Meditation and Self-Inquiry: Part 4

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Meditation and Self-Inquiry: Part 2

Meditation and Self-Inquiry: Part 1

Faith Brings Strength

What Is Spiritual Enlightenment? By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar

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Today, the word “Enlightenment” is used quite a bit in spiritual circles. There are “Enlightened teachers”, Enlightened masters”, Enlightened gurus”, etc.  In the world of spirituality, it is part of the marketing of spirituality. It is a business. That is neither good nor bad. Simply an observation.

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God Being Infinite

God being infinite leaves no room for the devotee to exist as a separate person.

God is infinite

 

Finding Peace Within

Sri Ramana on Evil

Sri Ramana and other sages have advised that one should bring awareness to any feelings of anger, hatred, revenge and remove such emotions from one’s consciousness.

Agitation of the mind due to negativity will hinder one’s own natural peace and not allow the mind to surrender to the Lord who sits in the Heart.

The ancient teaching is to witness all fluctuations of the mind without identifying with them. In this way, the mind gradually becomes still.

Note from Editor: Photo art from on John  Wassenberg’s FB page.

Be Yourself

Be Your Self

It’s not possible to please everyone. Save your energy. Be yourself.

The Meaning of the Term “Ji” in the Indian Culture: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar

Pride and vanity in spirituality.

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At Arunachala Ashram in Canada

In the Indian culture, we sometimes add the word “ji” at the end of someone’s name to convey respect.

For example, if someone’s name is Ashok, and we want to convey warmth and respect, we call him Ashok-ji. If someone’s name is Maya, we call her Maya-ji.

However, in the Indian culture, no one will ask or demand that we add “ji” when addressing them to show respect. That would be very uncool. It would actually be humorous. It is up to us when we want to add the “ji” after the name of the person. There is no compulsion that we have to add “ji” to the name of everyone we meet and greet.

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