Prabhaker

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  1. You are correct, but modern teachers talk about the politically correct version of enlightenment. Nobody wants to waste time and energy in unnecessary discussions.
  2. @Anton Rogachevski For attachment, awareness is not necessary; rather, awareness is the barrier. The more aware you become the less you will be attached, because the need for attachment disappears. Only a person who is aware can love, because he doesn’t need you. But then love has a totally different dimension, it is not attachment, it is not dependence. Meditate, become more sensitive, and take it as a criterion that you will go on becoming more and more detached. If you feel that attachment is growing, then you are erring somewhere in your meditation. These are the criteria. If meditation really flowers within you, you will have a feeling of detachment.
  3. Knowledge from books is only information. It has the appearance of knowledge, hence it deceives many. That knowledge is borrowed, it has not happened to you, it has come from others, that it is not your own insight, your own realization.
  4. Nobody else can become a model for your life, because you are unique. Nobody has there been ever who was exactly like you. Jesus says: Seek and ye shall find; ask and it shall be given to you; knock and the doors shall be opened unto you. He is not saying to imitate. He is not saying that become a Christian and the doors shall be opened unto you. He is not saying that I have knocked on the doors and opened them for you. He is saying that knock and the doors shall be opened unto you. And everybody has to knock, because everybody has to enter by different doors. People are so unique, people are individuals.
  5. Enlightened people don't really need dreams and success don't really need dreams. Don't think about success, because if you start thinking about success you become divided. Then you are not totally in the work, your real mind is in the future. If you work really sincerely , success will follow you. Success has not to be the goal.
  6. You are not extremely lazy. You have found this site and started a topic ! Laziness comes for certain reasons , may be because you don't see the point of doing anything, and even if you do nothing is achieved. Begin with chanting of AUM or some meditation like watching your breath , it will give you some fulfillment, some energy.
  7. Unfortunately yes, but idea of relationships arises because we are alone, and the aloneness hurts. Somehow one wants to remain engaged. That engagement may be with people, may be with work. We are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. To escape from it, the only way is to be in a crowd, to become part of a society, to have friends, to create a family, to have husbands and wives, to have children.
  8. When in the morning you wake up, do you have to get rid of all the dreams first? You need not be worried about the past karmas; they were all dream acts. Just wake up and they are all finished.
  9. Old age can be the most beautiful time of life. All the foolishness of childhood gone, all the fever and passion of young age gone. Now it is time, that you should sincerely and authentically enter into meditation.
  10. Do you mean Jesus, only begotten Son of God needs purification ?
  11. I live in a country(India) where shyness and modesty are considered the highest quality for a woman. I don't find anything abnormal if a woman is fully covered. If I have a girl friend in my city and I politely request her wear little bit of revealing clothes in public, I think she will beat the hell out of me ! Men Will Be Men !!! You are not made for each other!
  12. What could be the allegorical interpretation of this story?
  13. PRACTICE OF BRAHMACHARYA By SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA http://www.dlshq.org/download/brahmacharya.pdf
  14. Ramana maharshi once remarked, “Who knows that Hitler is a Jnani, a divine instrument.” When news was brought to the ashram that Italian planes had gunned undefended citizens on the streets of Ethiopia. Ramana maharshi said: The sage who knows the truth that the Self is indestructible will remain unaffected even if five million people are killed in his presence.Remember the advice of Krishna to Arjuna on the battlefield when disheartened by the thought of the impending slaughter of relatives on the opposing side. Why does masters like Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru have to be a millionaires, while many of people are homeless and starving in the world? Which self realized person do you find an expression of unconditional love ?
  15. If you don´t escape, if you allow the suffering to be there, if you are ready to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different. When you allow it to happen, you don´t escape, you don´t run, you are not in a panic, suddenly you become aware that suffering is there on the periphery as if happening to someone else, not to you, and you are looking at it.
  16. Western psychology’s aim is to fortify the individual’s ego so that he may become less neurotic, slightly happier and ultimately function ‘better’ in society. In the East, the goal is instead to dissolve the ego rather than strengthen it. Westerners cannot slap Eastern spirituality on top of a western ego and expect enlightenment. ~Carl Jung If you want to become successful in a western society or materialistic society, eastern spirituality is not for you. We should not forget Rudyard Kipling, what he said has significance. Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
  17. Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last. ◄ Luke 23:46 ►
  18. Agree, but don't think that man of unconditional love will behave outwardly in a way that we will always find him moral according to the standards of society. The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ◄ John 2:13 ► In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.◄ John 2:14 ► And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ◄ John 2:15 ► And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”◄ John 2:16 ► Single handedly, Jesus threw all the moneychangers out of the temple. It looks very violent - Jesus with a whip, throwing people out of the temple. But he was not violent. Hitler doing the same thing will be violent, and the act will be sinful. Jesus doing the same act is virtuous. He is acting out of love; he cares. He cares about these moneychangers too! It is out of his care, concern, love, awareness, that he is acting. He is acting drastically because only that will give them a shock and will create a situation in which some change is possible. The act can be the same, but if a person is awake the quality of the act changes.
  19. Sexual energy is so great a force, that it cannot be transcended until someone has achieved the divine, which a very long and difficult path. Meditation is very arduous for intellectuals. You can't transform all your energy into something productive, so, don't fight.
  20. Peace, love, nonviolence does not mean that you have just to be there, beaten. Mahavira and Buddha both in some way or other are responsible for twenty centuries of slavery in India. Nonviolence should be out of an abundance of power. Don’t use that power to kill, to destroy; but use that power to create, to protect. And if anybody tries to harm you or anybody else, do everything to prevent that harm. Nonviolence simply means that killing, destroying, is ugly. That does not mean that allowing somebody else to do such a thing is not ugly.
  21. Do you think every man of unconditional love will preach peace and meditation when a person like Hitler is invading his country? What if life itself is hurt and harmed by preventing war? What sense is there in preventing a war if peace suffers because of it?
  22. Krishna says one can transcend both violence and non-violence, vice and virtue, pleasure and pain, and then there is nothing - neither violence nor non-violence, neither vice nor virtue. They all are illusory. If one goes beyond the dialectics of violence and non-violence, pain and pleasure, if he knows for himself they are illusory, then in the very knowing all his violent thoughts and feelings will drop, he will be free of them. It can be said that Krishna is the first person to talk of choicelessness. Krishna tells Arjuna, ”So long as you believe you can kill someone, you are not a man with a soul, you are not a religious man. So long as you think that one dies, you don’t know that which is within us, that which has never died and will never die. If you think you can kill someone you are under a great illusion, you are betraying your ignorance. The concept of killing and dying is materialistic; only a materialist can believe so. There is no dying, no death for one who really knows.”
  23. In life we don't always choose from 'good' and 'evil', sometimes we have to choose from more evil and less evil. Jesus said “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword." ◄ Matthew 10:34 ►