SOHAM

Did you know, that you can’t sit alone, by yourself, without any outside support or context?  Now, outside support or context doesn’t mean, you want to be in the company of some person only. No. Outside support means you, somehow, want to be in the company of ‘something’ and that ‘something’ could be anything, say, a book, newspaper, TV, or your mobile phone, the handiest one, nowadays. Outside support means, you want to be busy with some kind of doing. Without doing, you just can’t ‘be’. Do you know why? Because, when you try to be alone, by yourself, then your mind doesn’t let you ‘be’. It goes all over and, in the process, are generated, variety of thoughts, which, in turn, create suffering for you. You become miserable with these thoughts.   Because, you don’t know how to handle these thoughts and you, thus, fear your mind and hence, you don’t want to be alone, by yourself. You avoid sitting idle or sitting without doing anything. Hence, some kind of doing, just for the ...

Let us understand that, spirituality is not reserved for old age, as is usually understood. Spirituality is not a subject, which one should look at, post, one’s retirement only. When, you talk to people, about spirituality or being spiritual, the usual reply, is that ‘we would think of spirituality or would consider, becoming spiritual, only post-retirement or only, when we reach to the old age.”   This is not a correct understanding. This impression, that spirituality is reserved for old age, has come from, what we see, which is happening, in the name of spirituality. The usual understanding, among, the larger population, is that spirituality or being spiritual, means, one has to leave his family and move to the jungles. Now, this impression, has travelled amongst us, because, we see lots of people, leaving their families, wearing special clothes and moving to the jungles.   This is all rubbish because spirituality has nothing to do, with the outside. It has nothing to d...

  If you want to know your death then you should know your sleep, because sleep and death are not, too, different. In fact, both are same except one little difference, which is, that death is a long sleep, whereas sleep is a small death.  After sleep, you wake up again in the same body and after death, too, you wake up again, for sure, but in a new body. Sleep is unconsciousness and death too, is unconsciousness. You, always, enter your sleep, in unconsciousness i.e. just before sleep you lose your awareness and thus, you never come to know, as when you entered your sleep.  The same is true for death, too, which is that, just before death also, you lose your consciousness and thus, you never come to know, as when you entered your death.  Because sleep is unconsciousness, you never come to experience your sleep and similarly death, too, is pure unconsciousness and you, thus, never come to experience your death. In sleep, mind disappears, for the time being, ...

  ( 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.) जो लोग सन्यास के नाम पर अपना घर-परिवार छोड़ रहें है, तो इसका मतलब यह है की, उन्हें यह मालूम ही नहीं की, काम क्या करना है। उन्हें यह मालूम ही नहीं की, असली काम क्या है। क्योंकि असली काम जो करना है, यदि उसकी जानकारी, उन्हें हो जाये तो, फिर घर छोड़ने की ज़रूरत ही नहीं है। कोई विशेष वस्त्र पहनने की भी ज़रूरत नहीं है।   ज़्यादातर लोगों को तो यह मालूम ही नहीं, की वो घर क्यों छोड़ रहे है। घर छोड़ने यानि सन्यास का मक़सद क्या है, यह उन्हें नहीं मालूम। ज़्यादातर लोग, देखा-देखी में सन्यास लेते है या फिर कई मामले, अपने घर की परिस्थिति या घर के वातावरण की वजह से होते है। लोगों से यदि पूँछा जाये की, वे घर क्यों छोड़ रहे है या सन्यास क्यों ले रहे है, तो जवाब मिलता है, की उन्हें वैराग्य उत्पन्न हो गया। अब मेरा यह कहना है की, यदि वैराग्य यानि संसार से डिस्पेसन हो गया है, तो फिर वैसे ही संसार या घर-परिवार छोड़ने की ज़रूरत नहीं रही। क्योंकि...