The journey towards personal awakening is very individual. It can happen at any stage, any age, in any country, at any time. All we need is to be open to receive it. A lot of us get caught in our day to day lives and the mind is constantly running after objects that we do not have or looking after things we have or solving problems that appear in our day to day life. With the result, we don't have time to quieten the mind and 'smell the roses'.
This blog is an attempt to share our personal efforts and experiences towards our individual growth towards spirituality. As more and more people become aware of their growth and their awakening we will be able to contribute towards finding our real purpose of life and hope to reduce the animosities that exist between people at a small scale and between countries at a larger scale. But first and foremost , it is a journey of personal fulfillment, a personal desire to fill in the void because of which we feel lost and incomplete.
Your comments are most valuable so please join in so that we can explore our inner world together.
Love and light
Jyoti
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Hi Jyoti
ReplyDeleteMost of us seek spirituality at some point in our lives, bringing us joy and peace. And so the journey begins..... I am an ardent fan of Adi Shankaracharya and the Bhagvat Geeta. The best version I find is the one by Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda. I wish we could talk more at length as this is my fav topic. Have u read books by Dr Weiss.
Regards
Neha
Chinmaya Readings and talks are good. There are others too. Have read Eckhart Tolle's New Earth. I am still in the learning stage so cannot comment on abstracts. However, would love to know the views of as many people as it is interesting to see things from the point of view of others. inca.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have read Dr. Brain Weiss' following books at various stages of my development.
ReplyDelete1.Many lives, many masters
2.Only love is real
3.Messages from the masters
4.Same soul, many bodies
They say that when the student is ready, the Master appears and I found my Master in book shops. I started to pick up books instinctively and got my answers.
we are all at the learning stage and at different levels so let us hope this blog leads us to the next level.
love and light
I come from a home where my mother was extremely religious but never forced religion or practices onto us. After marriage and kids I remember feeling this hollow pit within and wondering - "Is this all to life." I had everything and I was questioning everything -GOD? RELIGION? WHAT IS HAPPINESS? WHAT IS THE SOUL? HOW DO I KNOW MYSELF? IS THERE A PROVEN FORMULA FOR HAPPINESS? WHY DO WE EXIST? And then I attended a few satsang meetings where the thirst for spiritual knowledge was drenched a little. But like a pot with a hole - The more that went in, the more I felt I needed more to fill it up. I became obessed with Books, more books satsang, Niru Ma on TV and then the BIG one - no not Reiki like Jyoti, but ART OF LIVING.
ReplyDeleteMy quest for knowledge on the soul - amid doubts on its very existance felt it had reached it's `kinara.' From the vast tumultous ocean of search I had found my island in the sun. I had the secret and I was set for life... I was wrong.
Art of Living came to me at a very right time, Manav rohan, my sons left for college within a year of each other and I joined just to learn yoga and breathing and basically keep busy and ward away the `empty nest syndrome.' Within a month attended the International camp in Bali - silence for 3 days. I felt reborn. Being a nature freak - doing yoga at break of dawn on the pristine beaches of Sanur was a blast!
While the breathing routine never fails to have the right chemical reactions and I come away with a calm and peace to deal with life and enjoy every moment to the fullest... I have moved on.
early in my life there was nothing - just innocent childhood then I practised religion. Learnt Gurbani - read the whole Granth sahib and did the rounds of Golden temple. Then spirituality - the veil of religion lifted a little and the spiritual essence came forth.And now there is...again... nothing. The theory of the soul has lost out... sorry guys but talk to me and I will explain why.
What I do believe - I believe there is an energy in this world - is it benevolent? No - we make it what it is by being positive, pure and good.
We make it negative by beeing wrong, greedy , jealous, etc etc. The God is this energy and what we make of it. We make our destiny ...all we can do it meditate to harness the energy within us to do right and right comes our way - well not always as incidents occur not directly as a result of our deeds alone but a set of happenings that `happen.' due to a million reasons. A husband goes to work and has an accident & never comes back not because the wife did not light the God s lamp but because ...
the brake of the car was faulty...
he was stressed - not concentrating..
the other driver was drunk... on drugs... sleepy..ad faulty vision ...
the curve on the road was faulty...
a stray dog jumped in front....
Millions of escuse millions of incidents....harsh - cruel!
There is no person sitting with a ledger plusing our good deeds and minusing our bad.
Children get cancer , loved ones die in accidents in a flash, heart attack at 35 yrs... If there was a God he cold not mete out such severe punishments. This a play of nature and mostly a set of tousands of circumstances that lead to the result of any good or bad incident.
But Human nature is weak - and life is fragile, unpredictable, harsh and cruel sometimes.We all need to know there is a benefactor that is there for us... hence God factor is a great comforter.
Sorry if I have offended any body - this is just my journey and the point where i stand at today...tomorrow? well let it come and we will see. Today - I am happy to share this with Jyoti and friends.
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I personally understand that it is not God who creates these unfortunate experiences but we at our levels attract them - wrong place, wrong time. That is why, in a plane crash there is sometimes only one person who escapes. He was working/living at a different vibration and did not attract the accident. At the soul level, we do not know what it is meant to experience. A bit difficult to understand when we look at the pain that these experiences cause.
ReplyDeleteHi Jyoti,spirituality keeps me grounded, I feel I am still searching and trying to find answers to neaning of life.
ReplyDeleteVery good effort.
Trishaa
Thanks Trishaa for your comments. I feel as we grow spiritually, the answers come to us in one form or the other. Just remain in gratitude and prayers and you will get your clarity.
ReplyDeletelove and light