Objective advice can only come from someone who is experienced and knowledgeable. One without the other just won’t work: without experience, knowledge is unfulfilling, and without knowledge, experience is temporary and incomplete. Experience comes with practice. If we have the “know-how” but don’t put what we know into practice, we will be lacking in experience. …
Author Archives: Aditya Dham
Heaven and Hell
Hell is low and heaven is high. Hell is a bad attitude, and heaven is a good one. Negativity is low energy and positivity is high energy. Negativity is an expression of the non-self (the repression of the real self), whereas positivity is an expression of the true self. It is our higher nature to …
True Success
The true success is to go beyond success and failure both. The true success is to go beyond duality. Beyond duality is Reality. Established in Reality is the True Self, which is Changeless. When we (the living Self, embodied in Mind and Matter) are clearly connected to our True Self, then we are REAL and …
Isolation (Kaivalya)
“The remedy, or cure, for loneliness is solitude.” Dr. T. R. Khanna We need to isolate ourselves from our negative feelings and emotions. Any negative mental state is an unnatural state because it is contrary to our Real Nature. Our Real Nature (our True Nature) is the nature of our Real Self (True Self). Our …
Decision-Makers
All of us are decision-makers. We should make the decision to stay out of our ego. Either we can be happy or we can be in our ego. The choice is ours. Some people think life is more complicated than it is, and so they make it so. But really, life is very simple. If …
Beyond Ego
Metaphysically speaking, ego is formed by the union of Purush (Spirit) and Prakriti (Matter). Physically speaking, ego is formed at birth. Ego is a natural phenomenon. Everyone has ego. It is natural for consciousness to become identified with the body (and its relations) at birth. As the living self (embodied soul) passes from infancy, to …
Supreme-I
The Supreme “I” principle; Mahatattva; Universal Mind—these are one and the same, expressed differently. The Supreme “I” principle is next to the ‘Supreme-I’. The “Supreme-I” in this context is Purush, the Spirit Self. The Universal Mind is the Mind of the Spirit Self. Mahatattva is the first expression of the union of Purush and Prakriti. …
Make Wisdom Your Guide
Every human being must discover the divine within their own heart. We must make our heart the alter, and our purified mind the mullah, priest, or rabbi. Mind is purified with wisdom. Only the purest wisdom can purify completely. Otherwise, if it is diluted (mixed with bias, favoritism, or other forms of ego) it cannot …
Understanding Reality
Understanding Reality is not that difficult. It is not an intellectual exercise. In fact, it is not even necessary to verbalize it. It is, however, absolutely necessary to manifest it. Understanding is manifested when we get our ego out of the way. In other words, if we drop our false perception we will understand immediately. …
Who Do You Want to Be?
Some people want to be bad guys and some want to be good guys, but everyone wants to be right and no one wants to be wrong. Even the bad guys think they are right, in their own wrong way, and oftentimes the good guys are wrong in their own self-righteous way. The problem here …