We should be passionate about life and do our best in every situation, but at the same time we should first of all know that ‘our’ life is not really our life but the play of Reality or Conscious…
Whose Life is it?
Category: Inspirations
The posts under this category are ideas or inspirations that have come to me.
Guidelines on living a sane and meaningful life
Let us try to bring quality into our life: Health. For good health let us practise yoga, reduce junk food and whatever is necessary to maintain reasonable physical health. Inspiration. Find inspiration within. Again by practising yoga every day, even…
How real is the law of cause and effect?
In our common-sense daily life and from a materialistic perspective the law of cause and effect seem evident and not even worth questioning. However, modern science, western philosophy and Indian Advaita have all put into question its validity: According to…
There is suffering, yet there is One
I am not oblivious to the horrors of the world and I don’t understand why there needs to be so much suffering. Yet my intimate experience of the Mystery is so strong that I just have to admit, though I…
Conscious Presence
Everyone and everything in the universe, known and unknown, is part of the network of Reality. We may love and hate, we may accept and not accept, but these attitudes are just expressions of our individual mental conditioning. Whether we…
What is important is the Unchanging
Narada: I have wonderful experiences through the practice of Yoga, but when they are over, they are only a memory. I’m sure they have contributed to my overall spiritual development, but is there more to the fulfillment of human potential?…
Where does space come from?
There is an interesting philosophical conundrum: Everything exists in space, but in what does space exist? This is not only a question in yoga and mysticism, but also a conundrum of science. After all, modern science hypothesizes that the universe…
Initiation into Wisdom
In one of the wonderful collection of books by Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan, the Yaqui Indian shaman says: ‘The worst that could happen to us is that we have to die and since that is already our unalterable fate, we…
The Edge of Infinity
When I was eight years of age I had a dream, a very lucid and vivid dream, that repeated itself over a period of some weeks. I dreamed that in my search for Truth I traveled endlessly into space passing…
The Pathless Path
All religions, philosophies, systems and sciences are different fingers pointing at the moon (symbolizing Reality). They do not and cannot encompass Reality. This includes the systems of yoga, tantra and advaita. Realization of the Reality behind our embodied existence can…
