Questions and Answers on Meditation – advanced

10 Question: What is pratyáhára? Answer: Pratyáhára is derived: prati – á – hr + ghaiṋ. The word áhára literally means “assimilating” or “taking something within”. As a yogic practice, pratyáhára means “withdrawal of the mind from external objectivity and goading the withdrawn mind toward Parama Puruśa”. 11 Question: What is práńáyáma? Answer: Práńáyáma is...

Sádhaná (intuitional practice) is the first and the foremost duty in human life

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 Human life is meant for the practice of this blissful path of sádhaná. For those who fail to undertake this practice, it becomes pointless to continue carrying the burden of existence. Játashca eva jagati jantavah sádhujiivitáh Ye punarneha jáyante sheśáh jat́hara gardabháh....

Which is the best way to attain Him?

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 Which is the best way to attain Him? Some people preach the excellence of knowledge, others proclaim the importance of action, and others emphasize the superiority of devotion. In my opinion all three – knowledge, action and devotion – are necessary. But...

Microcosmic mind ultimately will be transformed into the Macrocosmic Mind.

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 Everyone has the right to hold the Supreme Entity in their citta, but can His form be held in the same way as the objects of the quinquelemental world? No. He cannot be perceived in the same way as things like horses,...

The Supreme Entity is manifesting Himself as an infinite number of microcosms

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 This entire universe is His manifestation. Even in the period which people call akála. He was manifesting Himself as an infinite number of microcosms, and is still doing the same today. Whatever there was, is, and will be, in the crude, subtle...

Two types of actions: original actions and non-original or reactive actions

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 There are two types of actions: pratyayamúlaka (original actions) and saḿskáramúlaka (non-original or reactive actions). Human beings have the freedom to perform original actions as they think fit, whereas in non-original actions they are mechanically guided by the mutative force of Prakrti,...

Brahmacarya, Brahma as doer of all actions, saḿskáras

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 An expression of adhyátma yoga becomes an expression of bhuta yoga. With this ideation, and in the process of sádhaná, the sense of doership gradually vanishes and the saḿskáras (reactive momenta) get exhausted. When Brahma is realized as the actual doer of...

How can one liberate oneself while performing actions?

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 But since most actions are related to matter, and since one is obliged to work in the mundane world for one’s self preservation, what should be the proper way to live? Is it possible to attain liberation from bondages even while busily...

Living beings advance from an undeveloped stage to a developed one

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 Under normal circumstances living beings advance from an undeveloped stage to a developed one. Thus the history of all living beings is the history of their undeveloped stages, the history of the predominance of crude materialistic or animalistic tendencies. Timid people are...

Matter in the Cycle of Creation

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, In Adoration of the Supreme, in Subháśita Saḿgraha, Part 6 None of the five fundamental factors (ethereal, aerial, luminous, liquid, solid), or their initial stages, or any so-called matter, can be called the cause of creation, because they are exclusively dependent upon the grace of the Cosmic Entity for their existence. The...