It's complicated!' This is how most of us describe our lives... unaware of the fact that it is due to our own thoughts and actions that life seems complex. If not dealt with great care, essential aspects of life such as desires, ambitions, feelings, and relationships can become the reasons for our misery. Soul Mantra discusses these everyday concepts in a detailed and thought-provoking manner.
Whether you are a spiritual seeker, a novice, a youngster, or a curious reader in need of new perspectives, this comprehensive spiritual guide will provide answers to all the tricky questions like:
Can an ordinary individual lead an extraordinary life?
Is there an end or purpose to desires or should you just keep running behind them?
Is there a way to be eternally happy without any ups and downs in life?
Interspersed with insights and practical tips using real-life instances and anecdotes, this book is relatable to readers of every age, which also gives them the beautiful gift of broadened perspective.
This compendium will make you feel as if it has been written, handpicked, and customised just for you.
SADGURU RAMESHJI is a businessman turned New Age, enlightened spiritual guru who has written columns for publications like Deccan Chronicle and Hindi Milap.
Under the guidance of Sri Rajendra Brahmachariji, he mastered the art of Hatha yoga and Raja yoga and was eventually blessed with the knowledge of pure consciousness by Sri Swamy Poornananda. He spreads his wisdom through discourses on YouTube and at the Poorna Ananda Ashram in Hyderabad, Telangana. He resides in Hyderabad with his family.
The life given to us is very simple until we complicate it. As children, we never bothered about what people thought of us or what anyone else was doing. Sunny days pleased us; rainy days had their own delights. We were very happy when our flexibility was at its peak and our lives were not structured in set patterns. We were content to spend hours drawing and painting on sheets of paper with all possible colours. It all became complicated when we started making it compulsory to draw margins of have to and cannots. This book is an introduction to spirituality and its application in our daily life. Spirituality teaches us to erase these margins so that we can freely colour on and enjoy these limitless pages of existence. Spirituality is about uncomplicating our lives and returning them to their original simplicity. It is truly and simply about taking it easy.
We live a life based on the notions that we are either spoon-fed or that we pick from observing those around us. These notions are called impressions. These impressions help our power of intellect to direct our life. If we pick up impressions that do not help us evolve or help live a life as happy and carefree as that of our childhood, then those impressions have to be superimposed with another kind of impressions that will help us lead a peaceful life. Spirituality teaches to do so effortlessly.
The purpose of life is to enjoy it king-size. This can happen only when we are able to see and appreciate the extra in the ordinary. An open mind is the first prerequisite in this process.
Spirituality opens our mind to possibilities that bring back our ease and dissuades it from pursuing a path away from real happiness.
There are three layers to our existence-physical existence (sthul shareer) as the body, mind (sukshma mann), and the individual consciousness or atman. Similarly, the world we witness also exists in three layers-gross world (sthul sansar) with gross objects; people and places, intangible spiritual powers (sukshma brahmandiye shaktiyan); and finally, the all-pervading, omnipresent consciousness (paramatma). For a non-spiritual person, the world majorly exists in two dimensions-the gross level, where we identify things with a certain name and form; and the mind level, where everything is understood using thoughts as being either good or bad. However, our real existence is in the third dimension where we are the atman (individual consciousness) and everything else is part of paramatma.
As long as we accept ourselves as the physical body, we will deal with the gross world and its illusions. But if we wish to discard these illusions and the resultant confusions that take away the pleasure of being alive, then we have to operate from the higher plane of individual consciousness-chetna We can do this by turning our mind towards the atman within.
The physical body needs no liberation as it is inherently destined to perish. The atman within us can never be bound. It is only the layer of the mind, which binds these two, that craves for freedom from thoughts that make life miserable.
Atman on its own is a source of energy. It emanates the mind to experience its own existence. In the course of experiencing itself through a physical body, the mind gets layered with impressions that overlaps with its first idea of being the atman. Spirituality is a process that helps remove the overlapping impressions so that the mind can remember its actual origin-the atman.
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