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  Photo Credit: Pixabay || Environment Nature Cloud Judgment and Acceptance The human brain stores innumerable impressions from the past, some of which we have forgotten ages ago, but these same impressions come to the fore when any similar incident occurs in the present time. Our memory is full of past incidents involving situations and people and a majority of these relate to bad or traumatic incidents. These generally for the database for our present actions and reactions. When anything happens, we are usually quick to form judgment on why this happened or how that person should have reacted and so on. In any incident involving people it is best to hear both sides of any story before forming your own judgment, else we end up being unfair to one or the other person. When this happens, we end up hurting one person and siding with another in a rather unfair manner. When we turn spiritual this kind of behaviour is detrimental to our own spiritual progress as we attract the negative ...

Photo Credit: Dreamstime.com   Result of Focusing on your Soul His Holiness Shivkrupanand Swami has given us a mantra – “I am a Holy Soul, I am a Pure Soul”. When we sit for meditation, we chant this mantra thrice and then go into meditation. This mantra should be chanted with the complete sense and feeling of being a ‘soul’ and not a physical being. By doing this we will be in a position to internalise this mantra. Once we internalise this mantra certain changes start happening within us which we should be aware of. We start realising and experiencing that we are a soul and our soul consciousness grows day by day, till a point is reached where we are perpetually in a blissful state even though we are doing all our normal activities while living in society. Once your soul gets control over your body and your body consciousness levels drop away, an aura will start to develop around your body, this is nothing but the development of the energy body which every human being has, but...

  Photo Credit: Wallpaperflare Being with your Soul Once you have got self-realisation, then what is the way forward, you may well ask! One has to remember that self-realisation is just the first step towards liberation – this means that your soul has been awakened and now ‘you’ know that you are a ‘soul’. After you realise this then the next step is to stay in the company of your soul more and more. As human beings we are naturally inclined to keep our attention focused on the external environment – throughout the day we are in the company of many different souls, at home, while traveling, in office, in the gym, etc – but not with our own soul! Even though we are outside for the whole day we do return home in the evening or latest by nightfall. In the same way our own home is our inner abode where the soul resides – the saints in India call this the ‘ atmadham ’ – or inner abode. To stay in touch with our soul in complete awareness is not easy, it requires dedicated practice...

  Photo Credit: Quornesha S. Lemon Just Like the Rain Drop…. If you sit and quietly observe the rainfall and introspect you will find that the rain drops which fall from the sky teach you a lot. Every drop which falls from the sky teaches you – whether it falls on the ground, stones, buildings or rivers; it has only one objective – that of reaching the vast ocean! Till that drop reaches the vast ocean it keeps on trying and trying! This is because every drop starts its journey from the ocean. When the drop left the collectivity it got lost and wanted desperately to merge once again with the collectivity of the ocean. The number of attempts the drop takes to reach the ocean will depend on its life experiences and collective attempts at merging with the ocean. When it rains, the drop falls on a stone and within moments it vaporises; next it falls on hot sand and becomes steam, later it falls on the ground and is absorbed by the earth. All this is happening because the drop has fo...

  Photo Credit: Inheritance The First Lie When a child is born, he/she is so innocent. The child does not have a care in the world as it grows up in the shelter of its parents. The child’s mind is clean and does not have any mental garbage of this birth. But as it grows up the child observes its parents and those around it. We are told to be very careful about what we say in front of children as their mind’s are like sponges as they absorb and observe everything that happens around them. Their mind is extremely inquisitive and you will find their innocent questions so much fun to respond to. The environment under which the child grows up has a tremendous influence on the path it ultimately takes in life. Children till the age of about five are absolutely untouched by body consciousness, but thereafter they start absorbing the influences of the physical body on them. As children they are completely untouched by body consciousness, but as they grow older, they start absorbing the...

  Photo Credit: Spiritual Truth of All Religions A Simple Way to Realise the Truth A simple way to realise the truth – this is the note on our Trust’s logo. This statement actually says everything – our Satguru is bestowing us with the seed of spirituality in subtle form so magnanimously without even us knowing it, that we fail to value the enormity of what we have received! In fact, in modern society anything that is obtained freely is considered to be useless, and if you pay a huge price for the same thing then it is considered invaluable! This unfortunately is the bane of modern times – Shivkrupanand Swami distributes his values free of cost after which you begin to get divine experiences – but many of us deny these experiences thinking that they are the figment of our imagination. This happens all the time – till that moment when your soul consciousness overcomes your body consciousness! All those who have received the seed from Swamiji have received it only because of thei...

  PhotoCredit: Shanti Yoga Training School Maintaining a Good Spiritual State We become seekers by choice or by accident – seekers of the ultimate truth. We set out in search of a spiritual guide and if we are lucky, we meet a genuine self-realised Master or Satguru. We establish our soul-level connection, get initiated into his flock of disciples and commence our spiritual practice. Unlike the olden days, modern society does not envisage a hermitage where you can go for your spiritual education and practice. In modern society, we have to live amidst the cacophony of noise and surfeit of information and entertainment – print, visual and now digital even! It is very easy to lose one’s way even after taking initiation, because the temptations in modern society are far too many for us to walk away from easily. We have friends, relatives, colleagues who will mock us for being ‘spiritual’ – as very few people really know what it means, even though awareness is increasing all over th...