SOHAM

Did you ever try, peeling an onion, layer by layer? Having removed all the layers, what is left behind? Nothing. This nothingness or emptiness is the reality of an onion which the onion gets to know only, after having gone through the pain of peeling. The onion, thus, could merge into the Source and become the Source itself i.e. the emptiness or nothingness, only after having lost its identity, as an onion. So long, it enjoyed its individuality, so long, it remained as an onion, it was separate from its Source. As an onion, it existed in a limited way, just a limited form but having lost its individuality, it now exists as the existence itself – boundless, limitless and shapeless.   A river is a river and exists as a limited entity and hence, is separate from its Source i.e. the ocean. A river, thus, has the possibility of existing here, as the ocean, if it is ready to lose its individual form as a river. If, it loses its identity or individuality, as a river, then it disappears...

My question to you - Do you exist? I’m sure, your answer would be, a big ‘Yes’, that ‘I do’. This is for the simple reason that, your existence is beyond all questions, beyond all disputes and beyond all doubts. Though, the existence of everything else, including that of the god and world, can be denied, can be debated, can be questioned or doubted but the fact, that you exist here, can never be denied. Now, this fundamental question, as ‘Who Am I’ is nothing but just a quest to find, the real ‘I’, meaning, finding that, which is the basis of your saying that ‘I do exist’.   Now, if you just take and accept, what you see as ‘I’ i.e. your body as ‘I’, which is the case with most of us, because you can see the body, then you are deluding yourself. This illusion i.e. bhram is what is known as ego because, illusion is a belief, an assumption and a belief or an assumption, is of the mind and exits in the mind only. A belief or an assumption has no reality. Ego, thus, is an assumed id...

Do you know that body and mind, always, exist together? They can’t exist or remain apart, from each other, for too long. This is for the simple reason that mind is nothing but tendencies, in essence. Tendencies or habits which we commonly know, as vasana s can’t remain without physical expression. Tendencies want physical expression and physical expression is not possible without a medium like this body. That’s why this physical body. Mind too is physical but subtler than the gross body.   Body and mind are like hardware and software. Both, hardware and software, exist together and can’t exist without each other, for too long. The software though subtle but can find expression through a gross form i.e. hardware only. Similarly, if you see a hardware then know, for sure, that there is certain software, which is functioning in that hardware. So, whatever the physical forms or bodies which you see around, are nothing but some kind of hardware or gross structure, through which some ...

वैसे मैं, नियमित रूप से ध्यान पर लिखता हूँ और बोलता भी हूँ। वास्तव में यदि बताऊँ तो, मै जो भी लिखता या बोलता हूँ, वह किसी ओर विषय पर नही बल्कि ध्यान पर ही बोलना और लिखना है। हाँ , कहने का तरीक़ा अलग हो सकता है लेकिन सार रूप में वह ध्यान पर ही है। आप सभी लोगों की माँग को मध्य नज़र रखते हुए, विशेष रूप से ध्यान के विषय पर ही यह पोस्ट लिखा है। इस पोस्ट में , मैं आप लोगों को यह बताऊँगा की ध्यान क्या है और कैसे करें ?   तो पहली बात कि ध्यान क्या है ? ध्यान का सीधा और सरल शब्दों में अर्थ है, अपने स्वभाव में या अपनी स्वाभाविक स्थिति ( natural state ) में होना है। स्वाभाविक स्थिति का मतलब है, वह स्थिति जिसमें कोई दूसरा नही होता बल्कि आपका स्वभाव ही होता है। स्वाभाविक स्थिति का मतलब केवल उसका होना , जो आपकी वास्तविकता यानि असलियत है।   आपने देखा होगा की , जब भी आपको गहरी नीन्द आती है, तो जागने के बाद, आप यह कहते है की ‘बहुत अच्छी नीन्द आयी’ और आप बहुत ही ताज़ा महसूस करते है। आपको एक विशेष आनन्द की अनुभूति होती है। जानते है ऐसा क्यों ? ऐसा इसलिये की , गहरी नीन्द आपकी स्वाभाविक...