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    • Gaining Control Over and Mastery of One’s Mind and Thoughts - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 20, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      As each stage of the evolution of consciousness develops, it brings a greater power of knowledge and action than the prior stage. Inevitably, there is an impact on those prior stages. Life effectuated changes in Matter. Mind effectuates changes in Life and Matter. Although the power is not ...
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    • The Spiritual Consciousness Brings a Vast Peace as a Foundation for the Transformation of the Nature - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 19, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The mind cannot adequately create, imagine, describe or image the experience of the descent of peace and vastness that takes hold of the being and superimposes itself over the activities of the mind, life and body. Until one has the actual experience, therefore, nothing specific can be said ...
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    • Two Necessary Things in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 18, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      There is a considerable amount of confusion about objectives and methods related to the practice of the integral yoga, primarily due to widely spread ideas about spirituality in general and well-known paths and disciplines that have their own fixed methodologies. Integral Yoga has a different ...
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    • Comparing a Vacant Mind and a Calm Mind - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 17, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When one steps back and begins to observe the mind’s action and what Swami Vivekananda calls the ‘mind-stuff’, chitta, a number of different statuses can be seen. The normal human mind is usually constantly active and it jumps from one thing to another in response to impulses, impressions, ...
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    • A Quiet Mind - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 16, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Normally the mind is something of a chaotic marketplace. Sensations come in, feelings, emotions, ideas, all kinds of distractions arise and the mind reacts and follows them willy-nilly until the next impulse moves it in another direction. The past arises as we review things that have occurred to ...
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    • The Need for a Settled Peace and Silence in the Mind As the First Stage of Yogic Practice - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 15, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The vital nature seeks ‘experiences’. These experiences are something special that sets the individual apart. In most cases, these experiences come as signposts along the way to motivate the seeker and guide. But the vital ego latches on to them and desires them to repeat as well as have new ...
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    • Full List of Aeromexico Customer Service (24/7 Talk to Person Support) Numbers A Trusted Support Guides - by Rchard Mathew
      Submitted on Sep 15, 2025 from Shopia Paul
      Learn how to file a complaint with Aeromexico by calling the official helpline 1-855-510-4282 and get instant support from a live agent. If the primary line is busy, you can also reach customer service at 1-877-342-7011 for alternate assistance. Aeromexico Main Customer Support ...
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    • The First Aim of the Yoga: Receptivity to a Higher Spiritual Consciousness - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 14, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Historically, much of the spiritual focus has been directed towards seeing through the illusory nature of the external reality and shifting the awareness to a pure spiritual consciousness that is not involved in that external reality. Regardless of terminology used, whether it is maya or samsara ...
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    • Bases of Yoga — Introduction - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 13, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      As one begins the actual practice of yoga, one becomes aware of the various forms of difficulties in gaining the cooperation of and control over the various parts of our internal being. The mind races when we try to sit for meditation. We become aware of desires and compulsions that formerly ...
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    • Looking from Within — Summary and Conclusions - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 12, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      There is a deeply embedded aspiration wtihin humanity to discover some purpoe or significance to our lives, and to the very existence of the creation within which we live and act. Our training and education, from our earliest childhood, is fixated on achieving our standing within the external ...
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    • Consecrating Oneself Entirely to the Divine Life Represents the Way Forward for the Seeker Against All Doubt, Opposition and Negativity - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 12, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The spiritual path tends to breed considerable opposition from friends, family and associates because it takes the seeker along an entirely different line of development that does not necessarily meet the expectations of those people. It is a “path less travelled”. It is not infrequent that ...
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    • The Joy of Action — Independent of Concern for the Fruits of the Action - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 10, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The goal of the integral yoga is nothing less than the transformation of human nature, the uplifting of consciousness to the next evolutionary stage in the manifestation and the consequent changes that brings about to create a new harmony and a new balance in the life of the individual and in ...
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    • Acting Without Expectation for the Fruits of Action - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 09, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, v. 47-48, as translated by Sri Aurobindo, states: “Thou hast a right to action, but only to action, never to its fruits; let not the fruits of thy works be thy motive, neither let there be in thee any attachment to inactivity. Fixed in Yoga to thy actions, having ...
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    • Liberation and Self-Perfection: Adherence to the Divine Intention in the Universal Manifestation - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 08, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Much of the historical context of spirituality has been centered around the idea of individual realisation and liberation. The disciplines, practices and methods have been geared towards the individual achieving some form of release from what is recognised to be the ‘illusion’ of the external ...
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    • Wisdom of Martial - by Scott Petullo and Stephen Petullo
      Submitted on Sep 08, 2025 from Scott & Stephen Petullo
      Martial (c. 38 – c. 104 AD), known as Marcus Valerius Martialis, was a Roman poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103. In these short, witty poems, he satirizes city life, the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and ...
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    • The One Essential Thing in Spiritual Development is an Inward Focus of the Awareness on the Divine Presence - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 07, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      In the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, v. 54, Arjuna asks Sri Krishna how to recognise the enlightened man. Sri Aurobindo translates: “What is the sign of the man in Samadhi whose intelligence is firmly fixed in wisdom? How does the sage of settled understanding speak, how sit, how walk?” Sri ...
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    • Minimizing the Rajasic or Tamasic Effect of Food on the Consciousness - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 06, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      A popular proverb in recent years is ‘you are what you eat’. There is certainly an element of deeper truth in this expression. All material substance holds vibratory patterns. Rocks absorb heat and radiate it back afterwards for hours. Water absorbs thought vibrations as shown by Masaru Emoto in ...
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    • Balance and Harmony in Relation to Food and the Nourishment of the Body - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 05, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      It is a human trait. We tend to oscillate between extremes. Too much, or too little, seems to be our method of living. Wise men, sages and Rishis throughout the ages have counseled ‘moderation in all things’, the ‘middle way’, the way of ‘balance’. These tenets for living are also helpful in our ...
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    • Understanding and Addressing the Desire and Craving for Food - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 04, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We have a fixation on food. We do not seek food just for nourishment and proper care of our bodies, generally; rather, we use food to provide us with comfort, emotional support, and fulfillment of desires for various tastes. We center many of our relationship rituals around food. At some ...
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    • Who is a True Guru? How to choose a Spiritual Guru? - by Dada Bhagwan
      Submitted on Sep 04, 2025 from Dada Bhagwan
      Grave danger in uprooting a Guru Do not accept a known guru as guru, and if you do, then do not turn your back on him. Use a pot if you do not like him. The pot will not have any problems. Worship it because your buddhi (intellect) will not be active there and your work will get done. Now who ...
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    • A Balanced Perspective About Food and the Physical Body - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 03, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When the great yogi of Tibet, Milarepa, was eventually given the teachings by his Guru, Marpa, he was sent to practice intense meditation. When Marpa sent him to his meditation retreat, he gave him a scroll of information with the instruction that he should open it at the time when it was an ...
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    • Understanding and Addressing Desire, Hunger and Food - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 02, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Sri Aurobindo translates Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Chapter One, Section Two, Verse 1: “Formerly there was nothing here; this was concealed by Death — by Hunger, for it is Hunger that is Death. That created mind, and he said, ‘Let me have substance.’ He moved about working and as he worked the ...
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    • The Purusha, the Master of the Nature, Sanctions, Upholds, Directs and Changes the Nature - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Sep 01, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We are not destined to be the puppet or plaything of the external Nature, Prakriti, through the working of the 3 Gunas or qualities of Nature. When we shift our standpoint to that of the Divine, when we recognise our Oneness with the creative Force, we can participate in the ordering and the ...
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    • The Initial Liberation of the Mental Being from Servitude to the Physical Body - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 31, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      We can learn much from the quite commonly related phenomenon called the ‘out of body’ experience. Many people have had such an experience where they resided in their awareness outside the body, in some cases from above the body and from that vantage point could observe the body as different and ...
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    • The Mental Purusha: the Witness Awareness of the Mind - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 30, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      As the seeker attempts to achieve the separation of the witness consciousness from the external nature of the being (which is comprised of the body, the vital being and the mind), the first phase is generally the separation of the mental awareness from the body. This brings forth the awareness ...
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    • Balancing Detachment, Indifference and Caretaking of the Body - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 29, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When we hear that we must cultivate detachment and indifference to the physical body as the instrument of our external interactions in the world, we tend to immediately jump to the idea that we must renounce everything and simply let the body do whatever happens without any care or concern for ...
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    • ALL BETS ARE OFF: TRICKSTER URANUS Stations RX in Devious Gemini Amidst a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE! - by JOAN PANCOE, spiritual teacher, psychic therapist, karmic astrologer
      Submitted on Aug 29, 2025 from joan pancoe
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    • How can I balance material responsibilities with spiritual goals? - by Dada Bhagwan
      Submitted on Aug 29, 2025 from Dada Bhagwan
      The spiritual science of Akram Vignan helps us find the balance between taking care of our material responsibilities and pursuing our spiritual goals, very easily, as this spiritual science works alongside our material obligations. In Akram Vignan, the fundamental change starts internally ...
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    • The Separation of Purusha and Prakriti: The Soul and the External Being - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 28, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Most people identify themselves with their external being, their body-life-mind complex. They assign a name to that being and they answer to that name. They are totally immersed in the needs, wants, and directions that that external being is taking. When they awaken to a deeper spiritual urge, ...
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    • Finding the Inner Balance of Non-Attachment While Living in the World - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 28, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      In his epic poem, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Sri Aurobindo writes: “He who would save himself lives bare and calm; He who would save the race must share its pain: Renunciation of the world, avoidance of interacting with the objects, actions, events and needs of the external life, is ...
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    • The Bliss of Non-Possession - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 27, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      In the Taittiriya Upanishad, there is an interesting chapter often referred to as the "calculus of bliss". It starts from the measure of one human being who has everything, health, strength, all human opportunities fully available to him. That is the measure of "human bliss". The recitation goes ...
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    • The Power of Rejection in Gaining Mastery Over the Nature - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 25, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Operant conditioning is a phenomenon identified in Western psychology by B.F. Skinner. His experiments showed that by the results of carrying out specific actions, they can either be encouraged, through positive reinforcement, or discouraged through negative reinforcement. One of the principles ...
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    • Wisdom of Banana Yoshimoto - by Scott Petullo and Stephen Petullo
      Submitted on Aug 25, 2025 from Scott & Stephen Petullo
      Banana Yoshimoto (born July 24th 1964) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto. She began her writing career while working as a waitress in 1987. Her debut work, Kitchen had over 60 printings in Japan alone. Two film adaptations were produced from the book. Her works include ...
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    • How a Rich Man Can Enter Into God's Kingdom: the Aspiration of President Donald Trump and the Teachings of Jesus - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 24, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Food for Thought: President Trump recently was speculating about how he can eventually earn his way into heaven. He speculated that achieving peace in Ukraine and winning the Nobel Peace Prize might help him get his wish. I am certain that Christians will welcome with open arms any person who ...
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    • The Cycles and Causes of Recurring Difficulties in Relation to Spiritual Development and Progress - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 24, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      It is a limitation of our normal mental mode of understanding that we do not tend to take into account the impact of time and the cyclical nature of development. We expect things to move in a straight line. We expect progress to be continuous and in a single direction. When we overcome a ...
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    • The Nature and Power of Peace - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 23, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      In the context of yogic psychology, peace is not the absence of disturbance, just as in the external world, peace is not the absence of war. We generally define peace as a negative attribute. As the seeker gains depth of experience, however, it becomes clear that peace is ultimately a very ...
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    • Understanding and Managing the Subconscious Part of the Being - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 22, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The idea that significant events or forces can take place within us during sleep or in the twilight range between sleep and waking is something that has been part of human understanding for thousands of years. In particular, dreams, a particular form of the sleep state where the consciousness is ...
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    • Understanding Desire and the Absence of Desire - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 21, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When seekers take up the spiritual path, they try to follow the guideline to reject desire. They will frequently say “I don’t desire anything”. In many cases, however, this is an obfuscation by the vital nature manipulating the mind to accept something which is not entirely accurate. Let’s break ...
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    • The Difference Between Suppression and Self-Control of the Force of Vital Desire - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 20, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When it comes to the question of control, rejection and mastery over the vital nature and its desires, there is considerable confusion. For the most part this confusion is caused by a lack of clear definition between the different modes of observation, response and action that the seeker can ...
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    • Indulgence of Desire Does Not Lead to Rejection - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 19, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      If we reflect on how we learn, how we gain skills, we find that one of the key elements is repetition. We train our muscles through repetition of an exercise regimen. We train our minds through repetition and we train our responses through repetition. At some point we embed the results of the ...
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    • Neither Suppression, Indulgence, Blame-Shifting Nor Avoidance Solves the Issue of Overcoming the Vital Force of Desire - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 18, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      When a spring is compressed, it builds up a tremendous power of potential energy, which gets released when the force that is compressing the spring is released. This is essentially how the vital force of desire operates when we try to suppress a drive through will power or other forms of ...
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    • Krishna in Gita 15-7 and 15-15 says all beings are His parts and He dwells in every heart reminding us to face today’s crisis with unity and compassion. - by Dada Bhagwan
      Submitted on Aug 18, 2025 from Dada Bhagwan
      Crises of religious identities have always existed in the world to a lesser or greater extent Considering the varying level of spiritual development in different human beings, the reason behind the wide range of religious identities is perfectly understandable. They provide the necessary ...
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    • Overcoming the Force of Desire - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 17, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      If we reflect on the course of human life, it is easy to determine that we fixate upon different things at different stages of life. As a child, our desires tend to be centered around physical and vital satisfactions. We may desire a specific food, or a specific toy, or a specific form of ...
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    • Changing Human Nature Rather Than Abandoning the External Life - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 16, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Our mental process tends to take us to extremes. We want simple answers, without a lot of nuance. Thus, when we seek spiritual liberation, we tend to take the concept of renunciation or rejection to mean that we abandon the external life to focus on our spiritual pursuits. If our vital nature ...
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    • Divine Realisation and the Uplifting and Perfection of Life in the World - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 15, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The ancient sages of India, as we see in some of the texts that have come down to us through the course of time, understood the balance between the internal and the external, between individual liberation and a balanced activity in the world. They recognised the individual role as part of the ...
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    • Detachment, Liberation and Mastery - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 14, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      The question of detachment, renunciation, is frequently interpreted as one of avoidance and a rejection of the external life in the world. It most often turns to austerity. If one follows this line of approach to its logical conclusion, the only solution is to renounce all action, renounce all ...
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    • Diwali Gifts 2025: Unique Ideas for Everyone on Your List - by Send Diwali gifts to Hyderabad from HyderabadOnlineGifts
      Submitted on Aug 14, 2025 from Jyoti Vedi
      The festival of lights is approaching, and with it comes the joyful tradition of exchanging gifts with loved ones. Diwali represents new beginnings, prosperity, and the triumph of light over darkness. This year, make your celebrations even more special by choosing thoughtful gifts that reflect ...
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    • Diwali Gifts 2025: Unique Ideas for Everyone on Your List - by Send Diwali gifts to Hyderabad from HyderabadOnlineGifts
      Submitted on Aug 14, 2025 from Jyoti Vedi
      The festival of lights is approaching, and with it comes the joyful tradition of exchanging gifts with loved ones. Diwali represents new beginnings, prosperity, and the triumph of light over darkness. This year, make your celebrations even more special by choosing thoughtful gifts that reflect ...
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    • Lord Krishna! - by Dada Bhagwan
      Submitted on Aug 14, 2025 from Dada Bhagwan
      It has been more than 5000 years now since the Lord Krishna’s existence. Yet, even today people worship him with utter reverence and take his name with so much of adoration in their heart. Why? He had sixteen thousand queens and He lived a royal and luxurious worldly life. Yet, He is worshipped ...
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    • Liberation From and Mastery of the External Nature of Man - by santosh krinsky
      Submitted on Aug 13, 2025 from santosh krinsky
      Many religious and spiritual traditions focus on the idea of ‘liberation’ from bondage to the illusion of the external world and its enticements and attractions. In some cases, this takes the form of a vow of austerity and a focus on achieving redemption and access to heaven after one dies. In ...
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