
Alok Da, how can we refine our senses🤔?
The degree of refinement of our senses depends upon the quality of our consciousness. At the same time if the senses indulge in crude pleasures

The degree of refinement of our senses depends upon the quality of our consciousness. At the same time if the senses indulge in crude pleasures

Good and bad is obviously a question of perspective and hence cannot be the arbiter. One person’s good may be another person’s bad given exactly

Not any swing but a rhythmic movement helps induce sleep including music and a lullaby. Wakefulness with all things pulling us in multiple directions disturbs

Exercises are a very good means to sublimate our aggressive energies just as art music and poetry sublimate our sexual energies. Physical sports help us

Nothing happens randomly. Only we do not know the process and hence call it random. What happens is that everything we perceive and experience is

Time is not an illusion but a subordinate power of the Eternal that helps in the unfolding of the Divine Will. It is somewhat like

Not at all. Happiness is what the average person seeks. There are people who seek knowledge, others who seek love, still others who seek harmony

Everything can be changed. There is no such inevitable iron law or absolutely fixed determinism. Yes, by and large things follow a certain pattern, a

One should ideally read the book with which one feels naturally engaged since it answers our inner need. A good combination is The Synthesis of

Yes because most people believe that the path of life they have chosen is the best or the only true path. Besides every life has

Self giving means turning all, all one is and has towards the Divine rather than towards oneself and for any selfish purposes. With thoughts it

ne simple test to know the difference between need and desire.
Desire creates restlessness, especially if there is a delay in its fulfilment. If not

A simple daily practice is to sit quietly and reflect upon the true purpose of one’s life.
Along with that, one should reflect from

The current life is the outer scaffolding of the true inner life developing within. Make your daily life like small steps on the way. Turn

It means the work given to you, the field of your work. A person in an office, for example, should be focused on the work,

We study mathematics to make the brain wide and complex as well as to teach us the mysteries of existence, to wonder at the patterns

From the spiritual point of view with wife has the same effect on consciousness as with someone else, as far as the act itself is

Onion is tamasic in properties. As far as sadhana goes, Sattwic vegetarian food, the kind which you were taking, is anyday…