Indian Spiritual Science

Traditionally Psychology was referred to the study of the mind. Here, the 'mind' had a subtle meaning. It referred to the repository of thoughts, emotions, feelings, notions, opinions, behaviors and compulsions. Thus, psychology referred to the study of the human consciousness, which effects one's daily lives. So, it was mandatory to adopt Psychology as a practice, in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This Psychology was not a subject, but it just formed a part of the ancient practices. Ancient Psychology was highly traditional, involving chanting of mantras and Vedic texts to increase concentration and focus of the mind, practicing Yoga for the enrichment of the human mind and body. These practices were essentially leading to unravel the powerful soul. These practices were done in order to maintain equilibrium of the mind and body, allowing the soul to function via the body and mind. Psychology was not deemed to be a subject of focus, although. It was a part o

Engagement is an outward activity. It has nothing to do with oneself. Our spirit has no engagement with the external world. It can only be engaged with spiritual activities. But, as man finds it haunting to be alone, he engages with people to overcome this fear. He compromises with the happiness of the soul, thereby making the soul feel alone. In sometime in life, man realizes that his engagement with people has not borne good fruits. It has even made him disengage with his soul. He becomes alone even when alone as he has abandoned his spirit long time back. This is the sad story of the man who dedicates his life to the world, just to ruin it. Engagement of this sort brings immense sorrow. Momentary happiness is not what we seek. We are seeking everlasting happiness. But, genuinely before we even go out to inquire the whereabouts of happiness, we tend to go astray. We engage with momentary happiness as soon as we find it! We have no patience. Precisely, outward engagement de

True religion is Sanatan Dharma. This has existed from the time existence existed. So, following this religion will reveal the ultimate reality. But, when the reality and specifically ultimate reality is revealed through Sanatan Dharma, it is evident that it cannot be bound to the term religion. Today, religion has a very constricted meaning and reach in an individual's life. It is not capable of revealing the nature of life. It has created barriers between people today. In other words, religion as a term has created division among people. Sanatan Dharma, as opposed to religion propagates no religion. It is just the revelation of life, its experience and its occurrence. So, following this ultimate Dharma, will get us to conclude that there is no religion. In fact, religion is not religion today! Only by following true religion ( Sanatan Dharma) will let us know religion. Once, we know a spec of it we know that the 'religion- based talk of the world' speaks nothing ab

Smiling when we don't feel like is a disease. This disease deals with the mental framework of our mind. In other words, anything that doesn't fit under the spiritual laws is a disease. Smiling when we don't feel like is a disease because it is governed by the mind. We often smile to keep the other happy or rather to keep ourselves happy. Even if there is momentary displeasure while exhibiting that smile on our face, we simply do it because that might fetch us a ground to seek happiness. This implies for all those who smile even while feeling uncomfortable. Just simply ask yourself: "Why am I smiling when I don't mean it or like to do???" The answer is hard to hear but it is the truth. We have selfish motives that compel smile, against our will. So, the first step to undo all the things that you did not like is to stop doing them again. We cannot alter our past but surely build good new ones. Consciously working towards our faulty mind, through sadhan

The food for our soul is indeed prayer. The characteristic of the soul is Sattvik or 'pure' in nature. This being the predominant quality, qualifies our soul as calm, stable and the source of happiness and peace. It is devoid of any craving or obsession as it is content. However, to experience this bliss within us, we are gifted with Prayer. It is a tool that directly brings one in contact with the nature of the soul. But many of us find it difficult to pray! Our Mind doesn't let us concentrate! So, we have to hold onto a step-by-step manual to monitor the mind. Mind chatters and brings in a surge of thoughts throughout the day. Hence, it is Rajasik. Some minds are ignorantly stationary, overcome by laziness, these are Tamasik in nature. But, the way to cope with both these categories of minds is WORK. If you are highly active (Rajasik), work is necessary as ground to develop a feeling of detachment. Here, detachment refers to the teachings of the Bhagvad Gita, work

Happiness does not lie beyond yourself. You are the embodiment of happiness as the source lies deep within ourselves. This is the ParamAtma. No object, person or event is capable of giving you happiness. This might not seem to be true, but you think for yourself. When we are sad internally, then the object we loved, or the person we admired no more seem to be pleasurable. They do not give us any kind of happiness. If we are happy, only then the outside world is happy. This is because, it is our happiness that reflects on the world outside. So, the objects, people, events do not give us happiness of any sort. They are just objects on which our happiness is reflected. Due to our limited understanding we often mistake the object and not self as the source of Happiness.  We are happiness because of which the outside world seems happy.  But the world has no potency to become joyful or sorrowful and hence cannot be the cause of joy or sorrow to any living being.

Believing in oneself is stupidity. It does no assure you a permanent solution as believing is a fluctuating phenomena. We believe in something because we were taught to, but with age and experience we disbelieve those things! Do not try to believe. You are being unnatural in that sense. You are accepting (believing) something blindly just because you were asked to. "Perhaps,it would resolve my problems". If this is your intention, you are highly mistaken. Because, the medicine that works for him might not necessarily, or never work for you. Believing is just an escape mechanism. If you are convince not to believe, then what will you do? The answer is: "Just Be". Be yourself and know yourself. Go deeper within yourself, for nobody else ca do that for you! Find out the root cause of your misery. Be sincere in answering every question you encounter while undergoing introspection. Just Be. Then this will make you confident, not superficially as you have understoo

We have been told to listen to our inner voice in time of crisis! But which voice do we listen to? Most of us face a problem to identify the true inner voice. In fact, in our inner spectrum there are more voices than what we hear in the physical plane. These voices are the voices of our emotions,feelings, mind, soul, heart, brain,etc. So many, isn't it? How do we really know which is the genuine voice, the voice of our soul? We must know that our mind chatters throughout, day in and day out. If you have been practicing Sadhana, you would be aware of the mind's voice, which generally compels man with the feeling of guilt, anger, happiness (temporary), excitement. The voice which dictates us to engage in an activity for momentary pleasure is the voice of our mind. It will ask us to do activities that satisfy the body (senses). These might seem to be the voice of our emotions at times,but there is no such voice! Everything we hear that directs us to the world of activitie

What are we after all? Do you know? Answer this question with complete transparency. We are two legged animals, with a developed brain, made up of flesh, bones and blood. Why do we go about boasting our capacities? We must know that we have a temporary living on Earth and we are no special entities. We are not immortals. We are like any other creation of the creator, God. We can never make a difference to the world as the one who thought  thus no longer exist. Many think thus, but do you see them! No, the world functioned absolutely well before them, while they existed and even after they are gone! God, is the creator. Can we breathe without air, sun and water. No. What are these forms? These are integral part of all life forms. These make a difference to all of us. This is nature, another form of God. We have a very shortsighted vision as we feel that we can make a difference to the world, we are important... But, this is not true at all. Without that Supreme Energy, God, n

When we first joined the art class it was pretty hard to make an apple! Yes, why do we forget about this. Due to our high degree of forgetfulness, we have taken up to become stressed. We forget that we were incapable of even drawing an apple, but as time passed we LEARNT to draw. Then gradually we became good sculptors. But, just ask yourself, "What do we sculpt?" If you are sincere, your answer is certainly this. "We sculpt the already existing things and people around us." So, we do not create but imitate. When we become aware of this fact at every stage of life, we release the stress of becoming something. Because, we will then know that what we think has already been created by the creator. We cannot become anything new, because it has all existed. To release stress and if you are truly concerned about yourself, you must bring the smallest of smallest things to your notice. Whenever you are overcome with this emotion of self importance, ask yourself, "

We have got spectacular words to describe events and things around us. We emphasize our experience by using descriptive words along with strong emotions. But, it is nearly impossible to describe oneself, wholly. Even if we know ourselves in a so-called, full manner, we choose not to describe. It might either be like flattery or rather annoying. So, the truth is that our personality being so complex, compels us to doubt ourselves. Our behaviors and traits are not from this birth, but it is an expression of our many past lifetimes. So, we do not know ourselves that well, so how can we probably describe "You". "You" is somebody apart from us. That other entity to has a whole load of identities, behaviors, traits, habit, emotions and ideas.  So, adjectives which are created by us humans with this very mind cannot effectively describe us, we who have created them. Just like a doctor does not write his own prescription! He consults his other fellow mates for a perf

Well, in high school we haven't heard of Education Vs Literacy, just because we were taught them to be synonyms for one another. However, there is a subtle, yet important factor that sets them different. We have achieved a lot from School and College. We knew friendship along with Career and then finally our jobs. However, these learning centres only equipped us to come back to this world. This is the world of competition and struggle. They taught us to become one like them and not different. Thus, this process is termed as literacy. They taught us the very first alphabets to be able to communicate effectively in this competitive world. To be influential they enhanced our vocabulary, knowledge and altering our stance to the most updated teaching, helping us to be with time and not out-dated. But,this is just literacy. There is another term, quite deeper in its meaning, which many of us have not thought deeply about. This is education. Education deals with the way we respond

When we hear the world talk about a genius, there are erratic tales appended to him. "Perhaps, this is what makes him different from us." is the view of the world. But, this is madness. Because there are abnormalities exhibited. Just by being different from others by adopting mad ways gets you labelled as genius. However, that genius knows that he is making others mad. While the one who knows that the latter is fooling him and the others, knows that the genius is indeed mad. The idea is to tell you that, just by becoming different from others does not necessarily make you genius, it can also be madness. So, don't try to be a different person. Just be yourself. Don't try to make your identity in this world. Because, this world has a very poor memory. So, you are wasting time, if you try to become a so-called genius. This process of becoming a genius wholly depends on the world to credit you as a genius. Eventually, the world itself will label you as a mad man. A

Intelligence is not a mundane attribute but it deals with the space of consciousness. A very simple way to understand the degree of intelligence is this- The more you are connected with the super conscious, or spirit, you are connected to true intelligence. In other words, mundane activities and their results, success and failure cannot be the products of intelligence. So, we must understand that intelligence does not sprout from the brain but from the conscience which is the soul of the brain and many other vital functions. Intelligence is what makes us. It is consciousness that is intelligence! So, without intelligence present as consciousness, no activity or even thought can be carried out. However, in our daily lives, we may/ may not be conscious of the consciousness within us. So, we mistake the brain and not its source as the benefactor of intelligence. However, when man knows that it is not the success of materialism that is intelligence, he then becomes truly intelligent

Respecting has today become a means to become powerful. We respect the powerful to become one. Isn't it not? So, why does our mind consciously or unconsciously function this way? Well if it is conscious, it simply means you are a cunning opportunist. But, if it is not a conscious act, let's look at it deeper. Our mind is a creation of matter. So, naturally it will drive us to believe that- the external world is the reality. However, it is not. We become weak when we do not have the reigns in our hands. We feel weak when we are compelled to abide by what the other instructs. So, why not apply this fact in this case. We are indeed weak when we respect the powerful, because this is what our mind instructs us to do. We can become powerful when we overcome our limitations. The truly powerful being is the one who has found out his own way. Through experiences we must learn that, the world serves the powerful to become one. They listen to their mind. So, are they not weak? We k

Inferiority is perhaps the most common, but uniquely painful emotion within an individual. In some stage, a person is susceptible to this emotion,very strongly. But, have we noticed why? Why do our emotions of inferiority compel us to believe that we are inferior? We feel so because of our involvement with matter and world. Only when we engaged with the third entity did we feel that haunting feeling of inferiority. We felt inferior after meeting others & then carried it till our homes & then while asleep it took shape as a dream. We have allowed the feeling, that negative feeling to subjugate us even when asleep. This is our fault. We deserve this pain caused to us, even after somewhere deep down we knew that we are apart from that emotion. You are here only because you are apart from that emotion. If you are that emotion, you could not have come so far. Inferiority is the result of very hard core notions, we form unconsciously. Some time ago, it was favorable, but now whe

Many people collect books to create a library. In fact many books remain untouched, collected with an intention to perhaps read it one day. Just because a particular friend told you to read it! So, the common reaction of people is to walk up to the store or buy it online! But, we can never find time to read it. If someone would ask your views about the (unread) book, placed in your crowded library, you would rate it with the lens of your friend, who suggested the outline of the book. This is the fallacy of us humans. We are untruthful to the core. We never read it, but yet we cannot accept it. This is because we have created a facade of a geek or a knowledgeable man to the world. We have fancied our body with the suit of a gentleman and our homes with a huge library. Our mind has carved numerous identities for us, many of which is picked up from the unread books. These are the imprints of our mind, which compel us to create false identities. It has been continuing since many lif

In fact the answer is very simple. Books are effective tools to learn but it is you who have to learn. We pick up selected books. Why? Because they are according to our taste. For academics, we have numerous people printing books on the same syllabus, but why don't we go shopping all of them? Because they are not useful. In limits, (limited books on the same subject or comprehensive) anything is capable of giving you knowledge. Books, events, people, etc all teach us. In fact, life is a teaching itself. Why do we enjoy one book more than the other? It is because there is a connectivity that develops between you and the story teller or writer. It is the expression of your mind which coincides with that of the reader, making you love the novel. It is beyond your expectation, as you flip the pages of the book. You sigh, thinking that how your thoughts, perhaps, your mystery mind has been expressed so well. You cannot imagine the similarity of thoughts of the author and yourself

Hoping is a mechanism to flee from presence. Talked about this in one of my quotes. This indicates that, living in a fantasy world becomes one's goal while they go astray in reality. Their frivolous behavior brings about other to feel a major discontinuance with the former. As they ignorantly neglect the essentials of life, people around them grow concerned. People who hope are inflicted by the very act of hoping. This is a disease. Anything that causes addiction leads to form a disease. Postponing the activities of life simply means you no longer wish to live or even alter your current situations. This is an ill-way of thinking. De-cluttering our minds or cleaning our mental framework can only yield a positive physical world. The science behind this statement has been elaborately explained before. It is all our perception. To get rid of this diseased state, it becomes mandatory to cut the wires that connect us to the fantasy world. All the channels that trigger the possibil

Often we find children dreaming big at a small age. This is the fantasy 'hope' gives to every individual irrespective of their age. We all hope of many things. We hoped differently at different stages of life. But, at some stage  of life we must realize that hoping wastes time in the real world. Everybody is self content in their hopes, in other words, everybody hopes for a content life. But, not everybody gets one. So, only mature people, not by age but by spiritual discipline and practice can one get out of the web of hope. Only after attaining this state of realization can one consciously disengage from the compulsive act of hoping.

Spirituality is a personal choice. A very concentrated subject, it cannot be followed by many. However, today we find hordes of people calling themselves as spiritualists! According to them, following an institution or an organizations can notch them being called spiritual seekers. This is a farce and not the reality. Spirituality is not for herds. Just enrolling in a school does not make you a student. Studying and practicing what the school teaches is what makes you a student. Therefore, just by belonging to a particular spiritual organization is no good achievement. It is a delusion. You are no devotee, in that sense. What makes you a devotee is what you practice even without the institution. But, today institutions are convincing people a free ride to self attainment not by encouraging practices but by promoting the organizations. This is impossible. Attaining enlightenment is not a mass attainment, but a personal. You do not connect with the people around, but one has to

Under the garb of civility crime occurs, in the name of friendship opportunism and by saying love, selfishness is satisfied. These phenomena take place in every common man's life. They might feel as if it did not occur to anybody in specific because it is common in every individual's life. We have contrasting events in our life because of the contrasting identities we create. At home we expect our children to be disciplined, but when out with friends we break rules. Indeed, we have many masks. This is hypocrisy as ignorance prevails. We conceal our own identity to such an extent that we forget our original identity. We lose of self identity and get identified with the false facades we once created to defend ourselves. We defend ourselves, our loved ones, dreams, aspirations, etc. As all these are our priorities, but many times contrasting, we create multiple facades. This leads to identity crisis. We lose ourselves in our own web as a crab does. We are stuck!

This might seem contradicting to many, but the fact is that practicing positivity is not as beneficial as you think. It is a form of ignorance. Because, positivity involves the mind, it can never be positive. Remember, any act involving the mind is negative. Practices that help dewiring the mind is positive. Such practices abate the wandering of the mind. The movement of the mind is always flimsy and not unidirectional, so are hopes. We hope not one thing, not once, but many things and many times! So, we have desires sprouting from hopes and senses to achieve them. This is ignorance. Anything done unconsciously is ignorance. Because we are not aware of this cyclic trend of hope transforming into desire then act. These activities generally yield negative results. This causes disturbance, again compelling us to unconsciously accept hope. Now, we hope again, but to get rid of negativity. We hope positivity. This is ignorance of the highest kind as we dream and try to pacify our

This is very much evident. If you can sincerely answer this question, then you'll understand this the way it is expressed. "What makes you love your family?", "Why are you attached to your family?". Lets understand this with very specific answers. We love our spouse because he/she earns, fulfills our desires, cooks good food, etc. This is a genuine answer. We might feel: "But, no I sincerely love him/her." You don't love your neighbor or a stranger. Just because they are not related to you. They don't contribute to you emotions. They are not giving you any ind of pleasure. So, simply the answer to this question concludes that we love our family because they satisfy our desires. We love our children because they are our extended form of ego, etc. We are attached to our family because they are ours. We are attached because, we find that particular entity interesting. "That particular entity gives me pleasure and so I love him/her.&q

Where there is position and possession there is no truth. This is because, truth is white and the former is black. If we begin decorating the truth, it no longer remains the truth. Because, 'decorating' is the quality of the ignorant. We decorate the truth with our ignorance, with our opinions, likes, dislikes, notions, etc. Our proccessings from the world cannot be termed as the truth. Because, it involves the mind, we are layered with ignorance. Position and possession are the goals set by the mind. This is what are mind has been craving for lifetimes together. We incessantly target this and end up in the grave. Naturally, we ourselves are impermanent, then how can we experience our desires forever.  The moment we feel that we are getting closer to our desires, the truth of life too comes closer to us. Death is inevitable, but truth is eternal. Position and possession are temporary but truth is eternal. Logically, temporary cannot hold the permanent.

We feel that the other is our friend and we too are quite good friends to them! But, just wait a gauge your friendship. Delve deeper into this relationship to find its roots. You will surely find a motive that drives your friendship. But, even then we might compromise on it by saying: "He/ She needs me and so I'm continuing." But remember that this is the response you too will receive from your so-called friend. When the basis of our relationship is questioned, we begin playing the blame game. Because, there is no truth. We are continuing our relationship, (be it with our friends or relatives), we are not truly committed to the relation but the motive that drives us. If you feel that the other is a friend, you are highly mistaken. We define friendship as a mutual bond between individuals where the driving motive is selfless love and care. Love and Care refers to selflessness. Here, individuals cherish the inner sentiments of one another and not the status, wealth o

Those who talk of equality are the foolish of all beings. They are preaching ideologies which they themselves do not follow. This state of inequality is applicable to every common man's life. Emotions of possession is prevalent in all humans. If this is present,how can one ever be just or equal to the other. Because, possession gives rise to favoritism while equality is breaking free the barriers of favoritism.  Indeed, human nature is quite primitive in this aspect. We cannot even afford to be equal! Very important to note is: People who preach about equality are the first to break it. Because, their intention of preaching equality itself means that changing ideologies of the other. This is inequality in the subtle platform as it affects the personal space of a person. They inject their ideas into our minds by lecturing and giving spontaneous talks on equality. But they are unequal to us, as they attempt to alter the way we think, the way we ARE. They do not want anything e

In the search of truth, not necessarily you'll reach your destination! But if you did you are unlike ordinary beings. Truth is the basis of our existence. It is the super science, our creator. So, when we walk on the path of truth, we contact the higher energy fields. Some energy that is alien to this world of lies. When we begin to speak the truth and are committed to it, when we refuse to speak a single lie, we will be held as diseased people by the worldly beings. Why is this so? The answer is very simple. The world has spoken only lies and if we behave extraordinary by not following what it teaches us, we are mad! When we speak the truth, we break the barriers of the ego. We lie to safeguard our self-respect and our ego. But when we speak the truth, we encounter this issue face to face. At first, it may be difficult to accept this fact. We might say: "I don't have an ego" or "I never spoke a lie.", but remember to continue your journey towards t

Looking at the condition of the present world, we can easily gauge the consequences of human liberty and so-called freedom. Believe it or not, our past had presented this world in a better condition! We are not just to our future. So, it is hard time for us to acknowledge our destructive way of living and think about ways to reconstruct them. If we had long taken the reins to form society, today's doom would have been witnessed long ago! The future doom, which will be devastating and horrifying would have formed today, the present. A good example to indicate this fact is the use of overuse of drugs. Initially drugs were taken as a means to calm the disturbed mind, but today we all know that it is taken as trend, fashion purposes, craze. Drugs have become a source of imitation. So, taking this example as the scenario of years before, it is very much evident that circumstances would have been worse today. Not yet fulfilling, the circumstances today are no less than hell. To r

Yes, by birth we all are blessed with imaginative capabilities. We call people great thinkers just because they have learnt the skill of expressing their creativity. On the other hand, universe is the mass of imagination from where we are granted each thought or idea. What makes this universe, is in fact our own thoughts! Only when we are able to think can we have a better experience of the external surroundings. The universe is a collection of millions of people like us or unlike us. But, the point of similarity between all of us that: WE FORM A PART OF THE UNIVERSE. So, naturally, we must have a lot in common. The similarities are the various components of the universe which has been born alive because it was an imagination. Before, the universe existed, there was a thought or an imagination of how the universe shall be! Who thought is another subject, but it is obvious that we need to think enough to create a beautiful place like the universe. In other words, it is the imagi

Yes, Truth may not necessarily be the fact, because both the terms do not mean the same. Fact is the conclusion drawn from human assumption. Facts, change from time to time because they are solely dependent on the external circumstances. So, precisely facts can change but truth cannot as it is eternal. As humans, we have a limited sense of perception. We are unable to grasp the bigger picture. Often, we conclude before having studied the case efficiently. So, we come up with facts and not the truth. As we delve not deep in the matters, naturally we cannot reveal the truth. We are satisfied with are partial assumptions and hence, at most times are unaware of the truth. Interesting to note is that, truth even then exists, but facts need a circumstance and situation to exist. We create facts and thus bring them to life. But truth lasts even after facts perish. Most of the time we are unable to see the truth because we aren't that subtle enough to notice the driving factor withi