(Published in journal 'Sadhana', November 18, 1989) Spirituality has never believed in racism. A person from the highest or lowest class could be a monk in ancient India. The monk Shakya Muni brought the hidden elements of the Vedas to the limelight. Not only did he propagate his religion all over the world but he [...]
Procrastination has become the most dreadful of psychological disease that is swallowing the potential of humanity. The sooner one realises the ill effects of it, the better. Our procrastination may not hurt us too much in the initial stages, but what one will be deprived of the long run is huge. This may be better [...]
What are the sadhanas that will help you? First let go everything and be in zero. Meditation is very important process to vanquish all the karmas and start something new. Meditation is not simply about being in zero but being in a wonderful state. Just apply your intellect and shift over, you are in a [...]
Now, most people who use vision make a small but disastrous mistake. For example: it is declared that a patient has cancer. People teach him to visualize that he does not have cancer, or visualize having a good time without cancer, or visualize having a time where he is enjoying life. Now this person compares; [...]
Your mind is affected by what you ‘Look Forward’ to. It is not the situation, it is only the feeling created by your own intellect. If you feel imprisoned, what will you do? Mind is a programmed machine. What you like to eat is what you are used to eating. If you eat Punjabi food [...]
What is self-esteem? A child has either high self-esteem or low self-esteem. Self-esteem is what the child thinks about himself subconsciously. Self-esteem is the ‘self-talk’ going on in the child subconsciously (without him or her knowing about it). What is the inner voice telling the child? It can be positive (‘anything is possible’) or negative [...]
by Pujya Guruji Shree Rishi Prabhakarji Everybody wants to feel and look good, nobody wants to feel bad. It is very easy to shift from feeling not so good, to feeling very good. Anybody can do it. What is the process? I discovered it a very long time ago. If you ‘Look Forward’ to [...]
Fortification Our social unity, national integrity, the lines dividing the untouchables from the rest of the society and the impregnable walls that heads of reli- gious sects build around themselves are matters of grave concern. Rakshabandhan has the potential to emerge as the solution to this grave problem. The festival which binds brothers and sisters [...]
Life is not about only winning, it is also about losing. We have made maintaining our status as very, very important, and playing is unimportant. Here there are two kinds of sadhana – internal and external. The inward sadhana is to realize – you are No-body*, so you can go beyond your loss [...]
(Published in Sadhana, August 24, 1985) Festivals can be envisioned as the very energy of the social life. All over the world, festivals are central to the lives of people, perhaps more so for us Indians. In the land of Bharat, festivals are not merely limited to being expressions of personal joy or means of [...]
