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MantraPhilosophySadhanaTantra
January 20, 2021

ANALYSING VALIDITY OF ONLY-HOMA AS A METHOD OF SADHANA – 1

MYTH BUSTING ABOUT FIRE RITUALS ON THE HOLY OCCASSION OF KARTIKA POORNIMA AND DEVA DEEPAVALII It is a modern-day trend a new-agey idea that by doing fire rituals alone – homa/havan - one can make great spiritual progress or faster progress. Not only is it a myth but a dangerous one propagated by self-serving individuals of questionable spiritual achievement but lot of self-promotion and marketing. Regardless, let's see the traditional and spiritual point of view here.   Before that what is considered as traditional in the adhyatmikta space? A dharmik sampradaya or school of thought that has survived for centuries,…
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PhilosophySadhanaShiva
August 11, 2019

THE ILLUSION OF EXPERIENCES

To be alive is to have experiences. But the only test of the authenticity or otherwise of an experience is the impact it leaves. Very often in spirituality experiences are nothing more than a projection of ones own deepest desires. There are often people who claim to have visions of deities or saints or other holy characters with all conviction and sanguinity and yet there is not one inch of change in their attitude, lifestyle or behaviour pattern. How is it possible to have such 'powerful' encounters with deities and things like that, yet remain the same old flawed individual…
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Philosophy
April 21, 2018

What is real?

Once king Janaka was having a nap in the middle of a hot day, with servants faning him and soldiers outside his door, when he saw a dream where he was fighting with an enemy king and ends up losing all his kingdom and possessions. Scared for his life Janaka runs away into the forest to escape from the pursuing army. After running and walking all day he is tired, and hungry and thirsty. That is when he comes across a group of beggers who were being fed some watery rice by some rich philanthropist. Janaka also joins the queue, but when his turn comes he is asked for a begging bowl on which the food can be given. Janaka had no bowl and so he was turned away. Tired and depressed Janaka goes near the place where the food was being cooking and sat down to rest. One of the cooks taking pity on him scrubs the bottom of the pot and gets some watery rice into a plate and gives Janaka. Eager and grateful, king Janaka was just about to eat when two rampaging bulls come rushing and trample over the bowl, breaking it and spreading the little…
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Philosophy
April 20, 2018

Guru, God, Self in Teachings of Ramana Maharishi

  The word Guru is often loosely used to describe anyone who gives out spiritual advice, but in Sri Ramana Maharishi’s vocabulary, the word had a much more restricted definition. For him, a true Guru is someone who has realized the Self perfectly and is able to use the power of that Self to assist others towards the goal of Self-realization. Such a Guru is non-different from God or the Self. It was a basic tenet of Sri Ramana’s teachings that a Guru is absolutely necessary for almost everyone, who is trying towards permanent awareness of the Self. The catalytic…
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Philosophy
April 20, 2018

Yoga Vasistha and Kundalini

This is one explanation of how some Yogis can enter into anything, animate or inanimate, and gather knowledge about that. QUOTE Like a smoke rising from fire, the kundalini shakti, freed through the nadis, rising from the muladhara, merges into the cosmic void (vyom). This citizen (nagari, that is Kundalini), like a puff of smoke is a spectacle vibrating internally, enveloped by an ego-sense (ahamkara), which comprises the living being embraced by manas and buddhi. She is capable of moving about at will, entering into (niryati) a lotus stalk, a mountain, grass, a wall, a rock, the sky, or the…
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