SOHAM

Do you know, what is the reality of the house in which you live? Are the concrete walls of the house, the reality? Or, are the furniture and other belongings which are there in the house, the reality? No, neither the concrete walls, nor the belongings etc but the reality or truth of your house, is the emptiness; the empty space; the vast expanse or simply the Aakash. Because, without that empty space, you just cannot imagine existence of your house. Your house can simply not exist without that space.   Let us take another example. You saw a tree or someone on the outside. Now, the question is that can you see that tree or someone or for that matter anything else, on the outside, without that emptiness? No, you cannot, because without that emptiness, nothing can arise and exist in this existence. In fact, the whole creation or physicality which we see around us, not only comes out of that emptiness but also survives and thrives in that very space only.     This empt...

This is a question which a sadhak (seeker) must ask himself. If the answer to this question is ‘Yes’, that you remember your bike all the time in your waking hours then, please know that you are bike-conscious. Being, bike-conscious means, you have become the bike itself because all the time, your thoughts are about the bike only. You are focussed upon your bike only. Your energy, is centred around your bike only and thus, you work, all the time, for the protection of your bike only. Being bike-conscious means, you know only the bike and all your life is woven around the bike only. So, if you are just bike-conscious then you will know only bike and will never know all that which is beyond the bike.   However, if your answer is “No’ meaning, that you don’t remember your bike all the time but only when you use it, then please know that your bike is just a tool in your hands. A tool means you remember it only, when you need to use it and not preoccupied, all the time, with the tho...

( एक निवेदन - मेरे हिंदी के पोस्ट में व्याकरण सम्बन्धित त्रुटियाँ हो सकती है, ऐसी मुझे आशंका है. मेरी बात आप तक पहुँचती है तो, आप इनको नजरंदाज कर दें.) जब हम लोग पिक्चर देखने जाते है तो पिक्चर में यानि जो कुछ हमारे सामने घट रहा है उसमें इतना मशगूल हो जाते है या खो जाते है की हम , देख पाने की बात तो छोड़ो हम कभी यह भी नही जान पाते है की जो पिक्चर या चित्र हमने देखे , वो कहाँ देखे ? हम चित्रों में ही इतना खो जाते है कि, यह सवाल हमारे जहन में कभी नहीं उठता या हम स्वयं से कभी नही पूछते की जो पिक्चर मैंने देखी वह कहाँ देखी। सब कुछ इतना साफ और सामने होते हुए भी हम उस पर्दे को नही देख या जान पाते जिस पर पिक्चर दिखती है। जिस पर्दे पर सब कुछ घटित होता है।   अब पूछने और जानने लायक सवाल यह है कि क्या, पर्दे के बिना पिक्चर का कोई अस्तित्व है? क्या पर्दे के बिना पिक्चर देखी जा सकती है ? यदि पर्दा सामने ना हो तो क्या आप पिक्चर देख सकते है ? हमारे दिमाग़ में कभी यह प्रश्न नही उठा , क्योंकि की हमें पिक्चर देखने से फ़ुरसत नहीं है। और बाकी समय में जब पिक्चर सामने नही होती है तो भी हमारे मन मे...

Imagine for a moment that you are supposed to carry a bowl, filled with liquid to the brim, from one place to the other. Can you imagine, as how much care you will have to take while you walk, carrying this vessel in your hands? For sure, this, is going to be a tightrope walk for you because, if you do not take due care, then you will spill the liquid on to the ground and you will lose it. However, if you handle it with care then, you will save this liquid which you can use to your benefit.   This human body, too, is like a bowl which is filled to the brim, with energy or consciousness and you are supposed to carry this vessel from one place to the other, i.e. from birth until your death. This vessel is always with you, wherever you are and wherever you go. This vessel, full of this ‘precious’ energy, not only moves, all the time, with you but is always at your disposal. Hence, it is really up to you, whether you save it and use it to your advantage or spill it and thus lose thi...

To find an answer to this fundamental question – “Who Am I” – try this simple method. Just follow this one fundamental rule, that all that you can see or feel is not ‘you’.’ Please know that, with these physical eyes, you can only see that which is physical and all that which is physical, is temporary because physical appears and disappears; comes and goes; makes and unmakes itself; rises and falls; and physical is born and is dead. Thus, that which is physical cannot be the real ‘you’. Now, by following this simple rule, please try to eliminate or negate all that you can see or feel and hence not ‘you’. Let us, first, take the physical world or simply ‘others’. Because you can see the physical world or the others and hence the world (others) is not ‘you’. Next, let us take, your physical possessions (all that you know as mine) which are also not ‘you’ because you can see them all. Next, comes your body which, though, you know as me and yet you can see that and hence even your body is...