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Change: One Heart At a Time – Part 2

All over the world, people suffer physically, psychologically, and spiritually due to socio-economic want and disparities. The root cause of problems lies in unbalanced psychic urges. Both exploiters and the exploited suffer from imbalances, each in their ways. Unless the socio-economic system takes the physico-psycho-spiritual makeup of human beings properly into account, this suffering will continue to disturb and destroy not only human beings but the entire living world and its environment. Click to read more…

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Devotion and Awe

The basic concept of the spiritual knowledge propensity is that it “aims at the subjectivization of the internal objectivity.” Subjectivization in that sense means to takes one’s individual subjective “I-ness,” focus it, and merge it into the “ultimate subjectivity” of Universal Consciousness. This process has been directly associated with devotion. At its fullest, devotion has been described as “being merged in the constant thought of God”, and being “identical with love. …The moment devotion is aroused, love for God comes”. Click to read more…

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Obsessive Clinging (abhinivesha): A Perspective on Addiction from Yoga Psychology

Overlapping with the modern idea of “addiction”, the concept of abhinivesha — obsessive clinging — is present in psychological analyses in Buddhist philosophy, Yoga Darshana, Ayurveda, and other systems of classical Indian medicine. Click to read more…

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I Exist, Therefore I Am Worthy

Self-esteem is one of the most influential constructs across social and psychological sciences. The article situates existential self-esteem within Shri Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar’s philosophy of Neohumanism, according to which the existential worth of an individual should be considered as being derived directly from the Cosmic Consciousness, the Universal source of all worth. Click to read more…

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Change: One Heart At a Time – Part I

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Ideation and Meditation

With spiritual progress the mind grows in magnitude, the mind increases its periphery, until it finally merges in the Supreme Entity. During the course of this progress a spiritual aspirant will develop many faculties or attributes, but one must always be vigilant that these faculties do not divert one from the chosen path, from the cherished goal. Click to read more…

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Beyond Things That Matter

Iain McGilchrist unites, in himself, the scientist and the philosopher, joining those who aspire to combine subjective psychology and objective science across the divide between scientists and philosophers today. Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar has taken a similar path, synthesising a subjective approach with an objective adjustment in science, spirituality, and social philosophy. Click to read more…

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Shukra, The Totipotent Sap

Shukra is an ancient concept. The main system of Indian indigenous medicine, the ancient Ayurveda, identifies shukra as the final essence of all other bodily elements: “A person who has healthy shukra has a brightness of confidence, with eyes and skin that seem to radiate light.” According to Ayurveda, shukra is the final of the seven tissues, each resulting from the transformation or sublimation of the preceding tissue. Click to read more…

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