SOHAM

Because all benefits, including health benefits are worldly whereas, meditation is non-worldly. Meditation is the only way, to go beyond this limited or bodily existence. Thus, meditation is certainly not for ‘benefits’ as is usually understood. Though, it is also true that some side effects of meditation, in terms of health and other worldly gains, happen on the sidelines. But, those things are only, the by-products of meditation, are just incidental to the process of meditation. Rather, these benefits are distractions to the main goal because, if you focus upon those things and get carried away by these so-called benefits then, you will miss the main product of meditation, for which it is really meant. That’s the reason, a real sadhak, never pursues and is never interested in the incidental things. A serious sadhak pursues meditation with the ultimate objective in mind i.e. going beyond this bodily existence because, he knows that, bodily existence is bondage. Meditation is th...

One thing which, you need to know and understand is that once you have come in the human form th ere is no going back . You can only go to the next higher level but you cannot regress back to a lower form because, there is no such thing as ‘going back’, in this existence. It’s like you cannot be sent back to a lower class when you have already arrived in a higher class. This is for the simple reason, that evolution has gone through a certain process which cannot be reversed. This is one side of this human form. However, the other side of this form is, getting stuck where you are. The worst thing that could happen and usually happens to the humanity is, getting stuck with this form and not moving on. It’s like, I used my finger, to point at the moon but instead of looking at the moon, you looked at my finger and got stuck with the finger. That is exactly, what is happening to most of the human beings, that they are getting stuck with their physicality i.e. body-mind.   Now, we al...

Recently, I was aboard a cruise liner and thus, had an opportunity to spend a couple of nights there, right in the middle of the sea. The ship was full of all the attractions which, you usually will find in a big city. These attractions and activities on the ship were more than enough to keep you busy there, all the times. While onboard and being busy in the activities there, you never get to know that you are actually in waters. Only, when you took your sight off, these attractions; only when you took time off, these activities, and came out in open, you got to realize the truth that, you were in the middle of the sea, surrounded by waters from all sides.   Now, the reason I am sharing this with you is that, this is the case with most of the human beings. We, too, are so lost in the outer world, in the forms and objects, which we see around us that, we tend to think and assume that what we see, is all; what we see is the reality. We think that, what we are doing or busy with, i...

The world is not on the outside. The world is not what you see on the outside. The world exists in your interpretation only. So, you saw something on the outside and you uttered the words such as a man, woman, boy, girl, mountain, tree, building, Ram, Shyam, so on and so forth. This naming; defining or interpreting what you see is, actually the world and not what you saw because in reality there is no such thing as tree, mountain, man, woman, etc. The reality is just one. It is just oneness. Interpretation is of your mind and hence ours. Interpretation means, language and language is of the mind. Thus, the world exists in your mind, in your memory because mind is nothing but just language or memory - conscious memory or information which you keep gathering during the course of your living. Interpretation belongs to duality because interpretation is possible only when there are many, when there is other or more than one. You cannot interpret oneness because in oneness there is no othe...

Because, what is important is the work and not changing your clothes or place of living. So, if you know, what is the real work then, you don’t have to become a sanyasi . Truly speaking sanyasa is a sort of deviation ( bhatkava) from the real work because, you do not know, what is the work to be done and hence you are becoming a sanyasi . If, you really know, as what is to be done, then sanyasa or no sanyasa , does not make any difference. If you know, what is the real work and you are already doing that real work, then you are a sanyasi , already, and all the time, irrespective of your place of living or the clothes you wear.   Now, let us understand that, sanyasa is not about you leaving or dropping something because you leaving or dropping something is a ‘doing’ and ‘doing’ is of the ego and for the satisfaction of the ego only and hence a bondage. That’s what is happening, today, in the name of sanyasa . Sanyasa is not about you leaving something but sanyasa is about...