houses on the sand. It is doomed from the very beginning .They are going to repent but the time that they have wasted is wasted, repentance cannot bring it back. So Be in this world but seems not to be in this world..like lotus..

The wise are those who make their houses of life on the rock of love. Then it is not a simple house it becomes a temple because eternity is found in

Kundalni is a subtle power; she lies dormant in each and every body. It is a cosmic
power; it is in the form of a serpent and lies coiled up in the Muldhara Chakra. The details about the chakras are given in the succeeding chapter. Kundalni is that dormant cosmic power within us that underlies all organic and inorganic matter. No words theory or thesis can describe this divine power. But for the purposes of understanding it is to be realized that this force is not like electricity, centrifugal o

Life and death are both processes of gaining more and more fresh experiences in the
progress of evolution tending towards the fruition of the wishes of the experiencer. Life is a
scene where the individual puts on the dress or the form of a certain amount of desires special
environment which can be fulfilled in the special environment afforded by it; and death is the
time when the individual goes behind the screen and puts on a new dress to appear in another
scene of life in order to fulfill another

Asceticism is really the austere life of sense-control and mental concentration lived for
the purpose of devotional practices or spiritual meditations. True asceticism necessarily
includes a strict observance of the moral and ethical disciplines, on the basis of which the higher
practices are undertaken. Asceticism is a means to enlightenment in as much as it prepares the
ground for meditation which leads to wisdom and realization. Sometimes, asceticism is taken in
its narrower sense of bodily morti

Firstly, I am not working for name and fame. When a person does selfless service, fame
comes to him, though he does not want it. You found it so in the case of Mahatma Gandhiji’s
life also. Only selfless persons know how to utilize even that fame for doing more selfless
service to a greater number of persons.
Secondly, it is through publicity that I come into contact with more and more seekers
after truth. It is the publicity that enables more and more people to offer me opportunities to
serve them.

A saint or a Sannyasin will not sleep on thorns, eat mud and stones, walk on his head and
break through walls. His body, too, is subject to hunger and thirst, heat and cold, etc., and an
overcoat is only a vertical blanket in bits and stitched in a convenient way to cover the body
against cold without hampering the movement of the limbs for service. A blanket is a horizontal
piece. I do not attach more importance or value to the coat.
After all, why should you look at the outer garb? Try to perceive

The force behind the system of visual education which psychologists today acclaim as
infinitely superior to text-book education will be apparent if you reflect over a very common
phenomenon. Leave on your table in the study a few good books, a few pictorials and a few
photographs. Let your children, your friends, come into the study. What do they pick up first?
The books? No. The photographs first, and then, the pictorials.
It is not entirely without reason that the old women in South India prevente

I do not prevent men from sitting around me. In fact, in the office, there are quite a
number of them always surrounding me. They sit on the bench provided for visitors; and the
ladies, naturally in keeping with Indian tradition, sit on the ground, around my table. While
walking about, the European custom prevails; and the men, of their own accord, let the ladies
first. Therefore, the ladies seem to crowd round me and the men walk a few paces behind.
But, when all is said and done, no one can deny t

Is it credible? Or, was it only the voice of their own inner intuition?

There is some order in the four Yugas. The consciousness of man grows grosser and
grosser as time rolls by. In the previous Yugas, man’s consciousness was subtler than it is in this
Yuga.
In the Satya Yuga, Bhagavan used to move amidst mankind. Human consciousness was
not far removed from divine consciousness. In the Treta Yuga, man’s consciousness grew
grosser. Though God was not constantly moving amidst human beings, there were

Scriptures, and the personages and episodes in the scriptures, are as true as God Himself.
The former definitely and unambiguously say and propound that all the thirty crores of Devatas
as envisaged in Hinduism have their abode in the frame of the cow, as in the Basil plant (Tulasi).
The cow is boldly proclaimed in the scriptures as one of the objects of Dana (offering) for the
uplift of the soul when the Prana departs from the body of a human being. The cow is really
worthy of our adoration. Pancha

No, that will lead to all kinds of complications. You should have an expert Guru by your
side to practice Kundalini Yoga.
But why do you worry so much over the awakening of the Kundalini through Hatha Yoga
methods? Any Sadhana, properly done, will awaken the Kundalini. Kundalini can be awakened
through Bhakti, through the grace of the Guru, through the constant practice of Nishkama Karma
Yoga, through Vedantic Vichar and through meditation. Through total self-surrender to the Lord
and by becoming com

Look at the stupendous and magnanimous work turned out by Lord Buddha, Sri Sankara
and other Karma Yogins of yore. Their names are handed down from posterity to posterity. Their
names are still remembered. The whole world worships them with reverence. Can you attribute an
iota or grain of selfish motive to their actions? They lived for doing service to others. They had
absolute self-abnegation.
Work cannot bring misery. It is the attachment and identification to work that brings in all
sorts of worri

The easiest method of developing devotion is to hear again and again the Lord’s Lilas.
Each time you hear the Lord’s Lilas and glories, an image of the Lord is formed in your mind.
And when you go on hearing the glories of the Lord, in due course, the Lord’s image in your
mind gets strong and bright, even as the piece of wax which a goldsmith uses for collecting the
gold particles which fall on the ground while cutting gold pieces, accumulates gold in it every
day, and after some days, itself begins

Is it not true that a man can rise or fall only as a result of his own
Karma and that the Karmas of others can have no effect on him? Are not the
circumstances that a person meets with earned by his own actions? Can a person take
initiative and change the circumstances of himself as well as of others?

Surely one can take the initiative. He can do good to himself and to others. He can
determine the circumstances and environments. Just see how much one can do for others, how
much one can really assist

Most of the Western thinkers of the rationalistic type accept this.
Modern psychologists assert that by denying or refusing the needs of the body such
as food and sex and suppressing emotions like attachment and love, people generally create
mental problems for themselves. Is there any substance in this?
No; the senses have not been given only to be starved or killed. Neither are they given for
being indulged in and fattened. In truth, the senses are not given for any earthly purpose
whatsoever. That

Saints are always present in the world. Rogues are also always present. Saviours and
dacoits are ever present in the world; for, it is a world of dualities. Good and evil are ever
present here. Absolute good can be found only in God. You should get the guidance of saints;
only they can teach you the Brahma Vidya. Books will certainly help you; they will put you in
tune with the great ones. When you read the Bible, you are in tune with Lord Jesus. When you
read the Gita, you are in tune with Lord Kri

Feel, as you do your daily duties, that you are only a witness of all that goes on around
you, of even your own actions. This is called Sakshi Bhav. You should inwardly realize that you
are different from the active principle in you. This is the method of Vedanta.
There is the other - asier, but equally potent¾method of Nimitta Bhav. Feel that the
Lord alone is the real doer of all actions and that you are an instrument in His hands. Your
actions will be transformed into worship of the Lord, and you

It is a state of consciousness in which you are aware that God is all that there is, and what
is more, that He is the link that connects all individuals. God is the Consciousness that illumines
the entire creation. Realization of this Consciousness or God liberates one from bondage to
passing phenomena, from the illusion of names and forms. This is the state of God-realization or
Self-realization.
After God-realization, the individual is completely merged in the Cosmic Consciousness
or God. It is lik

Just as the Sun collects all its rays at sunset and merges in the horizon, collect all the
scattered rays of your mind and merge into the Lotus Feet of the Almighty Lord.
Do not give indulgence or leniency to the mind. Cultivate the spirit of love and humility and
Divine Compassion and tenderness like Lord Buddha. Nurse the sick. Comfort and console the
distressed and disappointed. You will become Divine.
Develop the power of endurance. Open yourself to higher spiritual consciousness. Fix your
mind o