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ARTArticleThe Action of the Higher Force As It Descends Into the Present Formulation of the Mind, Life and BodyWhen the higher spiritual forces begun to enter the being through any kind of opening, they interact with the existing framework of the body-life-mind. Any time energy is introduced into a system, it activates the existing patterns of response, so that the mind begins to create its thoughts and ideas, the vital being responds with its emotions, and vital reactions and the physical body responds with its normal actions. Any embedded habitual patterns or locked in reactions from past samskaras will naturally arise.ARTArticleThe Action of the Higher GraceWe normally judge things based on our own individual egoistic standpoint, basically, how a particular event or circumstance affects us in the moment. We build up expectations and plans, and suddenly, something gets in the way and destroys or diverts those plans. We naturally become disappointed, potentially even angry about what happened.
With the benefit of hindsight, however, we may frequently find that what took place at that time actually was an enormous act of Grace that helped us move into a direction that we otherwise would not have seen, or would have actively avoided.ARTArticleThe Action of the Three Gunas in Relation to the Assimilation of the Spiritual ForceThe 3 Gunas, qualities of Nature, are active in all beings, including those who are undertaking an active process of spiritual development. The physical being is very much subject to the action of Tamas, generally, because of its dense and somewhat inert material characteristics. It thus may fall into a kind of torpor or inertia. This helps create the sense of dryness or dullness the being experiences during assimilation periods for the spiritual force.ARTArticleThe Ascent of the Consciousness Beyond the Preoccupation With Material ExistenceIt is difficult to both understand and appreciate the apparent regression from spiritual heights to a world in which the physical being and material focus reigns supreme and predominates in the entire world to an overwhelming degree. It is likely that the intellectual and then the spiritual development reached a point where it was too rarified and the generality of mankind was unable to adopt it, particularly as they struggled to survive and thrive in difficult exte
al circumstances.ARTArticleThe Attackers Tirelessly Work To Hide and Block FBI EvidenceThe Attackers Tirelessly Work To Hide and Block FBI EvidenceARTArticleThe Attitude of the Psychic Being Helps Overcome Obstructions and Difficulties in the SadhanaThe more we focus on difficulties, they more they seem to accumulate! It is one thing to be able to quietly observe issues as they arise; it is quite another to fixate on them and expend energy trying to push through them using the normal powers of body, life and mind. The spiritual force, once it begins work in the being, continues relentlessly. Sometimes as it pushes into a new area of the consciousness it can provoke the awakening of old samskaras, memories, habits, instincts, trained responses which may seem to the seeker to be a backwards or retrogressive step in the sadhana.ARTArticleThe Awakening of the Yoga-Shakti in the Inner BeingThe chakras are subtle energy centers, not physical centers in the body, although they generally correspond to various physical capacities ranged along the exte
al body. They essentially act as vibrational ‘receptors’ and transmitters of energies. When they are closed or very much shut down, the energy that would normally work through them tends to be weak or missing in the manifestation of any being. Evolution of consciousness and its expression in the exte
al being involves the systematic development and opening of the higher subtle energy centers.ARTArticleThe Best Way to Help Others and Help the WorldWhen we want to help alleviate the suffering in the world, or help solve the general conce
s, or the more specific individual needs and wants, we come up with an endless number of ideas about ‘how to help’. From an outward perspective these may be highly valuable and useful activities. Spiritual and religious organisations, in particular, tend to focus on feeding the hungry, healing and caring for the sick, providing shelter. These things help to mitigate some of the worst dislocations and imbalances in the world and how society functions.ARTArticleThe Bliss of Non-PossessionIn the Taittiriya Upanishad, there is an interesting chapter often referred to as the "calculus of bliss". It starts from the measure of one human being who has everything, health, strength, all human opportunities fully available to him. That is the measure of "human bliss".ARTArticleThe Challenge and Difficulty of the Integral YogaEvery spiritual discipline, every path, has its unique challenges and difficulties. One cannot minimize the issues that anyone taking up the spiritual life must face. Almost all of these paths traditionally have focused on liberation of the individual seeker, regardless of the specific methodology employed. The stories are legendary.ARTArticleThe Challenge of Changing Human NatureThose individuals who take up the practice of yoga for the purpose of transformation of the nature and the development of wider and higher states of consciousness inevitably find that the influence of the physical and vital basis upon which human life is based represents one of the greatest, if not actually the greatest, obstacles to their spiritual development. The idea of changing human nature, overcoming the embedded habits, the atavistic tendencies, the ingrained responses bred into human existence for many millennia is one that most people consider to be essentially impossible.ARTArticleThe Change in Standpoint That Puts the Seeker in Harmony With the Divine and its Intention in the Universal ManifestationWe frequently hear people complaining about how they are locked into and trapped in the lives they are leading. They feel like there is nothing they can do and nothing can change it. This was exemplified in a motion picture called ‘Groundhog Day’ which told the story of an individual who continually repeated the events of life on the same day. Each day he woke up and it was once again the prior day that he had just finished before he fell asleep.ARTArticleThe Complete Dedication and Consecration Required by the Integral YogaThe integral yoga is not a ‘hobby’ or ‘pastime’ to be taken up when convenient. It requires an intensity of dedication and focus, and a depth of aspiration and consecration that is both rare and difficult to achieve. An individual needs to be fully immersed in the yoga and its processes in order to obtain the result.ARTArticleThe Complex Nature of Our Being Impacts Our Ability to Change and Transform Our LivesThose who identify with their mental being tend to believe that if they think in a certain way, that they have succeeded in embodying that. They will take the thought for the accomplishment without necessarily recognising that their physical actions, their vital energies and even aspects of their thought mind continue with things their minds have rejected.ARTArticleThe Cure for the Spiritual Aspirant for Doubt, Guilt, Feelings of Unsuitability and DespairAs long as we base ourselves in the individual personal identity, what we term the ‘ego-consciousness’ we are subject to mistakes, failures, indiscretions, and other situations where we do not meet our own internal concept of what we ‘should’ do. Most of this is based on the background and training we have received in our society, and the expectations that are put upon us by that societal setting.ARTArticleThe Cycles and Causes of Recurring Difficulties in Relation to Spiritual Development and ProgressIt is a limitation of our normal mental mode of understanding that we do not tend to take into account the impact of time and the cyclical nature of development. We expect things to move in a straight line. We expect progress to be continuous and in a single direction. When we overcome a particular issue or obstacle, we believe it is in our past, over and done with.ARTArticleThe Cycles of Social Development and the Swing Away from a One-Sided Focus on MaterialismWe do not usually recognise or appreciate how much influence our environment, our surroundings, the society we live in, the customs and life-ways of that social system impact what we think about, how we focus our attention and what we do with our lives. The Mother puts this also into the process of evolution that takes place, not just within a species, but in entire civilisations which go through cycles of development, changes in focus, and progress as various different aspects of life and consciousness are taken up in the evolutionary process.ARTArticleThe Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, Part 1As long as we set our standpoint in the exte
al surface consciousness, we do not have the leverage nor the tools to easily remove an embedded reaction. We tend to take steps to suppress rather than expunge the unwanted energy. This may take the form of an ascetic denial, or an avoidance of interaction with anything that might trigger the reaction, such as escape to the cave, the monastery, the forest or the desert. Or it may take more severe forms such as physical self-torture or extreme forms of fasting, etc.ARTArticleThe Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, Part 2Most people simply “live” their lives and carry out whatever feeling, mood or impetus may be impacting them at the moment. They “become” that movement, whether it is happiness and joy, hunger, anger, ennui, fatigue, or some concentrated state of mind, etc. Their awareness, their conscious existence is totally wrapped up in those movements of energy in their being. Few are those who feel a degree of ‘separation’ such that they can actually observe these changes of moods with conscious awareness and recognise the causal links, the situational causes and their reactions.ARTArticleThe Difference Between Suppression and Self-Control of the Force of Vital DesireWhen it comes to the question of control, rejection and mastery over the vital nature and its desires, there is considerable confusion. For the most part this confusion is caused by a lack of clear definition between the different modes of observation, response and action that the seeker can adopt in relation to this concern.ARTArticleThe Difference Between Trust and FaithTrust is frequently built on the basis of experience. We gain trust by confirmation of a particular development or response from our interactions. Trust is thus primarily based in the mental process. Through a process that develops credibility, an individual gains trust in the action and outcome. We view and analyze what takes place, and with repeated similar results, a measure of trust is built up. Sometimes trust is gained through measures taken to provide support or protection as a “fail safe” mechanism.ARTArticleThe Different Processes for Change of the Vital Nature and the Psychic BeingThe vital nature, under the influence of the Guna of Rajas, tends to create drama. Struggle, disruption, aggressive responses are all a part of this vital play. One of the manifestations of this drama is to raise the temperature about any resistance, obstacle, delay etc. that the individual experiences. Another is to seek out a culprit and label it as a ‘hostile force’ thereby accentuating the challenge being faced and increasing the dramatic effect.ARTArticleThe Difficulty and Time Required for the Transformation of the NatureWe make ‘new year’s resolutions’ with the idea that we will start the new year with a fresh dedication to undertaking some kind of change to our lives. This may be a mental change, such as a willingness to listen and try to truly understand what others say and think rather than jumping in our minds to our own ideas and engaging in arguments to convince others. It may be a vital change where we determine to not become angry, or jealous or envious of others in various situations.ARTArticleThe Divine Intention and Will Goes Beyond the Human Ability to Conceive and Grasp ItWe try to judge situations and events from our human understanding. We do not generally see the chain of cause and effect that led to a specific circumstance, nor the impact of the result that we observe on future events. We see things from our own narrow egoistic viewpoint and judge them based on our own desires, wishes or trained ways of analyzing them.ARTArticleThe Divine Must Always Come First for the Spiritual SeekerFrom the time of our birth we are directed and focused on the exte
al reality of the material world. We are trained to pay attention to that existence, to develop opportunities, and to find ways to survive and thrive. Along the way, we get successes and failures, meet with positive results and with setbacks. We also get involved in inter-personal relationships and experience both the praise and the blame, the good will and the bad will, and experience all of the emotions and vital energies that arise in response to the circumstances we meet.ARTArticleThe Effort of the Spiritual Seeker in Distinguishing the Action of the Divine Force from the Promptings of the EgoA constant conce
for spiritual aspirants is to distinguish the divine Will from their own ego-personality’s desires or ambitions. The vital nature has the uncanny ability to convince the mind that what it desires is actually something that can and should be justified, and once the mind adheres to it, the individual spends his time fulfilling the desires of the vital nature while feeling that he is carrying out the divine Will. In some cases, this reaches such an extreme state that the individual is able to justify all manner of harm to others as the fulfillment of a divine mission.ARTArticleThe Essential Nature of the Inner Attitude in Relation to Meeting the Challenges or Deciding on the Direction of One’s LifeIn the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna asks how one can identify a realised soul. His question indicates there should be some outward sign that can be observed. Sri Krishna, however, demurs and indicates it is not by any specific outward action or formation that such a soul can be recognised. Everything depends on the inner standpoint, or as the Mother calls it, the inner ‘attitude’.ARTArticleThe Evolution of the Psychic Being Across Innumerable LifetimesThere is considerable confusion about the concept of rebirth and the development and growth of the psychic being across multiple lifetimes. Popular imagination has it that the same individual personality is reborn, and that under certain circumstances, past lives can be identified and recalled. Then they can find their ‘soul mate’ and re-establish the relationships of the past.ARTArticleThe Excuses We Make to Justify IndulgenceWe make resolutions to change certain behaviours. Our minds are made up. We are certain that we can make the needed change. Many people make ‘new year’s resolutions’ to change something, perhaps to lose weight, to discontinue some habit, to avoid expressing anger, or some other intention we have, such a to be a more forgiving person, to express love and good will towards others more often, etc.ARTArticleThe Experience of the Witness ConsciousnessThe standpoint of the witness consciousness, separated from the exte
al being, is not something that is acquired through thinking or the exercise of will-power based in the mind. Many people have developed approaches or systems to not react to outer circumstances, such as stoicism, various forms of training disciplines, or attempts at acclimating oneself to particular forces and thereby increasing one’s capacity to resist their influence.