October 27, 2017

Of consciousness

Self realisation is impossible with mind and without consciousness.

The presence of mind is the absence of consciousness.
The absence of mind is the presence of consciousness.

The watcher is consciousness.
The watched is consciousness.
That which watches the watcher and the watched is also consciousness.

Silence is the seed of consciousness.

October 19, 2017

Spiritual journey ends with Diwali

Spiritual journey starts when you ask yourself “who am I?” and ends with enlightenment when you find the answer.

The answer for primary question “who am I?” includes the answers for other significant questions: who is God?, How did this universe come into existence?, why are there different religions in the world? What is soul? where I was before my birth?, what happens to me after my death?, etc.

Spiritual journey begins and ends within, not outside. You are the map. Your intuition is the guide. Search for truth is the journey. Temptations from worldly life are the checkposts. Your ego is the deepest and dangerous river on your way to cross. Your experience is the reward and your strength.

Silence that is the seed of self realisation is the key to find your inner treasure.

The day on which you find yourself, the flood of light of enlightenment spreads your soul and all your EGO, the greatest asura Naragasura, the emperor of all suffering is destroyed is real Diwali for you and on that day your spiritual journey ends.

You don't take sweets but become sweets. You don't light the lamps but you become lighted lamps.  What has fired out is not crackers but your ignorance and ego. You don't wear a new dress but your soul turns into a new leaf. You don't celebrate for one day but the everlasting celebration within begins.

April 17, 2017

The known and the unknown

Today’s English
April 17th, 2017

Many English words that we already know and use in our day-to-day life in one meaning surprisingly have the meaning that we scarcely know.  Let’s see few of them here.

1.Pen
The known: A writing instrument
The unknown: A farm
Children are so excited to see the animals in the pen.

2.English rose
The known : English, a language and rose, a flower
The unknown: Any beautiful lady with fair skin, looking like an English woman
She, being an English rose, attracted everyone there in the function.

3.Beefcake
The known : beef, meat from cattle and cake, a baked sweet dissert
The unknown: An attractive  man with big muscles
The villain was a beefcake and looked more attractive than the hero.

4.Ball
The known : that which is used in games
The unknown: A big formal party with dancing
I enjoyed the ball very much.

5.Flame
The known : the visible part of fire
The unknown: An angry or insulting message sent on Whatsapp, Facebook or the internet
He sent me a flame and I unfriended him.

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know.”
- Donald Rumsfeld, the 13th Secretary of Defence, America

April 15, 2017

An Enquiry about Aathma by Aathma

Where is Aathma?
Aathma is everywhere
In the universe
Beyond the universe,
Inside everything,
Outside everything.

Are aathma and God
Two different things?
No. Both are same.
Paramathma is the rice.
Jeevathma is the rice scattered.
Paraman is the tree.
Jeevan is its branches.
Are the branches not the tree?
Is the tree not the branches?
Paramathma is ocean.
Jeevathma is waves.
Are the ocean and waves different?

Is aathma with form or without form?
It’s formless.
If it’s with form,
It can be seen, touched.
It can destroy one-day.
It cannot be everywhere.
Everything that has form can be in one place at a time.
That which has no form alone can be everywhere.
Everything that has form can be destroyed.
That which has no form cannot be destroyed.

Is aathma one, two or many?

Aathma is one.
That which has no form is borderless.
There cannot be two or many borderless things.
There can be two or many visible things or persons.
There cannot be two or many invisible things.
If aathma is invisible, eternal, borderless, everywhere,
It must be one.

If aathma is one,
You and I have the same aathma.
Houses are many on the earth,
But the wind blows through all houses is one.
So has spread through the aathma in all of us.




March 25, 2017

Mind versus consciousness

Mind is the unreal you.
Consciousness is the Real You.

Mind lives in past and future.
Consciousness lives in present.

Mind thinks, chatters constantly.
Consciousness watches, feels, lives.

The source of mind is knowledge and memory.
The seed of consciousness is silence and existence.

Mind is in the absence of consciousness.
Consciousness is in the absence of mind.
You are when consciousness is.
You are not when mind is.

You are temporarily dead, when mind is.
You live when consciousness is.

Mind creates doubts, questions, worries and stress.
Consciousness clears all these.
And rejoices at truth.

Mind wanders through what you know.
Within those borders.
Consciousness transcends all.
Lives in infinite space.

You, with everlasting consciousness
Is the awakened one.
You, with chattering mind
Is the Dead One.