Spiritual Forums

Home


Donate!


Articles


CHAT!


Shop


 
Welcome to Spiritual Forums!.

We created this community for people from all backgrounds to discuss Spiritual, Paranormal, Metaphysical, Philosophical, Supernatural, and Esoteric subjects. From Astral Projection to Zen, all topics are welcome. We hope you enjoy your visits.

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest, which gives you limited access to most discussions and articles. By joining our free community you will be able to post messages, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload your own photos, and gain access to our Chat Rooms, Registration is fast, simple, and free, so please, join our community today! !

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, check our FAQs before contacting support. Please read our forum rules, since they are enforced by our volunteer staff. This will help you avoid any infractions and issues.

Go Back   Spiritual Forums > Religions & Faiths > Hinduism

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #31  
Old 25-11-2019, 04:21 AM
ajay00 ajay00 is offline
Master
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 1,291
 


The Self, our Being, is awareness. - Sri Muruganar

Prajñanam brahma - Brahman is pure consciousness (Aitareya Upanishad 3.3 of the Rig Veda)



The Self is but awareness or pure consciousness, and pure consciousness is the fundamental substratum upon which this play of matter, energy, space, time and causation arises and returns back again.


Remembrance of the Self at all times ensures that this play is played as a joyful game, while forgetfulness of the Self ensures that this same play becomes a torturous experience through suffering and misery.

But this suffering and misery also has an objective in that it helps one to properly discriminate between the temporary and eternal and hold on to the latter.


Purpose of suffering is to connect you to your Self (Awareness). It indicates that you got carried away by all the transient things around you. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
__________________
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda

Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1

If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Old 25-11-2019, 12:22 PM
handy guy handy guy is offline
Pathfinder
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 85
 
Hello Shivani, You are welcome about the information I found and brought up. And thank you for your heart felt recognition concerning Advaita Siddhanta and your further informative and generous statements in the forum!

Reply With Quote
  #33  
Old 26-11-2019, 11:51 PM
Shivani Devi Shivani Devi is offline
Master
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 10,861
  Shivani Devi's Avatar
Quote:
Originally Posted by handy guy
Hello Shivani, You are welcome about the information I found and brought up. And thank you for your heart felt recognition concerning Advaita Siddhanta and your further informative and generous statements in the forum!

You are very welcome

So now, I can go back to translating the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra.

Aum Namah Shivaya
Reply With Quote
  #34  
Old 02-12-2019, 03:39 PM
Miss Hepburn Miss Hepburn is offline
Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Southwest, USA
Posts: 24,945
  Miss Hepburn's Avatar
Thumbs up

Quote:
Originally Posted by ajay00
Remembrance of the Self at all times ensures that this play
is played as a joyful game....

But this suffering and misery also has an objective in that it helps
one to properly discriminate between the temporary and eternal
and hold on to the latter.
Love it, thank you.
__________________

.
*I'll text in Navy Blue when I'm speaking as a Mod. :)


Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru
.


Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 01:45 AM.


Powered by vBulletin
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
(c) Spiritual Forums