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By growth of inner peace and joy, by growth of faith and aspiration and the urge to progress, by growth of sincerity and surrender, by growth of equanimity and of will, by the opening of the mind to a spontaneous understanding of spiritual and higher truths, one knows one is on the right path.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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As far as I have understood, the idea of Gyangunj, a la Shangri La or a city of immortals somewhere in Tibet or the Himalayan gorges, is either referring to a plane of consciousness, which it most probably is or else a possibility of the future which is yet to be realised. …
The purpose is inbuilt within us as the tree is held back within the seed. So too the soul within is the seed within and its purpose is to realise, express and thereby fulfil the Divine Possibility or the Divine Purpose within it. It happens through a process of unfolding across lives. As we draw closer to the soul the more we feel conscious of …
Sri Krishna himself answers this in the Gita. He is not there as the physical Krishna since He declares Krishna as one of his vibhutis, – ‘I am Krishna among the Vrishnis, Rama among those who have paurush….’.
Nor is he the Atman that is present in all. He declares Himself to be both Kshara and Akshara as the Purushottama, the Avatar.