SOHAM

DESTINY means unwinding. Unwinding of all that which is not you, which is not integral to you but that which you gathered from outside. Why so? Because what is integral to us, which we know as consciousness, is pure and without any inputs from outside. It’s only when the consciousness is clouded with inputs from outside that it takes a physical form. Pure consciousness, on the other hand, which is without any blemish is not bound to take a physical form.   A physical form like a body, thus, is nature’s arrangement to unwind and clean the consciousness of all the information or impressions taken from outside. The existence wants us to become free of all these impressions so that we can return back to our source.  Consciousness is our source which is pure and free of all the impressions. Once a consciousness becomes free of all the impressions then it merges back with the existence and never returns in a physical form. Being free from physical existence is what is known as fr...

Sleep; dream and waking which we know are nothing but different states of mind only. Awakening or being awake which we talk about, which in the yogic parlance is termed as Self-realization or enlightenment, is of within. How you are within, that only determines if you are awake or asleep. If you are awake within then only you are awake because this state is not of your mind but beyond mind. This is transcendental. This waking up or awakening is also called as fourth state or “turiya”. One who has realized this state is awake even in his sleep. But one who has not reached this state, like most of us, then that person is asleep even in his waking hours. Waking up within means to become silent within. This silence is not of the speech but of the mind. Silence here means stillness of your mind because mind is a disturbance. Mind disturbs your peace. Mind exists by its activity. Thought is the activity of mind. When mind is not in action there prevails perfect peace which is our original...

Being conscious means freeing yourself of your mind. What then remains is pure consciousness which is your nature. If you are free of your mind you are liberated. Mind is bondage and no-mind is freedom.   In every moment of your waking hours, (why waking hours only? because your individuality is limited to the waking hours only) you are one of the two things. You are either mind or you are no-mind. Mind means you – you as an individual; you as a doer which we know as ego. No-mind means Him- the existence or the divine. Mind is what we have picked up from outside and hence un-natural. No-mind is integral to us and hence our natural state. We need to remember that our natural state has not lost anywhere. We do not have to get or bring it from somewhere. Our natural state which is no-mind state is always there with us. Always there, as it is, and in its primal state. It’s we who have moved away from that state because we are always lost and busy in our mind. If you remove your mind o...

Why it is said that Grace is a must for Self-realization? What this fundamentally means is, you cannot achieve Self-realization with your efforts only though efforts are needed. Effort means mind and mind is nothing but ego. Mind is a doer. Mind or ego is ignorance itself. So how ignorance can remove ignorance? How mind can remove mind? Self-realization is beyond mind, it’s transcendental.   For Self-realization what is needed is to go beyond mind. You have to drop your mind first. Unfortunately we are so infatuated with our mind that we want to achieve everything with our mind. Mind is needed for physical achievements but not at all for the spiritual growth. For example, though with mind you can know things on the outside but with mind you cannot know the knower or that dimension with which you know the things on the outside. You see the objects on the outside but you do not know a thing about the seer or that which sees or with which you see the objects on the outside. Why? ...