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    • Unflagging Perseverance and Persistence Is Required for the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 28, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Athletes undergo extensive training routines, logging many thousands of hours with, in many cases, tough physical conditioning and practice, in order to achieve their goals for physical development and to be able to participate in a competitive sporting event. Many who are not athletes undertake ...
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    • Overcoming Doubt and Fear of Failure in the Yogic Sadhana Through the Shift from the Ego-Standpoint to the Divine Standpoint - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 27, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We seem to be always second guessing ourselves. Are we doing the sadhana in the right way? Is there another method or technique i should be employing? Why am I not seeing the results I expect and desire? Am I even cut out for doing sadhana? Maybe this was all just a big mistake and I should get ...
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    • Sustaining the Yogic Endeavour in the Unique Challenges Posed by the Integral Yoga - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 26, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      For those individuals called to take up the integral yoga, there is a unique opportunity and a unique set of concerns that arise. Those paths of yoga which aim at liberation have their own difficulties. It is not simple to escape the lures of the external life, or even to undertake ...
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    • Spiritual Development Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 25, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      A devotee by the name of Satyakama Jabala approached a respected Guru, in a story related in the Chhandogya Upanishad. He asked for teachings so he could achieve realisation on the spiritual path. The teacher asked him his name and family background, to which the young seeker replied that he did ...
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    • The Need for Patience and Perseverance - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 24, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Scientists tell us that human beings diverged from chimpanzees somewhere between 4 and 8 million years ago. Somewhere around 2 million years ago, the line of development that led to human beings appeared and our current formation, Homo sapiens came on the scenes around 300,000 years ago. Each ...
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    • A True Measure of Faith - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When an individual takes up the spiritual path, he normally starts by desiring peace, knowledge, power or some kind of solace or comfort. But what if he actually is faced with an unending series of obstacles, challenges, threats, and various forms of physical, vital or mental suffering? In such ...
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    • An Unwavering Trust and Faith in the Divine Without Any Admixture of Egoistic Demands or Self-Dealing Is the Attitude to Be Cultivated by the Spiritual Aspirant - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Without even thinking about it, we are programmed to bargain with the Divine. We carry expectations, we want our desires to be fulfilled. We care about immediate and positive feedback for the efforts we are making and the sacrifices we are undergoing for the Divine. We will agree to devote ...
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    • The Faith That Every Sadhak Must Have to Support Him Through Every Obstacle or Setback - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When we travel on a major highway, we do not doubt or question that the destination at the end of that road is where we will eventually end up. We may need to face various difficulties along the way. There may be stops for food or fuel, there may be automobile breakdowns and needed repairs, ...
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    • The Difference Between Trust and Faith - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Trust is frequently built on the basis of experience. We gain trust by confirmation of a particular development or response from our interactions. Trust is thus primarily based in the mental process. Through a process that develops credibility, an individual gains trust in the action and ...
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    • Overthinking causes unhappiness. How do you stay occupied to avoid negative thoughts? - by Dada Bhagwan
      Submitted on Jul 21, 2025 from Dada Bhagwan
      Overthinking means thinking about something for too long and making it into a problem.... problem because generally, overthinking happens around negative thoughts, negative emotions, negative imaginations and negative assumptions. Mind is indulged into multiple things that don’t help you think ...
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    • Faith and Courage Represent the True Attitude For Facing Life and for Spiritual Progress - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jul 19, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      One of the qualities that Swami Vivekananda emphasized as ‘fearlessness’. We may wonder why courage and fearlessness are such important elements in living our lives, if we live a relatively ‘safe’ external life and don’t engage in extremely risky behaviour. We may also wonder why they are ...
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    • The Individual Action Needed to Implement the Spiritual Path in One’s Life - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 18, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The vital nature wants to continue its old ways and achieve fulfillment of its desires. It is also very effective at finding ways to convince the mind to carry out its impulses and desires. When an individual takes up the spiritual path, the vital being does not get discouraged, it simply tries ...
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    • Peace and Faith in the Divine Action Through a Shift in Standpoint from the Ego-Standpoint to the Divine Standpoint - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 17, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The individual in the surface ego-personality, measures everything that happens from his own unique individual perspective. This includes judgments based on perceived benefit to the individual. He wants to achieve certain results, obtain positive responses, and minimize or eliminate pain, ...
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    • Focusing One’s Attention on the Forces One Wants to Manifest - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 16, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The human being receives vibrations from the universe. They are either accepted and allowed to act upon the individual, or rejected at some level of the being, with minimal impact other than the pressure on the sheath or aura that feels the vibration. If the vibration is accepted, it can not ...
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    • The Need for the Persistence of Faith to Succeed in the Yogic Endeavour - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 15, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We often do not recognise that there are different parts of our being that may be at different stages in terms of the spiritual focus, the dedication, the faith and the commitment. Thus, when our mind gets distracted or concerned, or when our vital nature goes off in another direction, we may ...
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    • Understanding Faith and Its Role in Spiritual Development - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 14, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      There is a long history of debate about what we believe and how we know what we know. Science and religion have historically taken opposite positions in this debate. Science takes the view that the mind must be able to ascertain objective facts, and draw conclusions based on them. This includes ...
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    • Achieving Confidence About the Spiritual Path and the Spiritual Destiny - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 13, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When we see things from the viewpoint of our ego-personality, with our limited life-span, and our insecurities based on the limitations of our knowledge and power we frequently experience bouts of anxiety or at least uncertainty about the reality of what we are doing, about the truth of the ...
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    • What is the power of positivity like? Why think positive in life? - by Dada Bhagwan
      Submitted on Jul 12, 2025 from Dada Bhagwan
      Why should we think positive in life? Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan says, “Positive line is on the side of God and negative line is on the side of devil-evil.” The One whose mind has become permanently positive is Himself God. The Self (Soul) is towards positive and intellect is towards negative. ...
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    • Overcoming the Distracting Force of Vital Desire to Find and Live the Truth of One’s Life - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 12, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Wind is a metaphor for the vital force. The vital being is moved by desire. When we covet or desire something, we are tossed about as by a great gust of wind. This is the normal state for most people, and they just get tossed about from one focus to another trying to achieve what is held before ...
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    • What Actually Is Spirituality? - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 11, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We speak of ‘spirituality’ and we have a conception in our minds about what it actually is. We vaguely sense that it encompasses a devotion and focus on something other than our daily external life and relationships. Many people state that they are ‘spiritual, not religious’. We sometimes ...
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    • Understanding the Respective Roles of Personal Effort and Divine Grace in the Transformation of Human Nature - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 10, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      It is one thing to adopt, in one’s mind, the idea that since the Divine is doing the work, we need simply accept the idea and let things take their course. It is an entirely different thing if we actually want to accomplish the transformation needed to bring about a change in human nature based ...
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    • Individual Strength, the Power of Sincerity and the Action of the Divine Grace - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 09, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Particularly in the West, historically, but more and more a world-wide phenomenon in the modern era, there is a strong bias toward the idea that one needs to be a “self-made man”, implying that it is through individual strength and accomplishment that one can accomplish anything. This bias is ...
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    • Understanding the Yogic Process and Its Developments Through the Action of Time - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 08, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We frequently overlook the element of time in any inner review of progress toward spiritual fulfillment, surrender to the Divine, or any other aspect of our spiritual path. We want and expect instant results, and thus, when we once take up spiritual practice, we want it to be immediately ...
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    • Integral Surrender to the Divine - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 07, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We tend to live under the illusion that we are one being and that what we think or feel represents ‘who we are’. We accept the idea that we are dedicated to a spiritual path, or we accept the sense of devotion that we feel as representing our surrender to the Divine Will. Yet, we have different ...
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    • Spiritual Progress: Personal Effort or Surrender to the Divine Grace - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 06, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We see in the legends about great yogic practitioners and their struggles to achieve the spiritual results, a variety of approaches. Two major approaches have been categorised as the “baby monkey” and the “baby cat” approach. The differentiation involves the way the individual participates in ...
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    • Distinguishing Truth from Falsehood Requires Separation from the Vital Desire-Soul and Its Impulsions - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 05, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      During the 1980’s there were a number of scams carried out by US mail. An individual would receive a letter purporting to come from some high official in another country who had access to a large amount of money and needed a ‘partner’ to help take the funds out of the country and invest them in ...
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    • How to Recognise the Divine Will - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 04, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We get prompted inwardly to do somethng. In some cases, we have conflicting impulses or reactions. We wonder how to distinguish the Divine Will from all of the other drives, motives, forces, and options that confront us. Add to this the complications of the vital nature, in i ts attempts to ...
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    • Establishing the Psychic Being as the Central Organizing Principle and Overcoming the Dominion of the Vital Nature and the External Being - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 03, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      As long as we identify ourselves with our external personality, the body-life-mind complex we inhabit and project into the world, we are subject to the responses, reactions and motivations that they express, based on the developments of the entire past evolutionary history of consciousness on ...
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    • Wielding the Torch of Perfect Sincerity — the Way of Realisation on the Spiritual Path - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jul 02, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Some years ago, there was a movie coming out of Hollywood that was based on the premise that someone was ‘cursed’ with having to tell the truth at all times. The premise was developed as a comedy with the idea that rather than using flattering terms or avoiding any harsh statements, the ...
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    • Understanding the Masks, False Fronts and Deceptive Appearances We Present to the World and to Ourselves - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 30, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      It is relatively easy to recognise that we are putting up a false front in our dealings with society. We greet people with a smile while in our minds, we may be having an opposite feeling about the person. We flatter people to get ahead in society, knowing that the flattery is not based on ...
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    • Addressing the Divergence Between the Inner Being and the External Nature - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 29, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Complete sincerity, inwardly and outwardly, is something that does not generally happen overnight. There are too many habits, instncts and trained responses that control the way the external nature responds to expect that the mental, vital and physical elements of the being will not only accept ...
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    • Sincerity and Spiritual Sadhana - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 28, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      For most people, the concept of ‘sincerity’ is connected with how they relate to other people, in an open, natural and honest way, without duplicity or hypocrisy. The idea that sincerity can relate to oneself and one’s inner life is something that spiritual aspirants grapple with. Sincerity is ...
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    • Inner Peace Is the Foundation and Basis for Spiritual Growth - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 27, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When the spiritual seeker begins to recognise all of the difficulties and obstacles in his own external being, and understands the need to reduce and remove these obstacles if there is to be any permanent and major progress, he may begin by struggling with the desires, the movements that arise, ...
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    • The Nature of True Aspiration - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 25, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Restlessness, impatience and disturbance of the vital nature are signs of weakness in the vital, an inability to hold the energy that is available to the vital. A strong vital nature will have the ability to remain calm and hold the energy without spilling it. For the spiritual seeker, there ...
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    • The Quality of Rajas and Its Impact on the Spiritual Sadhana - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 24, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The quality of Rajas, when it predominates in the action of the individual seeking spiritual growth, can have quite disruptive effects. A certain amount of focus and energy is required for any spiritual endeavour, to be sure, but there is a fine line between too little energy and too much. Rajas ...
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    • Aspiration, Desire and the Action of the Divine Force - by Santosh Krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Aspiration is frequently confused with a form of vital desire that ‘wants’ some kind of spiritual development, experience or result. Aspiration, however, originates in the psychic being, while desire stems from the vital being. The characteristics of the two are therefore dramatically different ...
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    • Shifting the Standpoint of Consciousness Beyond the Action of the Three Gunas - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Jun 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The three Gunas of Nature control the actions and reactions of the external nature and the response to the dualities that present themselves in Nature. As long as we remain fixated at the level of the surface personality, we remain subject to this action of the Gunas. The question then ...
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    • The Most Helpful Attitude for Spiritual Progress - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The vital nature, in particular, is addicted to ‘drama’. It seeks attention and excitement. An added complication is that in modern society, with our fixation on all types of electronic stimulation, internet, mobile phones, radio, television, cinema, along with neon signs, blaring ads and ...
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    • Dealing with Physical Pain - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      At some point in life everyone is confronted with physical conditions which cause pain. What is pain exactly? When we speak about physical pain in particular, we reference particular sensations or impulses of an intensity that activates the nerves to carry the sensation to the brain, which ...
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    • Overcoming Suffering and Changing the Future of Our Karma - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Many people believe that there is some kind of inexorable law of reward and punishment being doled out by God or some other all-powerful, all-observant being. In the West children are taught this lesson through the myth of Santa Claus, when they are encouraged to be “good” because Santa Claus is ...
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    • Addressing the Issue of Overactive Nervous System Response to Circumstances - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 19, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Whenever anything happens in the world, the senses capture the vibrations and send them up the nervous channels to the brain where they are they interpreted and responded to. When the nervous system is sensitive and overly responsive it may vibrate continuously and not let up. This creates an ...
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    • Exceeding the Limits Set By Our Minds to Harness Powers of Health and Fitness - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 16, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We generally remain locked within the framework of our past training and experience. We create walls around ourselves that circumscribe what we believe we can accomplish, what we can do, what is ‘real’ and what is possible. As long as we remain primarily fixated on the past, we limit our ...
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    • Developing the Power to Remove Illnesses from the Physical Body - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 15, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      An illness is a vibrational pattern that impacts the body and its normal operations. If one does not succeed in rejecting it before it breaks through the protective vital sheath and then, if one fails to prevent it from taking hold at all in the physical body, one is left with having to deal ...
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    • Overcoming the Habit of Illness of the Body - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 14, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The first time we experience something it starts to create a “groove” in our neural network, nerves or responsive centers. As the experience recurs, the groove becomes a ‘pathway’. Eventually, the pathway becomes an embedded habit. When a similar vibration is experienced, it ‘automatically’ ...
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    • Causes and Prevention or Elimination of Illness - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 13, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The physical body has an ingrained response, for most people, to vibrations that precipitate illnesses. The vector carrying that vibration (whether one calls it ‘germs’, ‘bacteria’, ‘virus’, or ‘suggestion’) strikes the protective vital envelope, or aura, surrounding the body. If it finds an ...
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    • The Action of the Three Gunas in Relation to the Assimilation of the Spiritual Force - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 11, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The 3 Gunas, qualities of Nature, are active in all beings, including those who are undertaking an active process of spiritual development. The physical being is very much subject to the action of Tamas, generally, because of its dense and somewhat inert material characteristics. It thus may ...
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    • Periods of Apparent Emptiness or Dryness in the Spiritual Practice - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 10, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      In the external life we are trained to desire visible signs of forward movement, progress, constant development. We believe if we are not moving forward, then we must be retrogressing. We value action over quiet times. When we are relieved from action, such as during a vacation, or at the stage ...
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    • The Power of a Quiet Mind - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 09, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Modern civilization puts a premium on the mental process. We educate our children with a focus on the mind. We want them to learn verbal skills, reading skills, logical skills and measure them on their abilities in these areas with various forms of standardized tests by which we then classify ...
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    • The Law of Attraction and its Application to Spiritual Sadhana - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 08, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      It is interesting that people are willing to believe the ‘secret’ of the law of attraction, spend time, energy and money trying to learn it, for the purpose of manifesting wealth, enjoyment and the powers available in the world, but they do not tend to apply the principle behind this ‘law of ...
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    • Freeing Oneself From Responsibility for Oneself By Reliance on the Divine - by SANTOSH KRINSKY
      Submitted on Jun 07, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      There was a young man who happened to be living at the same place during the 1970’s, who got into his head the idea that the Divine was watching out for him so he could not come to any harm. He walked out into traffic on a busy road and with cars honking and braking, he survived without a ...
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