Category Archives: Enlightenment

Enlightenment – To Be (in) Light

Journaling for Self-Discovery

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Jour­nal­ing is some­thing women do very nat­u­rally. How­ever, most often men, when they were boys, were in gen­eral dis­cour­aged to keep a jour­nal. Jour­nal­ing is thought to be express­ing our inner most secrets and feel­ing, and boys are in gen­eral … Con­tinue read­ing →

Body Divine: Musings

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These thoughts came about while hav­ing an email dis­cus­sion on the topic of time man­age­ment as energy man­age­ment with my friends. One of my friends quoted from an arti­cle he had read that we should man­age our phys­i­cal energy by … Con­tinue read­ing →

Paramahamsa Nithyananda: a Saint or a Sham?

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Recent events sur­round­ing the video scan­dal involv­ing the guru Parama­hamsa Nithyananda invoked anger, frus­tra­tion, and out­right con­dem­na­tion from var­i­ous sec­tors of the pop­u­la­tion includ­ing some of his for­mer and present devo­tees. Other devo­tees of his are call­ing this a con­spir­acy against their guru. Some are still in a state of shock… What fol­lows is a reply that I gave my friend.[…] Con­tinue read­ing →

Free Will According to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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I have been con­tem­plat­ing about the con­cept of free will for a while. I looked back into my life, into all that hap­pened and all that I accom­plished. When I con­tem­plated on things that just hap­pened it felt like I had no con­trol over them. How­ever, when I looked at things that I felt I accomplished—at least felt that way at the time of their accomplishment—initially, I felt I had done them out of my own will—free will. […] Con­tinue read­ing →

Ways to Overcome Limiting Thought Patterns

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We end up liv­ing a life that we con­stantly think of and dream of. We will real­ize this fact, if we take a few moments from our busy lives to look back and con­tem­plate on what hap­pened so far and what was our men­tal state dur­ing those times. Though this may come as a shock or make us feel uncom­fort­able, once we real­ize that so far we have been lim­ited by our own thoughts and imag­in­ings, […] Con­tinue read­ing →

Brotherhood of the Spirit—My Contemplation

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In Part-1 of this series, I talked about the con­fu­sions and inter­nal con­flicts that arise, if the guru-disciple rela­tion­ship is not seen in proper, higher per­spec­tive. In this part, I will dis­cuss my own con­fu­sions, and how my teacher Sid­dhar Thiru­moolar clar­i­fied my doubts using my wordly rela­tion­ships as exam­ples. […] Con­tinue read­ing →

Brotherhood of the Spirit—Introduction

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In this two-part series, I will dis­cuss the con­fu­sions, ques­tions and doubts that arose in my guru-disciple rela­tion­ship with Sid­dhar Thiru­moolar and Maha­vatar Babaji, and their sub­se­quent res­o­lu­tion, in hopes that it will help you resolve your own con­fu­sions and inter­nal con­flicts when it comes to your rela­tion­ship with your teacher. Hope­fully, this will trig­ger a con­tem­pla­tion within you to fig­ure out, if your own rela­tion­ship to your teacher is based whether on equal­ity, mutual love and respect, or on fear, cling­ing and syco­phan­tic behav­ior. None of the lat­ter three leave room for mutual love and respect. […]

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Two Paths to Effortless Spiritual and Material Life

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Based on our cho­sen model of cre­ation we can define two approaches to spir­i­tu­al­ity and life–(1) A Bottom-Up approach and (2) A Top-Down approach. The names, “top-down” and “bottom-up” are cho­sen based on the fre­quency or vibra­tory lev­els dis­cussed in our model and they have noth­ing to do with their col­lo­quial usage. Both approaches take you to the same state of wit­ness con­scious­ness, but it is very nec­es­sary that you under­stand them, so that you don’t get con­fused and conflicted. […]

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Doing By Being

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Doing By Being

How can you do by being? What does it mean by being? Being sounds like just sit and do noth­ing. Is it being lazy? What is it? Doing by being is the most help­ful in any cre­ative endeavor. “Cre­ation” by def­i­n­i­tion means “to make or bring to exis­tence some­thing new; some­thing unprece­dented.” But, fears arise, because mind can only cope with things that already known. When encoun­tered with some­thing new, it goes into a panic mode. In some peo­ple it is more sti­fling than in others. […]

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