Spiritual Life

“When can we say our Spiritual life has begun?” – A student asked me this question.

This is my answer.
The Spiritual life does not begin with going to temples or with ritualistic worship.
It does not begin with wearing saffron clothes or Rudrakshas (prayer beads).
The Spiritual life does not begin even when you join a Spiritual Path and take up meditations. All these are spiritual pursuits, no doubt.
Some meditators even after many years of meditations get angry and behave like ordinary people. So, just taking up Meditations does not automatically imply that our Spiritual life has begun.
Our Spiritual journey begins only when we begin manifesting love.
Only when we truly begin manifesting love, we can manifest the Divine. Unless we know the Divine by direct experience, we cannot manifest the Divine.
Without manifesting the Divine, our Spiritual journey does not begin, and we cannot consider ourselves Spiritual. So, our Spiritual life begins when we learn to manifest the Divine and truly manifest unconditional love all the time.

Guruji Krishnananda

Samadhi

Guruji Krishnananda – on Samadhi

A meditator asked me, “During Meditation, there was blankness at first, followed by a burst of energies entering me from all sides. I felt expanded. Is this Samadhi?”

My answer:

This is the beginning of Samadhi, not the total Samadhi. Even total Samadhi is the beginning of our Spiritual journey.

Samadhi is beginning of our Spiritual jurney

After the beginning of Samadhi, the blankness or unconsciousness disappears followed by the experience of vastness. Your awareness blossoms and becomes very clear. Gradually, you will be aware of everything simultaneously.

These are very important stages in Samadhi. These states can only be experienced and cannot be described. Even then, we try to explain them to give you an idea of the possibilities.

After your awareness expands, you become aware of the Presence. The Presence is God Himself. You will feel the Presence in the form of Unconditional Love and Peace enveloping you.

You will know by experience that the Presence is infinite, undivided; you will then experience the ultimate Oneness with the entire Creation.

Even this experience is not the end. There is much more.

This knowledge is from the Light Masters who have gone beyond all these experiences. Even after such extraordinary experiences, some of them choose to come to this earth to help and guide us.

They come to our chaotic world to assure us that there is God, there is Love, and there is hope of peace in this world.

Think about these things. Make efforts. Do not worry about the time. Do not hurry. Just contemplating on these realities itself will bring you Spiritual benefits.

Importance of stillness

Importance of stillness

All answers, all solutions, all possibilities and opportunities are within us. But we look for these things outside. Instead of exploring outside, we have to look within. We have to find them within us and bring them out, manifest them.

 We have to learn to manifest answers, solutions and even new questions.

 How do we learn to find them within us and manifest them?

 We have to begin by entering a state of stillness. That is why we meditate. With Meditations everything happens. Meditations have to be taken seriously. In stillness we become aware of all these things being within us.

 When we enter stillness, we become aware of many things, the most important thing is that of a Presence. This Presence is God Himself. We also become aware of what the Presence carries.

 We become aware of the vastness, unconditional love and oneness. Not only do we become aware of these things, we begin to experience the Presence and all that the Presence carries; we experience true love, we become one.

 After experiencing all these, we have to manifest them with a strong intent and conscious effort.

 You have to contemplate on these things. This is what regular and intense Meditations lead to.

Guruji Krishnananda