by Satinder | Dec 27, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
Unique Wisdom of Sharnānandjī Mahārāj भारत की पावन भूमि पर ऐसे संत भी हुए हैं…. It so happens that the Nirvāna-divas of Swamiji and Christmas falls on the same day! Once, Swāmījī Sharnānandjī was sitting in a train compartment. A Christian priest also came...
by Satinder | Dec 26, 2015 | Happiness Inc. |
SUNSET AT KANYAKUMARI Watching sunrise and sunset is quite a spectacle at Kanyakumari. The sun very slowly emerges, as if, from the ocean and desends even more slowly back in the lap of the mighty ocean. The tip of peninsula where India’s land ends is the meeting...
by Satinder | Dec 26, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
NARYANA GURU AND SHIVAGIRI MUTT, VARKALA If you travel in Kerala, you will find Narayana Guru’s statues everywhere. He led a reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom, humanity, and social equality. Although better...
by Satinder | Nov 28, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
TO KNOW OR TO BE—THAT IS THE QUESTION Perhaps the most succinct spiritual advice ever given to a seeker is just to “BE.” In our day-to-day practical life, however, we are told to “be this” or to “be that.” What does it really mean just to BE? We are also told...
by Satinder | Nov 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Quotable Quotes and Stories |
BE A FORCE FOR GOOD! BE A FORCE FOR PEACE! Yes, we can take certain pride in the progress of humanity over the centuries. Yes, we have improved the means to communication and comfort. But we are also deeply troubled by the persistent violence, inveterate corruption,...
by Satinder | Nov 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Quotable Quotes and Stories |
NAMASTE: I BOW IN HONOR OF THE DIVINE WITHIN YOU DEEP SYMBOLISM BEHIND FOLDED HANDS! The Indian greeting, Namaste, is conveyed by bring two hands together, held close to the heart. Five fingers of each hand individually represent: Earth, water, fire, wind, and space...
by Satinder | Nov 15, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
ART OF AWAKENING ACCORDING TO GURDJIEFF We live in a state of waking-sleep. ~ Gurdjieff HUMANITY IS ASLEEP George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was an influential early 20th century Russian mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, dance teacher, and composer of Armenian and...
by Satinder | Nov 14, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Quotable Quotes and Stories |
FAKE LAST WORDS! Since early November 2015, several social media sites and blogs have been circulating a fake essay on happiness and the mis-pursuit of wealth touted as the Last Words of Steve Jobs. Some highlights of this fake essay are reproduced below: Steve Jobs’...
by Satinder | Nov 13, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality
CONVERTING KARMA INTO KARMA YOGA What transforms ordinary actions into yoga, a means of communion with the Absolute? The Gītā explains that Karma yoga has three features that distinguish it from ordinary action: Dharma aviruddha karma (7.11): Action unopposed to...
by Satinder | Nov 12, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I?
RUNNING AFTER OR RUNNING FROM? Ever since we are born, we are either running after or running from something or the other. This “something” may change over time, but “running” continues unabated and invariably. No matter what goals (material or spiritual) we...
by Satinder | Nov 9, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I?
WHO AM I? The entire creation can be divided into two entities: matter and spirit. Science calls it matter and energy; energy being the subtlest form of matter. Einstein’s E=mc2 is an attempt to express matter in the form of energy. Let’s use the two terms: 1)...
by Satinder | Nov 4, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I?
I Want Enlightenment? When first told to “know the self,” many well-intentioned seekers misconstrue that the self is something that has to fist “known” and then “experienced.” This is also sometimes mistakenly referred to as getting “enlightened” in pop-spirituality....
by Satinder | Nov 2, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I?
Self-Knowledge and Liberation Just as in the presence of sunlight and space, all actions take place, but both the sunlight and the space remain unaffected by them, even so in the light of the Self, all actions take place while the Self (साक्षी चैतन्य,...
by Satinder | Oct 30, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality
Evolve and Help Others Evolve! Every being in the creation is passing through a trajectory of physical and psychological evolution. The physical evolution is more or less programmed by nature for all species; it is the psychological/moral/spiritual evolution that...
by Satinder | Oct 27, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I?
A Dialog between Maitreyī and Yajñāvalkya [1] Bṙhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 2.4.1 – 14 The sage Yajñāvalkya had two wives: Maitreyī and Katyayānī. Of these, Maitreyī was conversant with the Knowledge of Brahman, while Katyayānī had an essentially worldly...
by Satinder | Oct 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I?
Full and Complete Happiness The pursuit of happiness is the primary driving force and the sole purpose of human existence. In and through all our endeavors, we are all looking for one and only one thing—full and complete happiness. We try to look for happiness by...
by Satinder | Oct 13, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
Why We Shout In Anger? A saint who was visiting holy river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples, smiled, and asked, ‘Why do people shout at each other in anger?’...
by Satinder | Oct 7, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
THE SELF AS THE SEER AND THE SEEN Imagining the object (the seen) creates the subject (the seer) When the external object is imagined, a seer has been created. If there is no subject, there is no object either: without the father there is no son. It is the subject...
by Satinder | Oct 3, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Fundamental Human Problem and its Solution Though everyone wants to be happy, yet we meet lot of sorrow all around. When we objectively examine our experiences in life, we discover that the root cause of all sorrow is self-ignorance—ignorance about the fullness of our...
by Satinder | Sep 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
The Science of Supreme Fulfillment: You are what you are Seeking! We have no record of any rich and famous person making a definitive claim at the end of life that he has achieved the invariable happiness while chasing material goods. But we do have innumerable...
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