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HOPE AND PEACE

By Milie Sharma

Two beautiful words, simple, short and yet very reassuring. I live moment by moment through these two words. Life is quiet exciting, every day and every moment if you really notice. Life is an adventurous invite which we receive in the form that comes as excitements, sorrows, pain, love, hate, anger, impulsion, and calm, composed temperament. Amidst all this, there is always that two words, Hope and Peace that always bring us back to our true nature keeping us a...

He is known as German Sadhu.

The Sanskrit term ‘Sadhu’ is used for a renunciant who is totally detached from the world around him. In India, it is not an uncommon thing to find such a renunciate person who has given up all the worldly aspirations and who is leading a life of contentment with bare minimum resources to pass the day.

German Sadhu is a personification of such a life. The word ‘German’ in his name indicates his German origins.

He is been staying here along the banks of Ganges for...

“What are you writing, Ravindra”, I asked.

Ravindra just looked at me mercifully, ignored my question and continued to gaze in his diary.

It was not the first time that I had asked him this question and it was not the first time he had given me a petty look.

In the early part of my spiritual quest, I was staying in the dormitory hall of a monastery. In return, I used to serve in their office as an office boy.

All new inmates of the monastery were given a common dormitory accommodation for ini...

Dark night of soul is a process through which every spiritual seeker passes at some stage of his quest. I myself have been through it and now I am able to look back at it with somewhat impartiality.

Although the term ‘Dark night of soul’ is not to be found in the scriptures or in major spiritual texts, but the commonly accepted definition of it is ‘Loss of meaning and purpose in the hitherto acquired concepts, occurred due to the loss of ego self’.

Origin of the...

One day Mulla Nasaruddin’s wife got pissed off with neighborhood children making lot of noise around their house.

“Why don’t you go and drive them off?”, she asked Nasaruddin.

“I have tried it several times but they gather courage again”, Nasaruddin replied in a helpless tone.

“Try some new trick or do whatever you want, but I must see them going off in next 5 minutes”, ordered the wife in a commanding voice.

Nasaruddin started scratching his head and somehow managed to come up with a trick.

Are you a spiritual seeker? If not then don’t worry about this blog.
But if yes, then you must pay a serious attention to the tendencies that I have discussed below.

These are the common traits which I have observed in the novice spiritual seekers and to tell you the secret, I myself was showing some of these tendencies around 12 years ago when my spiritual quest was overflowing with the strong desire for God realization.

At the very outset, let me make it clear that the points which I shall...

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Aaruni said, “O Shvetaketu! When a person is accused of theft, the soldiers of the king take him to court for his trial. There he is asked to touch a hot iron rod as a part of his trial. If he has committed the theft then he gets burnt by the hot iron rod which proves his crime. But if he is really not guilty then he does not get burnt as he is covered by the truth. In that case they set him free of the charge.”

“Just like the person in that trial who does not get burnt because he...

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Aaruni said, “O Shvetaketu! When a person is on a death bed, people near him surround him and ask him ‘Can you recognize us? Can you recognize us?’. Till his speech does not get dissolved into mind and till his mind does not get dissolved into his Prana(air within the body) and till his prana does not get dissolved into heat within the body and till the heat does not get dissolved into the transcendental deity, he recognizes the persons surrounding him.”

“After that when his speec...

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“O Shvetaketu! Just like a blindfolded person,having been droped at a secluded place, shouts ‘Help! Help! I have been brought here but I belong to Gandhar country…”

“Hearing his shouts, a kind person comes and opens his blindfold and tells him the direction to Gandhar country. After that the person eventually reaches Gandhar country by asking people on the way. Similarly, the one having the true master and having been directed in right direction realizes the existence as his true...

Dark night of soul is a process through which every spiritual seeker passes at some stage of his quest. I myself have been through it and now I am able to look back at it with somewhat impartiality. What is ‘Dark night of soul’? Although the term ‘Dark night of…

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