It is imperative that we leave our facade in order to be happy. We cannot be happy if we are living a lie. We cannot simultaneously be real and fake. We are faking it when we do the wrong things and pretend we can still be happy. If we lie to ourselves by betraying our …
Author Archives: Aditya Dham
Flirting With Disaster
We are a push-over when we follow our ego and get distracted by the whims of our mind. If we are push-overs we will never be able to pull ourselves up and reach our highest potential. We are a push-over when we listen to our small self and seek excitement in shallow things, or look …
Violence Begets Violence
Years ago in a Satsang (wisdom meeting) at our home, my son (who had just become a teenager), was having a discussion with a friend of his (a few years younger). They were having a talk about meat-eating. In the Satsang we had discussed how it was inhumane to unnecessarily kill animals for food, and …
The Trap of Personality
Personality is the embellishment of ego. Many people are embalmed in their personality. They are mummified but seldom do they keep mum (seldom do they keep quiet). Even if we are outwardly quiet when we are in our ego, we are silently shouting abuses or trumpeting our own praises. This is the nature of the …
Feelings Are NOT Fulfilling
Feelings are fluctuations of the mind. We say, “I feel like this”, or “I feel so bad”, or “I feel really excited”, and so on and so forth. Now, these ‘feelings’ are not really ‘my’ feelings; they are the feelings of the mind. Of course, if ‘my’ is also a product of the mind, then …
ILL-WILL = ILL HEALTH
Ill-will creates ill health. Anyone who harbors a grudge will always find the grudge boomerangs on them. Whenever we have ill-will towards others or ourselves, it makes us sick. Mental sickness, and even physical sickness, is usually rooted in some form of ill-will. For example, we can make ourselves physically ill by being “down on …
Stay on Track
The life is short and the journey is very long. Unless we stay on track, we will not reach our destination in this incarnation. Our ultimate destination in our Home, and our Home is the state of Absolute Being / Absolute Consciousness / Absolute Bliss (SATCHITANAND). To get back Home, we need to be “upward” …
Speak Your Peace
We should always speak our peace, and never speak our anger, never speak our frustration, and never speak our annoyance. This is called non-violence. When we break our commitment to our higher nature we violate our own real self. This is called violence. Keeping our commitment means staying on track; it means NOT looking for …
The Madness of Samsara
Samsara* is the world; not the world of nature, but the world of human beings who torment themselves by going against their true nature. This world is filled with people who are caught up in self-love and self-hate. This surreal duality is projected as attraction and repulsion, infatuation and disgust, and loving and hating others, …
You Are a Diamond in the Night
click here to listen to sound file Oh Human Being, You are the Shining Light. Oh Human Being, You are a diamond in the night. Be your positive self and rise above all negativity. Stand firm on the pathway of Eternity and enjoy this endless journey. You need not suffer any more. Open your mind …