SOHAM

One fundamental thing which we all need to know and understand is that in this existence, nothing else is self-subsisting (that which exists on its own and by its own), except the reality itself. That’s why, we know it as reality or the truth because truth always exists of its own accord and merely as itself, unlike, the lies which always survive on others’ support. This reality, in yogic parlance, is popularly known as the Self. The Self means that which is the underlying or that which is the bedrock or that which is the foundation or the basis of all. Nothing can exist and really exists outside the Self or this reality. Not only but the Self, is Source of all the creation, all the movements, which we see, around us. In fact, whatever the creation you see, arises out of this reality; survives and thrives in this reality and finally sinks back into this reality. This Self, the other common name for which is the consciousness or chetana , thus, is the real “I”; the real driver of every...

Why do you always live in fear – fear of death? Please know, that fear is always of death. All other fears are no different but just the offshoots of the same fundamental fear of death.   Now, did you ever try to figure out, the reason as why this fear is? The reason is very simple. This fear exists in you because you know only the physical, you know only the body. Now, if you know only the body or the physical then for sure, you will always live your life in fear of death because death is of the body only. It is only the physical which is subject to destruction. Even the richest person on the earth, too, lives constantly in the fear of death. All the riches of the earth cannot, even, make him free from this fear. One always lives constantly in the fear of losing his possessions, including his body.   Physical means bondage which is to exist in bounds or in a boundary. Body is a bondage because body means limited; body means boundary; and hence existing here in a boundary...

Because you survived Covid-19 and if you, now, think that you are lucky compared to, many those who lost their lives, then you are wrong. Because death is nothing but just the body falling and body, in any case, will fall, sooner or later. It is just a matter of time. I, rather, feel that the one who lost his body is, lucky in the sense that had he lived for another say, 10-20 years, he would have lived his unconsciousness as before and in the process he, thus, would have created many more future births for him. Living unconsciously which is living by habits or tendencies or by vasanas or by compulsions is the reason for new births in new bodies.   Now, please understand, what I’m trying to say. I’m saying that life is worth living, only and only, if you live it consciously which is that you become an expression of your consciousness and not an expression of your habits or the mind. If you live here by tendencies i.e. you become an expression of your mind then even if you live ...

सांसारिक अर्थों मे मृत्यु से हमारा मतलब शरीर का छूट जाना है। क्योंकि हमारा सांसारिक व्यवहार और सारे रिश्ते-नाते शरीर तक ही सीमित होते है, अतः शरीर के छूटने के साथ ही, जिसे हमने मृत्यु कहा है, हमारे लिए सब कुछ समाप्त हो जाता है। लेकिन अध्यात्म के अर्थों में, जिन लोगों ने जाना, उन्होंने बताया की शरीर की मृत्यु इस जीवन यात्रा का अंत नहीं है। क्योंकि जिसे हमने मृत्यु जाना और कहा , उसके साथ शरीर तो अवश्य समाप्त हो जाता है लेकिन मन जो वास्तव में नये शरीर का कारण है वह कभी समाप्त नही होता। मन या माइंड मृत्यु के बाद भी बना रहता है। अतः समझने वाली बात यह है की जिसे हमने मृत्यु कहा है वह मन की मृत्यु नही है। यानि मृत्यु , आपके मन को भी नही मिटा सकती। मन मृत्योपरांत भी बना रहता है , एक सूक्ष्म ( subtle) शरीर के रूप में। यह बिल्कुल उसी तरह होता है जैसा की रोज़ रात में नींद में हमारे साथ होता है। नींद के तुरंत पहले हमारा मन नष्ट नही होता बल्कि कुछ समय के लिए खो जाता है। और यही मन हमारे जागने के साथ ही फिर से जाग भी जाता है और अपना काम फिर से शुरू कर देता है। बिल्कुल कुछ ऐसा ही हमारे साथ मृत्...