SOHAM

PHYSICALITY WHICH WE SEE AROUND is nothing but a play of destiny. Destiny means playing out of things in a fixed or predetermined manner. Physicality and destiny are closely linked. They exist together. If there is a destiny there will be an appropriate physical form to work this out. And if there is a form that means there is a destiny to be worked out.   All the physical forms which we see around us are simply living their destiny or allotted prarbdha . Once the destiny ( prarbdha ) is fully worked out the physical form will no longer be there because now there is nothing to be worked out for which a physical form is needed. Destiny follows a predetermined course based on the inherent tendencies or memory that form is carrying within. For example, a dog has a certain type of destiny which forces him to live his life in a certain manner. Same is the case with all other creatures. They live their destiny. They cannot defy or deviate from their destiny. It’s so ingrained or hard-...

IT IS IRONICAL TO KNOW THAT a man though is the most evolved creature on the planet and yet it’s a fact that he suffers the most. No other creature knows suffering because suffering or misery is of the mind. Other creatures know physical pain but know nothing about mental suffering.   This suffering is self-created. Suffering is created in the mind. The mind which otherwise is a fantastic tool but has rather become a projector in our hands. A still mind is the same consciousness which is our reality but a disturbed state of consciousness i.e. when there are movements or vibrations in the consciousness, is what we know as mind. It’s like throwing a stone in a pool of still water. Consciousness is stillness and mind is ripples or waves in the consciousness. A still mind or consciousness is a boon and a disturbed mind is a bane.  A still mind functions like a mirror which reflects the things as they are but a disturbed mind functions like a projector which distorts the reality...

As regards to karma one thing which we need to understand is that there is no such thing as good ( shubh) or bad ( ashubh) karma. Karma or action is just karma. Good and bad are our labelling; our definitions. A sadhak on the spiritual path wants to go beyond karma itself be it good or bad. Why? Because liberation or mukti from physical existence is possible only when you transcend karma altogether. Those who look at karma as good and bad and accordingly pick n choose between the two are really not sadhakas because they are not looking for liberation but they are looking for continued physical existence. They are not interested in mukti but instead are planning to come back to this world, yet again.   Before I elaborate further on this subject of karma, I want you to understand one important thing about the reality of our existence. Whatever we may think or imagine about ourselves but fundamentally we are nothing but a small amount of energy. You are moving around because t...

In your current state of consciousness, whatever you do, when I say whatever, I mean it literally, will only be in fulfillment of your ego. Why so? Because in current state, your ego is the center of your intelligence. Ego is body-consciousness which is imagining that this body is ‘me’ or this body is I’m. Your whole intelligence or consciousness is, thus, functioning for and around your body only. ‘I’m’ is the center of your intelligence. ‘I’m’ is the reason and basis of all your doings.   This is ignorance because you are imagining yourself to be that which you, actually, are not. You are, thus, ignorant of your authentic identity and instead ignorantly functioning out of your fake identity. When you consider yourself to be a physical body, you consider others also to be bodies and this is how ‘I’; ‘me’; ‘mine’ and ‘others’ are born. This is how the world is born. This is how the duality is born. Ego gives birth to duality because ego means others. Ego means par ka chintan; pa...