Mahabharata is Current News

While there will continue to be endless and scholarly discussions as regards the exact history and geography of The Mahabharata, let at least some of us wake up to the fact that The Bhagawad Gita (which is a small part of the Great Epic) itself, at the end of each chapter affirms that the particular chapter is in fact a limb of the Body of Knowledge, of the science of Yoga, which in fact is the science of expanding one's consciousness from the limited to the Infinite.

Thus, The Mahabharata, rather that being viewed as history or mythology, should be absorbed as the Greatest Metaphor ever. The Kauravas are none other than the hurdles within us that need to be addressed, before any progress could be made. These hurdles have been listed by Paramhamsa Yogananda as under:

Characteristics of the one hundred sense inclinations (kurus):

material desire, anger, greed, avarice, hate, jealousy, wickedness, lust,
sex attachment, abuse, and promiscuity, dishonesty, meanness, cruelty,
ill will, desire to hurt others, destructive instinct, unkindness,
harshness of speech and thought; impatience; covetousness; selfishness; arrogance; conceit;
pride of caste or social birth; racial pride;
false sense of delicacy; high-handedness; saucy temper; impudence;
ill feeling; quarrelsome attitude; inharmoniousness; revengefulness; sensitive feelings;
physical laziness; lack of initiative; cowardice; absentmindedness and mental sloth; spiritual indifference;
unwillingness to meditate; spiritual procrastination;
impurity of body, mind and soul; disloyalty to God; ungratefulness to God;
stupidity; mental weakness; disease-consciousness; lack of vision; littleness of mind; lack of foresight; physical, mental, and spiritual ignorance; impulsiveness; fickle-mindedness; sense attachment;
enjoyment in seeing evil, touching evil, listening to evil , tasting evil, smelling evil,
thinking, willing, speaking, remembering, and doing evil;
fear of disease and death; worry; superstition; swearing; immoderation;
too much sleeping; too much eating; dissimulation;
pretense of goodness; partiality; doubt; moroseness; pessimism; bitterness; dissatisfaction;
shunning God;
and
postponing meditation.
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So would you not agree that The Mahabharata is in fact Current News?

Brahma Muhurta: The Best time for Sadhana

This is inresponse to a gentleman's criticism of Brahma Muhurta:

1 Muhurta = 48 minutes and Brahma Muhurta is the second last Muhurta before sunrise. Our sages and rishis had realised that happiness that is derived from external objects is impermanent and also amounts to slavery to those objects and to the senses. To put it differently, beyond a point, it is waste of energy. Hence, what they did was to halt this energy from being wasted in the channels of the mind. Surprisingly, this energy found its way into hitherto unknown aspects of the subconsciousness that gave them knowledge as well as a different state of happiness known as bliss.


Brahma Muhurta is the naturally bio-rhythmic time, when the creative forces of nature are at their peak. The sweet dreams you mention, are a proof of this. Why not try and halt the energy flow into the mind and experience this Muhurta in a different light.

One might say, why should we bother! Of course that is also a choice.

After Death, What?

This is in response to a recent question:

Dear Bandhu:


This is regarding your question as to what happens after death. I am quoting Swami Vishnu Tirth in this regard as below:

All bodies, vegetative, animal and human are made up of two aspects--- physical and metaphysical; both connected together by Prana. The first is composed of physical elements, while the other is known as sukshma or astral body, composed of finer principles.

At death, the individual Prana leaves the physical body, which decomposes into the physical elements. But death does not cause the separation of the astral body from Prana. The rays of Prana, which during life radiate from the self, stop their outflux and revert to their centre, in the sub-consciousness of the causal body i.e. Karan Sharir, taking within their fold, the senses, mind, intellect, and consciousness intact into the subconsciousness and the Karan Sharir migrates to take up a fresh physical body.

Whereas at Moksha components of the astral body undergo an evolution and one after the other evolve to Prana and the soul's exigency of taking up another physical body is eliminated.

Siddha Mahayoga Sadhana puts the aspirant on this track.

Become a Seer Rather Than a Doer

In all other forms of yoga such as Hatha, Mantra, Laya, etc, one has to do something and hence, ego is inevitable.

In Siddha Mahayoga, the doer is replaced by the seer. Shakti precipitates the yoga kriyas necessary for self-purification. Sounds amazing at first. One has to experience it.

The steps given below constitute the Introductory Practice of Siddha Mahayoga:

1. Sit in any comfortable position. Relax the body to the maximum, as if it is not there.
2. Close the eyes calmly, with deep devotion to the Divine Power. As soon as the eyes are closed, a wave of Prana-Shakti, the driving life current naturally rises up from the base of the backbone to the top of the brain.
3. Let the NATURAL inflow or outflow or stoppage of air take place OF ITS OWN. Keep the eyes closed and mutely observe the incoming and outgoing air.Continue for three minutes or more and allow any involuntary happenings that may take place.

The above practice if done daily, soon teaches the mind to easily merge into our higher aspect Prana. The aspirant could even start experiencing various involuntary, self-purificatory yogic movements of the body and mind due to the force and will power of the Prana-Shakti.

Experience it yourself.

The nearest God

At work, boss is the God of promotion. Within us all, the life current i.e. Prana, the vital divine force that keeps us breathing, is demonstrably, the God of the mind.