The whole art of meditation is to peel off these layers of images given to us by others and come face to face with our real self–what Lord Krishna calls Svadharma. The self-realization is Svadhyaya beyond the ego made of all the false images collected unconsciously from others.
Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop
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If we sow the seeds of poisonous plants along with those of flowers we should not be surprised when the harvest is mixed.
One evening a group of friends were out to have some fun. It was a beautiful full moon night and they had drunk a lot. It was a beautiful night, so they all decided to go to the lake and take a boat trip. They sat down in a boat, picked up the oars and […]
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Serena Williams, the well-known Tennis Star, was the Guest Editor for Wired Magazine. In her editorial she says, “Back in 2008, when I was competing in the US Open, I would keep little ‘match books,’ where I’d write affirmations to myself and read them during matches. It worked pretty well. But before long I found […]
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Interestingly we experience the emotions in present but they are actually our passage into past or in future.
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Nandita Kochar Yes, there most definitely is. Detachment means distancing oneself from the world due to a lack of interest. Detachment finds its home in aloofness. It’s a form of escapism, the kind that causes suffering in the end. Non-attachment is a practice of mindfulness and being wholly in the present. It’s also not letting […]
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Most people are able to expand their capacity for empathy through out their lives – especially their cognitive or perspective – taking empathy by practising mindful attention towards other people’s feelings and experiences.
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Once you discover that God himself is hidden in breath, you have come to know yourself.
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In one of his discourses on Vedanta the Seven Steps to Samadhi, Osho says: People from the West come to me and they say, “This very evening we are leaving, so give us some key. How can we become silent? But we don’t have any time to stay – we must go.”
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And I am not saying be against sex, no. But let sex be more a subjective phenomenon than objective phenomenon. And that is the difference between sex and love. Love is subjective, sex is objective.