One Awakened Soul

From my gurus, I know that God keeps coming back to us again and again in different forms that are called Avtars. He came to my country India in the form of Lord Krishna, Lord Rama, & Lord Buddha, and it’s my firm believe that he will come back once again or perhaps he has already taken birth, who knows!

Today, I am going to draw your attention towards a person who with her followers is serving as teacher, dissolving doubts the people who visit her for help. As mother, she serves the society with love and compassion winning the hearts of millions, and as the Divinity, she is one who assures people of liberation. Herself very soft-spoken and through simple words she teaches the world the most profound truths. Her affectionate maternal love tamed the rebellious spirits of many; but her great power lay in her solicitude for all. 

I am talking about one such woman who is believed to be a person that belongs to the Ramayana Era dating 7000 years back. She has the mystical powers to stop the rain, she has the power to tell you on your face about your past, present and future. Now, you may not be believing me at this point, as is the case with many and even I never believed to these stories even after watching her demonstrating her supernatural powers on the Television in a leading news channel. My mind didn’t want believe that such a person actually exists in today’s world, who truly has the powers that people talk about around her. Here, I just want to inform you that she and her powers are greatly respected and recognized by the Government in her country of birth, Sri Lanka. Her name is Ganga Sudarshini Zoiza, but it is believed that she is a rebirth of Queen Suparnikha or Surpanakha.

When I first met her in wee hours of the morning amidst cold breeze and astounding aromatic smoke around us, I could not believe my eyes that I am actually in front of that person who the world says is the sister of King Ravana, who truly has great powers to do anything to help people. 

Holy Mother Shri Ganga Sudarshini, is conscious of her divine nature, but she rarely expresses this awareness. She is fully aware of her follower’s present limitations and their future possibilities. As much as I know, no one till date went away from her with a downcast heart.

Anyone can meet her by taking prior appointment by contacting to her admin from their webiste: http://www.infuture.co. One can find about her latest Predictions in the Astro Predictions tab above. My gurus always preach that the outstanding virtues of womanhood are courage, serenity, self-control, sweetness, compassion, wisdom, and an intuitive relationship with God. Holy Mother possesses all these virtues. I just pray that, the blessings of the holy mother be with us always.

THE SECRET TO JOB SATISFACTION

Worshiping our work is a spiritual practice 

Everybody likes appreciations, awards, recognition and exposure in their respective jobs. The reasons for aspiring for these awards and accolades or promotion, name and fame is either monetary gains or improvement in the reputation of one self or may be both. But how many of us work for the sake of work and not for any kind of recognition or promotion? 

So what does spirituality has to do with Job Satisfaction? Well, the answer my dear is; Work Is Worship. Today I want to draw your attention to the secret to name and fame in job or elsewhere. The secret is hidden in the central idea of the Gita (the holy book of the Hindus) and that is – Work incessantly without any kind of expectations on the returns.

One can work constantly without being bothered about the returns of his hard work, only when his character is established. The character becomes good when we are surrounded with good impressions. Similarly, if one is surrounded by bad impressions, the person will perform badly. In office if you continuously give importance to listening to bad words, bad thoughts and you pick up interest in bad actions, your mind will be full of bad impressions; and they will influence your thoughts not to work or give contribution to the team objectives and group goals. As a matter of fact, these bad impressions do not stop working, and the resultant will be evil, which is obvious. What happens next is, you earn yourself a bad name in the organization and you will have no control to help yourself out of it. We really need to understand the reason of poor performance to make corrective actions. The large accumulation of these bad impressions in a man’s mind create a strong motivational power to resort to all sorts of wrong doings. The person then becomes a machine in the hands of his own impressions and they will force him to perform less than that as is expected out of him.

Similarly if you think good thoughts and do good works, there will be large accumulation of good thoughts in your minds. The result of these good thoughts is bound to be good. These thoughts will force you to do well even in spite of yourself. When you do so much of good work and you have thought of so many of good thoughts that there is no scope and tendency left in you to do bad, you will then continue doing the good jobs in spite of you getting distractions by evil thoughts. Your tendency to perform beyond expectations and be a good performer will give befitting replies to these evil distractions through your actions. When you find yourself in such a situation, it is said that your character is established.

What does a tortoise do? It tucks its feet and head inside its own shell. You may kill it or break it into pieces, but it will never come out. Similar should be the character of yours. Control your inner forces, and I assure you, nothing can draw you out against your will. The spiritual wisdom that you gain by continuously thinking of good thoughts and good impressions moving over the surface of your mind, your tendency of performing better becomes strong, and do you know what would be the result? The result, I believe, it  will be that; that you will be able to control the sense-organs and the nerve-centres. Thus your character will be established. Let me tell you my friend, you will be safe for ever; you cannot do any evil.

When you start working on what I just told you in the above lines my friend, you will know the secret to your very own level of JOB SATISFACTION in which ever field you are in. You will find yourself content in each and every situation of life. You will perform better than your previous you under immense pressure.

BELIEVE ME, IT HAPPENS!!

Character and Karma

Hope the New Year, 2015 is treating you well. Today, I am going to talk a little about the Character of an individual and a bit about Karma.

I believe that the character of any person is the blend of his tendencies and the summation of the bent of his mind. I have heard many motivational speakers say this to their audience that we are what our thoughts have made us. Did you ever realize that every single work that we do, every movement of our body and every thought that strikes us, deliver an impression on the mind. If you notice that what we are at different moments is actually determined by the sum total of these impressions on our mind. Everybody's character is at every moment in their life is determined by the sum total of these impressions. If good impressions prevail, the character becomes good, if bad impressions prevail, it becomes bad.

Now, what is Karma? The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit word Kri, which literally means -To Do; therefore, we can say that all actions is Karma. However, there is another meaning of this word, which is; The Effects Of Actions. In metaphysics, sometimes it also means the Effects Of Our Past Actions. But then, what is Karma Yoga?  In Karma-Yoga we have simply keep in mind the word Karma which means work. Swami Vivekananda often mentioned in his discourses, that the goal of mankind is knowledge; and it is that knowledge which is one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure should never be the goal of man; instead it should be acquiring knowledge. Pleasure and happiness will and for sure, come to an end someday.

Mastering - Power Of Concentration

The secret of mastering the power of concentration
 is through deep meditation

In my last post, I talked about the Power of Concentration and I ended that with a question – Can we become the master of using the power of concentration? Well, my answer to that is – yes.

The Yogis say that we can attain perfect control of our mind. Before I jump on talking more on this subject, I want to tell you something about the danger in developing the power of concentration. The danger that I am talking about is in not being able to detach ourselves as per our will after concentrating our mind on any object. This state causes great sufferings.  Most of our suffering is caused because we do not have the power to detach ourselves. Thus, along with the development of concentration, we must develop the power of detachment. The Yogis say, that we must learn the art of attaching the mind to one thing exclusively, and also to detach at a short notice and place it on something else. These two, attachment and detachment of mind should be developed together to make it safe.

This is systematic development of the mind. I believe that the very essence of education is concentration of mind and not collecting of facts. Swami Vivekananda had once said that, there is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

The first step in training the mind is to begin with breathing. Regular breathing puts the body in a harmonious condition, where it becomes easy to reach the mind. While we are breathing, it is important to consider the posture. The proper position is any posture where one can sit easily. The spine should be kept free and the weight of the body should be supported by the ribs. It is said, that do not try by contrivances to control the mind, simple breathing is all that is required in that line.

The Powers Of Concentration

There are many differences between men and animals and the most important one is in their power of concentration. 

Mastering The Power Of Concentration Through Meditation

Each and every success in any line of work is the result of concentration. We all know something about concentration and we all have seen the results of concentration at some point in our lives. To site a few examples, I would say, the high achievements in art, music, literature, drama etc are the results of concentration.

An animal has a very little concentration power. Those who train animals, they would know, that the animal is constantly forgetting what is told to him. He cannot keep his mind concentrated for long upon anything at a time.  Here is the difference between man and animals. Man has a greater power of concentration than animals. The difference between powers of concentration is also seen between different individuals as well. Compare the highest with the lowest man and you will find the difference is in the degree of concentration.

Our mind becomes concentrated at some point in time. We concentrate on things that we love and we love those things on which we are able to concentrate our minds. Which mother in the world does not love the face of her child? That face is the most beautiful face to her, in the world. She loves it, because, she concentrates her mind on that face. And, if everyone could concentrate on that face, everyone would love it. It would be the most beautiful face to all. We concentrate our minds upon those things that we love.

The trouble with this type of concentration is that, we do not control the mind. It is actually, the mind that controls us. This is something outside of ourselves that draws the mind into it and holds it there as long as it chooses. We hear melodious tunes or see a beautiful painting, and the mind is held fast to that piece of art, and we cannot take it away.

If I talk to you well, about a subject of your interest, your mind concentrates upon what I am saying. I draw your mind away from you at that moment and hold it upon the subject. Thus our attention is held, our minds are concentrated upon various things and we cannot detach our mind from those things.

Now the question that arises is, Can this concentration be developed and can we become the masters it? The yogis say, yes, we can develop this power of concentration and master it.

Read my next blog on this subject to know more about – The Powers Of Concentration.

Power Of The Mind

The Power Of Our Mind

Have you ever experienced the phenomenon that is known as thought-transference? It’s like a man in some place is thinking something, and that same thought is manifested in somebody else in a different place. Do you think that people who have had such great experiences in their life did that with any kind of preparations and not by chance? What I am saying to you right now is that- a man wants to send a thought to another person’s mind at a distance, and this other mind knows that he is about to receive a thought that is coming, and he receives it exactly as it was sent out. Distance didn’t make any difference at all. The thought travels and reaches the other man, and he/she understands it. Let me say this to you- if your mind is an isolated one in your location from where you are reading this blog post right now, and my mind an isolated one here in India which is my location in the world, and there were no connection between the two of us, then would it be possible for my thought to reach you? In general, it would not be my thought that you would be receiving directly. As a first step my thought has got to be dissolved into ethereal vibrations and then those ethereal vibrations enter your brain where they have to be resolved again by your brain to make your own thoughts. What I did is dissolution of thought, and what you received is a resolution of thought. This is not Telepathy because in telepathy, there is no such process involved; it is direct.

A Request To Help

Remember - Helping is to get closer to the Lord!!

Hello Dear Reader,

I hope that the new year is treating you well and you are happy with your life.

Today, I want to request you to help a child who is suffering from a rare disorder known as Cerebral Palsy. During his birth, due to oxygen deprivation his brain cells got damaged to a great extent and as a result of that unfortunate happening is now leading a very difficult life.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year - 2014 

Dear Reader,

Happy New Year to you.  

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year is the usual congratulation. Alas! 

May peace and health rest on you and yours for ever. 

The New Year is sure to bring about a great change. Pray some good may come to India. 

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

I send you all joy, all love, all success for the New Year.

DURGA PUJA FESTIVAL

Mahishasur Mardini - Somnath

Indians are in festive mood as they are celebrating the Festivals - Durga Puja (also known Durgotsava or Sharadotsav) and Navratri across the Globe. Durga Puja festival marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon Mahishasura. Thus, Durga Puja festival can be said as the victory of Good over Evil.

The actual worship of the Goddess Durga as per the Hindu scriptures falls in the month of Chaitra, which roughly overlaps with March or April and is called Basanti Durga Puja. This ceremony is also observed by many and is greatly celebrated in the state of West Bengal. However, the Durga Puja that is presently being observed by Indians in India and abroad is the more popular form, which is also known as Sharadiya (Autumnal) Durga Puja.

 There is a mythological belief that Lord Ram worshiped Goddess Durga before going for a war with Ravana. Rama had performed "Chandi Homa" and invoked the blessings of Durga, who blessed Rama with secret knowledge of the way to kill Ravana. Since the Goddess is invoked at the wrong time, it is called "Akaal Bodhon" in Bengali and from that time onwards we Indians are celebrating Durga Puja at this time according to the Hindu Bengali Calendar. Also, on the day of Ashvin Shukla Dashami, Rama's party found mother Sita and defeated Ravana. This day is thus also celebrated as Dussehra.

To be continued...

THE POWERS OF DEEP MEDITATION

Meditating in a way when you focus on one thing- may be one object,any god or goddess or just blank

SPIRITUAL PRACTICES - FOR MONEY,WEALTH & PROSPERITY

KEEP THE HANDS IN THIS WAY,THE FLOWER IS NOT ESSENTIAL

If we all had an answer to this million dollar question- HOW TO BECOME RICH? then probably many of the strongest economies in the world would not have moved to fiscal deficit and would not have ended up with high unemployment rate and poverty today. However, fortunately some of us do know it very well that- how do we get out of debts and how do we get more money in our lives.

THE NATURE OF THE SOUL AND ITS GOAL

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

The earliest idea is that a man, when he dies, is not annihilated. Something lives and goes on living even after the man is dead. Perhaps it would be better to compare the three most ancient nations — the Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the ancient Hindus — and take this idea from all of them. With the Egyptians and the Babylonians, we find a sort of soul idea — that of a double. Inside this body, according to them, there is another body which is moving and working here; and when the outer body dies, the double gets out and lives on for a certain length of time; but the life of the double is limited by the preservation of the outer body. If the body which the double has left is injured in any part, the double is sure to be injured in that part. That is why we find among the ancient Egyptians such solicitude to preserve the dead body of a person by embalming, building pyramids, etc. We find both with the Babylonians and the ancient Egyptians that this double cannot live on through eternity; it can, at best, live on for a certain time only, that is, just so long as the body it has left can be preserved.

ENJOY OUR NEW LOOK

Dear Friends!

I had promised that we are changing the looks of this blog and as such I think I am well with in the timescales. My promise to you was to come up with a new look by 21-May'2013 and here I am, writing you all about the new look my blog- The Spiritual Powers.

Please keep visiting this blog to find interesting articles on Spirituality and it's ability to help us achieve our desired goals and objectives of our lives.

The next few posts will be from the 
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda-vol 6.

The next Topic will be on the subject-
THE NATURE OF THE SOUL AND ITS GOAL

BLOG UNDER MAINTENANCE

Dear Friends...

This site is under maintenance and you are requested to visit this page again on 21-May' 2013 when you will find this site in its new look. I am sure you will like the new look as it will be much more clearer and easy to follow.

I thank you for visiting this blog and also for the numerous lovely messages that you have sent me so far. Just to keep you informed that you may find the CONTACT ME tab useful to sen me your valuable comments and feedback. By the way people who have sent me queries on astrological issues have been replied.

Any inconvenience due to the maintenance on this site is deeply regretted.

Thank You

Hello My Dear Friends!

I hope the new year is going good for you . It's been a while I have not put up any of my works here. Please accept my sincere apologies for have kept you waiting. I know many of you want to know more from me on the beautiful subject- Spirituality and Spiritual Wisdom! I have got lots of emails from many of you and I am almost done replying those.

I want to thank all of you for visiting my blog and leaving your valuable comments . Its because of you all this site has achieved the Google Page Ranking of 2 (two) from 0 (zero) in its first three months. We still have to go a long way but I am confident that with your support and guidance this site will touch much greater heights .The very objective of running this site over the internet is to reach out to those people who are finding it difficult to strike a proper balance between stress and growing responsibilities of life- be it office,home or even financial hardship. Lets all join hands to help our brothers and sisters who need help to come out of their miseries and stress full life.

For those who have sent me emails asking questions on astrology and match making- I promise by next week you all will get your queries answered. It's because of you all each day this site is gaining popularity and attraction from across the globe.

Friends I want to tell you a few reasons why people want to visit this site again and again- It's because of the following :

• This site provides interesting articles on leaving a  Spiritual Life
• A link to many Spiritual and Inspirational websites
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• This site has articles answering question on Fear ,Inspiration,Meditation,Success and Wealth
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• This Site has Separate page for Inspirational Videos,Meditation,Games and Contact Me

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Friends keep visiting me here and do take very good care of yourself ! Bye for now !

Achieve Your Highest Potential

A very blessed day to you all !

I just wanted to share with you my feelings which I felt today: I want you all to be happy in your life.  But many of us, are going through tough times or you may say bad times or may be painful times. I know this from my experience  that there is joy after pain. 

My goal is not attaining money, fame or sympathy- it is inspire you to achieve your Highest Potential. I don't want people to look up to me to for any kind of inspiration because I presently do not any such quality that would help you realize your goals and dreams in life. But, what I know is sharing is caring. Therefore I am here to share everything that I have learnt so far. I am not a teacher nor a preacher, I am just practicing Spiritual Activities ,I have not yet mastered any part of it so far. I have found happiness and feel extremely good about my life from the time I have seriously been practicing various activities that can be categorized under spirituality and spiritual wisdom. I share my life story, because I hope that you get motivated and directed towards Spirituality. God bless you all.

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Do Follow This Blog & Leave Comments For Me

Dear Friend!

I want to update you that The Spiritual Powers, is now a Do Follow blog . Most of you would know what I mean by "Do Follow", but for those of you who are not aware of this term, don't worry, search for it in Google and Wikipedia. I am sure, after visiting Wikipedia and searching for it on Google, you will have a clear understanding of  DO FOLLOW. 

I welcome all bloggers who write quality contents on various subjects,aspects and concepts of life to visit  this blog and leave your valuable comments for me. I will do the same for you in return, and that is a promise for sure. 

I have changed my blog from "No Follow" to "Do Follow". And, why did I feel the need to do so? Well, it is to get connected to a large number of people including great bloggers around the globe. The other purpose of making it a Do Follow blog, is to distribute the knowledge that I have gained over the past few years on Spirituality. I am also keen to learn more from all wise men like you.Your good self is welcomed to read my blog , leave useful comments for me, so that I get to know more from you all. You may want to follow me as well, then please do, I want people to follow my blog. Because, quite honestly, that is one of the several ways of spreading any message to large number of people.

Following the spiritual practices that have been taught and preached by our spiritual leaders and gurus from the present and the ancient times will not only bring more happiness to life but also keep us free from all sorts of sorrows and disturbances of life. For example, meditation is a good way to keep ourselves focused and directed towards our goals and objectives of life. The deep meditation has its own benefits and one of which includes activating the Kundalini Shakti or that force which is in its sleeping form inside ourselves. 


I am here only to spread knowledge and gain more from all intellectuals like you. Help me learn more and I will share all those that I have learnt by staying close to a few spiritual gurus of the present times . All the best and do take good care of yourself.

SUCCESS

The Winner Is Always Inside you

  YOU ARE A WINNER

You might have often observed, that many of us try to encourage others by saying "think like a winner". What exactly, do they mean, by saying - think like a winner? Well, I believe, that thinking for an answer to this question itself require a great deal of knowledge. People who are categorized as winner do not do anything different from others, but, what they do differently is that-they believe in themselves and that makes them think in a different way, which we say as thinking like a winner. 

Today I just want to tell you that you are an inborn winner. Yes, you already are a winner. There is no such great quality, that you do not have in yourself. Try to dig deep inside yourself and try to realize the primordial soul (the Atman) which is the powerhouse of strength, courage, knowledge and wisdom. When you start doing this, people around you, will say- You think like a winner and are always in a win - win situation.

MAHALAKSHMI

MAHA LAKSHMI STOTRAM

Maha means great in Hindi and Lakshmi is the name of a Hindu goddess of  wealth, prosperity and fortune. She is the spouse of Lord Vishnu. She is believed to bring good luck and protection for her devotees from all kinds of misery and Wealth related disturbances. 

Goddess Maha  Lakshmi  has auspicious and divine qualities to bring good fortunes. Reciting the Maha Lakshmi Stotram will prevent poverty and lack of funds. It could be recited to attract great fortunes and good luck. It is mentioned in this Stotram that if it is read once in a day,all the sins committed gets destroyed and if it is read twice in a day, one attains abundance of wealth and prosperity. Reading this Stotram three times a day will destroy your enemies. By reciting this divine Stotram, one move closer to the goddess and gets her blessing along with abundance of happiness in life.