“Knowyourself”- A blog for Self-Empowerment

The world of internet, being a virtual platform for sharing knowledge, ideas, information, emotions and experiences of the global community has revolutionized the field of blogging.

A blogger always wishes to bring his/her blog to the forefront by serving palatable dishes of information to the target readers. The more intense the traffic flow to the blog, the higher is its earning potential.

In contract, “Knowyourself” stands apart from the general interest of the blogging community. It is purely based on the experiences of the truth of life realized by Indian seers, through continuous practice of natural system of Yoga and meditation. The blog intends to help empower its readers to know his/her infinite potential of creative intelligence and use it for their material and spiritual progress.

The blog “Knowyourself” is dedicated to all those who desire to become fully aware of their innermost divine power and potential and use it to create affluence and prosperity for themselves and for the people around. The blog does not aim at monetizing its messages by making it a source of glamour and excitement. It only reveals the stark truth of life; this is why it contains no false outer picturesque image. It is plain and natural. It invites the readers seeking transformation from within him/her and becoming the source transformation for others around.

We have been striving to draw people to a common global platform to enjoy their life to full potential by realizing the power of cosmic unity in the midst of  multiple and diverse natural and social environment where they live. The more you dive in to the ocean of fullness of natural truth, the more you empower yourself to transcend to higher level of divine consciousness-the field of all possibilities.

By elevating yourself to the higher plane of transcendental consciousness, you make yourself a permanent source of positive transformation of life of the people around in a natural way. The “Knowyourself” blog is therefore a source of inspiration and empowerment. The blog helps satisfy the inner curiosity to reach the domain of God and to fulfill all aspects of life through self-realization.

The articles published in this blog need to be read with dispassionate intention of exploring truth of life, in absolute terms. The unique feature of this law is its natural and innate capacity to bring about unification and harmony across all diverse social, religious and cultural segments. It will continue to provide guidance for its readers of all social and professional background how to derive maximum benefit of their inner spiritual  strength for the enrichment of their outer gross material life, in all contexts.

How to become a true devotee of God

If a person wants to be a true devotee of God, he has to embrace Godliness-the divine essence of life in his daily life; he has to become his pure Self; he has to be free himself from the attributes which do not belong to him, and then only can he have one-pointed devotion. If he is enveloped by what he is not, then his devotion will be covered by that foreign element of impurity. His devotion will be imprisoned in the narrow cell of darkness of ignorance and illusion. His devotion will lose its power to reach God, and the love and blessings of God will not reach him. For his devotion to reach God, it is imperative that he should first become purely himself, covered by nothing. The process of purifying the individual self is nothing but realizing one’s eternal essence of life-the underlying basis of his physical and phenomenal existence. A true devotee of God always lives in his unmanifested and transcendental true “Self” even while fully engaged in all activities of material life of manifested and phenomenal existence. Then the process of devotion will connect him directly with the Lord, thereby conferring on him the status of devotee.

The phenomenal field of life is fraught with opposing forces: pleasure and pain, gain and loss, poverty and affluence, heat and cold, love and hate and all other pair of opposites which constitute life. Under the influence of these conflicting elements, life is tossed about as a ship on the rough sea from one wave to another. These attributes of duality constitute the gross planes of experience in the relative field of life.

A true devotee of God is to free himself from the influence of these attributes of duality that covers his pure Self-the divine identity of Absolute Being. Such a liberated and self-realized person is like a leaf of a lotus flower. Remaining on the surface of water, the lotus leaf maintains its separate line of identity. Remaining in the field of duality, a person works under the influence of the attributes of the opposing forces of relative life. For a true devotee with pinpointed focus on its “Pure Self”, the opposing forces of his relative life get dissolved in the stillness of the pure Absolute Being. As a result, the whole range of laws of nature acts in his favor to fulfill all aspects of relative life. The relative state of life of such a devotee transforms into a transcendental state of his “pure Self” having infinite potential of Almighty nature.

Being freed from the influence of the field of duality in the relative plane of his life, and by embracing the state of transcendental consciousness of his “pure Self”, he naturally and properly surrenders to the Great Self of the Lord. A person freed from duality, ever firm in purity, independent of possession become possessed by the Universal Self, in the absolute state of life, even while leading a life of ordinary person in the relative plane of life. Once you are possessed by your Self, the purpose of all wisdom has been achieved. A person when possessed by his “pure Self” becomes capable of rising above all sorrows and uncertainties of life. He discovers the great treasure house within himself. It is this state of Absolute Being that enables the individual to become successful on the path of action, on the path of devotion and on the path of knowledge. This state of transcendental consciousness of a person, at individual level is in perfect harmony with the whole field of cause and effect in the universal life, encompassing all the strata of creation. In the state of transcendental Being, the life of an individual, both at the relative and absolute plane is glorified, in all contexts. This is the field where righteousness, devotion and love merge in eternal harmony. This blessed state of life is within one’s self and is therefore within one’s reach. And moreover, it is his own pure Self, nothing other than his own Self. In this state of higher development of individual consciousness and the power harmonizing with the laws of nature, a devotee of God finds that his prayer is in direct attunement with the divine field of Absolute Being, which forms the basis of all the laws of nature. One who practices regular meditation experience this blessed state of Self-consciousness of pure awareness. Such a person is a true devotee of God.

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The Art of controlling the destiny by the power of present Action

The meaning of the saying that man is the master of his own destiny lies in the ability of man’s mind in gaining access to the unlimited creative potential of Almighty nature. Mastering one’s own destiny is an art of guiding the circumstances and surrounds to work in one’s favor, by using the power of present action.

The art of performing an action to produce maximum results rests solely on the performer, on his thought behind the action. A weak thought will require a great deal of exertion to produce the desired result, whereas a powerful thought will achieve its aim easily with minimum expenditure of energy.

A thought can gain more power only when the mind has the ability to reach the higher level of consciousness. At higher level of consciousness, mind works in the filed of creative intelligence of Almighty nature. When a person is established in that level, any undertaking will naturally be in accordance with the universal stream of life. All actions performed at that level will bring good to the doer and all others in his surroundings. To obtain maximum results it is necessary for the action to be performed to the best ability of the doer. Maximum ability demands the most highly developed intelligence and energy on the part of the doer.

Greatest energy and intelligence are gained when the conscious mind of the individual is elevated to the level of universal consciousness. It is, at this higher state of consciousness, man’s mind works in union with the universal mind of creative intelligence of nature. As a result, the individual is brought to the level of unlimited power of nature. When this occurs, a man is able to act with great precision, gaining maximum results with the least expenditure of energy.

However, something more than inner ability and efficiency is needed to gain maximum results from an action. This is the ability to control the circumstances and surroundings. Results are restricted by the resistance of surroundings and circumstances. One will certainly succeed in achieving maximum results from one’s action, if one has the ability to perform the activity fully supported by the associated surroundings and circumstances. An elevated mind integrated with the field of universal consciousness brings the individual to the level of cosmic energy. As a result, the performer naturally moves along the stream of cosmic evolution that sustains the dynamics of universal stream of life in the material and phenomenal plane.

The actions that the individual performs become the means of positive influence for the evolutionary process of the whole universe. The surroundings and circumstances automatically become congenial and favorable to achieving success for the individual. If the surroundings can be made favorable to the performance of an action, there is no limit to the results an action can yield.

People commonly believe that their handwork, diligence, sincerity, and intelligence contribute to the success of their actions. But all these factors are of secondary importance. The principal factor that determines the success of an action is the ability of the individual in realizing his cosmic potential and universal identity. It is the purity of man’s consciousness that influences the success of his action. The purity of mind increases as man is evolved in cosmic consciousness. It is the purity of man’s mind, and his spiritual approach to action with the cosmic purpose of all good to everyone, which serve to yield maximum results with minimum effort.

The results of present actions that a man performs at different stages of his life on this earth are also greatly influenced by the fruits of actions performed in the past. The law of “Karma” or “cause and effect” is an important spiritual principle that influences the success of present action. A good, virtuous man has in the past done good, virtuous deeds which were in accordance with the process of evolution. The results of those virtuous deeds now add to the success of his present actions. The influence of virtuous deeds performed in the past brings his more energy, clarity and concentration of mind and ability to make right decisions, and also produces influences in the surroundings which are favorable for the performance of present actions.

The influence of misdeeds and unscrupulous karma from the past brings him inefficiency and ineffectiveness in performing present actions leading to tension and sufferings. It brings adverse influences in his surroundings, which obstruct the performer in achieving desired results from his present actions.

The influence of the past deeds-good or bad is beyond the control of the doer. The best he can do to neutralize the adverse influence of his past deeds is to engaging in the practice of meditation, which will raise his consciousness and produce a favorable influence in his surroundings. As consciousness is raised, the conscious mind brings to work the increased energy and intelligence, drawn form the field of creative intelligence of Almighty nature. The enhanced energy associated with the higher level of consciousness will overshadow the adverse influences of his past karma. The secret for yielding maximum results is to nullify the negative influences of past deeds that offer resistance to the performance of present action. With elevated power of mind and the support of favorable surrounding, the person should engage in action and continue until the desired results are achieved.

All actions performed at the higher level of life energy and divine intelligence will have an overriding influence on “karma” from the past and will produce maximum results. This is how, by the regular practice of meditation supplemented by the power of virtuous thoughts and deeds, the adverse influence of past deeds can be weakened and transformed into positive life forces. Then, the course and sphere of present action become free from all resistances or obstacles, enabling the doer to achieve maximum results.

This is how, by the power of present action on Karma, destiny is transformed and controlled as one desire. Herein lies the meaning of the saying that man is master of his own destiny

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Key to Enlightenment through Action

All actions that a person performs are the manifestations of a series of thought impulses that the conscious mind generates, one after another, in a natural rhyme, causing individual life to move from one stage to the other. The actions that a person performs in his or her childhood are the inherent output of the mind of a child that produces the kind and quality of thoughts that match a specific stage of life. The fruits of every action, whether pleasant or painful to the individual are intended to satisfy some or other desire.

All thoughts that propel a person to perform actions spring from the conscious mind, always striving to fulfill some or the desires. All desires that a person wishes to fulfill at different stages of life find their way to enable him to acquire or possess something and to enjoy it. All actions of an individual, in this materialistic and phenomenal world, are prompted by selfish desires. Moved by individuality, a person foregoes the chance of higher evolution. Bounded by petty selfish desires, his experiences of enjoying the fruits of actions remain in the field of senses.

Actions merely fulfilling the desires of an individual at the sensory level are not the ‘actions worthy of performance’ since it does not serve to fulfill the higher purpose of life. All actions that an individual performs throughout his life, from birth to death, are rooted in the source of his thoughts and intellect. More effective action springs from more effective thinking, and more effective thinking traces its origin to the filed of higher level consciousness of mind. The quality of any action depends upon the quality of the performer and the forces and influences of his surrounding environment.

Actions worthy of performance may be considered on different levels of consciousness, passing though ordinary conscious state of mind through transcendental consciousness to divine consciousness-the field of Absolute Being. One who has realized his individual “self” in union with the universal Self, his self is uninvolved in every way. All his actions are performed with a natural detachment from the material plane of relative life. It is the glory of action that integrate ordinary conscious mind to the higher state of divine consciousness. Integration of life follows the process of transformation of mind from ordinary level of consciousness to universal state of Being. The mind goes to the field of unmanifest and comes back to the field of activity and phenomenon, thus experiencing both fields of life, absolute and relative. This is the state of integrated life in divine consciousness.

An individual leading an integrated mode of life can easily acquire the art of empowering all his actions for the fulfillment of his desires at the material plane of life and of the divine purpose of his higher “Self” in the absolute state of Being as well. Regular practice of meditation enables a person to lead an integrated life, in a most natural way. The performance of all actions of an integrated individual yields better quality of work, involves minimum expenditure of energy and generates maximum pleasure and wellbeing for the performer and for other around. At the same time, the individual remains free from the binding influence of his actions and of the fruits thereof. Although the performer is fully identified with the thought of the work fully, involved in the process of performing the action and fully absorbed in enjoying of its fruit, he yet remains in a state of eternal freedom, fully merged with the divine consciousness of Absolute Being. The skill in action is such that the mind must be saturated with universal consciousness of divinity in order that it may be freely and naturally expressed in the outer world of forms and phenomena.

In this way, the whole field of intellect, thought and action becomes a means for the divine creative intelligence of the Absolute Being to enter the relative field of activity. All the surroundings become perfectly supportive to the fulfillment of the underlying desire of the individual. The thought becomes the thought of the divine. The action becomes a means to fulfill the divine purpose, while at the same time, the desire of the individual is fulfilled most effectively. The purpose of individual life, in the material and physical context, enters a glorious phase in the fulfillment of divine purpose.

Through the practice of meditation, every thought of persons begins to be appreciated at the divine level of consciousness. At the subtlest level of mind, thought is more powerful and results in more successful action. A great man is he who lives the awareness of the universal “Self” in his daily life and maintains the divine status of eternal Being even when engaged in day-to-day activities. This explains the principle of enlightenment through action.

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How to get everything you want out of life

If you desire to acquire what ever you want, when ever you want with least possible effort, you must first discover and reach the source of all that exists in the universe. The inexhaustible and eternal source of all material wealth in this physical world lies within you, your true Self, but the key to tap this source for your individual need is to realize the power of your true “Self”-the unified field of infinite possibilities. Such realization with a strong belief on one’s true ‘Self’ can open the door to all material abundances and affluence.

Self has two connotations: lower self and higher Self. The lower self represents that consciousness of mind which occupies itself with activities in the relative field of existence. The personality representing the lower self of existence comprises the mind that thinks, the intellect that decides, and the ego that experiences. An individual remaining in the lower state of self merely gets attached to the material objects and phenomena that generate sensory pleasure for a limited period. At the lower level of self, the sensory joy and pleasure we derive from the objects of experience are momentary and fleeting. The functioning of lower self of life is supported by ordinary and limited field of conscious mind and ego bounded by and attached to the known material objects and phenomena.

Being attached to the known material objects, places, properties and persons, a state of incessant fear and risk of losing control over these perceived objects is developed leading to persistent insecurity. Fear and insecurity are the bi-products of ego-based lower self of life. As long as a person moves with the flow of an attached life characterized by fear and insecurity, he keeps himself imprisoned in a dark cell of poverty, ignorance and mediocre existence.

The source of abundant material freedom, richness and security lies in the field of higher level of “Self”-the unified absolute Being. Anything you want can be acquired by infusing your ordinary conscious mind with the power of absolute Being-your true and natural “Self” of universal consciousness where ordinary mind gains the status of universal mind with infinite intelligence. To gain the access to power of your higher “Self”, you have not to leave the relative plane of material worldly life. You can live fullness of the universal Being while fully engaged in the field of body, mind and senses. Your individual ego gets expanded to cosmic status; your conscious mind starts functioning on the basis of natural non-attachment. Remaining in the state of co-existence with your true divine ‘Self’, non-attachment becomes a living reality of your daily life. Being detached does not lead one to give up one’s desire; one ceases to get attached to the expected fruits of one’s action in a natural way. Detached involvement in the process of acquisition of material wealth and objects is simply to stay free from the temptation or attachment to past, certain and known objects and events and look for afresh, with natural stillness of your higher “Self”-the field of whole range of possibilities. Being grounded in the plane of your higher “Self”, your individual mind gets aligned with the universal power of divine intelligence where you get naturally drawn to the field of all possibilities. When you are grounded in the plane of your true Self, you get yourself free from all fear, guilt, and insecurity about material affluence or fulfilling your desires. The field of your true Self possesses the creative capacity of infinite co-relation and transformation. It has an extraordinary and divine power of bringing about set of space-time events over diverse entities in the universe to create desired outcome in your favor.

In order to acquire what you want of your life, you need to simply stay attuned to the field of your higher ‘Self’ with relaxed awareness of your expanded consciousness, in the present moment. Infused with your divine potential of your higher ‘Self’, all your present activities naturally lead you to the intended outcomes. A person who has attained higher consciousness is always established in the ‘Self’, even while engaged in day-to-day activities. This state of consciousness is a state of complete non-attachment of the ‘Self’ with activity and its expected outcome in terms of money, power, houses and all kinds of material wealth, even while activity continues in the relative field of life. Such complete non-attachment is not possible unless the mind is established in the plane of natural fullness of life-both in inner and outer aspects.

As inner contentment grows on the basis of natural non-attachment, the capacity of the senses and mind grows multi fold in enjoying more thoroughly the outer objects of life. The enlightened person thus naturally experiences material objects more completely, with natural detachment.

In this state of natural detachment, the ‘Self’ remains unbounded, completely free from the bondage of personal ego and known facts, figures, events and objects of relative life. It remains fully open to the whole range of exciting events, mystery and miracles, emerging out of the unknown eternal source of creative intelligence of universal life. The stream of benefits that flow from the unknown source of universe in every moment of an enlightened person is something very fabulous, eternal and exciting. The whole process is a natural one; that is why it is spontaneous and unbounded.

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Know your ‘Self’: Key to lasting Happiness

When we say: “we are happy”, what do we mean? The common understanding of happiness relates to the experience of mind in response to the external situations or objects that we seek to perceive and possess in the journey of our lives through the vast and ceaseless expanse of time and space. The objects that attracted your mind most and gave you the highest pleasure in your childhood days disappear soon into a hazy past and soon get replaced by new kinds and forms as you pass into adulthood.

The very nature of mind is to occupy itself with activities and thoughts that inherently suit specific stages of life and the set of surrounding environment. As your body, senses and mind grow and as you move through different set of surrounding, your attitude, passion and desire for possession of material objects change. Every moment, our minds look for new set of objects and surrounding to satisfy our senses. The search for happiness continues as long as we run after the material world to satisfy our ever rising craze for sensory pleasure. The sensory joy and pleasure is momentary and fleeting. Happiness, on the other hand, is experienced by the mind that has elevated to the higher level of consciousness. The higher state of mind is that aspect of the personality which never changes, the unified ‘Self’ which is the very basis of the physical and material existence of life.

The state of consciousness of mind is the deciding factor to create and sustain experience of happiness for an individual regardless of his/her social, material, religious and intellectual status. Self has two connotations: lower self and higher Self. The lower self represents that state of consciousness of mind which always occupies itself with activity in the relative field of existence. The lower self is that aspect of life which deals only with relative aspect of existence of material and phenomenal world. The personality representing the lower self of existence comprises the mind that thinks, the intellect that decides, and the ego that experiences. The mind of the individual remaining in the lower self functions only in three states of consciousness-waking, dreaming and deep sleep. An ordinary conscious mind, functioning in the lower state of self, merely gets strongly attached to the material objects that generate sensual pleasure for a limited period before its focus gets distracted by something new with renewed and enhanced glamour. At the ordinary level of consciousness, mind remains turbulent with series of thought waves propelled by sensory desires and limited intellect.

Remaining always within the field of relativity, the conscious mind has no chance of experiencing the pure status of higher “Self”-absolute Being-the field of absolute consciousness which is ever the same in its eternal purity, and is the ultimate essence of mind. The activities in the relative field of life overshadow the essential nature of the absolute “Self”. This is the state of higher “Self” which is that aspect of the personality which never changes. Remaining in the relative state of consciousness, mind is commonly in the state of bondage. When the mind comes out of the activity in the relative field, the absolute “Self” shines forth in its eternal purity. Regular meditation enables the mind to dive through all the subtle levels of activities of relative existence; when the subtlest level is transcended the mind gains the state of pure Being-the state of higher “Self”. This is a state of cosmic consciousness, where the “Self” has separated itself completely from the field of activity. In this state, where the unified absolute Being and the relative world of activity co-exist; the lower self has elevated to the state of absolute purity. In this way, Adi Shankaracharya has described beautiful journey from the gross fields of existence to subtler fields, until the subtlest field of relative existence is transcended and transcendental absolute Being is reached in divine consciousness. This robs the lower self of its individuality bounded by time, space and causation and sets it free to gain the state of universal existence. This is the cosmic state of mind when the divine consciousness of the unified absolute Being is found in co-existence with the mind in relative existence, in the field of time, space and causation. The never changing state of life co-exists with the ever changing state of relative life. The eternal and universal basis of life becomes infused into the field of bondage-the field of multiplicity of diversified creation.

Established in such a state, a person starts appreciating everything from a thin grass to a gigantic mountain to all pervading sky. It is the act of getting in touch with your divinity and true identity, getting back to your nature. Once a person is established in this state of higher “Self”, he naturally enjoys so great a fullness of Being that he never feels he is out of it. When cosmic consciousness has been gained, the mind of the individual automatically functions from the level of full potentiality, and the ‘Body’, ‘mind’, ‘intellect’ and ‘senses’ remain the instruments of divine will, irrespective of their domains of activities. The senses, acting from the elevated level of higher ‘Self’, experience external objects and phenomena more completely, result in an even greater appreciation of the physical and material life. An individual, in such a state of expanded consciousness of higher ‘Self’ experiences greater happiness of the sensory level. This creates an everlasting mental platform on which objects of senses are enjoyed more thoroughly and freely than before. This is the glory of enlightened integration of all the material values of life with the transcendental Being-the field of cosmic existence of life.

Transform your Life by making full use of the Almighty Power of Nature

The individual personality of an ordinary person appears to be bound by time, space and causation. However, life of a person, viewed from the subtlest level of creation, exists in the field of unified and absolute Being-the field of creative intelligence of divinity. At the gross relative field of individual life, all experiences are based on limited conscious capacity of the mind linked to a set of sensory organs and nervous system. Once the person liberates his mind from the bondage of ordinary level of consciousness and enters the expanded sphere of cosmic consciousness, he gains the ability to realize the unlimited potential of cosmic life and derive the maximum benefit from the universal source of creative power of Nature.

Every individual person is, in reality, the physical manifestation of the universal Being and has the inherent capacity to have direct access to the Almighty power of all pervading Nature, in his day-to-day life. It is easy and natural for each individual to be in a position to control all the laws of Nature and to make use of the Almighty power of Nature in his favor, in all walks of life. But, many of those who are very little aware of their cosmic identity or have not yet experienced the bliss consciousness of the transcendental Being, remain ignorant of the absolute truth of life, being gripped by the worries and tensions of the day-to-day life. They fail to recognize and experience the immense creative potentials of their own “inner selves”-the unchangeable and eternal essence of their gross lives. Once a king dreamt that he was begging in the street. In his dream his guru told him the truth that he was a king and not a beggar. Now was he to argue with his guru or just wake up?

To realize one’s own cosmic identity and harness the Almighty power of Nature in one’s favor, one needs to bring more and more awareness to the gross field of his day-to-day life. There is no greater force of transformation of life than awareness of one’s true identity, at the absolute level of Being. Many people all over the world have been able to rise above the drudgeries and tensions of day-to-day life, make their surroundings fully supportive and beneficial for fulfillment of their needs and desires by availing the full support and blessing of Almighty Nature.

To use the almighty power of Nature, it is necessary to naturally place oneself in the eternally evolving stream of Nature, and allowing oneself to be carried forward by the natural flow of cosmic evolution. Once you begin to submit yourself to the will of nature, the flow of evolution of universal life, nature will be bound to react favorably to fulfill your needs and desires. Almighty nature is all-pervading, all-powerful and all-loving, for all the laws of nature operate, with perfect precision and orderliness, for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater love and kindness than those of nature. All forms of reaction of nature are directed to help glorification and elevation of life at all levels and of all strata of the universe.

The natural law of ‘Karma’ or ‘cause and effect’ is also a law of nature that governs the movement of life of all forms in the cosmic cycle of evolution. When a person suffers because of some misdeeds and misconducts, this is also the manifestation of kindness and helpfulness of nature. The process of suffering and pain one passes through in the day-to-day life serves to purify and elevate one’s consciousness in the cycle of evolution of life.

When a surgeon operates the affected part of the patient, he uses his scalpel in all kindness and good intention to relieve pain and cure a disease. He can only start operating for the patient’s benefit and wellness after the patient has entrusted himself completely to his care. If one submits oneself fully to the will of nature, nature helps one with all love and kindness, and in this way one begins to make full use of almighty power of Nature.

The working of natural law over all diverse entities of the universe is so complex and diversified it is certainly not possible for a person to understand intellectually the natural mechanism of “action and reaction”, “cause and effect”, “creation and dissolution” operating at individual level, over a specific period of time at a specific place. The intention of natural responses for all actions and thoughts is always meant to guide every living entity to make forward move in the cycle of cosmic evolution. The divine intention of nature is eternal, immutable and irreversible for every life entity in the universe. So an intellectual understanding of the law of nature, governing the eternal process of creation and evolution is quite impossible. But there is one fact about creation which can make it possible for any person to live completely attuned with nature. It is that all the laws of nature function in the direction of cosmic evolution. If you wish to use the almighty power of nature in your favor, in all contexts, you need to simply and innocently put yourself into the natural flow of cosmic evolution. By this process, you begin to lose your individual identity to the unified character of cosmic life. The more one loses one’s individual personal mode of life to the absolute field of divinity, the more one gains the power of Almighty God, and one’s life finds its fulfillment. From this stage of transformation of relative life to Absolute one springs the ideology of devotion and surrender. The basic pre-requisites for such transformation are simplicity and innocence which are the natural and inherent traits of each living being.

Thanks to the great tradition of “Patanjali” yoga system expounded by Maharshi Patanjali, the greatest ancient seer of India, an ordinary person can make use of the Almighty power of nature by embracing the simple system of meditation. The natural system of meditation is a technique for unconditionally and innocently surrendering to the almighty power of the nature and arriving at the absolute, eternal field of divine intelligence, having the potential of infinite possibilities. Having reached that plane, the individual begins quite naturally and effortlessly enjoy the power of nature for his own good. This is only possible on the subtlest level of human consciousness when one’s mind transcends from its ordinary conscious level to the level of cosmic consciousness; it can not be achieved on the level of human understanding.

Mere thinking or imagining to surrender or submit to the will of Almighty nature or all pervading God does not result in any positive gain, as thoughts are simply the outcome of the conscious mind in the relative field of life. Therefore, the field of surrender is never on the field of thinking: it is only on the level of transcendental unified consciousness. Those who want to surrender to God or to Almighty nature on the level of thinking, they just make a mood of surrender to God, and mood making is always at conscious thinking level.

An individual can not enjoy the power of Almighty unless his mind transcends to the level of Absolute Being-the realm of universal consciousness where individual identity merges with the unified wholeness of Almighty nature. True surrender to God can not happen on the level of intellectual understanding and conscious thinking. It is always on the level of transcendental Being. All efforts to create a mood of surrender is an intellectual art of imagination and will always remain on the surface of relative life, as the field of surrender is the field of universal oneness of Absolute Being-the eternal source of almighty power of Nature. Unless the conscious mind transcends the field of thinking, it can not arrive at the plane of Being. Surrender to the will of Almighty God does not result unless the individual consciousness is infused with the state of divine Being.

No amount of intellectual exercise and deliberation can grasp the true power of Almighty nature, since the conscious mind of the individual in the relative plane, is not in tune with the subtlest field of working of Almighty nature. Surrender to Almighty Nature is the most advanced ideology of life. True surrender to Almighty God means losing the identity of time-space-causation bound body-mind continuum and gaining the universal identity and status of all pervading, unified and eternal Absolute Being. This is possibly only in the state of transcendental consciousness.

Without rising to the state of cosmic consciousness or at least putting oneself on the path of such transformation of consciousness, it is simply not possible to have any access to the field of Almighty power of nature. Only regular practice of transcendental meditation helps the practitioner in the process of surrendering to the will of God, at the state of universal consciousness, and thereby making use of almighty power of nature, in his favor. It is a natural and effortless journey of a person from the relative plane of limited experience to the realm of unlimited potential of Almighty nature.

Placing oneself in the field of Almighty power of nature, a person effortlessly establishes himself in a natural harmony with cosmic Being. Fortunate is he who has acquired this age old and time proven skill of conditioning his conscious mind in tune with the eternal process of cosmic evolution. The whole of nature moves in accordance with his needs, all his desires serve to fulfill the cosmic purpose. His individual identity serves the divine purpose of Almighty God, and all the laws of nature work to fulfill his needs and desires. He makes use of almighty power of nature and nature uses his life for the divine purpose of cosmic evolution. A natural harmony is built in his relative individual life and the entire cosmos as a whole. All his needs and of his surrounding are fulfilled, without intention and effort.

The secrete of mastering the skill of using the Almighty power of Nature lies in regularly practicing the technique of transcending the mind to the field of Absolute Being, and thereby establishing eternal link with the cosmic power of Almighty nature. It is the power of Being, not the mind, which is the true basis and ultimate essence of life. Hence, the mind must be transformed in to the state of unified and Absolute Being. The science of Absolute Being is the science of eternal existence of life and serves to bring eternal bliss, stability and harmony into the relative fields of day-to-day life.

All the ever changing phenomena of the material life in the world are the physical manifestation of the power of Absolute Being. One can easily and effortlessly acquire the skill of bringing the power of Almighty nature to fulfill all needs and desires of his relative life through regular practice of meditation.

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Know the Art of using your full potential

The art of making the full use of one’s full potential means living a fulfilled and balanced life, accomplishing the maximum in the world, and at the same time enjoying full freedom in divine consciousness. The full potential of a person is his supreme divine power-the inner potential of “Self” which is the source of all possibilities. The whole range of values of life in the all aspects-physical, mental and spiritual is hidden in one’s inner “Self”. By knowing the art of using one’s inner potential, a person can live life to his maximum capacity on all levels-physical, mental and spiritual.

The limits of individual life do not end with the perceptions and experiences one gain by using of his body, senses and mind only. It extends much beyond the body-mind continuum and its sphere of working; the life at the physical plane concerns only the relative aspect of the core essence of universal life-the field of Absolute Being.

The conscious mind of an individual being connected to the universal mind at its subtlest level has the capacity to expand its limit of experiencing much beyond the relative plane of life. A person does not generally use his mind fully. The conscious mind is only an insignificant part of the total mind that a person possesses. As long as he functions only on the ordinary level of conscious mind, he is not using his full mental potential. His full mental capacity extends much beyond the physical boundary and has the limitless feature of creative intelligence that sustains the diversities of universal life. He can use his mind to its full potential by expanding the boundaries of his consciousness from ordinary level of relative life to the sphere of transcendental awareness of divinity-the Absolute Being.

Each human mind has the core essence of divinity within its consciousness and therefore has the ability to gain the creative potential of the divine Being-the source of infinite possibilities. The whole range of creation and the field of divine potential lies within the scope of human consciousness. Each individual have the natural capacity to embrace the full cosmic character. Thus, a person has the ability to realize the use his full potential by transcending his conscious mind to the unbounded field of universal Being-the field of divine consciousness, God consciousness. A person lives a normal human life and yet eternally identifies with his inherent divinity. Identification with its inherent divinity means enjoying the status of universal cosmic mind.

Cosmic consciousness should not be considered as something far beyond the reach of any normal person: it should be the normal human consciousness. The skill of transcending one’s mind to the field of cosmic consciousness is easily and naturally acquired by any ordinary person through the regular practice of meditation. It enables unfold the full potential of the divine in man and elevate human consciousness to God consciousness, on eternal basis. Embracing transcendental meditation in your daily life, you will allow you to evolve beyond your current limited consciousness, leading you to the unlimited field of divine intelligence. By embracing meditative life, you gain the skill of harmonizing the abstract absolute values of divine intelligence with the relative, physical values of day-to-day life. It is the key to unfold and harness your full potential in a state of eternal freedom.

The skill of using one’s full potential lies in one’s ability to transcend the mind to the field of divine oneness where it gains the miraculous power of grace light of nameless, formless Universal God before it emerges to deal with the gross realities of the relative field of life. The field of divine oneness is the area of cosmic awareness having incredible intelligence and energy to know and do everything. It is the core stable factor of life, the basis of the ever changing phenomenal creation and experience. Our body-mind-nervous system keeps on evolving sequentially as a result of its continuous interface and interaction with an unbounded sphere of universal life. Embodiment has always been an identifiable confinement of the free “Self” imprisoned in the body-mind complex where the spirit or the “Self” loses the knowledge of its own essential cosmic character. When the senses of its embodied “self” gets removed, we remember that we belong to the cosmic ensemble or we are the unified cosmic whole.

It is the art of living which links together the never changing Absolute of transcendental nature and the ever changing field of gross relative life, enabling all the essential values of life to be lived in harmony. Human mind is closely analogous to the root of tree that-acts as a medium to draw nourishment from the earth and supply it to the tree. The whole of cosmic potential becomes naturally and spontaneously available to a person once his conscious mind starts transcending to the field of unified divinity.

When the mind reaches the subtler states of thought and transcendental consciousness, a person’s daily activities in the relative field of life is guided by the natural law of cosmic evolution. By this process, a person begins to make use of his full potential in the field of sense, body and surroundings; he lives life in perfect harmony with cosmic evolution.

The process of transcendence of the conscious mind from the limited sphere of human consciousness to the level of God-consciousness is accelerated by regularly practicing the natural system of meditation. It sequentially unfolds the full potential of the Divine in any ordinary individual who is, in fact, a natural embodiment of divinity itself. One can live a natural and normal human life in the level of sense, body and graceful state of divine life. The grace of divinity that a person enjoys as a natural outcome of transcendence of mind is the grace light of God. Once it is transmitted, the grace light of divinity will work in a miraculous way. On the physical plane, there will be significant transformation and enhancement of energy level. On the level of mind, a person will continue to receive abundant creative intelligence of divine source that ignite the dormant faculties of mind. The mind naturally gains full support of the divine power of the never-changing Absolute Being. This forms the basis of using one’s full potential. It is possible for every individual to gain direct access to the unlimited power of eternal divinity and to make his life most powerful, stable and fulfilled, in all aspects.

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Narayan Sahoo

Key to Global peace: bliss-consciousness

The greatest challenge of to-day’s nuclear age before the world community is to live in peace or to perish. The trend of increasing tension in all fields of life, be it social, environmental, economic or political, everywhere on the earth to-day is leading us to the ultimate point of annihilation. The factors responsible for mounting threat to human existence are purely man-made and closely linked to our collective thoughts, actions and behavior. The ever growing forces of terrorism, communalism and separatism all over the world have been able to get stronghold of the passion and spirit of the mind of a large segment of world population to-day. The spiritual values of life are fast getting erased by religious dogma and fundamentalism, giving rise social tension, intolerance and disharmony.

The state of increasing tension can not persist indefinitely; it must give way to peace or annihilation. The need of the time to-day is to find a way to stop violence of all kind, everywhere, on permanent basis. We have to create our future for there is no one else who is going to save us. We need to save ourselves from self-annihilation. The enormous challenge for each and every one of us is to accept the ultimate responsibility for world peace. To accept responsibility for creating a better future means, we have to face the fact that the only way it is going to happen is through the evolution of consciousness-both at individual and collective level. And for the human society to evolve at the level of consciousness, you and I have to be the parts of this spiritual process of transformation.

To create and sustain peace at the level of individual, family, society and the world as a whole, every individual needs to awaken to the process of transformation of his or her consciousness and carry this process forward to consciously evolve for our collective transformation. A person needs to transcend his conscious mind to the state of divine consciousness-the unified field of universal life.

The true basis of peace is bliss. Unless one is happy one cannot be at peace. The search for peace is to begin from the source of all happiness. Lasting peace is only possible by brining the mind of a person to the eternal source of happiness-the field of the transcendental consciousness. Lasting peace is always accompanied by lasting happiness. Eternal happiness is the natural outcome of bliss consciousness. The very nature of mind is to be transformed to bliss consciousness. It is a state of pure potential having enormous strength of creativity of cosmic essence. Once a person’s mind is established in this field of cosmic consciousness, he starts living the life of lasting contentment, and become a living embodiment of lasting peace, radiating rays of happiness in all directions where ever he lives and works. All his thoughts, speech and activities naturally serve to provide a great impetus for promotion of peace, prosperity and happiness all around.

An individual being an integral part of the universal life at the subtlest level of Absolute Being influences the entire cosmos by every thought, word and action. Therefore someone whose mind is established in the state of bliss consciousness naturally radiates peace, harmony and happiness and influences the whole universe with his thoughts and actions. The person whose mind is turbulent with erratic thought waves, worries, fear and stress and who has no experience of bliss-consciousness continually produces unfavorable influences in his surrounding. Fear and worries are the products of a turbulent mind confined in a bounded circle of discontented gross individual life.

When large number of people leads stressful and restless lives, their surrounding environment gets polluted by their tense influences. As a result, the forces of violence and divisiveness dominate over the elements of peace and harmony in the society. As a result, the living environment breaks into large-scale devastation and destruction. There is nothing on this earth that can really bring the mind lasting contentment. The only field of contentment is the field of universal consciousness characterized by eternal bliss. Unless one’s mind is permanently established in this state of transcendental consciousness, the hope of experiencing peace will merely remain a mirage. The key to remain in lasting peace lies in the field of bliss consciousness. Through regular practice of meditation, a person can live a life of divine bliss throughout life, and therefore becomes the nucleus of creating peace all around.

So to produce a harmonious and healthy atmosphere for the overall benefit of all living creatures in the world, it is necessary for every person to live in contentment and peace. The problem of world peace can be solved only by solving the problem of peace at the individual level. Peace at individual level is the key for bringing global peace.

An individual can lead a peaceful life by elevating his conscious mind to the higher state of divine consciousness. It is easily and naturally possible to bring peace at all levels-individuals, society and the world through embracing meditation as a divine art of life. It is the direct means for establishing bliss consciousness in individual and collective lives. By resorting to meditative way of life, one’s conscious mind embraces the subtlest area of universal consciousness and gains maximum cosmic energy; all the latent faculties of mind get fully awakened to the field of infinite possibilities of divine intelligence. The latent potentialities are fully developed with the expansion of the conscious mind. By practicing regular meditation, we can consciously evolve to the degree that we actually realize at the deepest level of our ultimate source of existence. This is the state of self-realization, the realization of the Absolute Being-the One in many and the many in one. We realize the truth of non-duality that the many is the one and that the one is ultimately who we always are in an evolutionary context. Transcendental awakening of mind to the field of divine consciousness is accompanied by increased contentment of the heart, giving rise to universal love, compassion and understanding. Such an expanded and elevated mind remains fully secured, enlivened and established in inner peace, harmony and happiness. Such an enlightened and spiritually awakened mind is of value to the individual and society.

These enlarged capacities improve a person’s relationship with his fellowmen in a natural and spontaneous way. In contrast, the conventional methods of improving individual and inter-personal relationship by expert counseling and advice, and social relationships by persuasion, motivation and discussions can only touch the surface of the situation.

The minds of the individuals directly connect to the mind of the global society. It is the state of individual mind that determines the peace, happiness and harmony of the global life. It is the root of every situation that we collectively face. It is the root that needs to be nourished and revitalized to ensure the health and growth of the tree. It is important to remedy the problem of violence and disharmony at the collective level by attacking its root causes that originate from individual minds.

A person with ordinary conscious mind fails to cope with the environment and to derive the best from it and to satisfy his needs within it. As a result, frustration, insecurity and tension overtake his life, as he lacks the potential to transform the situation in his favor. He is then forced to burst out into revolt and aggression against everything around him and even against himself. Forced by increased tension within him, he lives in the state of confusion, conflict and intolerance.

Once, the mind of a person gets linked to the realm of cosmic awareness, his behavior changes dramatically, in all circumstances. Thus, he enriches and energies his whole field of influence. All his actions are directed to make the best out of the existing circumstances for himself and for others around.

All antisocial behaviors trace their origins to the inner discontent of a person. The only way to tackle this problem is to raise the conscious capacity of mind to the expanded sphere of cosmic awareness. Inner discontent gives rise to bad behavior, hatred, malice, harsh attitude, intolerance and destructive motive in a person. Such individuals are contributing maximum to the disruption and destruction of peace of the world. All regional, national and global conflict, tension and violence are caused by the collective contribution of these discontented individuals.

The world is now passing through a great transition of human civilization. It is a challenging time for all of us who will decide the future course of human society on this planet. It is now the time that those who are interested in world peace should attend to the need of awakening the minds of individuals to embrace universal lives. The minds and resources of the world leaders and statesman of all countries need to focus on promoting the simple and natural ways of transforming the minds of the people through meditation. The world will continue to suffer till we remain indifferent to the root of the problem of world peace and its divine solution. The need of this hour is to improve the lives of the individuals from within and of thereby bringing the divine bliss, peace and creative intelligence.

It is possible to create and sustain permanently peace, prosperity and happiness in the world by bringing the simple natural system of mediation to each individual everywhere. As a result, there would be love, kindness, sympathy, and harmony on all levels of human society. As long as we remain ignorant of the immense potential of this natural system of improving the lives of individuals from within, the problem of world peace will continue for the future generations.

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Narayan Sahoo

Key to Derive Maximum Benefits from your Surroundings

Human beings, since birth to death, continue to interact with the surrounding to satisfy their physical, intellectual, social and spiritual needs. We always cherish our surrounding environment to support and favor all our daily activities, both at home and outside. We always desire most people around us to behave with us in accordance with our wishes, feelings and thoughts, most things to happen to accelerate our progress in all aspects of life, the natural environment where we live to give joy and comfort all the while. But many a time, things happen against our wishes, expectations, and aspirations, creating misery, disappointment, and failure. There are situations and circumstances that smash all your hopes and dreams all in a sudden, leaving you all alone in a state of helplessness and loneliness.

In fact, our present circumstances and surroundings are the true reflection and physical manifestation of our own thoughts and actions and have their origin in the domain of the past, in accordance with the natural law of “Karma” or the principle of “cause and effect”. Our past actions rebound as objects or phenomena of enjoyment or of suffering to the domain of our present lives. The quality and condition of our future lives is governed by the choices we are making at every moment of our present lives in accordance with the law of Karma. A person who blames his surrounding for his present circumstances producing for him joy or misery does not realize that he is solely responsible for the condition of his current life. It is simply a self-defeating attempt propelled by our ignorance about our own self and our relation with our surroundings.

A person has to fully accept his surrounding as they are, realizing that they are the fruits of the trees planted by him. As we move on with the flow of life, we pass through different sets of surroundings, constantly creating vibrations of happiness or misery, love or hatred, friendship or enmity, selfishness or benevolence around us without our conscious knowledge and intentions.

Since we are the creator of our own surroundings, we are naturally inclined to wish them to give us what we desire. As our own surroundings are shaped by the choices we make in the level of our thoughts, actions and behavior, we can receive maximum help from our surroundings at all times by nurturing good thoughts and attitude to act and behave nicely and selflessly with everything around us. We must recognize the truth of the law of nature that if you want to receive, you must give. It universally holds good for all natural entities starting from a tiniest particle to the gigantic cosmic body.

It is natural for a person to receive to the extent that he is in a position to give. If you show your natural love and affection to a child, he will lovingly cling to your lap; if you show rudeness to him, the child’s response will be repulsive and resenting. This is how nature reacts to your thoughts and action. Even one’s thought is more powerful and penetrating than his action. If you are selfless and sincere in giving, you will receive many times over in return, from different corners. A committed and dedicated teacher commands the respect of his students.

The natural law of action and reaction is also a scientifically established truth. If you behave with someone in a certain manner, he, in turn behaves with you. If his reaction is neutral, you will still receive appropriate reaction indirectly from other entities of natural surroundings. If you rudely behave with someone and even if he remains indifferent to your behavior on that moment, you will receive the reaction from some other parts of your surrounding with some time lag, no matter how and where you experience it. The proverb saying “as you sow, so you reap” is the universal truth. If you wish your surroundings to react to you in the way you desire, you have to recognize the spirit of this truth and make your choices accordingly on the level of your thought and behavior. This is the fundamental principle for making the best use of your surroundings.

The law of nature operates with perfect precision; the kind of reaction you receive at this moment from your surrounding is directly proportional to what you have given in the past. Be kind and compassionate to others around and your surrounding will be kind to you; start loving to the people around you and your surrounding will start loving to you. If you become the cause of suffering for someone, nature will bring you pain and misery from some part of your surroundings. If your surrounding begin to make your life painful and stressful, do not blame the surroundings; blame your inner conscience.

It is imperative that we need to purify our conscience. Purity of conscience will naturally lead to refinement of our outward behavior. As a result, a person becomes loving, kind and virtuous to his fellowmen around. In response, he receives good behavior naturally from everyone and great joy from his surroundings.

If you are pure in your conscience, you are sincere and compassionate in your behavior and still your surroundings treat you badly, and then accept that treatment wholeheartedly; they are the result of some of your action in the past.

If you resist and revolt, you lower yourself to the level of unworthy and wrong doing. Let the evil force of the surrounding get lost in the ocean of your virtue. Any action to resist the evil is directed to create evil influence around you, setting the law of nature to work against your further progress in the cycle of evolution of life. Any kind of resistance and retaliation engenders waves of destructive forces in the surrounding.

Let the impurities of the atmosphere find a refuge in the ocean of purity of your conscience. When you treat the evil with purity of heart and embrace it with forgiveness and love, all nature enjoys your brilliance and returns love and joy to you in multifold way. To make the best use of your surroundings, purify your inner conscience and embrace the qualities of forgiveness, tolerance, sincerity, love and kindness. This is the fundamental principle of giving.

Think and act for the best interest of your surroundings, if you wish your surroundings to be the best use to you. If you nurture within yourself a natural state of kindness, love, tolerance, forgiveness and compassion, you will be rewarded multifold by your surrounding. If your behavior is guided by the principle of giving in order to receive, the receiving will naturally be more because many parts of your surroundings contribute their best offerings for you from all directions.

To make really the best use of one’s surroundings, a person needs to elevate his ordinary consciousness to the level of cosmic consciousness, it is only in this state of awareness that a person receives full support of his surrounding because in this state his heart and mind are established in the level of Absolute Being-the divine realm of infinite creativity. It is a state of universal consciousness from which the laws of nature works perfectly to fulfill and sustain the process evolution of all things. It is the supreme state of mind of a person that serves to fulfill the divine will. Living in the state of cosmic consciousness, a person naturally thinks acts and behaves in a way that fully supports and serves the cosmic evolution of life. Once a person attains the state of cosmic consciousness, the natural law of universal evolution of life serves to make the surrounding most befitting and beneficial for fulfillment of his individual life. He becomes capable of deriving the maximum benefits for his surrounding. Everything in his surrounding will effortlessly and naturally derive the maximum benefit from every other thing-animate or inanimate, near or remote.

To make the best use of one’s surrounding, one needs to transform one’s individual life to cosmic life, raising the level of one’s ordinary consciousness to higher level so that he enters the realm of all harmony and bliss which lies in the eternal status of transcendental universal consciousness. Then, a person becomes a living instrument of the Almighty God; whatever he does it perfectly fulfills the best interest of his individual life and simultaneously supports the evolution of cosmic life as well. Regular practice of meditation can elevate one’s conscious capacity of mind to the state of cosmic consciousness that enables him to derive maximum benefits from the surrounding for him and for the benefit of the others around.

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Narayan Sahoo