SelfGrowth.com articles for Self Knowledge https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/rss/505561 The #1 Self Improvement Site On The Web, as Ranked by Google and Yahoo en The Power of the Spiritual Consciousness Is Needed to Overcome the Limitations of the Mental Approach to Existence https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-power-of-the-spiritual-consciousness-is-needed-to-overcome-the-limitations-of-the-menta As the mental consciousness awakens, particularly if there is an influence coming from the psychic being or from the spiritual planes pressing down on the mental being, we become aware of virtually endless problems, issues, difficulties, imbalances, disharmonies and outright conflicts in the ... santoshk@msn.com Wed, 5 Feb 2025 5:08:07 pm A Reversal of Consciousness Accompanies the Seeker’s Focus on Spiritual Growth https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/a-reversal-of-consciousness-accompanies-the-seeker-s-focus-on-spiritual-growth We read or hear about the accounts of individuals who had some kind of experience, either dramatically uplifting, or severely traumatic, who awaken to a spiritual purpose in their lives which changes the entire direction and focus of what takes place for them afterwards when compared with their ... santoshk@msn.com Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:57:58 pm Transcending the Fear of the Unlimited Spiritual Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/transcending-the-fear-of-the-unlimited-spiritual-consciousness A relatively frequent occurrence for the spiritual aspirant is to reach the boundary wall of consciousness and get a glimpse or experience of the spiritual consciousness without limits. This experience, when it comes, may raise up tremendous fear in the individual and he reacts, almost ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 3 Feb 2025 11:53:28 pm The Reality of Being Born Into the Spirit https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-reality-of-being-born-into-the-spirit People commonly believe that espousing a particular religion or religious doctrine, reading scriptural texts, singing devotional songs, practicing yoga, or meditation or any of the numerous other practices often called ‘spiritual’ makes them spiritual. While these practices may help to turn ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 2 Feb 2025 2:03:33 pm The Role of the Soul https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-role-of-the-soul When we read in the Puranas of India, we find that there are a host of beings who are essentially non-evolutionary, static beings. They may be gods, demons or animals, or occupy any number of other positions in the scale of the manifested existence. An interesting note, however, is that if they ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 1 Feb 2025 6:48:10 pm What is the Role of the Spirit? https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/what-is-the-role-of-the-spirit People are always asking about the difference between spirituality and religion, as well as the difference between the mind and the spirit. The term ‘spirit’ has been used in so many different ways and contexts, that it is hard to comprehend exactly what is meant by it. When ‘spiritual ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 31 Jan 2025 9:59:12 pm The Fourfold Power of Intuition and Its Action In the Human Instruments of Mind, Life and Body https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-fourfold-power-of-intuition-and-its-action-in-the-human-instruments-of-mind-life-and-bo A major concern for those who are desirous of shifting from the mental to the intuitional consciousness definitely lies in the transition, how that is going to work, what the role of the mind, if any, is in this transition and how the consciousness will function as it shifts to reliance on the ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:50:14 pm Intuition and the Need for Self-Surrender https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/intuition-and-the-need-for-self-surrender We get an intimation of what we should do, how we should respond to a situation. Then all the excuses and justifications and ‘needs’ and temporizing begin, and we find that there are good reasons why we should not do exactly, in the precise way, that the inner guidance tells us something should ... santoshk@msn.com Wed, 29 Jan 2025 9:45:34 pm Avoiding Self-Deception While Developing the Power of Intuition https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/avoiding-self-deception-while-developing-the-power-of-intuition When a seeker begins to explore the inner realms and undertakes what Sri Aurobindo describes in his epic poem, Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, as an ‘adventure of consciousness and joy’, he is confronted with numerous unfamiliar circumstances, powers, forces, and pressures that are not all ... santoshk@msn.com Tue, 28 Jan 2025 4:38:20 pm How to Develop and Utilize the Power of Intuition in Oneself https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/how-to-develop-and-utilize-the-power-of-intuition-in-oneself Those who wish to develop and utilize the power of intuition in their own lives have to address their active mental process, so as to open up the receptivity to the higher intuitive force, and allow it to modify the action of the mentality itself. There is a parable out of the teachings of Jesus ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 27 Jan 2025 3:50:40 pm Distinguishing Rapid Process of Thought from True Intuition https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/distinguishing-rapid-process-of-thought-from-true-intuition We occasionally meet people who seem to be highly intuitive. With very few facts, and with a very fast response time, they seem to understand and decide things successfully that we are struggling to deal with, and for which we need considerably more time. In some cases, there may be the ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:21:29 pm A Basic Form of Intuition https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/a-basic-form-of-intuition We frequently hear people say that they had a “gut feeling” that something was not right when they went to a certain place. In fact, most of us have had similar feelings from time to time. We don’t have any externally perceptible facts to base this feeling on. It just ‘is’. The same thing ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 25 Jan 2025 9:22:35 am To Become a Conscious Instrument of the Divine Action https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/to-become-a-conscious-instrument-of-the-divine-action In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna explains to Arjuna, at some length, the process of the universal manifestation and how individuals are essentially driven by their nature in relation to the larger forces of the manifestation itself to act in certain ways. For most of these individuals, the ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 24 Jan 2025 4:49:08 pm The Power of the Soul in Relation to the Other Parts of the Being https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-power-of-the-soul-in-relation-to-the-other-parts-of-the-being The development of the human being takes place in several successive stages and as individuals mature they begin to manifest and express the powers of the nature as they successively come to the fore. Not every individual develops and expresses all the powers fully in a particular lifetime. For ... santoshk@msn.com Thu, 23 Jan 2025 8:36:45 pm The Power of the Psychic Being to Guide the Direction and Focus of One’s Life https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-power-of-the-psychic-being-to-guide-the-direction-and-focus-of-one-s-life When we look back on our lives, with the benefit of hindsight, we frequently can identify a change in direction that took an individual from a normal path of societal acceptance, career, marriage, family, social interactions and entertainment, to a life that is dedicated to some cause or purpose ... santoshk@msn.com Thu, 23 Jan 2025 8:18:18 am Understanding Adverse Forces and the Evolutionary Response to Their Action https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/understanding-adverse-forces-and-the-evolutionary-response-to-their-action How easy it is, and how comforting, to look at someone who opposes us, or who is creating some form of havoc in the world at large and simply label that individual as pure evil, as a Rakshasa, an Asura, a Demon, or some other form of hostile being. And yet, those individuals are actually part of ... santoshk@msn.com Tue, 21 Jan 2025 8:26:46 am The Universality of the Spiritual Presence in All Existence https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-universality-of-the-spiritual-presence-in-all-existence We are educated and habituated to focus on our differences. We see different gender, different class, different racial characteristics, different religious backgrounds, different temperaments, different interests and focus, different value sets, different philosophies of life and living, ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:34:50 am The Soul As the True Central Being https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-soul-as-the-true-central-being In the West, the existence of the soul has been mainly perceived either as a matter of religious belief or scientific skepticism, neither necessarily based in actual experience. At one point, scientists decided that if the belief that the soul departs at the time of death is to be considered as ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 19 Jan 2025 3:45:48 pm The Quest to Establish the Connection to the Higher, Subtler, Causal Planes of Existence https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-quest-to-establish-the-connection-to-the-higher-subtler-causal-planes-of-existence At a certain point in life, an individual begins to appreciate that the surface events, surface ‘facts’, the ‘reality’ of the external world are all derivative results, with the causal forces and energies active on more subtle planes or domains and creating from that place, the physical forms ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 18 Jan 2025 9:30:52 am The Reality of Subjective Visions and Objective Sight https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-reality-of-subjective-visions-and-objective-sight Modern society, influenced heavily by the scientific/technical focus of the West, puts a premium on the concept of “objectivity” versus anything that can be considered ‘subjective’, which is then treated with suspicion and largely dismissed. This implies several things. First, it implies that ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 18 Jan 2025 8:41:58 am The Power of Occult ‘Seeing’ https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-power-of-occult-seeing There is a long tradition and history of individuals who have utilized a variety of methods for the purpose of obtaining ‘visions’ of events, past, present or future. The action generally takes place through creation of a state of trance that allows the surface mental consciousness to recede and ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 18 Jan 2025 8:38:05 am Hypnosis and Individual Development of Its Action for Liberation from the Control of the Surface Waking Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/hypnosis-and-individual-development-of-its-action-for-liberation-from-the-control-of-the-su We tend to label actions and thereby don’t reflect on the implications of them. Thus, for most people, when we use the term ‘hypnosis’ we associate it with a hypnotist using some unique power to gain some control over another individual’s will and actions. Since its introduction in the West, ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 18 Jan 2025 8:35:11 am Observing the Influences and Suggestions That Shape Our Responses in Life https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/observing-the-influences-and-suggestions-that-shape-our-responses-in-life If one practices a simple exercise, even just for a short time, one becomes aware of the numerous forces that are acting upon us, shaping our thoughts, emotions, feelings and reactions. The practice is to sit quietly and observe the various thoughts and feelings that arise while one is sitting ... santoshk@msn.com Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:24:19 am The Potential for Emergence of the Subliminal Powers of Mind https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-potential-for-emergence-of-the-subliminal-powers-of-mind When we begin to recognise the inherent power of the mind, independent of any reliance on the physical senses and the nerve pathways that link them to the mind, the question then arises as to how to become aware of, bring forward and train the use of these powers that are currently subliminal ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:43:00 am The Direct Use of the Mind as a Sixth Sense https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-direct-use-of-the-mind-as-a-sixth-sense We are trained to believe that the mind relies entirely on the 5 senses of perception and the 5 senses of action in order to receive data or undertake action. If the mind is cut off from the senses, we believe that it is powerless and unable to either sense, communicate or act. Spiritual science ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:12:21 am Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/occult-powers-awaiting-emergence-from-our-subliminal-being Dr. Deepak Chopra told an interesting anecdote from his own experience at a talk he gave in Chicago some years ago. Some of the details may have escaped me, so the gist of it was that he was visiting his birth home area at one point and it was recommended to him to visit a famous Vedic ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 11 Jan 2025 8:49:06 am Objective Versus Subjective Knowledge in the Realms of Psychic Experience https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/objective-versus-subjective-knowledge-in-the-realms-of-psychic-experience Perhaps one of the biggest hurdles the Western mind needs to overcome in addressing the subtle powers of consciousness that either already are, or will be, coming forward as the next phase of evolution continues to work itself out, is the conflict between the drumbeat of “objectivity” as the ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:16:05 am The Evolution and Manifestation of New Powers of Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-evolution-and-manifestation-of-new-powers-of-consciousness Plato in the famous dialogues recounting the teaching of his mentor, Socrates, recounts the understanding that Socrates held that education was simply a recognition by the individual of what he already knows. The process of education was one of drawing out, removing the obstacles to the ... santoshk@msn.com Wed, 8 Jan 2025 5:22:31 pm The Evolution of Occult Powers https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-evolution-of-occult-powers From the point of view of animals, we may assume, the actions, and the powers that drive them, of human beings are some kind of ‘occult powers’ about which the animals know nothing. These actions may seem miraculous but they are in reality expressions of the evolution of the mental stage of the ... santoshk@msn.com Tue, 7 Jan 2025 2:52:51 pm The Mind, the Spirit and the Deeper Knowledge and Power That Can Know and Master the Universal Creation https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-mind-the-spirit-and-the-deeper-knowledge-and-power-that-can-know-and-master-the-univers  We can observe all around us, the steps the mental force is taking to take charge of both physical and vital nature. While much of this takes place through the development of technological tools, it is nevertheless an achievement of the mind that makes these things possible. We may debate the ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 6 Jan 2025 6:59:03 pm Freeing the Mind from Subjection to the Life-Force and the Body https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/freeing-the-mind-from-subjection-to-the-life-force-and-the-body The development of the vital, life-force integrated with the physical domain led to changes in the physical in order to accommodate the action of this new energy. At the same time, the life-force had to itself make adjustments in order to operate in the material world as opposed to in its own ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 5 Jan 2025 3:41:29 pm The Role of the Mind in the Search for Ultimate Truth https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-role-of-the-mind-in-the-search-for-ultimate-truth As mental beings we tend to believe that the mind is able to determine the truth of things. We soon learn, however, that there are many issues that prevent the mind from actually ascertaining truth in any ultimate form. We rely on the perceptions of our senses, but those senses can be misled. ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 4 Jan 2025 8:12:35 pm Utilizing the Mind-Body Connection https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/utilizing-the-mind-body-connection We find that our state of physical health clearly impacts our minds. In cases of severe pain, the mind may actually be fixated on the pain signals and be unable, for that period of time, to focus on virtually anything else. But the connection is more subtle than simply reacting to acute pain. We ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 3 Jan 2025 11:45:29 am The Development, Powers and Limits of the Mental Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-development-powers-and-limits-of-the-mental-consciousness The human being consists of multiple levels of consciousness which interact with and impact one another and which, from an evolutionary standpoint, represent a consistent trend of increasing power and subtlety of the consciousness. The consciousness of the body, the physical consciousness is the ... santoshk@msn.com Thu, 2 Jan 2025 1:52:46 pm Understanding the Stage of Development of the Vital Man https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/understanding-the-stage-of-development-of-the-vital-man Human beings are not all at the same stage of evolutionary development. We can see this clearly when we observe the different interests, ways of responding and directions that people take as they grow and begin to participate in the life of the society and the world at large. We see some people ... santoshk@msn.com Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:50:26 pm Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 3 Methods and Techniques https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/educating-and-uplifting-the-vital-nature-part-3-methods-and-techniques One of the prevalent ideas about managing the vital nature has been the idea that punishment in some form or other is beneficial. Spanking of children, for example has been a common method of ‘educating’ them. It is a form of conditioning that administers a negative consequence to a specific ... santoshk@msn.com Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:20:14 am Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 2 Concepts and Principles of Action https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/educating-and-uplifting-the-vital-nature-part-2-concepts-and-principles-of-action Gaining the cooperation of the vital nature is an important step in the transformation of our existence, including the upliftment of the physical nature. Once we have begun the process of observation of the vital nature, its habits and its predilections, we can begin to implement various ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 30 Dec 2024 9:41:51 am Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 1 Understanding the Issues https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/educating-and-uplifting-the-vital-nature-part-1-understanding-the-issues When we recognize the difficulties of managing the energy of the vital nature, and its long habits of how it finds fulfillment and satisfaction, we can appreciate that there are no ‘simple’ solutions available. The vital, when it is cooperative with the mind and the psychic being, is an ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:54:11 am The Vital Nature Can Go On Strike When It Does Not Get What It Wants https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-vital-nature-can-go-on-strike-when-it-does-not-get-what-it-wants Most people have had the experience. An individual has a dispute with a friend, a relative, a spouse. No resolution takes place. An attempt to convince or control the other person is met with resistance. There may be aggression or threats of violence. Or a period of silent avoidance may result. ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:51:42 am The Vital Nature: Desire and the Reaction to Failure in Obtaining the Object of Desire https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-vital-nature-desire-and-the-reaction-to-failure-in-obtaining-the-object-of-desire The vital nature is closely tied to the operation of desire. Whether it is a desire for recognition, for money, for sex, for achievement of some sort, for acceptance or comfort, the vital nature activates its energy to reach out and grab some result it believes will satisfy that desire. At the ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:46:44 am Power Is to be Transformed, Not Rejected, in Spiritual Development https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/power-is-to-be-transformed-not-rejected-in-spiritual-development Power is disconcerting. Humanity is attracted to it, while at the same time, it fears raw power. It is often said “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” What is then to be done with our vital nature that expresses power and provides the motive force for our lives? Those ... santoshk@msn.com Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:25:42 pm The Divine Shakti in Its Various Forms https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-divine-shakti-in-its-various-forms When we recognise that the world is an actual manifestation of the Divine, we can begin to appreciate the Divine in all things that we experience, all things that we see, all that we hear, all that we feel or touch or smell. The Divine manifests through his power, Shakti, which takes various ... santoshk@msn.com Wed, 25 Dec 2024 4:24:28 pm Adaptation of the Body to Support the Manifestation of a New Power of Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/adaptation-of-the-body-to-support-the-manifestation-of-a-new-power-of-consciousness In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda details a number of events he witnessed or experienced personally whereby a spiritual master was able to materialize his form and communicate with the disciple from a great distance; and where various yogis were able to perform acts of ... santoshk@msn.com Tue, 24 Dec 2024 4:42:19 pm The Potential for Transformation of the Human Body https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-potential-for-transformation-of-the-human-body  We can look at the idea of a transformation of the body from several viewpoints. One viewpoint accepts the basic current structure and function of the body and simply enhances, protects, extends the life and capacity, or removes limitations and failures to which the body is currently prone. ... santoshk@msn.com Mon, 23 Dec 2024 1:43:37 pm The Impact of the Mind and the Vital Nature on the Body Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-impact-of-the-mind-and-the-vital-nature-on-the-body-consciousness We many times fail to recognise the extent of the impact that the mind, and the vital nature, have on the body, its health and its capacities for growth, resilience and development. The mind-body connection is starting to come into focus, however. When the mind sends repeated ‘suggestions’ to ... santoshk@msn.com Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:14:57 pm The Body Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-body-consciousness We tend to take for granted the innate consciousness and capacities of the body. Much of what takes place in the body is done by systems that are far more complex, and far more subtle, than anything the mind can actively control. In fact, we find that frequently, when the mind intervenes, or the ... santoshk@msn.com Sat, 21 Dec 2024 7:10:01 pm Harnessing the Body’s Innate Powers for the Transformation of Consciousness https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/harnessing-the-body-s-innate-powers-for-the-transformation-of-consciousness We tend to overlook or disregard the capacity of the body and its ‘body consciousness’ to aid in the spiritual quest. Each element of the being, the mind, the vital nature, and the body, has its own consciousness and capacity for response. Each element also can either be an aid or an obstacle to ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 20 Dec 2024 4:00:35 pm Aligning Education With the Future https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/aligning-education-with-the-future Some years ago, some parents in the USA had an interesting conversation with their local elementary school administrator. They were concerned about the type of education their children would receive so they set up a meeting to interview the administrator, with the idea that they were prepared to ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 20 Dec 2024 7:06:09 am Encouraging the Dreams of Children https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/encouraging-the-dreams-of-children We could say that it is almost a universal experience. A child expresses some sentiment, some idea about what he or she would like to do, something that soars beyond the mundane daily existence, something that makes things better, increases the beauty and harmony of life, cherishes life, and ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 20 Dec 2024 7:01:36 am Yoga: Then and Now https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/yoga-then-and-now The ancient sages developed a basic ‘life plan’ for people to be able to pursue in their lives a balanced agenda consisting of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. Dharma essentially was following the individual life purpose and being true to one’s own life and destiny. Artha was the pursuit of ... santoshk@msn.com Fri, 20 Dec 2024 6:58:16 am

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