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SPIRITUAL ATHEISM

A theist is a person who believes in the existence of God and deities without explanation. On the other hand, an Atheist denies all religious beliefs of god or gods in any form or gender. A spiritual person is more of an atheist since he does not believe in any religious views nor the presence of a God with a name and gender. He relies upon righteous living with good intentions and attitude in an actively calm manner transcending towards that feeling of oneness for all.

To a spiritual atheist, god is a flow of supreme energy which is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, where all that exists is interconnected, interrelated and interdependent in unity and continuity. Humans are endowed with this sublime spirit to express and exhibit their divine qualities through spiritual deeds in divinity from the inherent potentiality of divineness – That Art Thou.

The individual spirit is the being-ness that keeps your mind awake, active, aware, attentive and alive to enhance your self-awareness in self-consciousness. The spiritual endeavours for self-awakening for self-awareness to achieve greater consciousness, as Krishna, Jesus, and Buddha did. He is aware that we are all interconnected and interdependent as one in unity and continuity. He does not believe but recognises that if you do not know yourself, what good is believing in a supernatural God as the Creator?

God's existence cannot be attributed to a human, a gender, or a thing because it is the foundation or essence of everything. God is that infinite abstract metaphysical supreme energy that allows all finite existences, from subatomic particles to stars, to appear and disappear for the span of their existence. This divine energy is known as awareness in spiritual words. All realities become existential in the cosmos and unfold for our mind to perceive and conceive only after we are aware.

Awareness is the basis of all-knowing manifesting in every perception to conceive through consciousness. This means aware energy is the foundation of all that we perceive – God or the universe exists only because our supreme energy of awareness says so. The highest quality of life is understanding anything with clarity emphasising the role of awareness. God-realization indicates spiritual intelligence through self-awareness, providing higher consciousness to know that the Creator and the creation are the same.

After all, what is a thought? We also know the mind is nothing but thought. A thought, in my view, is nothing but a flow of electromagnetic current produced by chemical activity in the brain. This thought is purely mechanical unless it becomes aware and, after that, conscious. This means for your mind to be aware, you require an awar-er. Thus thought is the objective of the subject of awareness which qualifies the presence of our being-ness. Therefore, all that exists is the being-ness/ awareness as the ultimate component of energy, which can make the mind first aware and then conscious.

In this manner, the self in everyone is determined by its intensity of aware energy indicated by the suffix of its -ness and the self of the Universe in totality, which the Upanishads propounded as Parabrahman, ParamAtama or Parmeshwar. (beyond of all beyond). Today, Quantum Science refers to the same as energy, from which everything appears and disappears for the period of its existence, including our body and mind.

Therefore in the spiritual journey from self-awakening experience to its realization, one realizes there is no self to realize. Self is a misnomer indicating toward body and mind, which is the quantum of what you are. Both belong to you as yours; the quality of who you are is determined not by the self but from the presence of its beingness in selflessness in total awareness.

There is no god or deity present in the subject of Spiritualism. You are God, Guru, and Self as one, not two - all that exists is one. The Creator and creations are the same in that absoluteness (totality) inside that wholeness contain nothing but waves of energy with abilities to condense into solids, liquids or gases, or say, matter and consciousness in the nothingness of this universe. Out of all the abilities expressed and exhibited by energy, awareness is the most sublime and supreme, responsible for our consciousness to activate the mind to feel, think, intend and experience.

I reiterate the subject of Spiritualism is the pursuit of any individual spirit to realize the ultimate truth. It is only because of you - God and the Universe exists. There is no "I, me, or mine" in spirituality. You, or the spirit, is an "I-less" or selfless state of awareness within that being-ness, from which one can observe and measure the observable. What cannot be observed remains metaphysical, which science has yet to explore, discover, create, experience and reflect from its intensity of awareness. Aware Energy is eternal and is that supreme ability of energy. Rest remains temporal to appear and disappear into that nothingness from where they emerged.

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DEFINING HINDUISM

Though I've been an atheist and still am one. Being born into a Hindu family has always made me proud. And the reason for this is that, after decades of research on spiritualism, particularly how it began and evolved from India through the Hindus, I've concluded. Hinduism is more than just a religion. So, if you're interested in understanding more about Hinduism and its nuances, let me tell you about my understanding of Hinduism.

In my view, a Hindu is an atheist, polytheist, monotheist, and henotheist. He is henotheistic because he believes in only one God yet acknowledges the presence of other deities and subsidiary gods. For example, while Shiva is the most superior Hindu god, Hindus also worship many other lesser gods to whom there is no end or limit. This means that a Hindu can pray to anything around - a tree, a cow, a mountain, a stone or a river.

This distinguishes Hinduism from all other religions. It is a philosophy, even though now muddled up with supernatural beliefs and traditions. Hinduism cannot be called a religion. It's a way of life for them. It arose from various interconnected thoughts such as demographics, cultural practices, and ancient philosophical scriptures and teachings.

It evolved over thousands of years and is the oldest known religion globally. All beliefs and myths add up from one generation to another—philosophers, pundits, commentators, interpreters, gurus, etc.

Each of them comes up with their names, concepts, and supernatural beliefs. Many religions, including a subset of religions, have been influenced by Hinduism, including Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, etc. I'd go so far as to say it's the mother of all religions.

According to Yajurveda, "All living beings are equally divine." As a result, when all living creatures are equally divine, and the Hindu religion accepts everyone and allows other religions to coexist in its embrace, it must have been the mother of all ideologies.

Add to that the fact that there is no conversion in Hinduism from one religion to another. It also doesn't have a founder or any precepts. It consists solely of Mahavakyas or great sayings.

The Hindus in Hinduism

Let's take a closer look at the term "Hindu." The Persians coined the term "Hindu," which they used to describe the people who lived beyond the Shindus River. They couldn't distinguish between the sounds "SA" and "Ha" when pronouncing the word Sindhu, So Sindhu turned Hindu.

As you must have noticed, there is no -ism in it. The term "Hinduism," which relates to the Hindu people's religion, was coined later. They could not understand its true nature as an outsider looking in and just called it a religion. Hinduism is a way of life, not a religion, to realise one's full potential.

God in Hinduism is that of pure consciousness. A final destination for Aatma (the soul) to realise absolute awareness. In Hinduism, unlike any other faith, the Creator and creation are the same. There is no distinction. Since you have that divinity within you, you are that potential divine. This means God is the highest state of pure consciousness to liberate the human body and mind we call Moksha.

The above implies that the divine exists because of you, the earth exists because of you, the universe exists because of you, and everything exists because of your aware-conscious energy contained in the soul. You, as the potential divine, came first, and god followed.

The Knowledge of Self

In Hinduism, this is what is divine. So, with this spiritual knowledge, the most crucial thing in life is not to follow traditions but self-knowledge for that self-awakening to realise self-awareness of who we are beyond body and mind. This self-awareness teaches you that God, Guru, and the Self are one. Advaita Vedanta is the name given to that absolute non-dual state of aware energy; the supreme ability of energy - Brahman referred to as Parabrahman or Paramatma; par meaning beyond.

All of this sprang from four Upanishad mahavakyas. When they declared, "Prajnanam Brahma," - Insight is the creator of everything in the cosmos (Brahman). The second, "Ayam Aatman Brahma", is Brahman - the Soul, which contains the spirit. Third, "Tat Tvam Asi" - That art Thou, and the fourth is "Aham Bhramasmi," which means "I am that Brahman, the one in many and the many in One - total energy.

The Vedas are the foundational texts of Hinduism; it concludes with Advaita Vedanta, which is the essence and philosophical knowledge of the Upanishads.

Let us now consider how supreme and sublime the entire concept of Hinduism's scriptures is. Perhaps this is why the Upanishads offered us four life goals to follow.

These four goals in life are Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha.

· One of the numerous meanings of Dharma is righteousness, which means the divine order of the human person.

· The second purpose is Artha, which aims for economic growth.

· The Kama is the third. It is to fulfil your essential desires and, finally, to be satisfied.

· The ultimate objective for Hindus is to achieve Moksha or liberation.

Sanatan Dharma is the actual name of Hinduism. Sanatana is Sanskrit for "eternal law." And Dharma is the order of righteousness, formed by combining two words into one.

As to how?

Dharma refers to how you should live, whereas karma refers to how you are already living, with the Sanatan – eternal laws filling in the gaps.

The universal law of eternity, the universal rule of righteousness, the universal law of non-duality, where there is no duality or relativity; because the truth, God, and everything else is related towards duality in our mind to its opposite?

All you need to do now is awaken that God, the Atma, in the centre. So that the soul can check and guide the mind to make it alert, attentive and aware to progress from lower to higher consciousness towards non-duality in absoluteness for that ultimate fulfilment.

Therefore, Hinduism is different from all other religions. It teaches you that salvation is found more in your religiousness, devoutness in religiosity. To awaken and liberate from the clutches of the material mind experiencing to realise that the God Guru and the actual Self are lying dormant within.

Namaste, and thank you once again for giving me your precious time.

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What Is Life?

We believe that humans are fortunate to be born as human beings, the only living animals capable of being aware and conscious of the outer world and their own' beingness.' However, whether affluent or poor, we are also those unfortunate animals continually whining and perpetually dissatisfied. In our life, there is a perpetual sense of incompleteness. We are never satisfied for no apparent reason. We are not at peace or happy in our current state.

According to ancient Eastern philosophy, our existence is illusory, only a play of the absolute spirit/energy in relativity or duality. Everything we see superimposes itself on our awareness, and everything we believe, such as God and the devil, are merely mental constructs with no factual reality. The absolute or the organic whole is all that exists, and we, along with everything else, are a part of it.

Living is the essence of life. It is a procedure, not a thing. There is no other way to achieve life than live it, to be alive. Life is not something that happens to you; it occurs within you. We often read that life comes from life. Life is that period between birth and death, which is essentially made up of matter and consciousness, differentiating between the living and the non-living. Matter in living creatures comprises the body and the brain evolving from conjugation through the transference of DNA via RNA from one to another.

There is only a beginning and no finish to life. From a seed to a sapling to a tree to many more seeds, energy tends to expand and evolve, continuing its cycle and endlessly expanding and evolving. The perimeter of this circle continues to grow, and life continues to circle without end. Death is simply the next step in life's cycle of birth and death, continually growing and leading to additional births.

Life is nothing more than a game of illusions in which we pass through numerous stages as both observers and performers. Who and what you are is not who and what you believe you are. The mind plays this game on its own, and you, as a spectator, are witnessing it. You try everything you can to make something out of nothing, leaving you exhausted and wondering if you're heading to heaven or hell—what an illusion! When you become aware of the drama of life, you rejoice and perceive Reality as it is rather than as the mind wishes you to see it.

We can't relate the subject of life to anything else, such as science or religion. Spiritualism continues to exist in its own subjective space, developing on the subject of life, with science and religion as its goals for learning more. Religion strives to discipline the mind by laying down norms and conditions that connect you to community and culture, while science focuses on the physicality of existence. On the other hand, spiritualism has no beliefs or practices that link it to any additional power or field. It only requires your attention, alertness, attentiveness, and truthfulness to raise your consciousness of the oneness that resides in unity and continuity.

Moreover, physical life emerges mechanically from active matter, requiring the energy of air to breathe. However, what makes the matter conscious, providing every movement to the body and brain? The metaphysical life contains the aware universal energy, which is boundless, formless, eternal and infinite from a Vedantic point of view. When it enters the human mind can make the mind first aware and, after that, conscious of all that it perceives, conceives and executes to perform every feeling, thought, experience and action through the body and brain.

We need to awaken from this ignorance and the state of our unconsciousness. Today scientists claim that the mind functions subconsciously in auto-mode for over 98% of the time. This simply indicates our ignorance about the functioning and control of our minds. It is a shame that despite advancing to such high levels in health and physical comforts, we remain unconscious and far behind in knowing and understanding our inner self – the spirit.

It is highly essential to know the spirit because it is the presence of who you are. It is only because of this presence that your mind understands how and where it is heading. Because of this abstract spirit, you can observe and direct your mind. It makes your mind conscious of awakening from its false reality of living in misery and suffering. You are the absolute unwavering spirit that balances the constantly changing mind and body. The spirit is eternal; life continues, whereas the body and mind appear and disappear.

Consciousness is that wakefulness, which makes the mind active and alive, without which the body and brain will collapse like a log of wood separated from its living tree. It creates that individuality that is unique in every living creature. Hence the subject of life is aware consciousness, and the object of life, which can be observed and measured physically, is the objective to experience what life is all about

Now, let's discuss how to live life to its wholesomeness. The topmost method is to be a constant watcher of your mind and its thoughts, feelings, motives and actions. Become an impartial watcher through alertness, constantly watching your mind to make it aware, which will transcend your mind without knowing or effortlessly into higher consciousness. This is the actual secret or the art of living your life graciously. You will be inwardly aware and conscious of your intentions, attitude and character; how the mind is handling itself outwardly; otherwise, you shall remain ignorant without knowing about the same.

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The Meaning Of Life

Life has no purpose on its own; it simply exists. We are free to hold any perspective; our personal living experience may include connecting with people, socializing, thinking on topics, and consciously guiding every scenario. All of this culminates in our current world. We establish our life position, asserting that we are accountable for and have fashioned our own lives out of the existence given to us. As a result, we must emphasize living to comprehend life's worth and give it meaning.

Those who live to savour each day as it arrives are awake and aware of everything around them. They want to make a name for themselves, earn a living through simple methods and feel worthy of whatever they do or want to do. Life is a challenge for them, and they must face it with a positive ego and attentive consciousness. Instead of dwelling in the past and fantasizing about the future, keep watching things and experiencing life to become more aware of experiencing the present. Having a wealth of knowledge and proficiency in many subjects is considerably less satisfying than living and experiencing life moment by moment, intentionally for today.

Living life to its fullest and in the right balance is far more gratifying than being concerned about material accumulations. We should reflect on what we have contributed to society and the world during our lives. Those who have fully lived their lives have no dread of death. Life has a purpose that is for something bigger than ourselves. While some souls are carefree, the majority of us encounter the extremes of worldly living, which we seek to balance with spiritual grace at some point. All we have to do is appreciate both the material and spiritual aspects of life.

Life has no value in and of itself; living is a process that produces a uniqueness that reflects our consciousness. It also has no purpose because that would imply a goal that would confine existence to materialism. The aim of constructing our individuality, which will last in eternity after we die, should be how we reflect in its entirety. The manner Buddha, Lord Krishna, Jesus Christ, and countless others realized from their living, which they left behind for all eternity.

We must recognize that, as physical beings, we experience an illusory drama of existence. The entire purpose of life is to awaken from this state of ignorance. We are neither body, mind, nor consciousness; everything originates from nothing and returns to nothing. Our mission in life is to free ourselves from the mind's illusions and become who we are concerning the awakening of our soul lying dormant within.

It is a waste asking this question when you are the answer. You need to create that uniqueness of what you are today and will become in future. Anything in its absoluteness does not provide its meaning, only its essence. Like the divine with a name and gender has no meaning, provides only belief and faith. However, our thoughts and acts of divinity, love, righteousness and truthfulness express and exhibits a deep sense of our essence.

Similarly, material living is satisfied by being consistently dissatisfied, leading to temporary identifications and attachments. The meaning in material life ushers more of anger, anguish, anxiety and agitation besides providing ego, knowledge and comforts. However, balancing the material wants with clarity, clairvoyance, contentment, and calmness brings a lot of meaning to celebrating life. Hence, in the nothingness of the universe, life has no meaning; however, a conscious principle in experiencing body, mind, and soul demands a purpose.

Life is more of survival and propagation for the plants and animals, but for us is to discover and create. From the being to becoming out of that beingness/consciousness is to know who you are inward, what you are outwardly and the direction of the movement of your life existentially from one moment to the next. This means always be alert, attentive and aware in life to create and celebrate happiness and sadness with equal grace and respect with your third eye open so that you live in eternity even when you are not physically alive in the hearts of others.

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What is Self-Knowledge?

Everyone wishes to know, “Who Am I?” It is a very complex question because the body, mind and soul comprise the quantity of what you are. Since you can observe, read and know all three, and more so because you consider all the three-element as yours, you are more than the said three as one unit. Body as gross energy, mind being subtle and soul as the core. According to Spiritualism, self-knowledge is the end of all knowledge. Knowledge keeps evolving and in the end what is left is that truth, with no one left to deny.

Moreover, once you know the self, it is the knowledge of the ultimate. Why? Because it is the self which is responsible for discovering the universe from microcosm to macrocosm, and everything in it to explore, discover, create, reflect, and experience. To realise all that exists is temporary to appear and disappear back into the universe where it came from.

As you keep unpeeling yourself from what has been provided to you by others; name, gender, nationality, culture, religion, knowledge etc., from various media and beliefs or others’ experiences, finally maturing into a bundle of thoughts; What remains is your memory of the past, the baggage you carry for the intellect to choose, discern and experience for its body and mind.

In this game of life, the soul too enjoys being a spectator and an actor. Spectator, when it is purely watching and witnessing the mind. An actor, when it makes the mind aware and conscious to experience the world of duality to relate in opposites of divine and the devil going through different roles in life that of a child, youth, middle age and old to disappear back to start a new game of life after death. After all the peeling is done what remains is that emptiness of nothing, as if you have peeled an onion and in the end, you find nothing inside.

This nothing or zero is what the Hindus discovered and refer to as shunya, the substrate from which everything, from the stars to the subatomic particles superimpose to appear and disappear restricted to their respective space and time. What is left is nothing but Brahman or as Quantum Physics refer to the same as energy. The power which is indivisible cannot be created nor destroyed but has the ability to alter, change, expand and evolve within itself. The supreme ability of energy in making the mind aware of which we perceive and conceive through our senses. It is the intensity of aware individual energy, which makes a living creature know and understand existence. That spirit contained in the soul, the everlasting awareness, absolute and nondual, is the final truth of ‘who is the self’.

The unchanging intelligence, the aware energy, the only reality which empowers your mind to observe, perceive, discover and experience the universe; the purpose of life through our individual consciousness, which our awareness creates differently and uniquely for every living creature. Consciousness is that link or connection to the larger whole, that underlying substrate.

Spiritualism teaches and clarifies the separation between you, the noumenon as the divine awareness and the mind being that phenomenon, both representing the most fascinating element of life. Our scriptures say that the only person you do not know is yourself. You seem to know everything and everybody externally, but you are ignorant when it comes to your innate self. You are under an illusion, ‘Maya’ or deception. It is essential to understand your ‘self’.

They also said you are that divine because even the divine exists because of you. If you were not there, the divine would not be there. Divinity will not be there. Plants and animals cannot behave in divinity So, everything revolves around the self. How do you know anything about God when you do not even know the self? You came first, and God followed later.

What is the self? Is it the psychological image of what you think, feel and believe? No. Psychology is the mind, and to the mind, you say your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. You attach ‘your’ before everything which means that these are yours. That means it is something else; it is not you. It is your quantum. It is a part of what you are and not who you are.

The body, mind, and soul are individualised, whereas the subject of spiritualism speaks only of you, the universal self. It speaks only of that wholesomeness in you – omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. It comprises waves of energy in unity and continuity.

The self is universal, and the knowledge of the self has no beginning or end. It has no “I” to back it up. Knowing the self is not even an achievement. It gives you clarity about life. If there is clarity, you will understand clearly. You will be in full consciousness. Clarity is the highest form of understanding. Your intelligence provides you with clarity.

So, neither the psychological self nor the soul is who you are. You are not the ego, the lower consciousness, either. Because consciousness triggers the mind, it activates the mind. It goes beyond the mechanical mind. It is that wakefulness; it is not you.

You do not understand from your mind your actual self because the psychological self is not the self. It is that universal expanse of awareness, which is always there, not even aware of itself, but has the power to make your mind aware and, after that, conscious. It is that context within which you have the content of the physical and the thinking self with an identity. You simply need to be aware of its presence to enhance your intensity of aware energy, making your mind constantly alert, attentive, aware and conscious.

Self is in that “beingness”, not the being. It is that beingness/awareness which makes the mechanical mind aware and then conscious. That being-ness is who you are, and the rest is what you are. It is the quantum. For example, you see waves rise and fall in the ocean, but water is the essence of everything in the sea. It is the essence that matters. Beingness is the essence of who you are, and it is reflected in awareness. Once you become aware externally and internally, you start knowing what you are. Otherwise, you would not. You need to be aware either from your past awareness or present awareness in spontaneity. The past awareness in the memory is deciphered by the intellect, whereas the present awareness in spontaneity is considered intelligence.

In spontaneity, intelligence comes through intuition and instinct. Intuition and intelligence are your beingness. The soul, which many consider the ultimate, is not the ultimate because it is individualised. And once it is individualised, it is one step less than the universal spirit. It is not in its wholesomeness. It is in duality. It has a subject-object relationship with the cosmos. It is that divine within you because it contains the non-dual absolute spirit, but it is not the actual self; it connects to the cosmos and receives the divine aware energy.

So, who is that self? None of the three: witnesser, witnessing or witnessed. That witness, the flow of energy with the supreme ability, settled in the superconscious section of the mind called the soul, which has the power. Our spiritual sages of ancient times called this power: “Paramatma”, which means beyond consciousness, “Parameshwar” - beyond God, and “Parabrahma”, which means beyond the standard abilities of the energy. It is that supreme ability of energy which remains non-dual and absolute.

Similarly, in the case of an observer observing the observed, when they all become one, what remains is only observation occurring in spontaneity. When you are witnessing only the witness, who you are is the ultimate truth; not the apparent truth—one without a second. There is no second to it. This is how the subject of spiritualism has described the self. It is the essence of who you are.

It is that supreme ability and it is the understanding of the self. There is only one spirit as the essence of everything that we have discovered, everything that we know. The essence prevails and pervades the ocean of awareness, which activates the mechanical mind and forms the conscious principle. Without the conscious direction, the mind would be mechanical.

Therefore, the Self is nothing but waves of aware energy settled in the mind, in the soul, which has been individualised. It goes into the mind and provides that “thinking self” or “illusory self” functioning in duality. You cannot call your mind first ‘me’ and then refer to it as ‘my mind’. So, either you say I am the mind or the mind is yours. And according to the subject of spiritualism, this conflict can only be settled when you have self-knowledge in self-awareness.

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Stillness To Silence

Hundreds of times, I’ve talked about spiritualism, never mentioning religion or self-help factors like motivational, psychological, or inspirational. Pure spiritualism has always been my forte: spirit, spiritual, spirituality, and spiritualism, and how to become spiritual. Today I shall discuss how to quieten, still or silence your mind or, in another way, silence the mind for the soul to speak. From motion to rest, not to slow down but to make the mind dynamic by being focussed and centred not wandering here and there. Stilling, the mind’s chatter is crucial when it comes to the subject of spirituality. Three essential aspects are involved.

The first is to know yourself, or who you are outside of your body and thoughts. It refuses to believe that you are separate from your mind, thoughts, brain, or body. Everything is yours. They are always referred to as my mind, body, hand, eyes, and thoughts. In addition, you can read your mind and its thoughts. So you’re more than your body and thoughts. For this reason, the essence of the subject of spiritualism revolves around self-knowledge, self-discovery, self-experiencing, and self-awakening to self-realize who you are.

The present moment of ‘now’ is the second factor. How to live existentially from one moment to the next and not be overly concerned with the thoughts of the past and future. It is now where living organisms such as plants and animals dwell from one moment to another. The mind has a specific limitation, which spirituality attempts to correct. To choose between this and that in duality for its likes and dislikes in selfishness, the mind keeps going back to the past, projecting that into the future. It collects information from its memory, evaluates its intellect, and subsequently acts upon selfish thoughts that ignore the present. It means that thoughts originate and first relate to the past and, after that, connect to future thoughts in self-interest. The present moment is left for the spirit to consider in spontaneity.

The third factor is stillness, how to quieten the mind from its random, reckless and repetitive chattering thoughts multitasking into this or that. Like I said before, thoughts are always of the past. We are to still the mind to focus, centralize and concentrate on the subject at hand to make it more dynamic. Hence we need to silence that chattering mind and present it in the now. Single pointedly contemplating on the subject in the now, spontaneously through its intelligence rather than brood through its intellect primarily for its self-interest. As a result, you capture fresh awareness through your inert intelligence rather than depending upon past awareness from your memory and intellect.

The first component is that of knowing oneself. It is that context, the quality and the subject of who you are. After that, we come to the body, brain and mind; the content, quantity or the objective of what you are. All three magical words form the totality of who and what we are as body, mind and soul. Where soul contains that spirit of immediate awareness, which checks and guides the mind in the present moment, and the mind in turn checks, guides and influences the body from its material and spiritual functioning. The material operation relates to living in dualities of positive-negative, good-bad, truth-lie, divine-devil etc., in opposites of this and that, here and there for its likes and dislikes. The mind in such a manner chooses, identifies, accumulates, and attaches desirously and emotionally to form your personality.

On the other hand, the spiritual plays its role only if awakened by the mind spontaneously to provide insight into everything that gradually creates your uniqueness and individuality for all to remember even when your body and mind no longer exist. We are more concerned here with the quality of the spirit rather than the quantity of the mind’s random thoughts constantly flowing here and there.

The mind is conditioned for thousands of years of evolution from the past. Even your name, gender, knowledge etc., are obtained from others’ experiences through various channels. You gather everything supplied to you from the outside world and identify it as your knowledge. This knowledge improves your intellect but does not affect the actual self — the soul. The mind is simply storing information in its memory, adding and deleting it without your consent regularly. On the other hand, the soul provides fresh choiceless awareness for your mind to understand with clarity rather than blindly believing into this and storing that in your memory to gossip to others about the quantum of how much you know but do not understand with clarity

I reiterate the mind can only think about the past and future, ignoring the present. It takes time for the mind to think, assess, analyse, and infer. The mind gathers past information from the memory, extracts what it needs, and adds new knowledge gathered from here and there. As a result, it skips over the present and projects the past into the future. The mind can never catch the present because the present moment becomes the past by the time it analyses and infers

The present is vitally significant in the theme of spirituality to complete the triad of past, present and future, which in turn relies upon the mind’s quietness. Stillness is at the heart of the first two factors because it awakens your actual self to bring the mind to the spontaneity of that existential moment. Mind is yours and the thinking self is not you, but only a bundle of thoughts projecting desires in emotions. For this reason, it is incorrect referring to that as the self because it operates based on duality in relativity, constantly changing as per your whims and fancies. The soul awakens when the mind is silent in the presence of now, indicating you exist in that spiritual beingness, existentially going through a human experience in every present moment.

In Hinduism, every prayer ends with “OM, Shanti Shanti Shanti”. Each Shanti represents shant as silence. The first one denotes silence, the second denotes stillness, and the third convey moksha, or emancipation from the mind through silence. Ending with — Hari Om Tat Sat — the manifest and the unmanifest are the same.

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Where Do Our Thoughts Come From ?

In an earlier video, I had spoken about what thoughts are, and today I would like to answer a difficult question: where do our thoughts emerge from? Neither science nor spiritualism is comfortable in answering this question because, on one side, we have philosophers, ancient sages, who proclaimed that we are nothing but a bundle of thoughts. We are what we think. After being devoted and dedicated to the subject of spiritualism, I have understood with clarity that we are not thoughts.

It is because you are before you think. If you are not there, thoughts are not there. So, you cannot be thoughts since you can read your thoughts. You can direct your thoughts in the manner that you wish, even if it is for a small period of time. So how can you be your thoughts? You cannot. And you will never say that you are thoughts. You will never say that you are the mind. Instead, you will always say, “My thoughts. My mind.” This means the mind is yours; it is an instrument. But instead of you using it, you are being used by it through its thoughts.

Spiritualism and science say that all that exists in this universe is nothing but constant indivisible energy vibrating in different frequencies. Energy is not a thing but the ability or the capacity to do work. Thought is an example of psychic energy.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, energy moves in entropy, in disorder, recklessly like the way thoughts do. Our thoughts multitask and are repetitive and uncontrollable. That is why the mind is uncontrollable. It is very difficult or rather impossible to control your thoughts.

The subject of spiritualism revolves around ‘who you are, and we can come to know ourselves only when we quieten or silence our thoughts through meditative awareness. Until and unless we silence our thoughts, we do not come to know our authentic self, or we cannot awaken our real self. Thoughts create a false self, tricking us into believing – I am that. It is your personality, not your individuality. It is your persona. Like in Greek, it is said that persona is a false mask ruling over you, your body, and your mind. It is ruling over you through its desires and emotions. It is that false self of me, mine and myself - for self-preservation.

Thoughts are repetitive and often harmful. Science says that 80 per cent of our thoughts are negative. I would even say that thoughts are also the cause of most of your problems. This is because the moment a crisis comes, thoughts create agitation, conflict, anxiety, and depression by thinking on that subject again and again. So, thoughts are the cause of many of your problems. They aggravate whatever is bothering you, so they become the leading cause.

Before I explain the source of our thoughts to you, it is essential to know first what thoughts are? Thoughts are cognitive perceptions, ideas, and beliefs emerging from a mind, flowing through chemical activity in the brain flowing through a field of electromagnetic energy.

Let us understand it like this. Light is a field of energy of the force and the sun's power. We feel the power and see the light circling it. This way, we come to the source of light, the sun. Likewise, thoughts are a field of energy, and once we come to know the force that illuminates its field of energy, we come to the source of thoughts.

Thoughts, as I said, are perceptions, ideas, and beliefs of this world. Thoughts are of two types: spontaneous thoughts and thoughts with choice.

The human mind basically functions through voluntary thoughts choosing between this and that for its self-interest. It is designed to function in duality. It fundamentally makes a choice between likes/dislikes, divine/devil, truth/lie, good/bad, positive/negative, hot/cold etc. So, the mind functions in dichotomy, in opposites. Choiceless thoughts are involuntary and non-dual. In non-dual spontaneous thinking, there are no choices. There is no need for the mind to separate the totality, the wholesomeness of the energy into duality from its oneness. Non-dual thoughts occur impromptu, unplanned and on the spot without any selfish choices into this or that.

Our ancient sages have said in Advaita Vedanta, where Advaita means not two and Vedanta means the end of Vedas, that there is no such thing as two. All that exists in the nothingness of the universe is its absoluteness in totality, from which all subset energies appear and disappear whether it is nuclear energy or psychic energy. All subset or temporary energies are interchangeable from one to another, like from wind to electrical are superimposed on the substrate of the supreme non-dual energy.

Similarly, thoughts too appear from the force of awareness which creates a field of consciousness for the conscious or subconscious thoughts to gradually disappear after settling within the memory. Back into the nothingness of the universe, into the absoluteness of the universe from which all sorts of subset energies like chemical energy, nuclear energy, electrical energy, psychic energy, magnetic energy interchanging within themselves, disappearing back into the absoluteness of dark energy, which comprises of around 96 per cent of the universe.

Therefore, in the midst of all the transient abilities of absolute energy, there is one supreme ability that our sages told us and that is the aware conscious energy. That is who we are: aware conscious energy. Awareness first, consciousness second. The -ness suffix in awareness or consciousness clarifies the intensity of any individual energy.

Aware conscious energy differentiates living from non-living. A rock will not be conscious whereas, for a living creature, the intensity may differ. The plants are aware and conscious, the animals are further conscious and we humans have the highest intensity and potential.

That is why the sages claimed: “That art Thou”, “Aham Brahmasmi”, “Shivohum”; meaning you are that divine. That insight within you, that aware energy within you, is the absolute aware energy which spontaneously flows out through the soul. It is settled in the soul - the superconscious section of the mind, and it comes out involuntarily when the mind is silent to quietly witness your own mind and its dual operating thoughts.

Meaning, when the mind is silent, the soul awakens. Or, when the mind is doing something excessively, there is a subtle warning from this aware energy. If you are eating too much, there will be a warning. If you are binge drinking alcohol, once you exceed a certain limit, it will tell you to stop. Anything which you should not be doing, this aware energy guides you in its wholesomeness as a witness-er. It is also called the witnesser in pure consciousness where there is no separation in duality. It simply witnesses. Since the mind cannot be controlled, the soul checks and guides the mind.

The choiceless thoughts arise when the mind is alert and becomes aware spontaneously in the presence of now. Choiceless awareness is always in the presence of now, from one moment to the next. It is called meditative awareness or mindfulness. The soul is awakened, and the mind is silent. The divine within awakens.

Let’s say a scientist has been working on a certain formula for years and one final day, there comes a eureka moment – bingo I’ve got it. The answer comes spontaneously, without thinking on the spur of the moment. In the presence of now, not out of calculation, analysis or evaluation.

Choiceless awareness may be hardly 0.5 per cent of our thoughts. As per neuroscientists, the remaining over 98 per cent of our mind is functioning at the subconscious level, from past awareness not in the presence of now. So, the thoughts now are voluntary with choice. This means that with every thought, there is a choice granted to you which is not granted to say, animals or plants.

You have the power of choice in the highest manner to choose out of random thoughts. The mind extracts past information from memory and a small quotient of its intelligence from the now. So over 98 per cent of the thoughts are from the past. It extracts and sends this information through neural cells to the intellect which reasons, evaluates, analyzes, judges, and decides what to choose between any two factors.

So over 98 per cent of the mind is subconsciously working in auto-mode from its past awareness mechanically or intellectually, meaning in lower consciousness segregated into duality. The remaining small portion for choiceless thoughts functions intelligently from fresh awareness spontaneously. The soul plays a crucial role in providing such new awareness. It simply observes and witnesses. So, thoughts, by and large appear and disappear, like all subset energies appear and disappear, back into the absolute non-dual ‘Shunya’ (nothingness of this universe). All energy, physical or conscious, goes back into absolute energy.

When the mind is alert, it becomes aware and after that, if the mind is attentive, it becomes conscious. From the conscious, it goes into the subconscious level. The consciousness goes to sleep when the mind is in deep sleep. But the moment you wake up, you know everything around you; you do not have to be conscious about it. This means that awareness does not goes to sleep. It is the conscious energy that goes to sleep. The aware energy is the ultimate energy, that is why we are the ultimate potentiality to explore, discover and invent all that is there in the universe and not plants and animals.

So, you are that aware energy through which you reflect and radiate knowing from the macrocosm to the microcosm, from the planets to the subatomic particles like atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, and everything. You are just waves of energy. That is why science says that every atom is 99.99999 per cent empty space because all that exists is just waves of absolute energy.

To sum it up, thoughts are the quantum, content or the objective of what you are. It is the quantity in your mind of what you are because it subconsciously consumes over 98 percent of your mind. But who you are is more or less asleep all the time. That is why the word used is awakening, an awakening of the soul and the activation of the mind. The mind gets activated, and the soul simply awakens.

‘Who you are’ is asleep most of the time. I am not talking about your identities like Mr./ Ms./ Mrs., female/male, or the names given by others. All the information that you have in your intellect and memory is borrowed knowledge from others, media, or the internet. You become an intellectual out of that, a scholar, and feel so proud of it thinking that this is who you are. But what you do not realize is that you understand that information through your intelligence, instinct, and intuition. This intelligence is your aware energy and intellect – the basis, quality or the subject of who you are.

The source, subject, and context of ‘who you are’ is aware energy. It is exclusively dealt with in the Vedas. In the first Mahavakya (one of the four great sayings from the Advaita school of Vedanta), Prajnanam Brahma means intelligence is Brahma; that the creator and the creation are the same. They are not two. So, thoughts are a flow of electromagnetic energy emerging from chemical activity in the brain. They are the carriers of information here, and the source is not that; the source is who you are in awareness.

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What is Self-Awareness ?

Self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-knowledge are central to spiritualism. Once you comprehend the meaning of what is the self, you have reached the pinnacle of all knowledge. It divides the Self into four categories: physical, mental, objective, and subjective. It implies being aware of one's body, mind, soul and spirit. As well as one's inter-connectedness with the world and the universe, from our reflecting consciousness.

The objective/physical self comprises the person's body, mind, and individualised soul. It is a component of the subjective self, including the bodily, mental, emotional, and financial selves. This is why you refer to them all as "me and mine," with names and genders like my body, mind, and so on, implying that they all belong to the subjective self.

The subjective/spiritual self is that spirit or universal self that eventually teaches and convinces you that there is no such thing as a self. All that exists in this universe is not two - Advait and the presence of emptiness can be found in the void or dark energy that makes up about 95 per cent of what we have (Shunya -zero). It is not aware of itself when it represents nothing. Still, it exhibits and expresses certain transient traits within the mind that appear and disappear in space and time as matter and consciousness, which account for the remaining 5%. If the human mind is alert, it becomes aware. After that, if attentive, it becomes conscious of utilising the aware universal energy (spirit) settled in the superconscious section of the mind, where no thoughts prevail, which we refer to as the soul.

This means you are nothing more than waves of universal energy with the potential to awaken your body and mind, allowing the human mind to sense inward and outwardly. Implying that anything you see, hear, and think with your mechanical body and mind becomes your objective/observable reality - that which appears and vanishes in a finite amount of space and time. As mentioned earlier, this global self is contained in the quiet zone of the mind. The presence of this beingness can activate, check, and guide the phenomenal mind through its power of awareness.

The power of these waves of energy to make the mind aware and then conscious is their highest attribute. As a result of its suffix - ness, it denotes the strength of an individual's knowing and understanding within any human mind (awareness). You are that aware-conscious energy, Tat Tvam Asi.

As a result, the supreme attribute mentioned above is made up of aware energy. It is that Universal Self existing as the only absolute, non-dual, eternal Supreme energy, which is interconnected and interrelated as one whole, proclaiming we are all spiritual beings having a human experience - Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent as one and not two, which the Vedas referred to as Para Brahman, Parmeshwar, ParAtma - where Par signifies beyond of all beyond -Thou Meaning, the divine situated inside remains inactive and asleep. Still, the intellect seeks here and there in ignorance.

The seeker and the sought are the same. The spiritual self, or spirit, is the only ultimate reality changeless, timeless, spaceless, boundless and eternal to repeat. Within it, all subset replaceable energies like physical, mental, nuclear, hydro, electrical, etc., appear and disappear to return to the only spirit of nothingness, which remains constant and indivisible and is neither created nor destroyed. Because pure consciousness is unaware of itself, it is nothing in and of itself, but it can make the mind aware and thus conscious to experience a life of dualities where in the cycle of birth and death; death is only the beginning of a new life.

The study of the Self is highly complicated and currently outside the scientific scope; nonetheless, it is critical for humans because we are both the creator and the creation. It is from the presence of our being-ness, not from the physical being of body and mind, that the existence of the -is- emerges, which is unrelated to the mind or its thoughts but silently and spontaneously awakens the mind (intelligence). And it is this conscious intelligence that discovers what we have learned from the stars to the subatomic particles.

The presence of awareness/beingness differentiates and unfolds all that exists in this world at the moment that the human mind explores, discovers, invents and reflects which Quantum Physics claims as observable reality today. Nothing would exist without this presence, just as it does with non-living matter. As a result, the awareness creates that observable reality to make your mind aware of what is unfolding in front of your eyes while remaining eternal as the only ultimate existence.

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Sakshi Yoga

The tool of becoming a Sakshi - a witness—is one of the most effective tools you may take from yoga philosophy. Sakshi Yoga is an ancient way of witnessing one's mind and slowly transcending it. The ability to read your thoughts, feelings, and motives,neither identifying nor responding from the mind.It enables the mind to come directly in contact with pure consciousness.

The soul is that pure individual consciousness, the witnessing consciousness, which containsthe universal spirit of awareness.It can make the mind aware and conscious.As we know,yoga is a fusion of the body, mind, and soul.Most people who practice yoga restrict the mind mainly to bodily exercises or to relax the mind in a therapeutic manner and not spiritually.Hardly anyone cares about what is the soul, or howto awaken the soul with yoga.

Sakshi yoga relates to cultivating an attitude towards the soul's pure consciousness,internalizing, and awakening. Sakshi stands for witnessing, watching,and observing, which is extremely important in Hindu philosophy.It is a state of our beingness.

Usually, mind functions in the lower consciousness which we refer to as the "ego-consciousness".How do we go towards pure consciousness?The answer is Sakshi yoga.It takes you towards pure consciousness effortlessly.All that you require is the alertness of the mind.And to initiate that process, you have Sakshi yoga to cultivate how to make the mind alert, attentive and aware of itself and its environment.

You must start watching inwardly, internalizing yourself.Look inward without prejudice,conflict, condemning, conditioning, or justifying.When you are watching purely from the soul, the mind first becomes aware and after that conscious, there is a pause during this period of whatever it is thinking or doing.Very much like when you stare at any person, one stops and will become shy or conscious.The multitasking, chattering mind crashes to a halt, and the soul awakens. As a result, the subconscious mind in auto-mode gets activated to take charge of itself consciously.

But for how long can you witness without judgement?

First, you need to constantly be alertto this aspect of watching internally from one moment to the next.Second, the moment the mind is aware, it switches on to a higher gear; slow and steady but focused.After that, your mind, if attentive to what it has become informed of, results in making the mind conscious.Meaning, only if your mind is alert will it capture the pure metaphysical energy to become aware and only after being aware, can it become conscious of what it is about to perceive.

Another example of soul awakening occurs when the mind goes off-balance,tilting excessively towards one side.You are to behave like a tight-rope walker – balance the psychic energy towards the center, where you permit the mind to flow on what it desires but keep it in check with the soul watching and witnessing, not allowing the mind to excessively bend towards its desires and emotions.The soul, in this case, is referred to as the third eye.For example, when you are doing something in excess, whether drinking, eating, driving at speedor anything else, a subtle voice in your mind warns you of your unwarranted act.

Spiritualistsrefer to the soul asthe superconscious section of the mind, where no thoughts prevail, and there is the presence of merely watching.When you as the soul, the actual self, are independent of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, it is the metaphysical, spiritual realm of the mind.Sinceyour desires are too strong, youusually do not listen to the soul.So, this section of the mind remains dormant.InSakshi yoga, we learn how to awaken the same.

Hence, the soul is responsible formaking the mind aware, and after that, the mind becomes conscious only if attentive.So, the whole process begins with the soul.

In its purest form, Sakshi is the "witness"¾"the being and becoming of the witnessing self with the help from the spirit.Our potentiality extends in the being and becoming of the witness in pure consciousness to be at par with the absolute total awareness - the universal spirit.Therefore,the ancient scriptures tell usthat we are the creator (the soul)and the creation (body and mind). Only because of us all that exists in matter and consciousness; from the stars to the subatomic particles are there due to our being aware and conscious of the same.

ASakshi yogi distances itself from the body and mind; its thoughts, feelings, motives, and actions in meditative awareness from one moment to the next.Existentially, you are alert all the time,but you are constantly watching your thoughts, witnessing them at the back of your mind.As mentioned earlier, when you start observing someone, they become conscious.Similarly, your mind becomes conscious, aware, and attentive.

Yoga is not complete until all three - the mind, body and soul are in unison.You must remember that you, meaning the soul, remain unattached to the body and mind while you are in meditative awareness.With an awakened soul, you get away from the dual functioning of the mind, and the non-dual characteristic appears. The dualistic role of this and that by the mind - divine and devil, good and bad,positive and negative etc., is not considered when pure witnessing is going on.Witnessing is an effortless process of not dictating anything to the mind. It automatically becomes conscious of not wanting to do what is wrong or overindulging in anything. Therefore, Sakshi Yoga helps us righteously in activating the mind in a focused direction.

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What is Spiritualism?

After years of researching, speaking, and writing about this subject, I have realised very few are well-versed in the boundlessness, formlessness, nothingness, spaceless, timelessness, eternal and infinite, which is the subject of Spiritualism propounds. The fact remains nobody seems to care about the role it plays in our personal life, in spite of being told we are spiritual beings going through a human experience. We blatantly use and abuse the word spiritual as and when we feel with the result this exclusive subject is jumbled up with religion, self-help etc.

Inspirational speakers also claim to be spiritual, and so are motivational speakers. I just do not know why spiritualism is so severely smeared. Different religions have divergent versions of this subject. No one realises how vital this subject is to our day-to-day life, especially now when religion appears to be fading away amongst the youth, who are not ready to be bogged down by rituals, and traditions in supernatural texts.

When religion is going down, what else is left? You cannot mix the spirit with motivational and inspirational speeches. Those are for the cognitive mind to improve and experience and are in no way connected to the soul or the spirit. If you inquire about the soul and the spirit, most of us are ignorant as to what this third element is besides the body and mind we are made up of. I am sure you will never do the same injustice to say physics, chemistry, or any other subject. All subjects have their own authority and exclusiveness, and so does the subject of life.

All religion except Hinduism has a founder; similarly, spiritualism has no father to claim its legitimacy. Since science is ignorant about the metaphysical realm, this subject is considered more of a belief rather than being real. We inwardly refuse to recognise that spirit within. Hinduism is a word coined by others, by those who ruled over them and not by Hindus. The actual name of Hinduism is “Sanatan Dharma – eternal order” It is the oldest religion globally. It is based upon the collection of spiritual laws discovered by sages thousands of years ago. There is no one to market this subject in a structured manner; the way organised religion is publicised and marketed.

The best part is science depends upon spiritualism because it begins with philosophy and ends in philosophy. Instead of believing in a God with a separate name and gender for every religion, the subject of spiritualism speaks about an immaterial ultimate reality. It talks about what is metaphysical (where ‘meta’ means beyond) into a transcendental reality that is unnoticeable to the senses, expressing and exhibiting its ability in waves of indivisible energy. Energy is nothing but the power or the capacity to do work and that is what the spirit is also all about. It is that substrate of all that exists in the universe.

Spiritualism is becoming more important today because religion is failing, terrorism is rising, and material life is a mixture of comforts coupled with anger, anxiety and anguish. Spirituality provides mental practices of yoga, ‘Japa’, and meditation but these only take you towards the periphery of the core of your being - the soul. The spirit is beyond the body, mind, as well as soul. It is universal while the soul is individual.

We need to know our connection with the expanse of the universe, trapped and individualized into a soul and referred to as the spirit. And how to improve our lives; know its meaning and purpose. The answer is understanding the subject of spiritualism with clarity for knowing the righteous way of life that leads to fulfilment and completeness.

Spiritualism never stops you from materialism; its purpose is to experience material life. You are supposed to balance the two righteously. Life in materialism today is say at 99 per cent and spiritual-ness only at 1 per cent. Spirituality speaks about compassion, selflessness, and wholesomeness, which is desperately lacking in today’s world. We may talk about it, but inwardly we disagree and are basically selfish by nature identified and attached to our desires and emotions.

How do the spirit and soul check and guide the mind? By transcending into higher consciousness. Many studies have clearly revealed that the mind is functioning over 98 per cent on a lower or subconscious manner in auto mode. It is working mechanically without requiring the conscious principle, which is that actual wakefulness within us. Without consciousness, the mind or brain will be purely mechanical. This means that if your mind is overly functioning through memory and intellect in auto-mode from past knowledge gathered from here and there, you are asleep even while awake. Actual awakening occurs to an alert mind when the soul is able to make the mind aware and conscious of all that it perceives and conceives.

Every living creature has a conscious principle. The plants are conscious of the sunlight and water around them though they cannot walk toward them. The animals are aware and conscious, but they too are limited in their intensity of aware energy. The power is the highest in human beings. Yet, the plants and animals are more into that oneness and selflessness than we are. We are reaching a stage where humans have endangered planet earth towards extinction.

You can see how animals enjoy that togetherness but not humans. Though we may call ourselves wise, intelligent, intellectual or knowledgeable, if you look deep down you will see there is a savage beast within, where we are only concerned with our me and mine, accumulating this or that, clinging to identification and attachment. Please remember that the mind is the quantum of what you are and not who you are. So kindly wake up.

What does the subject of spiritualism convey to you? It tells you about who you are, how to silence your mind and how to be in the present moment rather than multitasking all the time. It gives you that meaning and purpose in your life. If we take this subject seriously, it helps us balance all three: body, mind, and soul. It answers your question: “Who am I?” Because you are not the body and mind. You are that eternal universal spirit contained in the soul.

You are one with the universe. You are a part of that universe, and your mind has limitless potentiality, so long as your soul is awakened and not asleep. It is just that the soul in most of us remains dormant and needs to be awakened. We always say “awakening of the soul”, never “experiencing the soul”.

It is the mind which experiences to improve upon itself, materially or spiritually. The absolute spirit talks about absoluteness in totality, fullness, and wholesomeness. The philosophy of knowledge has been very well described in the Vedas, from the Upanishads. In Advaita Vedanta, where Advaita means not two. It means all that exists is not two.

So, they divided the knowledge into two sections: “Paar Vidya” and “Apaar Vidya”. “Paar Vidya” means beyond knowledge, into the metaphysical realm of nothingness, and “Apaar vidya” implies the ability of duality, of two. Everything in matter and consciousness functions in duality with relativity. Where truth, reality, positive or the divine are related to their opposites. Where also the truth of one differs from another. This is never the case in spirituality, it sticks to its absoluteness.

Please remember that God is not a noun or gender. We go astray when we presume God to have a name, someone who can be bribed by going to the temple, giving money, and begging for mercy. God is within. God is an experience, a verb and not a noun. Our Vedas say that He is that intelligence within you from which you are able to explore, discover, create, reflect, relate and reason through your memory and intellect from the stars to the subatomic particles. It is that intelligence which comes in spontaneity. It does not require your mind. It gives you that cosmic intelligence in spontaneity.

Spiritualism, as I said earlier, has no founder or organization to market it in the proper manner. Yet, we are intelligent enough to know that the essence of life is in the metaphysical realm. It is not in the body or mind. Otherwise, we would not be saying my mind and my thoughts. We have that intelligence to understand without anybody telling us that there is a third person inside who is always guiding and warning us whenever we go astray. We do not pay heed to that third eye within – That art Thou. Your soul is that divine, in pure consciousness. But your mind needs to be aware to awaken the soul and transcend beyond your mundane material world. Try and see how it can change your life after understanding the subject of Spiritualism.

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Dharma to Karma

Both 'Karma' and 'Dharma' are Sanskrit terms inherited from Vedic philosophy, India's most incredible wisdom in the field of spiritualism dating back over 5,000 years. According to that concept, 'karma' is a path of activity in thoughts, words,motives and acts, implying that cause equals effect, action equals response, and opposites are equal as one and the same, being two sides of the same coin. 'Dharma' refers to a universal rule of conduct for living in harmony with nature and the universe.

According to the Vedas, there is no need to give up anything in life to progress, transcend, and transform. You don't have to live in a remote location to live a moral life. You can live a righteous life no matter where you are. Our sages established four 'purusharthas' of life - Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha, which interprets as the goals of human existence. These are the four human life goals that everyone must strive to thrive.

Artha means economic success, Kama is for sensual pleasures, Dharma relates to morality and righteousness, and finallyMoksha is to liberate your mind after you are content from the previous three goals of the mind. All four are essential for a wholesome life. A person is mentally ready for Moksha only after oneexperience and realizes in contentment, the first three purusharthas. A simple comparison may be used to demonstrate this. If you cut the cloth into four pieces, the fourth is automatically ready after you slit the first, second and the third piece.

According to the Vedas, the creator and creation are the same. The four purusharthas are to awaken that divine residing within the soul, which we are unaware of. There is no such thing as duality from which the limited human mind operates. The substratum of all that exists in the Universe is the absolute, eternal, infinite Brahman/energy on which all subset energies superimpose that are interchangeable as solids, liquids, and gases, or we can say as matter and consciousness.From the universal or spiritual point of view,God is that supreme ability of the absolute energy referred to as Parabrahman, Parmashewar or as Paramatma.It is that formless God, which is the absolute, non-dual, everlasting, unlimited, boundless, and unchanging ability of energy, also present within the soul of every individual self.Therefore, physical, chemical, mental, nuclear, and electrical subset energies all arise and vanish into the absolute nothingness of the cosmos.

When the above-mentioned supreme ability enters the individual mind, it settles in the mind's quiet zone, the unconscious mind, which is the mind's thoughtless zone. Spiritually, we refer to this as the superconscious section or the soul.Practicing- the four purusharthas, the mind transforms into higher consciousness to experience and realize it’s limitless potentiality via the soul.However, in today's environment, no one is concerned with the authentic methods provided by spirituality or leading a soulful life. This is most likely why many individuals suffer from rage, anxiety, despair, and stress.

So, how can we put these four purusharthas into practice?

Being aware of your thoughts, words, motives, and actions is the first step. This is because the mind mechanically operates in a subconscious mode (lower consciousness) 98 per cent of the time. It is mostly unaware of what it is doing and thinking. We require the soul to check and guide the mind. This is made possible only if we are constantly alert, attentive, and aware. Further, we require to watch and witness our mind chattering in its thoughts, feelings, and motives. The moment we watch and witness our mind without it responding, justifying or with any prejudice; the mind becomes conscious of all its acts - positive and negative.Thereafter, we leave the mechanical mind to decide what it wishes to select, one out of the two in dual opposites of good/bad, truth/lie or positive/negative. As a result, the mind becomes aware and sensitive to all that is around. This shall assist in reawakening the soul lying dormant within. Hence, once you become a constant witness-er to your own body and mind, life transforms making you more conscious and stable.It will help you discover‘who you actually are’ outside of your body and thoughts.

The soul will lead your mind to discover that truth within. It is that unique inert individual intelligence, which discovers all that we know from the stars to the subatomic particles, which also distinguishes you from the world's other seven and a half billion individuals. The intellect on other hand is borrowed knowledge obtained via every media from others’ experiences.

Therefore, in a dharmic (righteous) manner, earn money (Artha) to satisfy your sensual needs (kama). Only after being content, the mind begins the journey towards emancipation (Moksha). The mind otherwise becomes self-destructive if you do not carry out your goal/responsibilities properly. It is evident seeing the absence of the mind from being spiritual that we see anger, anxiety, and anguish all around.

Let us now discuss Moksha. There are different ways to realize Moksha. The first is about breaking free from the cycle of birth and death. We are not concerned with that. In the life that we exist, our concern should be more towards breaking free from the mind's never-ending chatter. Instead of using our mind, we are being used by it. Liberate our true self from the clutches of our own mind by being alert, attentive and aware – watching and witnessing without the mind responding in any way all that it does.

Learn from the past, live in the present, and prepare your mind for the future. Please keep in mind that dharma and karma are critical aspects of your existence. They educate you on how to live a moral life and save you from going down the path of self-destruction.

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Beyond Love & Hate

Love and hate are two prime emotions that humans feel. How do we go beyond love and hate? Let's start with the fundamentals.

According to our ancient scriptures, all that exists in the nothingness of our universe is Brahman. Science explains the same in the Law of Conservation of Energy ¾ all that exists is energy. Furthermore, the nothingness of the universe does not mean emptiness. It means that matter and consciousness are temporary; they appear and disappear into the absoluteness or the totality of this nothingness.

But what is absoluteness?

Absoluteness in totality is the raw, pure energy that provides the ability and the capacity to do work. So, in the ultimate reality, all that exists is energy, which is indivisible, something that we can neither create nor destroy but transforms into a subset or other forms of energies, which are interchangeable with each other.

Energy vibrates on different frequencies condensing and splitting into waves and particles. Spiritually during ancient days, it was said all that exists is Brahman. That which is the Creator as well as the creation. The Creator is that which possesses the supreme ability (Parabrahman) and retains its nondual characteristic, whereas all other abilities prescribe duality to the subset energies. Like we are a composite unit of three forms of energies in body, mind, and soul

Although energy remains united in its continuity as one and not two, it starts separating from its non-duality, absoluteness, oneness, nothingness, and togetherness into its dual ends. On the one hand, we have love, the highest frequency in the form of emotion, and hate being, the frequency on the other hand. Love and hate ¾ the two extremes in duality.

Duality is temporary. Both must appear and disappear like good/bad, truth/lie, hot/cold, divine/devil etc. Anything that exists anywhere, whether the sun, moon, earth or anything, is all transient. It is temporary. We appear, and we disappear. And the cycle of energy goes on vibrating at different frequencies. Creation-Destruction-Recreation. Life and death. Death is a new beginning of another life.

This separation of energy goes into opposites even though all these relative factors are connected as one because energy is indivisible. But in a break, we perceive them as opposites.

The mind is mechanical. It can mainly function subconsciously in the duality of this and that, here and there, for its likes and dislikes in selfishness. In duality, we also have inner vibrations of love and hate. These divisions are merely psychological, where love is the highest form of spiritual energy in higher consciousness, and the other is the lowest form. Therefore, hatred can only arise if there has been love before that.

You can only hate a person whom you have loved earlier. Otherwise, you cannot. You would be indifferent towards them, you may dislike them, but you would not hate them since hate is connected to love as one.

For instance, a wife may love her husband today. If she finds him with another girl tomorrow, assuming her to be his girlfriend, she might hate him. If she discovers that the girl was just a colleague or an employee a day later, love reappears. It is simultaneous. It keeps constantly changing because the mind is frivolous. The root of both these extremes is absolute energy in its nonduality.

In the nothingness of this universe, relative factors express their respective intensity; the suffix of "-ness" - oneness, togetherness, wholesomeness, divisiveness, etc. It will always be from its higher to lower degree or frequency. Mind being helpless cannot function without duality. It needs to be still and spontaneous, meaning without any thoughts to be in nonduality or purity.

If you go into the duality of love, it has many gradings. It keeps diluting. You have lust often mistaken for love, and after that, we have jealousy, expectations and demands out of love. There are too many psychological factors - labels and attachments. It is more of a compromise in possessiveness.

We usually say, "fall in love" and not "rise in love". Because when you transcend in love, you go towards higher consciousness, you go towards that absoluteness; you go towards the oneness. In psychological love, you only fall in love, going towards the other extreme. It brings more misery rather than lasting joy.

Hatred is simple; When you hate a person, you hate a person, whereas there are several gradings in love, and the intensity keeps depleting, going downwards. Besides these gradings, love has too many conditions, demands, etc. In relationships based on psychological emotions like love and hate, we do not have the depth or that togetherness we yearn for.

However, spirituality goes with absoluteness, that beingness in pure awareness, in higher consciousness. As you reach higher consciousness, you enter your super-conscious area – the soul. This soul, the witness, the observer, goes beyond pure awareness. Your beingness in selflessness becomes the prime way. Then, there is no duality between love and hate; you have gone beyond that.

When you enter the realm of spiritual love, which is beyond love and hate, your essential nature beyond duality emerges. You are no longer sentimental to a few. You become sensitive to all. Then there is no differentiation between a Hindu, Muslim, Christian or Buddhist. You see all in oneness.

This love is pure. It is no longer an emotion because emotion has to do with the mind and not the spirit. It unites its separation from love and hate into its oneness, fullness, and wholesomeness, which is absolute, eternal, infinite and without any segregation.

The mind cannot evaluate, analyze, or compare anymore since it is in its purity, simplicity, and absoluteness. The mind becomes silent as you start going towards higher consciousness, going beyond the factors of psychological love. You are going into spiritual love beyond the other extreme of hatred.

Try to discover what spiritual love is all about and how it goes beyond the emotions of your conditioning, demanding, comparing and expecting.

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giankumar-blog1 · 1 year

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Beyond Love & Hate

Love and hate are two prime emotions that humans feel. How do we go beyond love and hate? Let's start with the fundamentals.

But what is absoluteness?

This separation of energy goes into opposites even though all these relative factors are connected as one because energy is indivisible. But in a break, we perceive them as opposites.

Try to discover what spiritual love is all about and how it goes beyond the emotions of your conditioning, demanding, comparing and expecting.

#spiritualgrowth #spirituals #spirituality #spiritualism

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giankumar-blog1 · 1 year

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SPIRITUAL ATHEISM

#@spiritual @spirituals @spirituality

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