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Striving for holistic growth at physical, mental and spiritual level of my being.
If you have any question regarding meditation, chanting, yoga or ancient Indian traditions of self-realization, feel free to get in touch at imblacklotus@outlook.com
And if you want to begin your journey toward enlightenment, follow Black Lotus method that includes meditation, chanting and kind acts (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rt.pinprickeffect.meditation&hl=en_IN)
Be kind, do kind, see kind, think kind and act kind.
The act of perception directly implies that some self-aware entity is perceiving. For instance the camera is capturing the image, but you can't say "this camera is perceiving" We rather say "this camera is taking picture"
The Welness Sense ... combines the yogic view of food as sattvic, rajasic and tamasic with Ayurvedic perspective and further relates it to the modern view of foods as acidic and alkaline. This is also the first time that Ayurvedic prakriti (vata, pitta and kapha) has been discussed in the context of yogic prakriti (sattvic, rajasic and tamasic) in a truly cohesive fashion. The Wellness Sense extracts the essence of Ayurveda, yoga and tantra to combine it with modern medicine in this simple, step-by-step handbook on how to take better care of yourself. Accessibly written, deeply researched and distilled from Om Swami’s own lived experience, The Wellness Sense puts your health and happiness in your hands.
Hence to take a next big leap in understanding the cosmos we as a society will eventually need to be bold enough and open for other ideas regarding the truth of objective reality we experience in waking state. Could it be just like a dream, though a grand one, being projected by some cosmic consciousness of which we are inseparable part? Not some divine form I'm proposing here, but a formless pure consciousness awareness that each of us possess and experience it in silence. Eastern mystical traditions have long been investigating these alternative ideas and countless individuals have testified experiencing such super conscious state confirming the idea.
Simplify your life. The less clutter/complication without, the less the same within
On a more concrete level you may experiment with doing following things daily: A bit of exercise, charity, meditation, reading and learning.
With charity I mean random act of kindness toward someone. Help someone, be it physically, emotionally, financially or in whatever way.
Re learning, to be expert in any new skill it takes 10k hours, so pick something you're passionate about and keep learning/practicing it daily for couple or so hours.
Experts experience different state of consciousness and unexplicable joy while doing the mastered activity.
I generally fall asleep within first few minutes of lying down after this meditation.
The above is my personally tested and daily practiced method. You can also try Yoga Nidra guided meditation audio which has helped people in relaxing the mind before sleep. Go here http://www.swamij.com/Meditations.htm
0: https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwe...
0]: http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_2/...
>>> In very remote times in India, thousands of years ago, these facts used to happen even more than they do today. It seems to me that when a country becomes very thickly populated, psychical power deteriorates. Given a vast country thinly inhabited, there will, perhaps, be more of psychical power there. These facts, the Hindus, being analytically minded. took up and investigated. And they came to certain remarkable conclusions; that is, they made a science of it. They found out that all these, though extraordinary, are also natural; there is nothing supernatural. They are under laws just the same as any other physical phenomenon. It is not a freak of nature that a man is born with such powers. They can be systematically studied, practiced, and acquired. This science they call the science of Râja-Yoga. There are thousands of people who cultivate the study of this science, and for the whole nation it has become a part of daily worship.
>>> The conclusion they have reached is that all these extraordinary powers are in the mind of man. This mind is a part of the universal mind. Each mind is connected with every other mind. And each mind, wherever it is located, is in actual communication with the whole world.
>>>> Have you ever noticed the phenomenon that is called thought-transference? A man here is thinking something, and that thought is manifested in somebody else, in some other place. With preparations — not by chance — a man wants to send a thought to another mind at a distance, and this other mind knows that a thought is coming, and he receives it exactly as it is sent out. Distance makes no difference. The thought goes and reaches the other man, and he understands it. If your mind were an isolated something here, and my mind were an isolated something there, and there were no connection between the two, how would it be possible for my thought to reach you? In the ordinary cases, it is not my thought that is reaching you direct; but my thought has got to be dissolved into ethereal vibrations and those ethereal vibrations go into your brain, and they have to be resolved again into your own thoughts. Here is a dissolution of thought, and there is a resolution of thought. It is a roundabout process. But in telepathy, there is no such thing; it is direct.
>>> This shows that there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and on account of this continuity, we can convey our thoughts directly to one another.
>>> A man lost his right hand in a freak accident. He quit his job and became really negative and bitter. Unable to put up with his attitude, his girlfriend broke up with him. This young man went into deep depression and shunned everyone. For months, he didn’t meet or talk to any of his friends. Just when his wounds were starting to heal, he went online to see what his ex was up to. He was shocked to find out that she had already married someone else.
He saw her pics. She was happy, laughing, partying in every one of them. He went and visited Facebook pages of his other friends. Someone had got a promotion, someone else had a child. Everyone seemed to be having fun.
“My life sucks,” he thought. “I’ve lost my right hand, my job, my love and my friends. No one wants me, no one needs me and no one is even bothered.” Negative thoughts began overpowering his mind so much that he decided to end his life.
He went on the top of his high rise building and looked down with the intention to jump. Just then he saw the most amazing scene.
There he was, a pedestrian on the sidewalk dancing most joyously, as if no one was watching him. Not only that, he had no hands, not even arms and yet he was merrily dancing. Giving up the idea of suicide, he rushed downstairs to know the secret of the pedestrian’s happiness.
“Sir,” the man said humbly, “I’m so inspired and touched by your positive outlook. I see you have no arms and yet you are dancing. What’s the secret of your happiness?” “Happiness? Dancing?” he replied somewhat awkwardly, without stopping his dance. “Man, I’m just trying to scratch my bottom. It’s not easy I tell you.”
Now you know the secret of people’s happiness when you see them dancing or partying. Just itchy bums.
Happiness is your personal state, a private matter (though the more you spread it, the more you get to keep). When you fail to see the good in your life (and everyone has abundance of goodness if you choose the right perspective), there’ll be nothing good left to feel. Be simple, be grateful. An ostentatious or flamboyant lifestyle can bring you attention but not happiness. You are entitled to have your comforts, but extravagance is a disease.
Socrates lived a frugal life and he believed that only a wise person understands the beauty of frugality, of simplicity. It is said that he would not even wear shoes and yet every so often he spent hours and hours in the marketplace looking at various goods on display.
“Why do you waste your time in the market,” his friend asked him once, “when you never buy anything?” “Because,” Socrates replied, “When I go to the market, I discover how many things I am perfectly happy without.”
I don’t think there’s anymore to happiness than noble actions, gratitude and contentment. No doubt, happiness is not merely an emotion but a state of being. Above all though, happiness is an attitude. When you make it a point to live your life positively, to appreciate the goodness of your own life without measuring it against the lives of itchy bums, your world will light up with the radiance of a thousand suns.
“What do you think the weather’s gonna be like today?” Mulla Nasrudin’s friend asked him. “Just the kind I like,” he foretold patting his donkey. “How can you be so sure?” “Knowing that I can’t always get what I like, I’ve learned to always like what I get,” Mulla said. “So, I’m certain we’re going to have awesome weather today.”
1: http://omswami.com/2016/12/the-secret-of-being-positive.html 2: http://omswami.com/2014/10/source-emotions.html 3: http://omswami.com/2017/05/five-principles-happiness.html 4: http://omswami.com/2016/03/an-attitude-of-happiness.html
This experience cannot be gain in a lab setting – you yourself are the lab, meditation is the tool and quieting the mind is the process to experience this.
This can be awakened by meditation, devotion (like in case of Ramanujan) or by selfless work. All of them falls under Yoga, which means "to unite" with your true self, the infinitely powerful, whose nature is self-existence, knowledge and bliss.
0: https://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Untold-Story-Himalayan/dp/0...
Wrong. this isn't a correct fact but a politically motivated and propagandized one. You may wish to read the other side of the story [0]
>>> By highlighting figures of the numbers of Hindus and Muslims killed in police firing, and those rendered homeless, the author makes the point that it was not so much of the “anti-Muslim riots” as it was made out to be; and, it was certainly not a “pogrom”. According to Deshpande, against one lakh Muslims rendered homeless, the number of Hindu homeless was around 40,000. And, as many as 254 Hindus died in the riots against 790 Muslims. And only 127 persons were missing in the riots. He quotes these figures from the records of the then UPA government at the Centre.
According to Deshpande, there were glaring cases of Hindus living in Muslim areas suffering terribly, which were purposely ignored by the human rights activists and the media.
By marshaling figures of the preventive arrests made by the police and giving the exact timing when the Modi government called the army on February 28, 2002, Deshpande seems to have produced evidence to say that there is nothing more the Gujarat government could have done.
Here the facts he produces pertaining to the Gulbarg Society massacre in Ahmedabad, in which 69 people were killed by Hindu mobs, including Congress leader and former MP, Ehsan Jafri, are startling. By giving factual details of how police tried to save Gulbarg’s Muslim residents despite the massive Hindu mobs attacking them, Deshpande says at least 110 more people would have lost their lives that day, and the figure of those killed would have been around 180, had the police not taken action.
He marshals the figures of the 1969 and 1985 Ahmedabad riots to bring credibility to his argument. These were two of the three big riots in Gujarat before the 2002 episode. The book says there were just three convictions in each of the two previous riots, compared to almost 443 (this figure is till 2012; more convictions have taken place after that) in the 2002 case.
Then the author focuses on the work done by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the 2002 riots and cites its findings to prove how the now dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was taking instructions from human rights activists and Congress leaders to create false evidence to nail the then Narendra Modi-led state government. He also shows how the SIT found no truth whatsoever in Bhatt’s claim that he had attended the post-Godhra train burning meet on the evening of February 27 at then CM Modi’s residence and how Modi had allegedly “given orders” to the authorities to “go slow on the Hindu rioters”.
But more interesting are the facts he brings on the table to nail the allegations made in the petition of Ehsan Jafri’s widow, Zakia Jafri. Deshpande cites the SIT findings to show that the she was absolutely unaware about her own petition’s contents when examined by the SIT in November 2008.
The SIT, he says, found that the petition had over one dozen factual errors and was drafted by some one else who had not even informed Jafri about its contents but had merely asked her to sign. Deshpande also produces Zakia’s first statement before police made on March 6, 2002, less than week after the Gulbarg massacre, which is the antithesis of her later petition. In this statement, Zakia gave a clean chit to the police and said that many lives were saved because of the police action.
The SIT, Deshpande says, found that Babubhai Rajput, who had been named in Zakri’s complaint as one of the 63 accused, did not exist. Plus, two IPS officers, who tried to help the Muslims victims of the 2002 riots, Rahul Sharma and Satish Varma, were named as both accused and witnesses in her petition. These names were removed from the list of accused only after Zakia’s lawyer admitted before the SIT that it was a mistake.
He also finds holes in the in the famous Tehelka sting operation-based story of the rioters where they boasted how they had partaken of the riots.
0: http://www.dailyo.in/politics/2002-gujarat-riots-narendra-mo...
Since it's an unbroken infinite substance, once united you can experience and observe things quite apart – as if the whole of universe becomes accessible to your sense of awareness.
The yoga or unity happens by gradually peeling the layer of false ego (I-ness) that creates the impression of separation in the first place.
The ego is built on labels we assign to ourselves and to protect its existence it makes us do selfish stuff. That's why the 8 limbs of yoga has its first two limbs as the virtues and moral conducts that one should follow to pgrogress on the path. Like For instance, truthfulness, non-violence, non-stealing, non–collecting,a balanced sexual life, essentially means control over your senses and living without over-indulgence and so on.
If you observe these principles carefully they're exactly the type if followed with sincerity make our actions and thoughts more selfless causing ego to break gradually.
still posture and smooth deep breath helps in regulating the otherwise ever-wandering mind – the mind is where the feeling of separation resides. Those virtues also help in reducing the chattering of mind while doing meditation. Meditation helps in silencing the mind by concentrating on a particular form or formless for ever-increasing length of time – when the mind is silent, one goes beyond the mind and that's when the unity or yoga occurs with the consciousness.
Good luck!
You may wish to read yoga sutras on swamij.com to see for yourself the profound insights of mind and its working expounded by the author Patanjali.
For instance, Yoga sutras starts with:The goal of Yoga is to regulate the modifications (tendencies) of mind,So the seer rests in its true nature.
The true nature of our consciousness (the seer) is existence-knowledge-bliss.
Hating someone or a group/race of beings is just a negative tendancy which has been adopted, often unconsciously, due to certain experiences in life. With stillness of meditation you can invite such thoughts witness them and remove clinging of mind toward them [0]. All methodologically.