Now as a spirit soul we have many inherent characteristics. That means basically they are part of us, we can’t separate them from who we really are. Just like wetness is an inherent characteristic of water, you can’t separate wetness from water. In this glass I assume there is water. I haven’t touched it but I do know one thing – it’s wet. All...
More3. …until death do us part
Of course as we know in our human lives we have very complex relationships. It’s not just about Mr. Bee coming and pollinating some flowers. It is very, very complex. We have our relationships with parental affection, friendship, husbands and wives (marital relationships), working relationships (the bosses, the co-workers), relationships with our dogs,...
More4. Impersonal world
One thing that I will mention at this point. As our society has advanced (we call it advancement, material advancement), we have entered into an electronic age. And we have all become enamored by electronic devices: our cellphones, our computers, our i-Pads, all this, and all the things connected with that, all the Internet and the web-sites, and the social...
More5. Searching for a perfect person
If we do have all this personal contact, we practice our yoga lifestyle, we are eating the right diet, we are in harmony with the body and the planet… that is another whole aspect of relationship, relationship to planet… But even if we are doing all of that right so that makes it so we are in a mode of goodness (we are vegetarians, we respect all kinds...
More6. The message of the Vedas
The process of bhakti yoga is not about getting something or creating something or establishing something that doesn’t already exist. It already exists, that relationship with the Supreme Lord already exists. It is eternal, they will never be nonexistent. But the problem is I have forgotten it, I’m not aware of it. In the world today more and more...
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