Divine Route

Are you fearful? Do you feel unsafe? Do you delay decisions due to the thoughts not even understandable by you? Do you try to make choice of those things which are familiar to you, and trying something new gives you apprehensions? The list is long but the central idea is, we live with Fears. The fear which could impair our cognitive ability is called Phobia. The fears have become the part of our day to day life, and we have become so used to, that we could not recognize the actual thought which bothers us and why? Are fears and phobias only related to physical reality around us? The answer is NO. The actual fear is not about the physical reality we experience every moment, rather, fear is a basic emotion related to ‘safety’ only. All the fears could be categorized into following five categories: Loss of life and health Loss of loved ones Loss of finances and assets Loss of reputation and control One’s own ability to achieve anything Why do

“Why is it happening with me?” A common question flashes in our mind, especially when we pass through a rough patch of our life. Usually we console ourselves by believing it to be the wish of God. We find ourselves helpless and just wait with a faith that even this will pass away or surrender to the situation where we perceive that solution is out of question/reach. The situation at work place, relationships, financial condition, health issues, and numerous concerns pester us in our entire life. It is melioration that most of us do search to appease the situation by some way or other. The question is; why does it happen? We need to understand that, we are souls in our physical bodies. We are on an eternal journey of evolution. This evolutionary process progresses every moment and offers us the choice. It is we who choose in every moment. In this process of choice we create certain beliefs which are carried life after life. These are known as KARMA. These

‘Prayer’ is the way of life in all the religions of the world. Every culture has certain rituals related to show the gratitude towards the God. Prayers are done daily but still we find people who say that they do not know when the God responds to their prayers. What is prayer? Does the recitation of certain scriptures and stanza work? These are the questions which have often boggled my mind. Around 10 years back when I was passing through a rough patch of my life, I found prayers to be the strongest way to anchor myself in that situation. Yes, I relied on the ritual recitation of the certain stanzas from the religious literature. It was a guidance or a discovery, I could not make it out now, I started to talk to the deity I was worshiping those days. This communication started as if I talk to somebody in person. This communication started to prolong could go for more than 40 to 45 mins sometimes. I was saying things as clear as I could. Sometimes, I still remember,

‘Astrology’ is a science which predicts about the events in this universe related to all livings and non-livings, based on the positions of the planets in the zodiac. There is a debate on the validity of it. A group of intellectuals says that, when every planet is made up of natural elements like the earth then how do they affect us? How is it possible that something light years far affect us? In this era of scientific discoveries and inventions, they refer it as a superstition. Another group of intellectuals advocates it. They refer it as the science of divinity. The sages have written the laws of astrology through divine knowledge. They defend it by saying that, what about those thousand of predictions which come true? This debate is endless. Each one of us has an individual call on this subject. Today, in this article I am putting a theory which is based on my own understanding on the subject since last 15 years. We all understand that this universe is en

Meditation, known as ‘Dhyan’ in yoga is the spiritual way to connect with the inner-self. Dhyan yoga (meditation) is one of the highly ranked branches of the yoga shastra (yoga literature). Generally our understanding about meditation is that, one has to sit passively and then think nothing. It is a way to put our thoughts at rest and, that gives connect to the inner self. In my practice of meditation since 1991, I adopted different schools of meditation which have two major categories; a. Eastern school b. Modern Western school Eastern school of meditation promotes the idea of passive meditation. It suggests to put your conscious at the rest to connect to the sub-conscious leading to the super-conscious (Turiya avastha, the deepest level of meditation known as samadhi). Modern Western school of meditation suggests direction to the thought known as Dynamic meditation. It promotes to visualize the out-come one desire in life. It also takes one to the deepest lev