SOHAM

In our bid to know the things on the outside we tend to forget that which is inside. We talk about faraway things or want to know about distant things such as what is heaven; what is hell; different types of hells and heavens; what is god; what is his name; where does he live etc but we forget to know that which is very near to us. Not only near but that which is nearest of all.   Whole day we focus on the outside. We use our senses to see and know the things on the outside but we never try to know the knower – the one who knows. I will take few examples from our daily life in order to stress what I want to say. I look at the tree and make my mental commentary within such as oh, that’s a tree; it’s small or big; bearing fruits/flowers or not; green or dry but I never try to know that which actually sees the tree, I mean the seer. Me, claiming or assuming that I see the tree with my eyes is not correct because eyes are just openings to the world but who is the seer? I read a book...

Writing (whatever little I’m doing) is not my objective. This is just a side-effect of what I am currently pursuing. My main objective of writing is to highlight the importance of meditation so that more and more people get initiated into meditation. Because meditation is the only sadhana which prepares you to go beyond this physical form which we are in. Transcending physicality is what Self-realization or atmasaksatkar is.   The most important thing about meditation which one should know is that one cannot do meditation because meditation is not a doing. Doings are of the body and mind whereas meditation is going beyond mind. Meditation is not concentration also because concentration is of the mind. Meditation is being; meditation is presence. And being is beyond mind. Meditation is to keep your consciousness free. This existence is just being.    That’s why this post. In this post I’m sharing something practical for those who are not yet initiated into meditation...

AT TIMES IT HAPPENS that you do not know an answer to a question which you are asked. However, if you are given choices then you can try reaching an answer by following the elimination process. This could be true about anything but I will take a simple example to explain what I am trying to say. Imagine, for a moment, that a popular song from a Hindi film is playing. You are asked to name the singer but you cannot. Assuming further, that you are given four choices. So, what you do is that, by following the elimination process you reach the answer. So, you eliminate, say for example, Kishore Kumar - because you are too sure about his voice. Similarly you eliminate other two names as well say, Mohammed Rafi and Mukesh, because you know for sure that they are not one of the singers of that song. Having eliminated the three choices, the answer is the fourth one or the last one which cannot be eliminated for the obvious reasons.   ‘Atmavichara’ or Self-enquiry as ‘Who Am I’ is also a...

Whatever we may think or imagine about ourselves but the truth is that we are nothing but a small amount of energy. This energy is the same energy of this existence. Since this energy is trapped within a form, like a physical body, it has thus separated from its source. The energy of the existence is the source of physical creation that we see around us. Now, what we know as Self-realization or’ mukti’ or ‘moksha’ or liberation is nothing but freeing this energy from this trapping. If this energy is released off its trapping or physical existence, this energy will go back and merge with the energy or source of this existence, wherefrom it has separated. This merging of energy, upon release from its physical existence, is liberation or ‘mukti’. Thus ‘mukti’ or freedom, essentially means, freeing energy off its trapping or physical existence.      Why the energy has trapped within a physical form? The energy has trapped within a form like a physical body because this ene...