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  • How much time should you meditate each day?

    How much time should you meditate each day?

    Meditation creates inner peace and external dynamism, and is the most powerful tool for today’s high speed era. Around half-an-hour of meditation will work for beginners. This timing can increase up to a 1-hour a day as you get more experience. You need to assess this yourself. Unregulated meditation and long hours of sitting…

  • Stories on enlightenment

    Stories on enlightenment

    Implicit trust can trigger the glorious spurt of enlightenment. The Sadhak (spiritual aspirant) can be blessed with a sudden burst of awakening, if he surrenders trough devotion. To understand this well, I would like to narrate couple of stories. Bodhidharma and his disciple Bodhidharma a great mystic who lived around 500 AD was doing…

  • Oh Sādhaka!                                          Find your inner treasure

    Oh Sādhaka! Find your inner treasure

    I was asked by a spiritual aspirant (Sādhaka) on how to put up with injustices, travesties and insults that we come across in day to day life that have become unbearable to deal with. What should I say to him? At the outset there is discord at the fundamental level. If we are angry…

  • Why you should meditate daily?

    Why you should meditate daily?

    In this video, guruji explains the nature of meditations and the positive transformation they could bring into our lives. There is a great deal of explanation about the fundamental sickness of mind (such as raga and dwesha) that create ignorance, the states like samadhi, and the final realisations like enlightenment that could be achieved…

  • Stages of Enlightenment

    Stages of Enlightenment

    There is limited knowledge about the stages of enlightenment because only a few have reached that level of awakening. Most of what is available is theoretical, with little practical relevance. In this video, Guruji gives a much-needed commentary on this rare topic. He cites the ‘Ten Bulls of Zen,’ a fascinating work from the…

  • Can you live in the world without ego?

    Can you live in the world without ego?

    Ego is the problem; that one thing that binds you to the world of pain and suffering. Once the ego is annihilated, you become the pure consciousness or Iswara. That infinite thing, the substratum, that is forever present. It is indestructible and cannot be touched by Prakriti in any way. Those who reach that…

  • Ultimate Sadhana Sutra

    Ultimate Sadhana Sutra

    Many spiritual aspirants think ‘meditation’ is the final way to enlightenment. Even in the days of the rishis, many great sadhus tried to reach Kaivalya or enlightenment, through severe penance and incessant meditation. All their efforts failed because they missed one sutra, which is the most sacred. This video is all about that great…