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narendersingh

December 18th, 2010, 12:46 AM

SPIRITUALITY SAYS THAT GOD IS WITHIN US AND THAT WE DON'T NEED ANYONE ELSE TO MAKE THAT DIVINE CONNECTION FOR US

RELIGION SAYS THAT WE ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD AND THAT WE NEED "THEM" TO MAKE THAT DIVINE CONNECTION

SPIRITUALITY SAYS THAT WE ARE FREE TO MAKE CHOICES ON OUR OWN AND THAT WE MUST TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS

RELIGION SAYS WE MUST MAKE THEIR CHOICES AND ACT THEIR WAY

THE THEME OF SPIRITUALITY IS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

THE THEME OF RELIGION IS FEAR AND GUILT

SPIRITUALITY DOES NOT REQUIRE US TO MAKE DONATIONS

RELIGION HAS BECOME BIG BUSINESS

SPIRITUALITY SAYS THERE IS NO HELL, NO JUDGEMENT, NO ANGRY GOD... THAT WE ARE LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY

RELIGION SAYS THERE IS A HELL, GOD GETS ANGRY AND JUDGES US... THEREFORE, WE ARE NOT LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE OUR OWN PATH TO GOD

RELIGION COMMANDS US TO DO IT THEIR WAY

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE GO TO GOD TO LIGHTEN OUR BURDEN

RELIGION HAS TAUGHT US TO FEAR THEIR GOD

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED OF OUR SEXUALITY... THAT IT SHOULD BE A SACRED CELEBRATION OF LOVE

RELIGION HAS TAUGHT US TO FEEL ASHAMED, GUILTY AND DIRTY ABOUT OUR SEXUALITY

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO HONOR AND RESPECT MOTHER EARTH

RELIGION HAS TOLD US TO "BE THOU FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY AND SUBDUE THE EARTH" I REPEAT... "SUBDUE THE EARTH"

SPIRITUALITY REMINDS US THAT WE ARE ONE WITH GOD AND ONE WITH EACH OTHER

RELIGION TEACHES DISUNITY AND SEPARATION WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF GOD

SPIRITUALITY SAYS GOD IS WITHIN

RELIGION SAYS HE IS IN HEAVEN AND THAT "THEY" ARE THE ONLY INTERMEDIARIES FOR US

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE ARE BORN IN INNOCENCE AND PURITY

RELIGION SAYS WE ARE BORN WITH SIN

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES THAT WE ARE ON A LONG SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE AND JOURNEY WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY END BY REUNITING WITH OUR SOURCE

RELIGION SAYS WE'VE GOT ONE LIFE TO GET IT ALL RIGHT AND THERE IS NOTHING BUT HEAVEN OR HELL AFTER THAT

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE ARE FREE TO EXPRESS

RELIGION GAVE US THE DREADED INQUISITION

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR ALL

RELIGION GAVE US THE CRUSADES IN WHICH MANY WERE KILLED AND SLAUGHTERED IN THE NAME OF GOD

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES THAT WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER UNCONDITIONALLY AND ALWAYS HONOR THE RIGHTS AND CHOICES OF OTHERS

RELIGION TREATED NATIVE AMERICANS, THE MAYANS AND OTHER INDIGENOUS CULTURES AS SAVAGE PRIMITIVES WHO "MUST BE SAVED"

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES PEACE AND HARMONY

RELIGION HAS CAUSED MORE WARS AND MORE KILLING THAN ANY OTHER REASON

SPIRITUALITY SAYS RESPECT ALL LIVING THINGS

I NEVER ONCE HEARD ANY RELIGION SAY STOP SLAUGHTERING MILLIONS OF TREES EVERY YEAR FOR CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO HAVE FAITH IN OURSELVES

RELIGION TEACHES US TO HAVE FAITH IN THEM

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS... THAT WE CAN FIND THEM BY "GOING WITHIN"

RELIGION TEACHES US THAT IT HAS ALL THE ANSWERS AND ONLY ITS ANSWERS ARE THE RIGHT ONES

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO SEARCH FOR THE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS AND OUR HEARTS WILL TELL US WHEN WE HAVE FOUND THEM

RELIGION TEACHES WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT THEIR VERSION OF THE TRUTH

WHICH ONE FEELS BETTER TO YOU? SPIRITUALITY OR RELIGION?

GO TO YOUR HEART FOR THE ANSWER IT WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU

Original author unknown but appreciated

Fateh

December 21st, 2010, 07:58 AM

Dear Brother, thanks for a very nice, useful & thought provoking toppic. Regards

Shibani

December 21st, 2010, 08:23 AM

Shibani

December 21st, 2010, 08:25 AM

Infact spirituality has to be the religion for all human beings.

rinkusheoran

December 21st, 2010, 08:38 AM

narendersingh

December 21st, 2010, 11:45 PM

kis chiz ko dharan karna dharam ( religion) hai n karam hi dharam hai. baki insaan apni apni paribhasa banata reht ahai jisme se aapne bahut si likhin n uske barein mein batai.
so karam karo rest the super power will take care if any.

The deeds what we do, we have to pay.Almighty has send us with inbuilt software,which gives instant balance sheets of karma ,dharma and all related.The point comes how to manage it.

narendersingh

December 21st, 2010, 11:52 PM

Infact spirituality has to be the religion for all human beings.

I do agree on your views expressed herein. I am contributing the following .Please comment.

The Present Moment as Portal to Universal Love and Abundance By DL Zeta

As this year of chaos and inner questioning winds down, it is time to weave the lessons we have learned into the fabric of our next layer of becoming.

It is time now to open to and energize the vision for the next part of our journey. As this vision becomes more solid, we can begin anchoring it into the future with our present-moment thoughts, feelings and choices. In this way, we align with and shift to a new location on the map of our consciousness. This new location is fed by with the deep streams of new understandings gleaned over this year of inner focusing, healing, clearing and transformation. It allows us to live more than ever before in telepathic communion with our higher self and the love and blessings of the universe.

As you open to the new vision for your future, it is especially important to pay attention to the present moment and all that is happening there moment by moment. Each choice, each decision you make shifts you to a new location in consciousness. If you want to know what the future will hold, look to the present moment and you will know. If you don’t prefer what you see crystallizing in your future, you are free to make changes in your present moment. Just follow the strands of energy from the present moment into the future. Everything is always happening in one eternal moment of now.

Viewing Reality through the Cosmic Lens of the Universe

Your conscious mind tends to see past, present and future as three separate continuums, each isolated from the other by time, memory and levels of experience. In a broader sense, all your experiences take place within one vast moment that is as fleeting as the blink of an eye in the broader cosmic view. When you view your realities over time through this cosmic lens of the universe, you're better able to see the interconnectedness between all moments. As you view all moments as one, you're able to see how your present moment is able to interact with and influence all other moments past, present and future.

The Future is Here Now

Whatever you will be in the future you are already now. There's no separation between past, present and future. Within any given moment a multitude of parallel possibilities reside. You have the option of consciously choosing which possibility to bring your focus to.

Your past selves, your future selves are with you now in the present moment. Healing the past and creating the future takes place now. This is why we say awareness is everything. To wield this infinite capability and fully access the portal of your present moment, examine and observe where you are currently putting your energy and focus. Are you programming into your present moment an attitude of “adding to” rather than “taking away from” in terms of finances, diet, health and relationships? Do you perpetrate random acts of kindness? Do you act in ways that are beneficial to animals and the environment? Do you act on behalf of another's highest good? Do you nurture and love yourself?

The Parasitic Perspective versus the Sustainable, Empowered Perspective

Do you overdraw your cosmic bank account, taking more than you're giving? Do you spend more life force energy than you attract, thereby depleting your physical systems? Are you living in a self-sustainable way, enriching your own experience as well as that of others, adding to, improving all that you come into contact with, or are you depleting yourself and others, depleting and damaging the environment, siphoning the energies of those you come in contact with? Do you exist on the planet as a blessing or a parasite? The parasite always views themselves as a victim because they are at the mercy of those they feed upon. The sustainable perspective seeks to empower and enrich all it encounters. Those who live by the sustainable perspective know the source of their own empowerment and take complete responsibility for all their experience. In this way, they recognize every moment as one moment unfolding in divine love and perfection.

Each person has experienced and witnessed both sustainable and parasitic perspectives. Now, as we collectively energize a future of sustainable living, oneness and empowerment, we are able to see through any remaining residue of the old parasitic programming and shift to the new paradigm in human consciousness.

Fateh

December 22nd, 2010, 07:07 AM

The deeds what we do, we have to pay.Almighty has send us with inbuilt software,which gives instant balance sheets of karma ,dharma and all related.The point comes how to manage it.

Brother, as little I understand, Dharam is a way of life, it is social in nature, started by an individual or few individuals basically for self gains & fame. Spirituality is a science or a subject which helps in managing the long jouraney of soul. In brief--
a) makeup your mind to understand self.
b) be positive.
c) Love & live with nature, the real BGWAN -Bhumi, Gagan, Wayu, Agni & Neer.
d) Karam & decision as per direction of soul.
e) Leave all human weaknesses which are main obstacles in the path which leads to self/God.
f) Have less expectations & be happy.
g) Work hard & be satisfied with the outcome
h) Have full faith in self & the ultimate power.

With warm regards

narendersingh

December 22nd, 2010, 09:59 AM

Brother, as little I understand, Dharam is a way of life, it is social in nature, started by an individual or few individuals basically for self gains & fame. Spirituality is a science or a subject which helps in managing the long jouraney of soul. In brief--
a) makeup your mind to understand self.
b) be positive.
c) Love & live with nature, the real BGWAN -Bhumi, Gagan, Wayu, Agni & Neer.
d) Karam & decision as per direction of soul.
e) Leave all human weaknesses which are main obstacles in the path which leads to self/God.
f) Have less expectations & be happy.
g) Work hard & be satisfied with the outcome
h) Have full faith in self & the ultimate power.

With warm regards

I agree with your views without any doubts.Kindly shower your views which will come as blessing for better creation of our life,life style and humanity above all.

May the unseen power bless all

narendersingh

December 22nd, 2010, 10:07 AM

I agree with your views without any doubts.Kindly shower your views which will come as blessing for better creation of our life,life style and humanity above all.

May the unseen power bless all

Gratitude is a Frequency in the Universe By DL Zeta

The frequency of gratitude holds the power to release the shackles of suffering and transport us into the realm beyond dreams where past struggles reveal their blessings and we look out on all that is with a crystal clear vision of love and acceptance.

This past year has taken us on a long journey designed to help us revisit any energies we still hold around past circumstances. At times, old issues resurfaced, amplifying our emotions so we could hold them in awareness and examine them from a new and more empowered perspective. Any lingering resentments about the past can now be dispelled by surrounding them with gratitude.

Gratitude is a Frequency in the Universe

Gratitude is a frequency in the universe that draws us into closer union with our higher self’s vast storehouse of wisdom. As we align ourselves with the frequency of gratitude, we are able to download the higher vision for any situation that once tethered us to frequencies of victimhood and blame.

These downloads are encoded with the agreements we hold with other souls to create mutually- beneficial learning situations. The encoded information touches on things like the purpose of our current life time, a bird’s eye view of our current situation and even the blueprint for the entire evolution of our soul.

It may be said that gratitude is the key that turns the lock, springing open the door into the future of our becoming.

Gratitude is Magnetic to Abundance and Synchronicity

Because gratitude is founded on the idea of acceptance, faith and spiritual alignment, it is also magnetic to abundance and prosperity. It draws to us the things we need within the moment, and radiates a subconscious message that attracts synchronicity and miracles.

No matter what is happening in your life, find a way to embrace the circumstances and express gratitude for them and you will soon find yourself basking in the spiritual wealth and blessings of the universe.

Everything is Love in Search of Itself

It is now at this time when many step back from their routines to give thanks that we can take this opportunity to step into a deeper level of gratitude for all the situations and the people in our lives. As we do so, we enter a new level of embracing our own pain-and-suffering and our struggles. This allows us to touch a loving, peaceful place within ourselves where everything that comes before us is love in search of itself and the souls we meet are fellow travelers in search of the deeper understanding that propels us all on our journey of growth and expansion.

narendersingh

December 22nd, 2010, 10:36 AM

Rejuvenating breathing - Pranayama 1

Lets come to the breathing part which helps to keep your body fit and healthy for ever...i mean forever.
see few words of VEDA,SASTHRA etcc
Breath is equal to Prana ( Life),
Life Span decided by number of breaths taken....why so? simple logic as in Nature everything is limited and the oxygen given to you is also limited and decided.Now you need to decide your life span........how?
Consume Less OXYGEN-------I am not joking ...but in a proper manner. Dont Stop taking breath... what I mean is control ur breathes.
Lets see one thing.......a boy in Russia called popularly 'indigo boy' who claims himself as an alien from Mars taken rebirth on Earth.....said in his statement( No need to get in to controversial issues of proving his identity..just take what we need) 'We on Mars consume Carbon dioxide and lives long than Humans on earth rather than Oxygen'. Observe these words...and our in Hata Yoga it is said that if you consume less Air or take less breathes in a day rather than 21600 breathes a day...you can live long.
Surprising right...both these statements are insisting same thing in different angles.
One more thing proved in USA...I will give the source of the Article in Next post..that Oxygen burns the cells in our human body... means you will loose your youth very fast if you consume oxygen more...But how can we live with out oxygen.
There is a way mentioned in Hata Yoga,Yoga Vasistam,Patanjali Yoga to control the breathing which makes you very happy and controls your feelings also.
So how to control it..? Its only possible few techniques along with Pranayama.
Have you ever observed that most of the time only one of your NOSTRIL works....It will change its direction from one Nostril of your Nose to another frequently in a day. Its very helpful to observe which will give you some grip on your breath.

narendersingh

December 27th, 2010, 09:27 AM

narendersingh

December 27th, 2010, 09:28 AM

Thought for the Moment…..

You need education to help perfect your skills. However, the secret to ultimate achievement lies within you.

Begin your day with this thought and reap the benefits through out....

The Holidays as Doorways to Emotional Freedom and Higher Awareness By DL Zeta

The holidays are doorways to higher understanding because they offer opportunities to access and heal painful emotions of the past. Our willingness to embrace and heal these emotions is our greatest ally in creating the emotional freedom that is a key to achieving fifth-dimensional consciousness. Energetic bookmarks - locations in consciousness where emotional energy is held - often coalesce around holidays and can be triggered each year at the same time. We don't have to live in fear or dread of painful memories, however. Instead, we can see these as portals into our own emotional landscape. As we gain awareness and insight into our emotions, we are able to open to the messages of troubled and turbulent times in our lives. These messages have the power to transport us to a new zip code on the map of our higher consciousness.

The Emotional Level of Consciousness

The emotional level of our being is located between the conscious and subconscious minds. Since emotions exist in the realm of the "unseen", they are a sub-level of the subconscious mind. We can see the emotional level as a bridge -- or a great gaping chasm -- between the conscious and subconscious minds.

Your Emotions Are Gatekeepers to Higher Consciousness

The emotional level exists between your conscious and subconscious minds, serving as a gatekeeper. This is by design. Until a person enters a place of peace and love within themselves, they won’t gain access to the vast array of advanced abilities that reside within their higher self. In this way, the emotional level is a built-in protection mechanism. If you're challenged with navigating physical reality and the realm of the emotions, you're not yet ready to take on the unknown and untested waters of the subconscious mind. Imagine this as akin to serving as captain of a small boat. If you’re unable to safely captain a boat on a small lake, you will not likely be assigned captainship of a larger boat sailing vast uncharted oceans.

We offer here some techniques for healing and clearing your emotions, which will allow you to cultivate inner peace.

The Importance of Taking Responsibility

The condition of your emotional body determines whether your emotions serve as a bridge or an obstacle to accessing your subconscious mind. It’s impossible to achieve emotional freedom until you take 100% responsibility for everything in your reality.

If you have a backlog of unresolved emotional issues, your emotions are easily triggered by events, people and circumstances in your environment. This constant emotional upheaval can lead you to "buy into" the illusion of victimhood, scarcity, self-doubt and other scenarios that leave you feeling helpless and disempowered. Helplessness and disempowerment lead to denser emotions that are triggered and catalyzed by self-pity. Self-pity at its core is a denial of the infinite nature of your being and the vast capabilities of your spirit. It leads to an ever denser array of negative emotions that can bar access to the subconscious.

When you exist in a peaceful place within yourself, you’re able to travel at will between your conscious and subconscious minds.

Discovering Emotional Triggers

In order to clear residual emotions, you will need to examine every aspect of your present reality to discover emotional triggers. While many of your emotional triggers date back to childhood, you can find access points through events unfolding within your present moment. If you keep unraveling the strings binding you to turbulent emotions, you will find these emotions are, at the source, wounded and suffering younger aspects of yourself. In other words, the emotional "wounding" happened at a point before you understood how the universe works – a point before you understood how everything that happens to you is helping you grow and learn. Once you see this, you’re far less likely to feel injured or wounded by the events, people, or circumstances in your life.

There may have been times when you felt the actions of others a 'judgment' against you, or an indication of your self-worth. You’re likely to have created situations similar to your original wounding throughout your life. This makes it possible to work with your childhood wound within the present timeframe without excavating the past to find the point of original wounding (though you may at some point choose to undertake this examination of the past as part of your healing process).

To gain awareness of emotional wounds operating in your present moment, pay close attention to circumstances that trigger denser emotions. If it helps, carry a small notebook and note emotional triggers you observe. As you bring awareness to emotional triggers, you lessen their power over you.

Discovering Your 'Sacred' Wound

Many of your emotional triggers trace back to an emotional wound you experienced early in your life, usually by age 7 or 8, though not always. There are many different forms this wounding can take, including the death of a parent, a severe illness or accident, a seeming abandonment or other loss. All sacred wounds have in common an emotional trauma that went into “cellular memory.” Over the years, the essence of this sacred wound is re-energized in various situations in an unconscious attempt to gain understanding of the wound so it can be healed and released. Sometimes, a sacred wound isn't healed in a lifetime. In this case, the essence of the wound is carried forward into the next incarnation where the wound is recreated.

If you choose to gain awareness of your original or “sacred” wound, you can begin by writing a simple autobiography of your life, touching on the emotional highs and lows. Pay close attention to events that still hold an emotional charge. These events reveal to you wounded aspects of yourself still emotionally trapped in time. You can heal and release these aspects by shining the light of your present-moment awareness on them.

This triggering adds density and weight to every rite of passage you undertake. The triggering of unresolved emotional energy is one of the main reasons some turn back from a rite of passage. Transformational periods will bring up unresolved emotions in an effort to purge them. To some, this clearing and cleansing may seem unbearably painful. It’s ultimately the willingness to face all that "comes up" that allows one to take the leap within themselves that leads to the emotional freedom that is the gatekeeper to higher consciousness.

The Nature of the Wounded Self

Inside every person there exists wounded aspects that are most often “wounded child” aspects. These aspects of your self "take on" unresolved emotions throughout your life. Whenever something in your present moment triggers and awakens this wounded self, you experience not only the emotion of what’s happening now, but your wounded emotional body that contains the accumulated wounds of a lifetime. It may seem at times that you are reliving every troubled emotion you have ever experienced.

Accepting the Gifts of Your Wounded Self

Those times when your wounded self calls forth the full menu of your troubled emotions are valuable times when you can access emotions and work with them to bring about healing. You can do this by sitting with your wounded self and undertaking a review of circumstances tied to the emotions. When you allow yourself to "re-see" the situations that created troubled emotions from the light of a higher consciousness, you bring about healing to wounded aspects of yourself and release energy being held around situations from your past.

Foremost among these past situations will be moments from your present lifetime, though these wounded scenarios may also be connected to experiences carried over from past lives.

By seeing troubled emotions from a detached and elevated perspective, you’re able to understand the higher purpose for creating a situation. Once you see the higher purpose of your creations, you have effectively transformed it into an ally rather than a "problem."

Excerpt from The Future is Here Now: Steps to Accessing Fifth-Dimensional Consciousness By DL Zeta

narendersingh

December 30th, 2010, 10:58 AM

SpiritMag August '08
Volume III, No. 1

XII. Human Intellect versus Animal Instinct

So far in this series, we have covered a wide range of topics related to the inner sciences that are applicable to us. Not only human beings, all other species such as animals and birds are a composite of body, mind and soul – the soul being our consciousness. All conscious beings have an individual soul within. The soul has the property of consciousness inherent within it, thus differentiating life from death. As soon as death occurs, that is, departure of the soul from the body, the redundant body must be disposed off.

An important philosophical question that is often asked is, how do we humans differ from other species? Is there any basis in considering ourselves as superior to other species? Are we superior to others because we can rule over them, kill them and devour them, or because we can demonstrate love and compassion towards them?

So, how we are uniquely different from all other species? Even the individual tiny soul is same – a point-like singularity that has the intrinsic property of consciousness. As the soul cannot be a material entity, one soul is same as any other soul. So, the difference between us and animals must lie in the mind domain – the subtle body of ours.

Human beings are much more diverse and variable in their behavior. For example, all members of one species of bird will make nests that are identical. So much so, even their ancestors have always done likewise in the past. However, we humans make our houses in widely different ways. Indeed, one particular person will often make her second house in a different way to her first.one. In every sphere of human activity, not only are there differences from one person to another, but also within one particular person over time. Our clothes, cars, food and innumerable other features change constantly. This dynamism is a consequence of the fact that our knowledge is dynamic, that is, it is continually changing.

This then is the key difference between animals and us; that our knowledge keeps on changing whilst theirs is mostly constant. Their knowledge is inherited to a very large extent, whereas whatever basal human knowledge we inherit, it increases and evolves as we traverse the journey of life. This is precisely why human societies have developed elaborate systems of education for the benefit of their children, so that the potential capacity of our mind domain is fulfilled maximally. Animals and birds have no apparent system of education. Even when humans teach animals (for example, in the case of animals performing in circus) those animals never transmit their skills to other members of their fraternity.

However, there are areas where they may be equipped with better knowledge than we are. For example, because animals are intuitively superior to humans in sensing onset of catastrophes such as an earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, etc. far fewer animals die in such events than humans do. Therefore, the main difference is not the extent and quality of knowledge, but how it is built up over time. To summarize this simply, animals inherit a quantity of knowledge which they preserve. Humans inherit much less knowledge but, with time, we are able to gain a great deal more.

Recapping the main topic of recent issues, our Mind domain consists of three units: mind, memory and intellect. Seen from this perspective, all the knowledge that animals need in their life is programmed into their memory unit. However, the memory unit of humans is minimally programmed at the outset, but we have the capability to gain much more knowledge in the course of life. Thus, we humans are able to program ourselves.

The 'natural' knowledge that animals inherit can be described as instinct. It is that body of knowledge that is identical among all members of a particular species. On the other hand, humans have minimal instinctive knowledge but there is much spare capacity to continually gain knowledge until the last moment of life, utilizing the discerning ability of our intellect unit. So, the unique difference between animals and humans can be simply captured as instinct versus intellect. However, animals do have some intellectual knowledge (for example, a dog knows its master and many things that the master has taught it), whereas humans have a small amount of instinctive knowledge but a large potential capacity for intellectual knowledge.

To recap:
o Animals, birds and other conscious beings, including humans are composite of body, mind and soul.
o Their bodies are more or less the same, that is, being made of the same particles matter.
o The individual soul is the same in all conscious living beings.
o The composition of the subtle Mind domain is also the same i.e. sub-atomic particles. The difference between animals and us is primarily in the content of the Mind domain, particularly the memory unit. Their memory unit is largely filled (pre-programmed) with the instinctive knowledge they inherit. Our instinctive knowledge is much less, but we can gain far more new knowledge during life using our intellect than they can.
o Certain instincts are common to us and them. Both want to live and so have a natural fear of death, called survival instinct. Both have aversion to pain, and possibly an affinity for pleasure though the sources of pleasure and pain may be subjective.

Human beings must understand our place on this planet better. We must avoid using our superiority over them to harm animals. There is no justification at all in killing animals for food. Our superiority should instead be orientated in conduct and behavior aimed for the greater good, such as protecting the environment. We have caused tremendous harm to it by monopolizing the earth at the expense of other species. It is an irony that there is no pollution in forests where only animals live, but we humans have become a major source of pollution, in addition to displacing animals from their natural habitat. We have much hard thinking to do about this.

This article is the last in this second series devoted to the application of inner sciences to 'within us'. The third series, beginning next month, will focus on applying inner sciences to the 'outside world', after which I will be in a better position to return to this topic. I am, also, committed to comprehensively developing inner sciences from 'first principles', with the aim of universal acceptance amongst open-minded and intelligent human beings. Inner sciences will stand the test of scrutiny from both intellectual and compassionate viewpoints, or so to say, from head and heart both. As I see it, inner sciences are the way to the future – a new world without divisive religious spirituality but based on a scientific spirituality which will lead humanity to a long-lasting universal love, brotherhood and peace.

- Dr Harish Chandra
B. Tech. (IIT Kanpur)
Ph. D. (Princeton, USA)

shivamchaudhary

January 17th, 2011, 12:06 PM

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO SEARCH FOR THE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS AND OUR HEARTS WILL TELL US WHEN WE HAVE FOUND THEM

RELIGION TEACHES WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT THEIR VERSION OF THE TRUTH

I think, both exists and accepted so that we can live in a society. Being spiritual is healthy for you and society.

bislaas

January 21st, 2011, 10:54 PM

dear, excellant presentation. To be self conscious or soul conscious is the first and the best step towards spirituality, on attainment of which, no religion or rituals are required. OUM also depicts soul and if we perform our karma by remembering god through soul, the karma becomes akarma and thus satkarma, which is simple like our bank account, where if we draw more amount(take loan) we pay interest to the bank, and if we deposit more bank pays us interest.

narendersingh

January 22nd, 2011, 12:37 AM

All the things become clearer and clearer when one experiences the truth at the deeper level.Generate compassion,love and goodwill to help more and more people to come out of their misery.We have nothing to do with the organized religions..The suffering,the malady,is universal and the remedy is also universal.

bislaas

January 22nd, 2011, 10:05 PM

The power to decide and The power to co-operate are two out of the many powers of the Soul.

Making the right decisions is something that comes naturally out of being soul conscious. When we become a detached observer of the drama on this world stage we start making the right decisions as a natural process which doesn't require effort. This also comes by being connected with the Supreme Soul. Because he is the most perfect and accurate.

Co-operation as a power might seem odd. Most of the people today might think of it as a sign of weakness rather than being a power. But the reason we saw so much togetherness in the families of older times which is lacking today is because this is also one of the powers of the soul that it has lost over the time. And it is very important power for any social system to remain in order.

deepika

January 23rd, 2011, 02:14 AM

Both terms sound differnet but in real they go hand in hand....i personally feel that religion is the path which leads to spirituality....people might wonder what made me feel so....well as mentioned by unknown author the theme of religion is fear and guilt which makes us better human beings as we try not to do what is considered wrong in our religion.....and ofcourse spirituality is the cake only available to the people who have peaceful mind....So if someone follows religion chances are that he might go spiritual eventually

SPIRITUALITY SAYS THAT GOD IS WITHIN US AND THAT WE DON'T NEED ANYONE ELSE TO MAKE THAT DIVINE CONNECTION FOR US

RELIGION SAYS THAT WE ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD AND THAT WE NEED "THEM" TO MAKE THAT DIVINE CONNECTION

SPIRITUALITY SAYS THAT WE ARE FREE TO MAKE CHOICES ON OUR OWN AND THAT WE MUST TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS

RELIGION SAYS WE MUST MAKE THEIR CHOICES AND ACT THEIR WAY

THE THEME OF SPIRITUALITY IS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

THE THEME OF RELIGION IS FEAR AND GUILT

SPIRITUALITY DOES NOT REQUIRE US TO MAKE DONATIONS

RELIGION HAS BECOME BIG BUSINESS

SPIRITUALITY SAYS THERE IS NO HELL, NO JUDGEMENT, NO ANGRY GOD... THAT WE ARE LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY

RELIGION SAYS THERE IS A HELL, GOD GETS ANGRY AND JUDGES US... THEREFORE, WE ARE NOT LOVED UNCONDITIONALLY

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE OUR OWN PATH TO GOD

RELIGION COMMANDS US TO DO IT THEIR WAY

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE GO TO GOD TO LIGHTEN OUR BURDEN

RELIGION HAS TAUGHT US TO FEAR THEIR GOD

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED OF OUR SEXUALITY... THAT IT SHOULD BE A SACRED CELEBRATION OF LOVE

RELIGION HAS TAUGHT US TO FEEL ASHAMED, GUILTY AND DIRTY ABOUT OUR SEXUALITY

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO HONOR AND RESPECT MOTHER EARTH

RELIGION HAS TOLD US TO "BE THOU FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY AND SUBDUE THE EARTH" I REPEAT... "SUBDUE THE EARTH"

SPIRITUALITY REMINDS US THAT WE ARE ONE WITH GOD AND ONE WITH EACH OTHER

RELIGION TEACHES DISUNITY AND SEPARATION WHICH IS THE OPPOSITE OF GOD

SPIRITUALITY SAYS GOD IS WITHIN

RELIGION SAYS HE IS IN HEAVEN AND THAT "THEY" ARE THE ONLY INTERMEDIARIES FOR US

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE ARE BORN IN INNOCENCE AND PURITY

RELIGION SAYS WE ARE BORN WITH SIN

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES THAT WE ARE ON A LONG SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE AND JOURNEY WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY END BY REUNITING WITH OUR SOURCE

RELIGION SAYS WE'VE GOT ONE LIFE TO GET IT ALL RIGHT AND THERE IS NOTHING BUT HEAVEN OR HELL AFTER THAT

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE ARE FREE TO EXPRESS

RELIGION GAVE US THE DREADED INQUISITION

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR ALL

RELIGION GAVE US THE CRUSADES IN WHICH MANY WERE KILLED AND SLAUGHTERED IN THE NAME OF GOD

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES THAT WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER UNCONDITIONALLY AND ALWAYS HONOR THE RIGHTS AND CHOICES OF OTHERS

RELIGION TREATED NATIVE AMERICANS, THE MAYANS AND OTHER INDIGENOUS CULTURES AS SAVAGE PRIMITIVES WHO "MUST BE SAVED"

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES PEACE AND HARMONY

RELIGION HAS CAUSED MORE WARS AND MORE KILLING THAN ANY OTHER REASON

SPIRITUALITY SAYS RESPECT ALL LIVING THINGS

I NEVER ONCE HEARD ANY RELIGION SAY STOP SLAUGHTERING MILLIONS OF TREES EVERY YEAR FOR CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO HAVE FAITH IN OURSELVES

RELIGION TEACHES US TO HAVE FAITH IN THEM

SPIRITUALITY SAYS WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS... THAT WE CAN FIND THEM BY "GOING WITHIN"

RELIGION TEACHES US THAT IT HAS ALL THE ANSWERS AND ONLY ITS ANSWERS ARE THE RIGHT ONES

SPIRITUALITY TEACHES US TO SEARCH FOR THE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS AND OUR HEARTS WILL TELL US WHEN WE HAVE FOUND THEM

RELIGION TEACHES WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT THEIR VERSION OF THE TRUTH

WHICH ONE FEELS BETTER TO YOU? SPIRITUALITY OR RELIGION?

GO TO YOUR HEART FOR THE ANSWER IT WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU

Original author unknown but appreciated

Fateh

January 25th, 2011, 03:40 PM

Deepikaji, every one has his/her openion, my personal views are that religion mislead from the path of spirituality, it is a business, a big cover of corruption, it divert your attention from self to those selfish so called Gurus & expensive & useless practices. IT IS A BIG TOPPIC THUS IN SHORT religion is more close to a political party than the God/ self. the unknown writer has explained quite well, read carefully.The religion is a confusion creator, trouble creator & its controller/contractors are the biggest enemy of the society. In religion good/bad is described by few selfish people where as the real good/bad is decided by the soul ATMA .In a society one has to respect the accepted path of life but it has nothing to do with spirituality.

narendersingh

February 16th, 2011, 12:00 PM

All these things become clearer and clearer when experiences the truth at the deeper level.
Generate compassion,love and goodwill to help more and more people to come out of misery.We have nothing to do with these organised religions.

narendersingh

March 26th, 2011, 05:25 PM

March 23, 2011
Is ‘spiritual’ the seventh sense? We are regarded as having five senses - sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. The ‘sixth sense’ is the extra sense that is intuition or psychic sense. Mystics and the highly spiritually minded have identified ‘spirituality’ as the ‘seventh sense’. In my view it’s the sense of evolving humans or the ‘superhuman’. All six senses fit into the seventh sense of spirituality. We all are spiritual beings, but at this time few are aware of it, and operate in the higher dimensions of a wholistic sensitivity to all phenomenon.

Just what is it to be ‘spiritual’, or what is it that separates those living more unconsciously from those living in high consciousness? While each has it’s value, living mainly to survive, acquire possessions and activities, to have children might just well be living in a state of denial, entitlement, fear, ignorance, needless suffering, etc. The ‘spiritual’ recognize that they are a spirit living in a temple called the body to experience an evolving life of love and self awareness. To be spiritual is a commitment to endlessly seek the higher inner values of life while being in the ‘here and now’.

The spiritual moves into a journey of ‘knowing’, beyond believing that which is assumed. The five senses are limited within this world. The ‘seventh sense’ is a sense that has unlimited potential for seeing and experiencing what’s beyond the many veils of illusion to see and know far more valuable things for personal growth as well as an inspiration to share that with the willing anywhere. The ‘spiritual sense’ is always open to the positive in all aspects of inner being as well as the outer, and its benefits to others. There are no limits of compassion and love that will be put into consistent action.

The spiritual is always looking to turn everything into something more positive while adding to future wisdom. We are spiritual beings who are at different levels of seeing through everything that we incur. To know and love the inner self and remove that as a barrier to seeing and feeling all that is otherwise blocked is spiritual. This is followed by a resonance of reflecting that, in another and others, in the most aware and open means possible. We live in a world community of interdependence on each other for a more conscious, spiritual world. The ‘spiritual’ is open to moving beyond all words of mankind - unplugged and rising higher and higher as well as deeper and deeper into the mysteries of love and life. Call upon the depths of your being.
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