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ARTArticleThe Spiritual Seeker Needs to Live Within His Own Spiritual Atmosphere Not Dependent on Outer CircumstancesWhen an individual takes up spiritual practice, he naturally will try to find a space that is calm and quiet to aid his contemplation, aspiration or devotion. The hustle and bustle of the exte
al life is distracting to the concentration and all of the noise, and all of the pressures of that exte
al life can make it difficult for the seeker to achieve the needed steady, calm aspiration on a consistent basis. Many seekers believe that they cannot make spiritual progress unless the exte
al environment is calm and quiet.ARTArticleThe Spiritual Seeker Should Focus on the Aspiration and Recognize Weaknesses Without Obsessing About ThemObsessing about failures, weaknesses, lapses, and obstructions can turn into a full-time occupation! All of human nature has to be taken up and modified, transformed or outright rejected for the next evolutionary manifestation to fully take up its role in the life of the planet.ARTArticleThe Spiritual Seeker’s Aspiration and PrayerParticularly in the West, when people think about Yoga, they believe it is a series of physical postures or exercises done with a certain sense of concentration. They associate Hatha Yoga with the entirety of yogic practice, and in many instances, treat Yoga as a form of physical conditioning.ARTArticleThe Status of Consciousness Where One Can See Things as They AreAs long as an individual is rooted in his own ego-standpoint, he sees and interprets things from that standpoint and cannot, by definition, ‘see things as they are’ in the wider creation. There is the famous story of 5 different observers of a traffic accident, each one observing from a different standpoint. They came up with 5 different versions of what had happened.ARTArticleThe Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of…Once we break out of the limitations set by Western psychologists, such as Freud, in our attempt to understand the nature of dreams, we can explore the much wider and more nuanced potential causes, triggers, images and significances of dreams.ARTArticleThe Subconscious, the Subliminal and the Superconscious Influence on Our Exte
al LivesWhen we are focused on our exte
al being, we tend not to recognise that forces unseen actually not only impact how and what we perceive, understand, and respond to impressions and pressures, but actually very much define who we believe we are. There are forces that are subconscient to our exte
al awareness which send up suggestions, thoughts, impulses, drives, habits, and instincts that drive our action. There are also forces superconscient to our exte
al awareness that help us see, and grow beyond the limits of our physical-vital-mental existence.ARTArticleThe Sunlit Path in the Yogic EndeavourWhen we see deeply religious or spiritual people, we expect to see people who are serious, reserved and who carry an air of distance from the things of the world. This expectation has been so deeply embedded in the human psyche that we almost unconsciously take up this attitude when we tread the spiritual path. Consider the austerity and silence of monasteries and cloisters, or even the churches, temples, mosques or synagogues that abound throughout the world. It almost feels like heresy to relax, enjoy a laugh or just to be generally cheerful.ARTArticleThe Supramental Transformation Represents a Radical Upgrade of Animal and Human NatureUntil such time as we become capable of drawing infinite energy from the universal force of creation, we have the issue of choosing how we utilize the energy that we have available to us. Through certain types of practices we can actually increase the available energy. The radical transformation of the mental, vital and physical being requires large amounts of focused energy.ARTArticleThe Supreme Power That Creates, Manifests, Sustains and Guides the Universal CreationWe go through our daily lives, busy ourselves with earning a living, supporting our families, maintaining our bodies, entertaining ourselves, arguing, fighting, gossiping, and following up on hobbies or passions we are engaged in. We close ourselves into a narrow and limited existence and feel content that we are doing something important, or useful, or at least, whiling away our time between birth and death, with no further meaning. We may feel helplessly caught up in a life we do not understand, or alte
atively, we may feel powerful and proud in our accomplishments in our lifetime.ARTArticleThe Taste, or Rasa, of Food Can Be Enjoyed by the Yogic Practitioner If Desire Is Removed From the ExperienceThere is a factor of enjoyment of taste of various foods which is called rasa in Sanskrit. We experience this when we eat something that excites our taste buds and sends signals of pleasure to the brain. For many people, the sweet taste, and more particularly the taste of rich chocolate, seems to occupy such a position. Others however may find enjoyment in any of the other primary tastes identified by Ayurveda, salty, sour, sharp/spicy, astringent or bitter. Some of these tastes are considered to impact the doshas or predominant elements active in the being, vata, pitta and kapha.ARTArticleThe Total Change of the Nature Cannot Be Done in a DayModern life moves at high speed. We expect things to take place virtually instantaneously. As a result, we judge things in the light of the time it takes to accomplish them. If we have to expend an effort, we hope and expect that we will immediately begin to see palpable results. We want an “easy button” or an “enlightenment pill”, something that will accomplish the goal quickly and without a lot stress.ARTArticleThe Tower Card: Should you worry?So... you are new to tarot and your readings are going great. Then, one day, the Tower card turns up in your reading. It's a pretty ominous looking card. Not quite as ominous as the Devil or Death cards, but still, menacing enough to send a shiver down your spine and perhaps lead to fretting. What could it mean?
Here's a look at some ways to interpret this important tarot card without doom and gloom.
The Meaning of the Tower Card in the TarotrARTArticleThe True Attitude of SadhanaMost people act under the impulsion of their vital desires, physical wants, and mental opinions, which are colored by the society within which an individual lives and its established norms and expectations.ARTArticleThe True Condition of Spiritual ProgressWe frequently hear from people who say that they cannot focus on their spiritual practice as they don’t have a quiet space in which to meditate, or they live in a crowded, noisy city, or they are overwhelmed with all their duties relating to education, career, family, etc. They focus their attention on all of the exte
al obstacles and use that as an excuse to avoid the focus on their inner spiritual life. “If only i could find the time and a quiet place, i would meditate every day.” We hear this refrain repeated in one form or another regularly.ARTArticleThe True Foundation of the YogaWe are generally so tied to our exte
al ego-personality that we identify with it as what we consider to be our ‘self’. We then refer to this body-life-mind complex as our reality and we say that we ‘have a soul’. The reality is far different. The reality is that the soul, the psychic being, takes on a particular existence for its own purposes of experience and growth. The difference in viewpoint is profound and has far-reaching implications.ARTArticleThe Unconverted Vital Nature Must Not Be Permitted to Divert the Psychic and Spiritual Force to Its Own Limited SatisfactionsThere is a substantial and well-known danger of the vital nature taking advantage of the force that comes down through the psychic aspiration and using it to advance objectives of the vital rather than those that carry out the intended purpose of the Divine Power. There is a well known connection, for instance, between the opening of the heart centre and its emotions and the activation of the sexual impulse, when the being has not been sufficiently prepared and purified in its ability to receive and hold the higher force as it descends.ARTArticleThe Universal, the Individual and the Evolution of ConsciousnessWe see the world from the individual standpoint and place ourselves at the center of it. We believe we originate the thoughts, feelings, emotions and responses we give. This, however, is very much the illusion of the ego-sense.ARTArticleThe Value and Importance of Looking from WithinExte
al impressions, sensations, impulsions, events all traverse the nervous pathways from the sense organs to the mind, which tends to react to these sensations and thereby remains in a constant state of disturbance. In the modern world, with our addiction to social media, mobile phones, television and radio, and the constant bombardment of stimulation from the exte
al world, we generally find it hard to stay focused and concentrate on a specific thought, or project or even just to sit quietly and be receptive in a state of meditative awareness.ARTArticleThe Value of the Witness Consciousness in the Yogic EndeavourThe witness consciousness is an extremely useful mode for the seeker to adopt in any attempt to overcome the limitations and deformations of the exte
al nature, whether to try to attain liberation and release from the world, or, as Sri Aurobindo suggests, to work toward the eventual divinsation of life on earth through the evolution of consciousness.ARTArticleThe Vigilance Needed to Ensure That Sattwic Calm, Peaceful Focus Does Not Get Distracted Through the Rise of Rajasic or Tamasic Reactions in the BeingThere is a dynamic that frequently occurs when an individual starts to actively take up the yogic path. At a certain stage of development, the need to bring peace into the being, and the need for a calm, quiet energy to support the practice of meditation may take center stage. At that point, the seeker may take steps to minimize exte
al contacts, create a quiet space, and increase the time spent in meditation and study. The active impulse of participation in exte
al affairs recedes.ARTArticleThe Vital Envelope Is the First Line of Defense Against IllnessMost people are not aware of the vital envelope, sometimes called the ‘aura’, that surrounds their physical body. Those who experience this vital envelope are sensitive on the vital plane. They are frequently ridiculed for speaking about the ‘aura’ which they can feel or even observe in others.
Western science decided to find a way to test the long-proclaimed existence of the aura. Tests were developed to capture the electro-magnetic field that surrounds the body. Eventually, a technique called Kirlian photography was devised that could actually photograph this electro-magnetic field.ARTArticleThe Way Out of the Existential Dread That Accompanies Lack of Knowing Oneself and One’s Purpose in LifeThe development of existentialism as a philosophical viewpoint on human existence in the world took place primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries. it focused on the apparent lack of meaning in the universe and thus, human significance had to be developed from an individual standpoint of freedom rather than from participation in a larger universal purpose.ARTArticleThe Way to Help OthersIt is a characteristic trait of the human ego-personality that we easily see faults and issues in others and in exte
al circumstances, that we fail to see within ourselves. But how do we recognise something outside if we have no way to relate to it, if we do not produce the vibrational pattern within ourselves and interpret it?ARTArticleThe Wheel of Fortune: Is Fate in your hands?The Wheel of Fortune card is one of my favorite in the Major Arcana.
In Carl Orff's symphonic masterpiece Carmina Burana, the opening 'Oh Fortuna' captures the stone cold-bitchiness of the Wheel of Fortune, where one's fate can seemingly change for the better or worse, without rational explanation:
O Fortune, you are changeable
waxing and waning;
life oppresses then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vai
EyeTarot defines the card in the following way:ARTArticleThe Yoga of Nature, Spiritual Sadhana and the Transformation of Action Into a Conscious Expression of the Divine WillAll life, our entire existence, whether we are actively involved in a conscious spiritual discipline, or living a ‘normal’ life in the world following the demands of our needs, desires, relationships and ambitions, etc. is a field of growth, experience and develop. We respond to opportunities, pressures, and difficulties and as we do so, some part of our being gathers that experience and grows through the process.ARTArticleThree Necessary Conditions for the Divine Power To Work Through the Seeker in the Outward LifeUnder normal conditions, we are pushed from one reaction to another by exte
al impulsions and our trained responses to circumstances. There is very little chance, therefore, to inject a higher divine power directly into the life-action. Sri Aurobindo outlines the conditions that help the individual shift away from this chaotic reaction that constitutes our normal lives, to an approach that opens the seeker up to these higher powers.ARTArticleThree Tips to Hit Your Personal Bullseye"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
The New Moon and BusinessARTArticleTo Be ConsciousWhen we reflect upon what we really know about our existence, our lives, our purpose, the forces at work in the world and in us, the influences to which we are being subjected constantly, and the way we respond to these influences without conscious awareness, it becomes clear that we act out of a primary status of ignorance.ARTArticleTraining the Subconscient to Respond to the Higher Spiritual WillAs the seeker begins to observe the movements of the exte
al nature closely, he can identify certain repetitive patterns of response, including impulses to stimuli of various sorts, cravings, desires, fears, frustrations, anger, and attraction. All of these are for the most part virtually automatic without conscious decision or control by the higher elements of the being. While we tend to think of ourselves as being in control of our life-responses, the reality tends to be far different than our superficial assessment. We call these movements instincts, habits or trained behaviour.ARTArticleTransforming Pain and Pleasure Into Spiritual Calm and BlissAll sensations carry signals through the nervous system to the brain, which then can interpret the signal. The signal may be more or less intense. It may be interpreted as pain or pleasure. Intensity of the sensation has something to do with the experience and its interpretation. There is a certain intensity which is comfortable for an individual, and beyond that intensity, it is frequently interpreted as painful. Thus, the signal traveling to the brain, in and of itself is not necessarily pleasurable or painful.