Brotherhood of the Spirit—My Contemplation

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

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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9 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Way to Enlightenment

In the arti­cle, On gurUs and Dis­ci­ples, I described the true char­ac­ter­is­tics of a guru and a dis­ci­ple. In this arti­cle, I will dis­cuss some of the most impor­tant mis­takes made by spir­i­tual aspi­rants. Instead of being dis­ci­ples they become … Con­tinue read­ing

Simple Techniques for Busy People to Help Access Inner Peace and Joy

Most of us are inces­santly bom­barded with ran­dom thoughts. We end up con­nect­ing these ran­dom thoughts to cre­ate a story. We cre­ate an iden­tity for our­selves based on these sto­ries. We don’t even real­ize that we derive our iden­tity from … Con­tinue read­ing

Breathing and Visualization Techniques for Self-Healing

In yOga (see san­skrit translit­er­a­tion scheme), prANAyAma (con­trol of life-force through breath) is an impor­tant and ancient con­glom­er­a­tion of tech­niques to pro­mote phys­i­cal, men­tal and spir­i­tual well-being. In this arti­cle, I will dis­cuss sim­ple breath­ing and visu­al­iza­tion tech­niques, I often … Con­tinue read­ing

Detachment Versus Indifference

One of the main ingra­di­ents of spir­i­tual prac­tices is to be detached from the objec­tive world. What is detach­ment really? How is that dif­fer­ent from indif­fer­ence or apa­thy ? A cou­ple of years ago in my Babaji’s kriyA yOga (See … Con­tinue read­ing