SOHAM

  An oil lamp when lighted not only drives away the darkness but at the same time it also lightens up the whole space. The light of the lamp illumines the whole space. All that is there can be seen in the illumination of that light. Thus light brings clarity. Others use this illumination for seeing what is there. Though others make use of this light for seeing what is there but the light does not have to see all that’s there. This is so because all that is there is already & fully covered by its illumination. It’s all-inclusive. It falls upon and illumines all that is there. It does not discriminate; it does not like or dislike; it does not make any judgement about the things which it covers. The light in its illumination simply reflects all that is there and all that comes within its sphere and yet it does not retain any of the impressions of what is reflected. Thus light remains as it is without any distortion or accretion. Also light has no ego or doer-sense about all that ...

  Through our body and mind, we take food and information in. All this which we take in will need to be moved out later or sooner. The body has its own mechanism which it uses for throwing out all the food which we take in. If this mechanism fails then the body becomes ill which may lead to its destruction which we know as death. Similarly, the information which we take in through mind too will have to move out. The information which we take in leaves its residue behind and gets stored within in the form of memory. In the yogic parlance, the residue of this information or memory is known as ‘karma’. This residue or ‘karma’ is what we know as destiny. Nature too wants us to be free of this ‘karmic’ information so that we can get back to our natural state. That’s why this body or physical form. Nature gives this body or physical form so that we can work out the ‘karma’. However, the irony is that the mechanism which nature gives us for reversing the ‘karma’ becomes the reason for n...