HINDUISM,SANATAN DHARM,VEDAS ARE ROOTS.
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Geeta saar from Bhagavad Gita
Geeta saar from Bhagavad Gita!!
Whatever happened, it happened for good.
Whatever is happening, is happening for good.
Whatever that will happen, it will be for good.
What have you lost for which you cry?
What did you bring with you, which you have lost?
What did you produce, which has destroyed?
You did not bring anything when you were born.
Whatever you have, you have received from Him.
Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.
You came empty handed and you will go the same way.
Whatever is yours today was somebody else’s yesterday and will be somebody else’s tomorrow.
If you look at what you do not have in life, you don’t have anything, if you look at what you have in life, you have everything.
Whatever happened, it happened for good.
Whatever is happening, is happening for good.
Whatever that will happen, it will be for good.
What have you lost for which you cry?
What did you bring with you, which you have lost?
What did you produce, which has destroyed?
You did not bring anything when you were born.
Whatever you have, you have received from Him.
Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.
You came empty handed and you will go the same way.
Whatever is yours today was somebody else’s yesterday and will be somebody else’s tomorrow.
If you look at what you do not have in life, you don’t have anything, if you look at what you have in life, you have everything.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Hinduism, Sanatan Dharm, at a Glance #SANATAN DHARMA #HINDUISM #GITA
Hinduism at a Glance-FROM GITA DARSHAN
The original name of Hinduism is Sanatan Dharm. ‘Sanatan’ means eternal.Sanatan Dharm eternally exists in God, is revealed by God, describes the names, forms, virtues and the abodes of God, and reveals the true path of God realization for the souls of the world.
There are three eternal existences: soul, maya, and God. Souls are unlimited in number, infinitesimal in size, Divine in quality but eternally under the bondage of maya. Soul does not belong to maya or the mayic world. It has a natural and eternal relationship with God.
Maya is a lifeless power of God having three qualities: sattvic (pious), rajas (selfish) and tamas (impious) that represent its existence when it is evolved into the form of the universe. The universe has two dimensions -- material and celestial. The Divine dimension of God lies beyond the field of maya.
Hinduism is monotheistic. There is one single God Who represents the various aspects of His unlimited Blissful charm through many forms such as Krishn, Vishnu, Shiv and Shakti and the impersonal aspect. Out of these Krishn is the absolute supreme form of God which includes all others. God is an eternal, omnipresent, all-Blissful, all-Gracious, all-kind and all-loving Divine personality.
Hinduism explains that the soul is eternally yearning for perfect, unlimited and everlasting happiness. But the soul is mistakenly searching for this happiness in the mayic world where one finds only transitory pleasures followed by disappointments.
The illusion of finding perfect happiness in the mayic world is the cause of soul’s reincarnation. The soul, since uncountable lifetimes, has been taking birth into the 8.4 million species of life where it undergoes the consequences of actions (karmas). Perfect happiness is neither a feature of the mind nor a nature or quality of the mayic world. It can only be attained by God realization.
The aim of human life is to attain God realization. The means of God realization is bhakti and God’s Grace.
Humble, loving and wholehearted submission to a personal form of God is called bhakti. Bhakti evokes the Grace of God and ensures God realization. Upon God realization the soul is released from the bondage of maya and achieves unlimited Divine Bliss forever.
Sattvic practices such as austerity, intellectual study of Vedant, practice of renunciation and meditation, on their own, can only evolve the sattvic quality of person’s mind to a certain extent. They can never be the means of God realization. When one begins to do bhakti, these practices, with the Divine uniting factor of bhakti, are then classified as karm yog or gyan yog. Only when these practices are performed with bhakti, can they become the means of God realization, because only bhakti unfolds God’s Grace.
A personality who has the Divine knowledge of all the scriptures and who is God realized is needed to guide, protect and Grace the souls on their path to God realization. Such a Divine personality is called Guru. It is the Guru who imparts the Divine vision or Divine love of God to a dedicated soul when they reach a stage of complete surrender through bhakti. Divine personalities are always present on the earth planet to guide the souls.
In addition to sending Divine personalities from His abode to the earth planet, God Himself descends on the earth planet from time to time to establish and protect Sanatan Dharm, to reveal His absolute Blissfulness through His Divine actions (leelas) and to show the path of bhakti to the souls. The descension of God into the material (mayic) realm is called avatar in Sanskrit.
The Divine scriptures of Hinduism include the Vedas, the Upvedas, the Vedangas, the Smritis, the Darshan Shastras, the Upnishads, the Puranas, the Itihas (Ramayan and Mahabharat), the Gita, the Bhagwatam and the writings of Jagadgurus, acharyas, and Saints.
The vast collection of Bhartiya scriptures are a systematic line of teachings. They provide the guidelines for all kinds of people, having varying levels of purity of mind and receptivity for God, and lead them towards God realization.
Do you know...
That Bhartiya scripture -- the Upnishads and the Bhagwatam give a detail description of 12 step-wise phases of creation of the universe and the exact calculations of the age of sun and earth planet.
That the Valmiki Ramayan, relating the history of Bhagwan Ram, was written 18.144 million years ago.
That Bhagwan Krishn descended on the earth in 35000 BC.
That Sanskrit is the mother of all the languages and it has been in its perfect form since its introduction in the world.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Vedas are truth-Scientists Claim That Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Deaths-Beyond time and space
GITA/VEDAS are now scientifially explained-
Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death-
A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.
Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company. Before he has been known for his extensive research which dealt with stem cells, he was also famous for several successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.
But not so long ago, the scientist became involved with physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. This explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the professor has been preaching ever since. Biocentrism teaches that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other way around.
Lanza points to the structure of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior to matter. He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding. Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist.
The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too. If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle. In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.
Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In one universe, the body can be dead. And in another it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness which migrated into this universe. This means that a dead person while traveling through the same tunnel ends up not in hell or in heaven, but in a similar world he or she once inhabited, but this time alive. And so on, infinitely. It’s almost like a cosmic Russian doll afterlife effect.
The first one was a science fiction writer H.G. Wells who proclaimed in 1895 in his story “The Door in the Wall”. And after 62 years, this idea was developed by Dr. Hugh Everett in his graduate thesis at the Princeton University. It basically posits that at any given moment the universe divides into countless similar instances. And the next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar fashion. In some of these worlds you may be present: reading this article in one universe, or watching TV in another.
The triggering factor for these multiplyingworlds is our actions, explained Everett. If we make some choices, instantly one universe splits into two with different versions of outcomes.
In the 1980s, Andrei Linde, scientist from the Lebedev’s Institute of physics, developed the theory of multiple universes. He is now a professor at Stanford University. Linde explained: Space consists of many inflating spheres, which give rise to similar spheres, and those, in turn, produce spheres in even greater numbers, and so on to infinity. In the universe, they are spaced apart. They are not aware of each other’s existence. But they represent parts of the same physical universe.
The fact that our universe is not alone is supported by data received from the Planck space telescope. Using the data, scientists have created the most accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic relic background radiation, which has remained since the inception of our universe. They also found that the universe has a lot of dark recesses represented by some holes and extensive gaps.
Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from the North Carolina University with her colleagues argue: the anomalies of the microwave background exist due to the fact that our universe is influenced by other universes existing nearby. And holes and gaps are a direct result of attacks on us by neighboring universes.
Consciousness resides, according to Stuart and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, in the microtubules of the brain cells, which are the primary sites of quantum processing. Upon death, this information is released from your body, meaning that your consciousness goes with it. They have argued that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in these microtubules, a theory which they dubbed orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR).
Consciousness, or at least proto-consciousness is theorized by them to be a fundamental property of the universe, present even at the first moment of the universe during the Big Bang. “In one such scheme proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible to a quantum process associated with brain activity.”
Our souls are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since the beginning of time. Our brains are just receivers and amplifiers for the proto-consciousness that is intrinsic to the fabric of space-time. So is there really a part of your consciousness that is non-material and will live on after the death of your physical body?
Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”. Robert Lanza would add here that not only does it exist in the universe, it exists perhaps in another universe.
If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near death experience”‘
Robert Lanza on Biocentrism:
Scientists Claim That Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death-
A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.
Beyond time and space
Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company. Before he has been known for his extensive research which dealt with stem cells, he was also famous for several successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.
But not so long ago, the scientist became involved with physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. This explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the professor has been preaching ever since. Biocentrism teaches that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other way around.
Lanza points to the structure of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior to matter. He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding. Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist.
The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body. They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too. If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle. In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it. In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.
Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In one universe, the body can be dead. And in another it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness which migrated into this universe. This means that a dead person while traveling through the same tunnel ends up not in hell or in heaven, but in a similar world he or she once inhabited, but this time alive. And so on, infinitely. It’s almost like a cosmic Russian doll afterlife effect.
Multiple worlds
This hope-instilling, but extremely controversial theory by Lanza has many unwitting supporters, not just mere mortals who want to live forever, but also some well-known scientists. These are the physicists and astrophysicists who tend to agree with existence of parallel worlds and who suggest the possibility of multiple universes. Multiverse (multi-universe) is a so-called scientific concept, which they defend. They believe that no physical laws exist which would prohibit the existence of parallel worlds.The first one was a science fiction writer H.G. Wells who proclaimed in 1895 in his story “The Door in the Wall”. And after 62 years, this idea was developed by Dr. Hugh Everett in his graduate thesis at the Princeton University. It basically posits that at any given moment the universe divides into countless similar instances. And the next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar fashion. In some of these worlds you may be present: reading this article in one universe, or watching TV in another.
The triggering factor for these multiplyingworlds is our actions, explained Everett. If we make some choices, instantly one universe splits into two with different versions of outcomes.
In the 1980s, Andrei Linde, scientist from the Lebedev’s Institute of physics, developed the theory of multiple universes. He is now a professor at Stanford University. Linde explained: Space consists of many inflating spheres, which give rise to similar spheres, and those, in turn, produce spheres in even greater numbers, and so on to infinity. In the universe, they are spaced apart. They are not aware of each other’s existence. But they represent parts of the same physical universe.
The fact that our universe is not alone is supported by data received from the Planck space telescope. Using the data, scientists have created the most accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic relic background radiation, which has remained since the inception of our universe. They also found that the universe has a lot of dark recesses represented by some holes and extensive gaps.
Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from the North Carolina University with her colleagues argue: the anomalies of the microwave background exist due to the fact that our universe is influenced by other universes existing nearby. And holes and gaps are a direct result of attacks on us by neighboring universes.
Soul/Spirit
So, there is abundance of places or other universes where our soul could migrate after death, according to the theory of neo-biocentrism. But does the soul exist? Is there any scientific theory of consciousness that could accommodate such a claim? According to Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a near-death experience happens when the quantum information that inhabits the nervous system leaves the body and dissipates into the universe. Contrary to materialistic accounts of consciousness, Dr. Hameroff offers an alternative explanation of consciousness that can perhaps appeal to both the rational scientific mind and personal intuitions.Consciousness resides, according to Stuart and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, in the microtubules of the brain cells, which are the primary sites of quantum processing. Upon death, this information is released from your body, meaning that your consciousness goes with it. They have argued that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in these microtubules, a theory which they dubbed orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR).
Consciousness, or at least proto-consciousness is theorized by them to be a fundamental property of the universe, present even at the first moment of the universe during the Big Bang. “In one such scheme proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible to a quantum process associated with brain activity.”
Our souls are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since the beginning of time. Our brains are just receivers and amplifiers for the proto-consciousness that is intrinsic to the fabric of space-time. So is there really a part of your consciousness that is non-material and will live on after the death of your physical body?
Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”. Robert Lanza would add here that not only does it exist in the universe, it exists perhaps in another universe.
If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near death experience”‘
He adds: “If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”
This account of quantum consciousness explains things like near-death experiences, astral projection, out of body experiences, and even REINCARNATION without needing to appeal to religious ideology. The energy of your consciousness potentially gets recycled back into a different body at some point, and in the mean time it exists outside of the physical body on some other level of reality, and possibly in another universe.Robert Lanza on Biocentrism:
REINCARNATION AND METAPHYSICS FACTS OR FICTION?
Is the idea of reincarnation just religious superstition or new-age wishful thinking? Reincarnation is spoken of in many cultures and religions especially in all Indian Scriptures like GITA. It is something that occurs to souls when they have lessons that still need to be learned in physical incarnation. For example, let’s say I was born into a rich family and coasted through life in comfort and freedom without struggle. When I return home to the spirit realm, I may need to reincarnate again into the physical plane to experience struggle and hardship in order to fully appreciate what comfort and freedom are. Some return for lessons, some apparently return to alleviate karma from past-lives, and some return simply to do good work on the earth and help other souls evolve here. But is there any scientific credibility to the belief in reincarnation?
Before we answer this question, it’s helpful to remember that we do not need hard PROOF in order to be justified in believing in something. If the weatherman says there is a 70% chance of showers, I don’t need proof that it’s going to rain before I am justified in bringing an umbrella with me. I don’t need hard scientific proof of extra-terrestrial life in order to be justified in believing that life exists on other planets, because there are so many good reasons that, when taken together cumulatively, provide a plausible account for belief in life on other planets.
Reincarnation is not something you can objectively measure in the same way you can measure a chemical reaction, so it may even be in principle non-provable using the scientific method. So the question is, “Are there enough solid pieces of evidence that, when taken together, justify a belief in reincarnation?” I think the answer is a resounding yes.
Upon coming to a conclusion about all his findings and his publications, we have to ask ourselves “What is the best explanation that can accommodate all of this evidence?” Why would there be so many cases of children who claim to have been other people, who know the specific names and interpersonal relationships of the person they recall being, have similar behaviour and personalities as the people they claimed to be, have birthmarks and abnormalities where they claimed to have suffered wounds in their past lives, and have phobias linked back to alleged past life traumas if reincarnation did not exist?
Reincarnation can no longer be looked at as some woo-woo pseudoscientific New Age fantasy. This is a hypothesis which has gotten serious attention in the mainstream academic community, and is still ripe with investigation to this day. When we take all the evidence together and look at it without religious or scientific bias getting in the way, it seems as though we are not only justified in believing in reincarnation, but it also may be the best of all explanations for the strongest cases.
“It is not surprising to be born more than once; everything in nature is resurrection” —Voltaire
Sources:
Sources to original articles can be found in the highlighted words in the article.
Laidlaw, R. W. (1967). Review of Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 124, 128.
King, L. S. (1975). Reincarnation. JAMA, 234, 978
http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/case_types-page#CORT
http://www.examiner.com/article/reincarnation-scientific-evidence
Recommended read: Life Before Life by Dr. Jim Tucker, and Journey of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton.
Before we answer this question, it’s helpful to remember that we do not need hard PROOF in order to be justified in believing in something. If the weatherman says there is a 70% chance of showers, I don’t need proof that it’s going to rain before I am justified in bringing an umbrella with me. I don’t need hard scientific proof of extra-terrestrial life in order to be justified in believing that life exists on other planets, because there are so many good reasons that, when taken together cumulatively, provide a plausible account for belief in life on other planets.Reincarnation is not something you can objectively measure in the same way you can measure a chemical reaction, so it may even be in principle non-provable using the scientific method. So the question is, “Are there enough solid pieces of evidence that, when taken together, justify a belief in reincarnation?” I think the answer is a resounding yes.
Dr. Ian Stevenson, Ph.D., former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, spent 40 years researching reincarnation stories within children. This former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology investigated over 3000 independent stories of children who claimed to have memories and know people from their alleged past lives. According to Stevenson, the number of cases that are worth considering is so high that it exceeds the ability of him and his team to investigate them all.
Facial recognition software confirmed that there was in fact a facial resemblance to their alleged prior incarnation. Some had birth marks on places where they allegedly suffered fatal wounds from in their past life. They were often dramatic and sometimes bizarre lesions, such as malformed digits or missing limbs, misshapen heads, and odd markings. As Dr. Stevenson writes in his paper “Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons” in the peer-reviewed Journal of Scientific Exploration:
“About 35% of children who claim to remember previous lives have birthmarks and/or birth defects that they (or adult informants) attribute to wounds on a person whose life the child remembers. The cases of 210 such children have been investigated. The birthmarks were usually areas of hairless, puckered skin; some were areas of little or no pigmentation (hypopigmented macules); others were areas of increased pigmentation (hyperpigmented nevi). The birth defects were nearly always of rare types. In cases in which a deceased person was identified the details of whose life unmistakably matched the child’s statements, a close correspondence was nearly always found between the birthmarks and/or birth defects on the child and the wounds on the deceased person. In 43 of 49 cases in which a medical document (usually a postmortem report) was obtained, it confirmed the correspondence between wounds and birthmarks (or birth defects).”
The memories the children recalled were far too specific to be chalked up to chance. In an article where 3 cases were looked at in great detail by Dr. Stevenson, he reported that each of the 3 children made roughly 30-40 claims regarding memories that had of their past lives, 82-92% of which were both verifiable and correct. The particularities and specific details that were given by the children ranged from anything from the names, personalities, and occupations of their former parents and siblings to the precise layouts of the houses they lived in. It was not uncommon for Stevenson to encounter a child who could go into a town he had never been in before and give him the details of the village, former personal belongings, the neighbourhood in which he lived in a past life, and the people who he use to associate with.
As he concludes: “It was possible in each case to find a family that had lost a member whose life corresponded to the subject’s statements. The statements of the subject, taken as a group, were sufficiently specific so that they could not have corresponded to the life of any other person. We believe we have excluded normal transmission of the correct information to the subjects and that they obtained the correct information they showed about the concerned deceased person by some paranormal process.”
Something which interested Dr. Stevenson was the phobias that were developed from past-life traumas. As Dr. Jim Tucker writes:
“Another area that interested Ian was the behavior of these children. He wrote a paper about phobias that many of the children showed, usually related to the mode of death from the life they claimed to remember (Stevenson, 1990a). He reported that 36% of the children in a series of 387 cases showed such fears. They occurred when the children were very young, sometimes before they had made their claims about the previous life. For example, he described a girl in Sri Lanka who as a baby resisted baths so much that three adults had to hold her down to give her one. By the age of six months, she also showed a marked phobia of buses and then later described the life of a girl in another village who had been walking along a narrow road between flooded paddy fields when she stepped back to avoid a bus going by, fell into the flood water, and drowned.” The original journal article these findings were published can be found here.
What seems to be more than mere chance is that children were able to accurately identify former acquaintances and relationships they had with people in their prior lives. Most impressively was a Lebanese girl who was able to remember and identify 25 different people from her past life and the interpersonal relationships she had with them. His best findings were put together in a book called Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. For further reading, this book would really be your best bet. The American Journal of Psychiatry reviewed these cases and said there were ‘‘cases recorded in such full detail as to persuade the open mind that reincarnation is a tenable hypothesis to explain them’’. He had several other books and papers published and widely accepted in the mainstream community.
As a review in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated ‘‘In regard to reincarnation he has painstakingly and unemotionally collected a detailed series of cases from India, cases in which the evidence is difficult to explain on any other grounds.’’ The reviewer added: ‘‘He has placed on record a large amount of data that cannot be ignored’’. His one paper called ‘‘The Explanatory Value of the Idea of Reincarnation’’ had thousands of requests for reprints by scientists all over the world. His findings were also published in peer reviewed journals the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
During a presentation at Penn State University in 2005, Dr. Jim B. Tucker, a child psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, described how a mother was leaning over the changing table to change her son’s diaper. Her young toddler unexpectedly said, “When I was your age, I used to change your diapers.” Sam Taylor, of Vermont, was born 18 months following his grandfather’s death. When he made this comment, he was only a few years old. When he was four and a half years old, however, Taylor was able to pick out his grandfather from a class picture of about 20 people and identify his grandfather’s first car from a photograph.
Here is video of a young boys reincarnation story covered by ABC news to provide you a glimpse into the nature of these cases. It’s important to note that this case is American, so the parents are not influencing or encouraging the boy to believe in reincarnation: Upon coming to a conclusion about all his findings and his publications, we have to ask ourselves “What is the best explanation that can accommodate all of this evidence?” Why would there be so many cases of children who claim to have been other people, who know the specific names and interpersonal relationships of the person they recall being, have similar behaviour and personalities as the people they claimed to be, have birthmarks and abnormalities where they claimed to have suffered wounds in their past lives, and have phobias linked back to alleged past life traumas if reincarnation did not exist?
Reincarnation can no longer be looked at as some woo-woo pseudoscientific New Age fantasy. This is a hypothesis which has gotten serious attention in the mainstream academic community, and is still ripe with investigation to this day. When we take all the evidence together and look at it without religious or scientific bias getting in the way, it seems as though we are not only justified in believing in reincarnation, but it also may be the best of all explanations for the strongest cases.
“It is not surprising to be born more than once; everything in nature is resurrection” —Voltaire
Sources:
Sources to original articles can be found in the highlighted words in the article.
Laidlaw, R. W. (1967). Review of Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 124, 128.
King, L. S. (1975). Reincarnation. JAMA, 234, 978
http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/case_types-page#CORT
http://www.examiner.com/article/reincarnation-scientific-evidence
Recommended read: Life Before Life by Dr. Jim Tucker, and Journey of Souls by Dr. Michael Newton.
Monday, February 3, 2014
PURPOSE OF LIFE AND HOW TO MEDITATE- IN BHAGVAT GITA
The purpose of living this human life is to practice truth, morality, justice, harmony and finally wisdom. An important step towards achieving wisdom is meditation to conquer the senses. "One who remains unshaken, who has conquered the sens...es to whom a lump of earth a stone and gold are the same is said to have attained Nirvikalp Samadhi (harmonised)," Almighty sermons in Bhagavat Gita, Ch 6 (atmasaMyanmyog) sloke no.8.
Meditation is renouncing the thought and "No one verily becomes a Yogi who has not abandoned the thought", BG 6:2. Thee sermon further that "For the meditative pious, religious person, who wants to reach the highest state of Karm Yog, action is said to be the means. For the same person when he elevates in Yog, tranquility of mind is all the means of God consciousness." (BG 6:3).
We hear ways of meditation from preachers, practitioners and alikes and have seen the portrait/picture of those who achieved the wisdom viz Gautam Buddha, Mahavir, Sri Ramkrishna. Let us know what Almighty sermon on how the yog (meditation) is to be practiced. Almighty is our Creator (the whole universe) and His commandments (in Holy Scriptures) are the most authentic for His most intelligent creations on the face of this earth, the human beings. It is same as an engineer knows the best ways to maintain his created machines.
Please refer Bhagavat Gita 6:11, "In a clean place, having set the seat firm, neither very high nor very low.....".
6:12, "Seated there on the seat, having made the mind one pointed with the activity of the senses and thought subdued, let practice Yog for self-purification."
6:13, "Let the body hold firmly, head and neck erect and still gazing at the tip of the nose, without looking around."
6:14, "Serene minded , fearless, firm in the vow of Brahmacharya, having controlled the mind, thinking on me (Supreme God) and balanced, let sit, having me as the Supreme Goal."
We are an assembly to discuss on Hinduism : SANATAN DHARM (in the light of Holy Scriptures) which are "....the testaments to decide of what should be done and what should not be done. After knowing the ordinances given in the Scriptures, you should act as accordingly." BG 16:23.
ALMIGHTY IS THE GREATEST. SELF ILLUMINATED AND GLORIOUS.
Meditation is renouncing the thought and "No one verily becomes a Yogi who has not abandoned the thought", BG 6:2. Thee sermon further that "For the meditative pious, religious person, who wants to reach the highest state of Karm Yog, action is said to be the means. For the same person when he elevates in Yog, tranquility of mind is all the means of God consciousness." (BG 6:3).
We hear ways of meditation from preachers, practitioners and alikes and have seen the portrait/picture of those who achieved the wisdom viz Gautam Buddha, Mahavir, Sri Ramkrishna. Let us know what Almighty sermon on how the yog (meditation) is to be practiced. Almighty is our Creator (the whole universe) and His commandments (in Holy Scriptures) are the most authentic for His most intelligent creations on the face of this earth, the human beings. It is same as an engineer knows the best ways to maintain his created machines.
Please refer Bhagavat Gita 6:11, "In a clean place, having set the seat firm, neither very high nor very low.....".
6:12, "Seated there on the seat, having made the mind one pointed with the activity of the senses and thought subdued, let practice Yog for self-purification."
6:13, "Let the body hold firmly, head and neck erect and still gazing at the tip of the nose, without looking around."
6:14, "Serene minded , fearless, firm in the vow of Brahmacharya, having controlled the mind, thinking on me (Supreme God) and balanced, let sit, having me as the Supreme Goal."
We are an assembly to discuss on Hinduism : SANATAN DHARM (in the light of Holy Scriptures) which are "....the testaments to decide of what should be done and what should not be done. After knowing the ordinances given in the Scriptures, you should act as accordingly." BG 16:23.
ALMIGHTY IS THE GREATEST. SELF ILLUMINATED AND GLORIOUS.
BHAGWAT GITA-IMPORTANT SLOKAS.
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्माणि॥
FIRST CONCENTRATE ON SRI YANTRA untill u see point-
--Prerequisites in self to do a perfect meditation (yog).
-Meditation in BHAGAVAD GITA.
6:10. Let the Yogi try constantly to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude, alone, with the mind and the body controlled, and free from hope and greed.
6:11. In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, made of a cloth, a skin and kusha grass, one over the other,
6:12. There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat, practise Yoga for the purification of the self.
6:13. Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck erect and perfectly still, gazing at the tip of his nose, without looking around.
6:14. Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmachari, having controlled the mind, thinking of Me and balanced in mind, let him sit, having Me as his supreme goal.
REBIRTH AND ENERGY BALANCE-
One must be aware of the information that soul is nothing but energy. Now let us look at how SCIENCE itself clearly proves:
1. REBIRTH
2. Immortality and Eternity of soul.
Since there is nothing immortal except God, soul, being immortal, is undoubtedly a part of God that's why it is immortal, unborn and eternal.
IDOL WORSHIPPERS-
Are the Hindus worshiping the idol for the idol?
No, Hindus worship the ideal (Almighty) behind the idol. The commandment by Almighty on worshiping to a for...m/manifestation/image/idol/picture is given in Bhagavad Gita in chapter 12.
Let us find HIS ORDINANCE in Bhagavad Gita on meditating and remember HIM (Almighty) through any and every path/idol/image/picture.
Those whose wisdom has been rent away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following this or that rite, led by their own nature. BG 7:20
Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith—that (same) faith of his I make firm and unflinching. BG 7:21
Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that (form), and from it he obtains his desire, these being verily ordained by Me (alone). BG 7:22
Verily the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The worshipers of the gods go to them, but My devotees come to Me. BG 7:23
Where Atman (soul) resides in our body and how can we separate that?
Where the liberated soul goes-He disclosed His Supreme Abode in Bhagavad Gita.We all get the light of wisdom and take the right path to achieve liberation. Be it the path of action, wisdom, mediation or devotion.Free from pride and delusion, victorious over the evil of attachment, dwelling constantly in the Self, their desires having completely turned away, freed from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, the undeluded reach the eternal goal”. BG 15:5
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्माणि॥
FIRST CONCENTRATE ON SRI YANTRA untill u see point-
Atman : unborn, eternal, permanent, primeval. Bhagavad Gita 2:20.
Never the Spirit was born;The Spirit will cease to be never;
Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams;
Birthless and Deathless and Changeless remaineth the Spirit forever;
Death has no touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems.
Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams;
Birthless and Deathless and Changeless remaineth the Spirit forever;
Death has no touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems.
--Prerequisites in self to do a perfect meditation (yog).
-Meditation in BHAGAVAD GITA.
6:10. Let the Yogi try constantly to keep the mind steady, remaining in solitude, alone, with the mind and the body controlled, and free from hope and greed.
6:11. In a clean spot, having established a firm seat of his own, neither too high nor too low, made of a cloth, a skin and kusha grass, one over the other,
6:12. There, having made the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses controlled, let him, seated on the seat, practise Yoga for the purification of the self.
6:13. Let him firmly hold his body, head and neck erect and perfectly still, gazing at the tip of his nose, without looking around.
6:14. Serene-minded, fearless, firm in the vow of a Brahmachari, having controlled the mind, thinking of Me and balanced in mind, let him sit, having Me as his supreme goal.
REBIRTH AND ENERGY BALANCE-
One must be aware of the information that soul is nothing but energy. Now let us look at how SCIENCE itself clearly proves:
1. REBIRTH
2. Immortality and Eternity of soul.
Since there is nothing immortal except God, soul, being immortal, is undoubtedly a part of God that's why it is immortal, unborn and eternal.
विश्व रक्षक अविनाशी विष्णु तीनों लोकों में यज्ञादि कर्मों को पोषित करते हुए तीन चरणों में व्याप्त हैं अर्थात् शक्ति धाराओं (सृजन, षोषण और परिवर्तन) द्वारा विश्व का सन्चालन करते हैं।
ऋक्: भाग 1: मण्डल 1: सूक्त: 1: मन्त्र: 18
विराट् पुरुष क...ी महत्ता अति विस्तृत है। इस श्रेष्ठ पुरुष के एक चरण में सभी प्राणी हैं और तीन भाग अनन्त अन्तरिक्ष में स्थित हैं।
यज्: 31: 3
अथवा हे अर्जुन! ये बहुत जानने से तेरा क्या प्रयोजन है? मैं इस सम्पूर्ण जगत को अपनी योगशक्ति के एक अन्श मात्र से से धारण करके स्थित हूँ।
गीता: 10: 42
ऋक्: भाग 1: मण्डल 1: सूक्त: 1: मन्त्र: 18
विराट् पुरुष क...ी महत्ता अति विस्तृत है। इस श्रेष्ठ पुरुष के एक चरण में सभी प्राणी हैं और तीन भाग अनन्त अन्तरिक्ष में स्थित हैं।
यज्: 31: 3
अथवा हे अर्जुन! ये बहुत जानने से तेरा क्या प्रयोजन है? मैं इस सम्पूर्ण जगत को अपनी योगशक्ति के एक अन्श मात्र से से धारण करके स्थित हूँ।
गीता: 10: 42
IDOL WORSHIPPERS-
Are the Hindus worshiping the idol for the idol?
No, Hindus worship the ideal (Almighty) behind the idol. The commandment by Almighty on worshiping to a for...m/manifestation/image/idol/picture is given in Bhagavad Gita in chapter 12.
Let us find HIS ORDINANCE in Bhagavad Gita on meditating and remember HIM (Almighty) through any and every path/idol/image/picture.
Those whose wisdom has been rent away by this or that desire, go to other gods, following this or that rite, led by their own nature. BG 7:20
Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith—that (same) faith of his I make firm and unflinching. BG 7:21
Endowed with that faith, he engages in the worship of that (form), and from it he obtains his desire, these being verily ordained by Me (alone). BG 7:22
Verily the reward (fruit) that accrues to those men of small intelligence is finite. The worshipers of the gods go to them, but My devotees come to Me. BG 7:23
Jnaanena tu tad ajnaanam yeshaam naashitam aatmanah;Teshaam aadityavaj jnaanam prakaashayati tatparam.
But, to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge
of the Self, like the sun,
knowledge reveals the Supreme (Brahman). Bhagavad Gita
5:16
When one is enlightened with the knowledge by his
ignorance is destroyed, then his Knowledge reveals every thing in the
daytime.-Bhagavad Gita, 5.16
Where Atman (soul) resides in our body and how can we separate that?
Where the liberated soul goes-He disclosed His Supreme Abode in Bhagavad Gita.We all get the light of wisdom and take the right path to achieve liberation. Be it the path of action, wisdom, mediation or devotion.Free from pride and delusion, victorious over the evil of attachment, dwelling constantly in the Self, their desires having completely turned away, freed from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, the undeluded reach the eternal goal”. BG 15:5
हे अर्जुन! ब्रहमलोकपरयन्त सब लोक पुनरानर्ती
हैं, परन्तु हे कुन्तीपुत्र! मुझको
प्राप्त होकर पुनरजन्म नहीं
होता; क्योंकि मैं कालातीत हूँ
और ये सब ब्रह्मादी
के लोक काल के
द्नारा सीमीत होने से अनित्य
हैं।
(श्रीमद्भग्वद्गीता - अध्याय 8 - श्लोक 26)
(श्रीमद्भग्वद्गीता - अध्याय 8 - श्लोक 26)
GITA EXPLAINS-DEMIGODS,GODS-
Lord reveals that a man who worships demigods, go to (or attain) the demigods; those who worship the ancestors, attain the ancestors and those who worship the ghosts, devils, demons, ghouls etc. ...attain the Satan but all of them fall in the cycle of life and death.
And Those Who Worship Me Attain Me, The Supreme and never ever take birth again and Never fall in the cycle of life and death.
We are also aware that only the Hindus worship Lord Krishna. Let us see whom do the others attain who worship The Supreme Being as a formless entity.
ये त्व्क्षरमनिर्देश्यमव्यक्तं पर्युपासते /
सर्वत्रगमचिन्त्यं च कूटस्थमचलं ध्रुवम् //
सन्नियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धय: /
ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रता: //
परन्तु जो पुरुष इन्द्रियों के समुदाय को भलि प्रकार वश में करके मन-बुद्धि से परे, सर्वव्यापि, अकथनीयस्वरूप और सदा एकरस रहने वाले, नित्य, अचल, निराकार, अविनाशी, सच्चिदान्नद ब्रह्म को निरन्तर एक ही भाव से ध्यान करते हुए भजते हैं, वे सम्पूर्ण भूतों के हित में रत और सबमें समान भाव वाले योगी मुझको ही प्राप्त होते हैं // (गीता: 12: 3-4)
(Oh! Arjuna) But, those who have controlled all their senses and meditate on the formless entity with one concentrated mind; those people who don’t discriminate and have impartial vision and intention for all the beings and are in the support of goodness for humanity, such hermit like men attain NON-OTHER than Me. (Gita: 12: 3-4)
When you go through the 30th verse of Gita: Chapter 6 you find the same thing:
"One who sees Me pervading in every entity in the form of soul and everything within Me, for him I am never unseen and hr is not unseen to Me"
(Gita:6:30)
Almighty discloses in JNANAVIJNANAYOG (Chapter 7: Bhagavat Gita) that whatever exists is nothing but Himself. He is the cause of the appearance of the universe and all things in it. Everything is strung on Him like clusters of gems on a string. He is the essence, substance and substratum of everything, whether visible or invisible. Although everything is in Him, yet He transcends everything as the actionless Self. Prakriti or Nature is made up of the three Gunas or qualities—Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas. These three qualities delude the soul and make it forget its true nature, which is one with God. This delusion is termed Maya. As narrated by SWAMI SIVANANDA
Lord reveals that a man who worships demigods, go to (or attain) the demigods; those who worship the ancestors, attain the ancestors and those who worship the ghosts, devils, demons, ghouls etc. ...attain the Satan but all of them fall in the cycle of life and death.
And Those Who Worship Me Attain Me, The Supreme and never ever take birth again and Never fall in the cycle of life and death.
We are also aware that only the Hindus worship Lord Krishna. Let us see whom do the others attain who worship The Supreme Being as a formless entity.
ये त्व्क्षरमनिर्देश्यमव्यक्तं पर्युपासते /
सर्वत्रगमचिन्त्यं च कूटस्थमचलं ध्रुवम् //
सन्नियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सर्वत्र समबुद्धय: /
ते प्राप्नुवन्ति मामेव सर्वभूतहिते रता: //
परन्तु जो पुरुष इन्द्रियों के समुदाय को भलि प्रकार वश में करके मन-बुद्धि से परे, सर्वव्यापि, अकथनीयस्वरूप और सदा एकरस रहने वाले, नित्य, अचल, निराकार, अविनाशी, सच्चिदान्नद ब्रह्म को निरन्तर एक ही भाव से ध्यान करते हुए भजते हैं, वे सम्पूर्ण भूतों के हित में रत और सबमें समान भाव वाले योगी मुझको ही प्राप्त होते हैं // (गीता: 12: 3-4)
(Oh! Arjuna) But, those who have controlled all their senses and meditate on the formless entity with one concentrated mind; those people who don’t discriminate and have impartial vision and intention for all the beings and are in the support of goodness for humanity, such hermit like men attain NON-OTHER than Me. (Gita: 12: 3-4)
How one can know which is predominant in self, sattva or
rajo or tama. This is a test on self to determine next course of action. Read
it. You will surely like it. This is truth. Words of Almighty.
SATTAV (good, noble), RAJO (passionate) ...and TAMA
(ignorant), the knowledge of these three Gunas (virtues/qualities), which hold
the entire universe and all creatures under their sway, is of vital importance
to each and everyone for their progress and happiness in life.
The highest of the three qualities is Sattva. It is pure. It brings about happiness, wisdom and
illumination. The second quality of Rajo gives rise to passion manifested by intense
attachment and greed. It causes sorrow and suffering. The third, termed Tama, is the worst of all. It arises due to ignorance and results in darkness, lethargy and delusion.
Lord Krishna reveals that these three qualities compose the Cosmic Nature. This Cosmic
Nature is the primal source and origin of the entire creation and all things in it. Hence all things
created are subject to their influence and irresistible power. The individual soul also is bound to the body by these three qualities present in Cosmic Nature. The Supreme Being brings about creation through the help of His Prakriti (Nature) endowed with these threefold qualities.
The three Gunas are present in all human beings. None is free from the operation of any one of the three qualities. They are not constant. Sometimes Sattva predominates and at other times Rajos or Tamas predominates. One should analyse and stand as a witness of these three qualities.
Almighty declares in the Fourteenth Discourse i.e. Gunatraya-vibhaga-yoga in Bhagavad Gita, that one who rises beyond all the three Gunas through spiritual practices, becomes free from birth, death, old age and sorrow, and enjoys immortality.
The highest of the three qualities is Sattva. It is pure. It brings about happiness, wisdom and
illumination. The second quality of Rajo gives rise to passion manifested by intense
attachment and greed. It causes sorrow and suffering. The third, termed Tama, is the worst of all. It arises due to ignorance and results in darkness, lethargy and delusion.
Lord Krishna reveals that these three qualities compose the Cosmic Nature. This Cosmic
Nature is the primal source and origin of the entire creation and all things in it. Hence all things
created are subject to their influence and irresistible power. The individual soul also is bound to the body by these three qualities present in Cosmic Nature. The Supreme Being brings about creation through the help of His Prakriti (Nature) endowed with these threefold qualities.
The three Gunas are present in all human beings. None is free from the operation of any one of the three qualities. They are not constant. Sometimes Sattva predominates and at other times Rajos or Tamas predominates. One should analyse and stand as a witness of these three qualities.
Almighty declares in the Fourteenth Discourse i.e. Gunatraya-vibhaga-yoga in Bhagavad Gita, that one who rises beyond all the three Gunas through spiritual practices, becomes free from birth, death, old age and sorrow, and enjoys immortality.
OM TAT SAT.
What exactly this syllable says.
BG 17:23. “Om Tat Sat”: this has been declared to be the triple designation of Brahman. By that were created formerly the Brahmanas, the Vedas and the sacrifices".
What exactly this syllable says.
BG 17:23. “Om Tat Sat”: this has been declared to be the triple designation of Brahman. By that were created formerly the Brahmanas, the Vedas and the sacrifices".
When you go through the 30th verse of Gita: Chapter 6 you find the same thing:
"One who sees Me pervading in every entity in the form of soul and everything within Me, for him I am never unseen and hr is not unseen to Me"
(Gita:6:30)
About REBIRTH in Gita:
प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वती: समा:।
शुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोsभिजायते॥...
A man who walks on a path towards absolution and performs tasks to attain the same but with imperfection, due to several reasons, also achieves divine worlds (sanctified worlds) i.e. Heaven (and Brahmlok, Pitarlok etc.); remains (lives) there for years and takes birth (again) in the house(s) of good charactered (cultured) people.
Gita:6:41
योगभ्रष्ट पुरुष पुण्यवानों के लोकों को अर्थात् स्वर्गादि उत्तम लोकों को प्राप्त होकर, उनमें बहुत वर्षों तक निवास करके फिर शुद्ध आचरण वाले श्रीमान् पुरुषों के घर में जन्म लेता है॥४१॥ (गीता:6:4
प्राप्य पुण्यकृतां लोकानुषित्वा शाश्वती: समा:।
शुचीनां श्रीमतां गेहे योगभ्रष्टोsभिजायते॥...
A man who walks on a path towards absolution and performs tasks to attain the same but with imperfection, due to several reasons, also achieves divine worlds (sanctified worlds) i.e. Heaven (and Brahmlok, Pitarlok etc.); remains (lives) there for years and takes birth (again) in the house(s) of good charactered (cultured) people.
Gita:6:41
योगभ्रष्ट पुरुष पुण्यवानों के लोकों को अर्थात् स्वर्गादि उत्तम लोकों को प्राप्त होकर, उनमें बहुत वर्षों तक निवास करके फिर शुद्ध आचरण वाले श्रीमान् पुरुषों के घर में जन्म लेता है॥४१॥ (गीता:6:4
पार्थ नैवेह नामुत्र विनाशस्तस्य विद्यते।
न हि कल्याणकृत्कश्चिद्दुर्गतिं तात गच्छति॥...
श्री भगवान् बोले- हे पार्थ! उस पुरुष का न तो इस लोक में नाश होता है और न परलोक में ही। क्योंकि आत्मोद्धार के लिए अर्थात भगवत्प्राप्ति के लिए कर्म करने वाला कोई भी मनुष्य दुर्गति को प्राप्त नहीं होता।(गीता:6:40)
The Lord tends to explain Arjuna about any man who walks on a path to reach the Almighty.
Lord says, "Oh Parth (Arjuna)! A man who walks on the path to reach God never gets destroyed either in this world or in the divine world(s) [after this world]. Oh Beloved! It is so because, a man who works for the purpose of attaining absolution/emanicipation i.e. attaining God, never falls or attains misery.
(Gita:6:40)
श्री भगवान् बोले- हे पार्थ! उस पुरुष का न तो इस लोक में नाश होता है और न परलोक में ही। क्योंकि आत्मोद्धार के लिए अर्थात भगवत्प्राप्ति के लिए कर्म करने वाला कोई भी मनुष्य दुर्गति को प्राप्त नहीं होता।(गीता:6:40)
The Lord tends to explain Arjuna about any man who walks on a path to reach the Almighty.
Lord says, "Oh Parth (Arjuna)! A man who walks on the path to reach God never gets destroyed either in this world or in the divine world(s) [after this world]. Oh Beloved! It is so because, a man who works for the purpose of attaining absolution/emanicipation i.e. attaining God, never falls or attains misery.
(Gita:6:40)
यदा यदा ही धर्मस्य
ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानम् अधर्मस्य तदात्मानम् सृजाम्यहम्॥
अभ्युत्थानम् अधर्मस्य तदात्मानम् सृजाम्यहम्॥
Almighty discloses in JNANAVIJNANAYOG (Chapter 7: Bhagavat Gita) that whatever exists is nothing but Himself. He is the cause of the appearance of the universe and all things in it. Everything is strung on Him like clusters of gems on a string. He is the essence, substance and substratum of everything, whether visible or invisible. Although everything is in Him, yet He transcends everything as the actionless Self. Prakriti or Nature is made up of the three Gunas or qualities—Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas. These three qualities delude the soul and make it forget its true nature, which is one with God. This delusion is termed Maya. As narrated by SWAMI SIVANANDA
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