SOHAM

In deep sleep (dreamless sleep), you are in surrender. Because in deep sleep, your individuality is not operative. In deep sleep, you do not exist as an individual. In deep sleep, you exist with the reality. You are one with the existence which is not the only reality but is also the source of all. In deep sleep, thus, you are in your natural state and being in your natural state is what surrender is.   In the waking hours, your individuality, better known as ego, is operative; your will ( sankalpa and vikalpa ) is operative and hence you are not in surrender. Thus, waking state is not your natural state because in that state you do not exist as a part of the existence but exist as an island, exist as a separate entity and hence you are not in surrender.  If you can exist in the same state as you existed in sleep, you would be in surrender in your waking hours as well. You would exist as a part of this existence and not as a separate entity.   Thus surrender does not m...

PHYSICALITY WHICH WE SEE AROUND US is nothing but a manifestation of that Self or Consciousness or simply the energy of this existence. Thus energy is the ultimate reality but the physical forms which we are in and which see around us are the current reality.   This ultimate reality is the underlying substratum of everything in this existence and is eternal whereas the current reality or the physical forms appear and disappear and hence fleeting. The Self or the ultimate reality is like a cinema screen. The screen is always there - before the show; during the show and even after the show. Pictures come and go but the screen is always there. Also the pictures cannot arise and exist separate from the screen.   The physicality is thus temporary and hence taking physical or current reality as ultimate reality is an illusion or ‘maya’. A picture imagining its existence separate from the screen is ignorance. A wave imagining its existence apart from the ocean is ignorance. A le...

ब्रह्मचर्य का मतलब वो नही है जो हम साधारणतः समझते हैं। ब्रह्मचर्य से हमारा मतलब है शादी नही करना और शारीरिक सम्बंध नही बनाना। नहीं , ब्रह्मचर्य का यह मतलब क़तई नही है। ब्रह्मचर्य शब्द दो शब्दों से मिलकर बना है - ब्रह्म और चर्या से। ब्रह्म का अर्थ परमात्मा से है और चर्या का अर्थ दैनिक चर्या से अर्थात् आपके रोज़ाना के आचरण ( daily living) से है। अतः ब्रह्मचर्य का मतलब हुआ , ब्रह्म जैसी चर्या एवं ब्रह्मचारी का अर्थ हुआ , जिसकी दैनिक चर्या ब्रह्म जैसी हो। जो ब्रह्म की तरह रहता है और ब्रह्म की तरह रहने का मतलब है जो पूरी तरह से ब्रह्म या परमात्मा को समर्पित है। जो हमेशा ब्रह्म में लीन रहता है उसी को ब्रह्मचारी कहा है। ब्रह्मचर्य का सन्यास या शादी से कोई लेना-देना नही है। घर में रहते हुए भी येदि आप ब्रह्म में लीन रहते है तो आप ब्रह्मचारी है और जंगल में रहकर भी येदि आप ब्रह्म में नही रहते तो आप सांसारिक है , ब्रह्मचारी नही।   ब्रह्म या परमात्मा का अर्थ समझ लेना ज़रूरी है। ब्रह्म हमारी तरह कोई शारीरिक स्वरूप नही है। ब्रह्म या परमात्मा का अर्थ है चेतना ( consciousness) या ऊर्जा। ऊर्ज...

  Sanyasa is not leaving things on the outside. You do not become a s anyasi by leaving your worldly possessions such as family; friends; relations; property; money etc. Why it is so? Because, what you consider as yours, are, in any case, not yours. Death, in any way, will snatch away all your physical possessions, whether you are a sanyasi or not. Your physical possessions cannot come with you. Thus, you claiming to leave something which somehow is not yours, is ridiculous. If, by leaving worldly possessions, one becomes a sanyasi then all of us, too, will become sanyasis, one day, when we die because with death all our possessions too will be lost.   The important thing which we need to understand is that the world (I use world as a common word to describe all what we know as our possessions such as family; relations; property; money etc) does not say ‘I’m’ yours. We say so. For example, does the house in which you live say “I’m yours”? No. It’s you who, say so. Thus th...