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YSR Anniversary Issue

2008-06-16T03:16:00.000-07:00

I am happy to announce June 2008 Anniversary Special Issue of Your Spiritual Revolution emagazine!

This special issue focuses on Enlightenment!

In this issue of YSR:

- Integral Enlightenment by Prabhath P
- Living Enlightenment by Anne Kaspar
- Actualization Ah-Kine Enlightenment by Dagmar FourBears Ceki
- A New Consciousness by Divyaa Kummar
- LIGHT as LIFE by Ellaeenah
- Exploring Meaning of Enlightenment by Ellen Davis
- The Enlightenment Experience by Jason Goldsworthy
- Enlightenment by Johanna Carroll
- Historical & Scientific Overview of Enlightenment by Sol Luckman
- Today Has Never Happened Before by Maurice Fleming
- Michelangelo: The Ephemeral & The Eternal by Oscar Del Santo
- Becoming Transparent by Penney Peirce
- Secrets Of Enlightenment by Prem Nirmal
- Enlightenment Made Practical by Rose Rosetree
- The Physical Process of Enlightenment by Dr. Mitchell Gibson
- Spiritual Poems by Lawrence Edwards, Alex N. Moyer, Jason Goldsworthy & Amy I. Ramdass

Love,

Amitt Parikh
Executive Editor
Your Spiritual Revolution emagazine
http://www.yourspiritualrevolution.org

Split Personalities

2008-05-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

You are split into two personalities - the difference becomes clearer as we progress towards the union, so that you can ultimately decide which personality to retain forever. Expanded & limited - both the views are possible with divine eyes. You will be able to see the larger picture with wide - very wide - eyes- as well as see in great details - even up to the quantum level with same eyes focused on a part.

Only the choice is between seeing the 'illusions' or 'truth' in every moment. Illusion requires ignorance and truth requires true knowledge - gnosis. Judgments, decisions, desires and choices from the illusion based ego personality lead to further illusions, confusion, diseases, chaos and hell (state of mind) as the guiding light of spirit is missing and it has got no purpose to evolve or live truly. Same under the aegis of God, leads to enlightenment, immortality, heaven (state of mind) and great clarity of purpose of life and evolution.

Satori is not experienced by chosen ones only. In fact none of the masters are chosen ones. They chose me... if it was left for me to decide, I would have chosen each and every one... not a single life form would suffer in illusion. But that's how we decided for evolution to happen. Trust me explicitly now. Don't dwindle. Your undivided faith in me will help me move things faster and miracles to happen. For your logic will not allow miracles to happen... and we have to go by step-by-step process.

Dissolution of your false personality (ego based) is your only goal. That personality which you now understand as superfluous.. is molded by the religion, family, culture, media, environment, people around... and all those 'variables'.. what is your 'true' personality - unchanging - the real you? Beyond all the 'responses', 'reactions' and 'encounters with reality (which itself is ever changing)... that real YOU is ME.. born out of nothingness.. with very specific personality which is permanent.. and REAL!

- Amitt
www.amittparikh.com
www.YourSpiritualRevolution.org

શું ઇશ્વર ખરેખર બધે જ છે?

2008-04-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

આપણે આપણા જીવનમાં 'ઇશ્વર બધે જ છે' વાક્ય કેટલી વાર સાંભળ્યું છે? અને આપણે આ સનાતન સત્ય વિશે જીવનમાં ખરેખર કેટલી વાર વિચાર્યું છે? ઇશ્વર બધે જ છે - બધે એટલે કોઇ વિશિષ્ટ જગ્યા પર નહિ - બધે જ! જો આપણે ખરેખર આ સરળ વિધાનને સમજી લઇએ તો, એમાં આપણા આખા જીવનને બદલવાની ક્ષમતા છે. આ સરળ સનાતન સત્ય આ ગ્રહ પર ચાલનારા લગભગ દરેક મહાત્મા દ્વારા કહેવામાં આવ્યું છે અને પૃથ્વી પરના બધા જ ધર્મોમાં એનો ઉલ્લેખ છે.

જો ઇશ્વરે આ સમગ્ર સૃષ્ટિનું સર્જન 'શૂન્યાવકાશ'માંથી કર્યું હોય, તો સૃષ્ટિમાં જે કંઇ પણ અસ્તિત્વમાં છે 'એ બધું જ' ઇશ્વરમાં જ છે! હવા, પથ્થર, વૃક્ષ, પશુ, પક્ષી કે માનવ, ઇશ્વર બધે જ વિદ્યમાન છે. આથી આપણે ઇશ્વરને 'જે છે એ બધું જ' અથવા 'અસ્તિત્વ' તરીકે પણ સંબોધી શકીએ છીએ.

ઇશ્વર સંપૂર્ણ ભૌતિક જગતમાં છે તેમજ બીજ બધા 'અપાર્થિવ' વિશ્વોમાં પણ છે! ઇશ્વર મંદિરમાં પણ છે અને મંદિરની બહાર, આપણા શયનખંડમાં, આપણા બાથરૂમમાં, કચરાપેટીમાં અને આપણા બધા વિચારોમાં (ખરાબ વિચારો સહિત) પણ છે! જો આપણે એમ જ માનીએ કે ઇશ્વર માત્ર 'સારી' વસ્તુઓ અને માત્ર 'સારી' જગ્યાઓમાં જ છે, તો આપણે આપણા ધર્મ અને માન્યતાઓના પાયાનું જ ખંડન કરીશું. એ 'ખરાબ વસ્તુઓ', 'ખરાબ લોકો' અને 'ખરાબ જગ્યાઓ'નું સર્જન કોણે કર્યું અને એમને કોણ ચલાવી રહ્યું છે? જો ઇશ્વરની મરજી વિના કાંઇ ન થઇ શકે, તો આટલી બધી 'ખરાબ' ઘટનાઓ કેવી રીતે ઘટી શકે?

ચાલો આ સનાતન સત્ય પર જરા વધુ મનન કરીએ. ઇશ્વર બધે જ છે; એટલે કે ભારત, અમેરિકા, ચીન, જાપાન, પાકિસ્તાન કે આપણા સૌર મંડળની બહારનો ગ્રહ, આ બધે જ ઠેકાણે માત્ર એક જ ઇશ્વર સંભવી શકે છે! મંદિર, મસ્જિદ, ચર્ચ કે અન્ય કોઇ પણ સ્થળ - બધે જ એક જ ઇશ્વર હયાત છે! જો તમે એમ કહો કે મારો ભગવાન અને તારો ભગવાન અલગ છે - તો શું તમારું કહેવું એમ છે કે આ સમગ્ર સૃષ્ટિ આટલી સરસ રીતે અલગ અલગ ભગવાનોના બનેલા એક જૂથ દ્વારા ચલાવવામાં આવી રહી છે? કયા ભગવાનની કઇ હદ છે? અને જો ખરેખર આટલા બધા ભગવાન હોય તો જગતમાં અરાજકતા કેમ નથી? મૂર્તિની અંદર કે બહાર, મંદિરની અંદર કે બહાર , તમારી અંદર કે બહાર - સમગ્ર સૃષ્ટિમાં એક જ ઇશ્વરનો વાસ છે!

જો આપણે કહીએ કે ઇશ્વર 'અહીં' છે તો 'ત્યાં' શું છે? જગતનો 'એ' ભાગ કોણ ચલાવી રહ્યું છે? જો ઇશ્વર માત્ર મંદિરમાં જ હોય, તો મંદિરની બહારના આ જટિલ વિશ્વનું નિયંત્રણ કોણ કરી રહ્યું છે? કરોડો વર્ષોનાં માનવના ઇતિહાસમાં શું એવું કોઇ સ્થળ બાકી હોઇ શકે કે જેણે હિંસા, અત્યાચાર, વ્યભિચાર, નફરત કે અન્ય 'ખરાબ' ઘટનાઓ ન જોઇ હોય? આપણે કોઇ સ્થળને 'પવિત્ર' અને કોઇ સ્થળને 'અપવિત્ર' કઇ રીતે કહી શકીએ જો 'જે કંઇ છે' એ ઇશ્વર જ છે? એક પથ્થર પર છીણી અને હથોડા મારીને એક ખાસ આકાર મેળવ્યા બાદ એ જ પથ્થરની પૂજા કરવામાં આવે છે! પણ એ ખાસ આકાર પહેલાં એ પથ્થરમાં શું હતું?

આપણે ઇશ્વરને માત્ર 'ક્યાંક' અને માત્ર કોઇ 'ખાસ આકાર' કે માત્ર કોઇ 'વિશિષ્ટ નામ'માં જોઇને માત્ર આપણી જાતને છેતરી રહ્યા છીએ અને એ એક જ શક્તિના વિવિધ રૂપો માટે એકબીજાને મારી નાખવા ને બાળી નાખવા તૈયાર થઇ જઇએ છીએ! આપણે આટલા સાદા સનાતન સત્ય 'ઇશ્વર બધે જ છે' નો ખરો અર્થ ક્યારે સમજીશું? આપણે આપણા ખરા ધર્મને ક્યારે અનુસરીશું?

જો આપણે બધે જ એક જ ઇશ્વરને જોવા લાગીએ - બધા જ માનવીઓમાં (આપણા દુશ્મનો, 'અન્ય ધર્મ'ના લોકો અને આપણે જેને નફરત કરીએ છીએ એ બધા સહિત), બધા જ પ્રાણીઓમાં (માત્ર પવિત્ર પ્રાણીઓમાં જ નહિ), બધી જ વનસ્પતિઓમાં (માત્ર પવિત્ર વનસ્પતિ જ નહિ), આપણા બધા જ વિચારોમાં અને આપણા બધા જ કાર્યોમાં; તો શું થશે? શું આપણે હમણાં જ 'બધે જ' ઇશ્વરને જોવાનું શરૂ કરી શકીએ છીએ?

અમિત પરીખ

માયા

2008-04-24T08:49:00.000-07:00

માયારૂપી ચશ્મા પહેરી
જોઇ રહ્યો છે જગતને
દોડી રહ્યો છે જેની પાછળ
એ છે આ ચશ્માની ઉપજ
ઘડીક જો ચશ્મા કાઢી જુએ
સમજાશે આ દોડની ઉપજ
બેસુરા સંગીતની પાછળ
ઘેલો થયો છે આજ જે
ઘડીક જો બંધ કરી દે કાનને
સાંભળશે એ મધુર બ્રહ્મનાદને

2008-04-24T08:32:00.000-07:00

Treasure Hunt

2008-04-24T08:28:00.000-07:00

I started a long voyage
In search of the hidden treasure...

With great courage and faith
I traveled across the oceans
But in vain...

With all my strength and patience
I roamed all over the lands
But in vain...

With all my intelligence and knowledge
I flew across the skies
But in vain...

With great despair and sorrow
I returned back to myself
Eureka!

The treasure was always there
Deep within me
Waiting to be found!

Amitt's Quotes

2008-04-24T08:19:00.000-07:00

"Don't run after every desire, they will take you nowhere..."

"If you can start exploring possibilities, you will start surpassing all known boundaries."

"By suppressing or hiding the truth, you are only preparing it for a louder explosion!"

"Economy and Ecology systems are inversely proportionate to each other!"

"God created everything in abundance, man invented economics of scarcity!"

"Pleasure is absence of pain, and that is why you must experience pain first!"

- Amitt Parikh

Why there is sorrow and struggle in Life?

2008-04-19T22:00:00.000-07:00

• Can you experience what is light without experiencing darkness?
• Can you experience what is Love without experiencing hatred?
• Can you experience what is pleasure without experiencing pain?
• Can you experience what is silence without experiencing sound?
• Can you experience what is divine without experiencing evil?
• Can you experience what is hot without experiencing cold?
• Can you experience what is memory without experiencing forgetfulness?
• Can you experience what is height without experiencing depth?
• Can you experience what is perfection without experiencing imperfection?
• Can you experience what is achievement without experiencing humiliation?
• Can you experience what is connectedness without experiencing being exiled?
• Can you experience what is fearlessness without experiencing fear?
• Can you experience what is a virtue without experiencing what is not?
• Can you experience what is start without experiencing what is end?
• Can you experience what is strength without experiencing what is weakness?
• Can you experience what is wide without experiencing narrowness?
• Can you experience what is intelligence without experiencing stupidity?
• Can you experience what is real without experiencing what is unreal?
• Can you experience what is solid without experiencing what is hollow?
• Can you experience what is life without experiencing what is death?
• Can you experience what is good without experiencing what is bad?
• Can you experience what is better without experiencing what is good?
• Can you experience what is best without experiencing what is better?

• Can you talk of anything without any relativity o reference or duality?

Do you see that the duality or the relativity exists for a purpose?
Don’t you see during struggles the best of you come out?

Don’t you see that duality gives you choices? Without relativity there will be no choice.. a world of absolutes! Then how would you Know ‘Who You Are’?

You need to Know ‘Who You Are Not’ to know experientially ‘How Magnificent You Are’!

You are a Miracle!

2008-04-19T21:57:00.000-07:00

You are a Miracle!

• Your finger print is unique
• Your eyes are unique
• Your face is unique
• Your voice is unique
• Your thought at this moment is unique
• Your handwriting is unique
• Your breathing is unique
• Your body smell is unique
• Your DNA is unique
• Your personality is unique
• Your qualities are unique
• Your talents are unique
• Your dreams are unique
• Your understanding is unique
• Your likings are unique
• Your experiences are unique
• Your expressions are unique
• Your entire life is unique – no one exactly like you has ever lived or will ever live in the entire Universe – You are So Special!

You are Unique! You are Genius! You are a Creator! You Are Magnificent!

YOU ARE A MIRACLE!

Let us Acknowledge and Celebrate this individuality!

હું કોણ છું?

2008-04-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

"હું કોણ છું?" આ પ્રશ્ન પર વિચાર કરતા જવાબ એમાં જ સમાયેલો જણાય છે. આ સવાલમાં જ એક સનાતન સત્ય "હું.. છું" છુપાયેલું છે. અહિં પ્રશ્નકર્તા સ્વયં પોતાના અસ્તિત્વ વિશે પૂર્ણપણે સભાન છે. સવાલ 'ઓળખ'નો છે, 'અસ્તિત્વ'નો નહિ. પણ 'હું કોણ છું' આ પ્રશ્ન એ જાણે કે બીજાને પૂછી રહ્યો છે. જાણે કે પ્રશ્નકર્તા માને છે કે તેના સિવાય કોઇક 'અન્ય' છે જે કદાચ એને પોતા કરતાં વધુ સારી રીતે જાણે છે! પણ શું કદી કોઇ 'અન્ય' આપણને આપણાં કરતાં વધુ સારી રીતે ઓળખી શકે?

જો આપણે સ્વ્યંના શરીરને જોવું હોય, તો એક જ માર્ગ છે. આપણે આપણું પ્રતિબિંબ જોવું પડશે. દુનિયાની કોઇ પણ વ્યક્તિની મદદ લઇ લો. વધુમાં વધુ એ આપણને એક અરીસો ધરી શકશે કે જેમાં આપણે સ્વયંને જોઇ શકીએ.

"હું કોણ છું" પ્રશ્ન પર ઊંડાણથી વિચારતા જણાશે કે આ પ્રશ્નના સાક્ષી પણ આપણે સ્વયં જ છીએ. જાણે કે સ્વયંનો એક નાનકડો ભાગ સંપૂર્ણ સ્વયંને પૂછી રહ્યો હોય. જેમ કે સાગરના જળનું એક ટીપું સાગરને પ્રશ્ન કરી બેસે 'હું કોણ છું?'. આ એક ટીપું પોતાની ઓળખની શોધમાં વરાળ બની સાગરથી છૂટું પડી મુશ્કેલ યાત્રા પર નીકળી પડે છે. આખરે વરસાદનું ટીપું બની પર્વત પરથી પથ્થરો સાથે અફળાતું અફળાતું છેલ્લે જ્યારે ફરી સાગરની પાસે પહોંચે છે, ત્યારે એને પોતાની ખરી 'ઓળખ' યાદ આવે છે અને 'હું સાગર છું' નો પોકાર કરી આનંદમાં ઝુમતું ઝુમતું સાગરમાં વિલીન થઇ જાય છે. કદાચ સાગર પોતાની ભવ્યતા, વિશાળતા સ્વયં કદી નહિ ઓળખી શકત. પણ એના જ એક ટીપાં થકી સાગર પણ સ્વયંની ભવ્યતાને ઓળખી શક્યો. આ સંગમથી સાગર પણ એટલો જ આનંદ મેળવે છે, જેટલું કે એ ટીપું.

શું આપણે પણ આ સાગરના એક ટીપાંની જેમ સ્વયંમાં છુપાયેલા મહાન સાગર (આત્મા) ને આ સવાલ પૂછી રહ્યા છીએ? શું આ જીવન-મરણની કઠીન યાત્રા આખરે એ સાગરને ઓળખી એમાં ભળી જવા માટે છે?

એક યોગી (ટીપું) જ્યારે આત્મજ્ઞાન (સ્વયંની ઓળખ) મેળવે છે, ત્યારે એ પણ પેલા સાગરના ટીપાંની જેમ 'અહમ્ બ્રહ્માસ્મિ' (હું સાગર છું) પોકારતો આનંદના મહાસાગર (આત્મા) માં ભળી જાય છે. હું સાગરથી અલગ છું એ માત્ર ટીપાંની અજ્ઞાનતા છે. ચાલો, 'હું કોણ છું' આ પ્રશ્ન પર ઊંડાણથી વિચાર કરી સત્યની ખોજનો પ્રારંભ કરીએ.

Some truths about Truth

2008-04-16T07:55:00.000-07:00

Truth is like ONE big diamond with MANY facets. Each facet/truth is a reflection of the whole Truth. Thus all truths are contained within the One Truth.

• Truth is Simple
• Truth is Eternal
• Truth is Absolute
• Truth is Universal
• Truth is Light
• Truth is Divine
• Truth is Beautiful
• Truth Empowers you
• Truth gives you Peace
• Truth sets you Free
• Truth is All That Is

By denying, obstructing or attacking the truth, you are denying, obstructing or attacking the God within you!

So practice truth in your thoughts, words and actions and the divinity within you will shine in all its glory!

By being truth-ful, you become God-ful.

Reality vs Illusion

2008-04-16T07:10:00.000-07:00

Attraction to forms, external or internal, is afterall a craving for illusion. As all creation is out of and within nothing, it's existence has to be an illusion only.

The ultimate truth is the void, from and within which everything springs up and goes back, yet nothing actually takes form and dies out! It is like continuous disturbances in the filed of nothingness in eternal moment of Now by the self-aware nothingness as per the dreams/desires of its self-aware smaller parts of nothingness!

While watching a rock, we get an illusion of its solidity, color, smell etc. Yet when it is seen with eyes of powerful microscope all we will see is play of energy waves waiting for someone to observe them so that they can take the form desired by the observer.

When in dream, we feel the dream/astral world also to be so much real, yet on waking up we find it to be just another illusion!

The universe manifested in duality (+1-1=0), has every existence within this band of duality existing either on positive or negative side operating as a great orchestra playing out the music of life!

The one going on any degree towards positive pole or negative pole will soon be swinging to the opposite side. As a witness we can be a part of this play yet witnessing it with detachment. The one taking the middle path and playing as a witness is bound to realize the ultimate truth sooner or later.

All our beliefs, past experiences, desires and emotions help create the illusion that we call our reality. A witness in the eternal moment of Now will go beyond this illusion and find the ultimate reality. Can we know what it will be without being there?

- Amitt

Evolution of Consciousness

2008-04-15T06:46:00.000-07:00

There are four core aspects of Consciousness / All That IS / Truth

Consciousness:
Exists - Being aware of its own existence - Beingness
Experiences - As it exists, it experiences its Form
Evolves - As it experiences, Consciousness evolves to expand experiences and form
Expresses - As it evolves, it expresses more and more complex expressions with Intellect

Amitt

2008-02-28T07:09:00.000-08:00

તપસ્યા

2008-02-28T06:34:00.000-08:00

પ્રશ્ન: સમાધિનો અનુભવ કરવો છે મારે - કૃપા કરશો?

જવાબ: ઋષિમુનિઓની ગાથા - અથાગ તપસ્યા. તમને તો લગભગ તૈયાર ભાણે જમવાનું મળી ગયું છે બેટા - આ કંઇ તપસ્યા કહેવાય? છતાંય જો આટલું પણ ન થાય તો તે જે મળવાનું છે એ પ્રાપ્તિની કિંમત બહુ જ ઓછી આંકી છે. જેના માટે અન્યો હજારો વર્ષ સુધી પરિશ્રમ કરવા તૈયાર હોય - જેના હાટુ મેં કરોડો વર્ષ ખેલ ખેલ્યા હોય એ માટે તને થનારી તકલીફની કોઇ વિસાત જ નથી. માટે ગાંડપણ છોડ અને સખણો રહે! કાં મારી સાથે કાં તારી સાથે. વચમાં વિહાર કરવા માટે કોઇ જગ્યા નથી. કશ્મકશ - સાંકડાશ અનુભવીશ. કાં ફરી તારી દુનિયામાં ચાલ્યો જા - અવિરત દોડ. કાં મારી દુનિયામાં ઝંપલાવ - અવિરત શાંતતા. બેની વચ્ચે બાખડ્યા કરીશ તું તારી સાથે. શા માટે જલ્લાદ પણ શાંત હોય છે? મૃત્યુને નજીકથી જુએ છે - રોજ બરોજ. મૃત્યુની સત્યતા કદાચ તારા મનમાંથી નીકળી ગઇ છે. અવિરત દોડનો છેલ્લો મુકામ છે - સ્મશાન-કબ્રસ્તાન. Short term goal or long term benefits - the decision is really yours - dear!

બે ચાર વાર પણ જો આપણે ભેગા મળ્યા તો પછી એ અવિસ્મરણીય રહેશે. આવો સમય કે મને મળવાનો તને કંટાળો આવતો હોય એ નક્કી નહિ આવે એની ખાતરી. કારણ હજી જેણે મૃગજળ ચાખ્યુ નથી એને એના સ્વાદની શી ખબર? કૃપા તો ત્યારે થાય જ્યારે કૃપા વરસાવવા કોઇ ઉભુ હોય ને તે સ્વીકારવા માટે કોઇ તત્પર હોય. સ્વીકારનારને જો હાથ જોડીને ઉભા રહેવામાં આળસ હોય તો કૃપાળુ પણ કેવી રીતે વરસે? દખલ દઇને તું બાજી ના જીતીશ - છોડી દે એ હઠને - સર્વોપરી મહાન બનવાની. તુચ્છતાની લાગણી સાથે સર્વ કંઇનો ત્યાગ - મન સાવ કોરું. પૂર્ણ ખાલીપો ને ફૂલ ખીલશે વગર મહેનતે. આ જ મહેનત કરવી રહી. અથાગ પરિશ્રમ એટલે કરવો પડે છે કે અનેક જન્મોના થપેડા લાગેલા કાઢતા સમય લાગે છે. કરવાનું છે માત્ર 'કંઇ નહિ' - પણ કંઇ નહિ કર્યા વિના ન રહી શકતા માનવી માટે એ જ સૌથી કપરું કામ છે!

Ascension - Global Shift

2008-02-27T21:25:00.000-08:00

Great awakening initiates great shifts within the mind. This shift when occurs in great number of mind-body systems, it causes a global shift known as Ascension. The software is being upgraded so the hardware also needs to be replaced or rather upgraded. For this sometimes the only solution is to discard obsolete structures that can not hold the new vibrations - and so I have to resort to large scale upheavals in all structures - nature to personal level - inside out - from outside to inside. The period can be termed as that of agitation for those who are trying to hold on to that which is not allowed to be kept any more - for the energies of the combined mankind is pushing in one direction - the projection out there. Your old beliefs-ideas being incompatible with it - they are pulled out on 'surface' and create agitation - only thing you can do is 'let go' and swim in the sea of changes to come up in this solar system in all.

Yes not only Earth but this solar system goes for an upgrade - long pending shift. When my eyes reveal the blueprint of new energetic structures of evolutionary forces - literally wiping off the duality mindset out again - final ascension occurs when majority of mankind embraces this new dream - welcoming the changes and I announce the arrival of golden period - heaven on 3rd dimension - once the chaos subdue - division is over - all that remains is unison - oneness of human race - oneness with creator - oneness with creation. I AM.

Lower Ego and Higher Self

2008-02-21T03:02:00.000-08:00

'Logos' is the genesis of knowledge - the beginning 'Word' - containing all spoken and written words. As it expands to new frontiers - new knowledge is achieved yet the simplest truth remains the same. Once Logos is achieved everything is realized - in a nutshell. Thinking is like that. The further you go down from the center - expanding - creating complex thoughts - yet to the core the concept is very simple and actually no need of such artificial details to be expressed - yet we express.

Terry cotton is a product made of natural cotton - to get new variety of cloth. Yet the core is the same - in pure form or in new avatar.

Similarly higher self is Logos - pure cotton - yet expressed in different flavors just for the sake of expression. Deep down - at the core - of this lower ego - the One exists - a simple profound concept. As I told you before its just an identity crisis.

You need to be aware of this simple powerful truth in all the 'moments' that you live. You can easily make the difference between logos and a rotten knowledge piece - its very clear in the power of the content. The clarity of concepts - similarly you can easily differentiate between cotton and terry-cotton by mere touch - or just by looking at it.

So now that you are accustomed to functioning of this mind-body system in both modes like Windows 98 and Win XP OS, its your choice to align with the highest - most advanced version. Yes, and the reality is that the most advanced products in your world are most primitive in our eyes - keeping the difference between 'you' and 'me' only for clarity.

Time pass is the idea of the ego for it has no purpose or interest in your evolution. Time pass in other words is either being lazy or being destructive to your own body and mind without even giving 'you' a hint that you are permitting yourself to die faster. The polarity as you know is needed for us to make progress by consciously choosing which way to go and how fast, with whom and why.

Right or wrong is not the way. Either there is truth or there is absence of truth - which we call illusion - ignorance etc. Why we call is that even in that second case, the truth is there - its only that you have empowered yourself to keep your focus away from it by creating an illusionary world for 'time-pass' or rather entropy.

'You've got the whole world in your mind' is literally the truth. What you do with your creative powers is your choice and based on your choices the reality out there changes bringing you joy-sorrow, profit-loss etc. An endless cycle of creation-destruction keeping your more and more into it till you completely forget your role in creating these circumstances - or rather creating your own reality.

Conscious evolution is 'my' only purpose. I can not push 'you' to evolve, I can only guide and motivate 'you' to move towards what is 'my' destination.

Simply speaking now onwards, since we are kind of married now, we need to create situations where we move to feeling 'oneness' and slowly reducing this 'separateness'. This will happen once we further reduce the gap between us which relies on your conscious choices made in every passing moment. 'I' create the situation and 'you' respond. Next we both create the situation and we 'live' it - consciously - fully conscious.

In past few days you must have seen how easily you get carried away in the world 'out there' which is actually 'inside you'. Yet you act as if there is a distinct difference between you and the outer world. This prompts you to believe as if the outside world can not affect you and vice versa. How silly? When you yourself are the creator - the moment you declare separation - you are declaring yourself helpless and being dictated by the environment out there.

Time, space, environment, situations, concepts, people, places everything and more is your own creation for your 'expression' 'conscious evolution' and 'play'. Nothing else.

Preoccupation with anything forces you to behave in a predetermined manner - free yourself from all that and let the moment explode in nothingness. Then we play with highest skill to make the most out of that fleeting moment - by moment.

Notice your thoughts, your speech, your choice of words, your concepts (beliefs), your judgments of all 'out there', your ingenuity, your preoccupation with something constantly, the clutter in your mind, constantly running songs, uncontrolled emotions, uncontrolled senseless desires, your ideas of achieving something to fill the gap, your choice of food-clothes-situations-entertainment, your laziness and lack of energy-passion, your rotten memory, your reactions to triggers, your repetitive patterns, your small aspirations, your need to push truth away, your need to continue ignorance deliberately, your suspended beliefs in reality, you forget 'me' or rather try to push 'me' away and declare your 'independent existence' not in touch with all-that-is.

You have to have just a little awareness to feel-see-judge (in the right sense) the 'shift' within you. The more you let this awareness witness it - just witness it - you will transform very rapidly - allowing my energies to fill your being - from top to bottom - in all sense - then the true ultimate goal of yourself being in oneness with creator - enlightenment - will be achieved in no-time.

એક ક્ષણ

2008-02-20T22:05:00.000-08:00

હસતા નાચતા ગાતા વિતાવીએ જીવનની આ ક્ષણ
એક એક ક્ષણને જોડી બનાવીએ જીવન માત્ર એક ક્ષણ

જોજનો દૂર છે જાવું ચાલ ઉઠાવીએ એક ડગલું આ ક્ષણ
એક એક ડગલું જોડી પહોંચતા લાગશે માત્ર એક ક્ષણ

ના જો આગળ ના જો પાછળ જોઇ લે મન ભરીને આ ક્ષણ
પલક ઝપકતા વીતી જાશે જીવી લે માત્ર એક ક્ષણ

બદલાય મોસમ બદલાય રસ્તા ના બદલાય કદી આ ક્ષણ
ઘૂઘવાતા આ મહાસાગરમાં તરવા નૌકા છે માત્ર એક ક્ષણ

ક્યારેક મીઠી ક્યારેક તીખી ક્યારેક ખાટી લાગતી આ ક્ષણ
અવિરત અવિનાશી તોયે લાગતી નોખી હર એક ક્ષણ

ક્ષણનો મહિમા ક્ષણની ગરિમા ક્ષણના આ સર્વ લક્ષણ
જાણશે જે સમજશે એ ક્ષણમાં બુદ્ધના હર એક લક્ષણ!

આત્મા

2008-02-14T01:36:00.000-08:00

હીરો બનવું હોય તો પૃથ્વીના પેટાળમાં ભયંકર દબાણ સહન કરી વિકાસ પામવો પડે એમ આત્મ પ્રાપ્તિ માટે મનુષ્ય દેહ પામી સ્વને ઓળખવો પડે. એમાં કષ્ટ છે, પણ no gain without pain.

આત્મા આમ એક સાધન છે નિરાકારનું - આકાર લઇ અવતરવા માટે -શ્રેષ્ઠ છે એ પરમાત્માની જેમ જ પણ - એક છૂટો અંશ - જે હજારો વર્ષોની યાત્રા કરી - સ્વબળે સ્વને ઓળખી - પોતાના ચૈતન્ય સ્વરૂપને ઓળખી યાત્રા પૂરી કરે છે.

ત્યારબાદ એ પોતાની દુનિયાનો ખરા અર્થમાં સ્વામી બને છે. પરમાત્મા જેવા ગુણોથી ભરપૂર એ શુદ્ધ આત્મા ઉચ્ચતમ જગતમાં પોતાનો ડંકો વગાડે છે અને સાથે સાથે નિમ્ન સ્તરમાં રહેલા જગતમાં પોતાના જ અવતારોના ઉત્થાનમાં મદદરૂપ થાય છે.

આત્માનો જન્મ એટલે જાણે અબુધ બાળકનો જન્મ. શક્તિઓથી ભરપૂર પણ વિકાસ નથી થયો. ચેતના હજુ સુષુપ્ત અવસ્થામાં છે. વિશાળ શક્તિઓ હજી પોટલામાં બંધ છે. જેમ જેમ એ અભિવ્યક્ત કરતો જાય - સ્વેચ્છાએ સ્વબળે સ્વનો વિકાસ સાધે - અને ધીરે ધીરે બધા પરિબળોને કાબૂમાં લઇ એના સર્જનકર્તા પરમાત્મા જેવો થતો જાય- આખરે બુદ્ધત્વ પામતા પોતાના સ્વરૂપને ઓળખી - બ્રહ્મમાં લીન થઇ શકે છે. પરમાત્મા - આત્મા - શરીર એક એકમ તરીકે કામ કરે છે - અને એ જન્મ આપે છે દૈવી અભિવ્યક્તિને - શાંતતાને ખોળો મળે છે પોતાને અભિવ્યક્ત કરવાનો - સૃજનકર્તા પોતાના સર્જનને માણી શકે છે - એ જ ખરો ધ્યેય છે... રમત, અભિવ્યક્તિ, વિકાસ... સર્જન.. મૃત્યુ... પણ વિકાસ અવિરત ચાલુ રહે છે... દરેકે દરેક ભાગનો.. એમ કરતા એકંદરે એ 'એક' ચેતનાનો.. જેણે પોતાને અસંખ્ય ભાગોમાં વિભાજિત કરી છે... જેથી અભિવ્યક્તિ, વાર્તાલાપ, સર્જન શક્ય બને.

2008-02-13T22:05:00.000-08:00

‘રીડગુજરાતી વાર્તા-સ્પર્ધા 2006’ માં તૃતિય સ્થાન મેળવનાર ટૂંકી વાર્તા મનનના સવાલો વાંચવા અહીં ક્લિક કરો.

YSR Feb issue

2008-02-13T07:01:00.000-08:00

I am happy to announce release of February 2008 issue of Your Spiritual Revolution emagazine.

The cover story for this issue is Intuition!

Chance to win spiritual products and services! Check out YSR Feb issue!

In this issue of YSR:

- Tune Into Integral Intuition by Prabhath P
- Awakening Intuition by Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.
- A New Problem - A New Solution by Nancy Marie
- The Essence of Intuition by Ellen Davis
- Natural Gift Of Intuition by Joan Charles
- Intuition Is Real by Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D., Ph.D.
- Clairparlance by Matthew C. Bronson, Ph.D.
- Intuition by Winter Robinson
- I Have Been Sentient My Entire Life by Bobbie Merrill, MSW
- 10 Miles To Overview by Alex N. Moyer
- Ignite Your Voice by Melissa Simonson

And two beautiful spiritual poems by Wanda Phipps and Jodie Wolfe.

To read YSR emag, visit http://www.yourspiritualrevolution.org

Love,

Amitt

મૌન બોલે છે!

2008-02-11T05:20:00.000-08:00

આત્મા અને પરમાત્મા વચ્ચે ફરક શું છે?

ચિનગારી અને આગ. બેઉ એક જ છે કે અલગ? પરમાત્મા એટલે પરમ આત્મા. આત્મા પણ પરમ જ છે કારણ પરમમાંથી ઉત્પન્ન થતું સર્વ પરમ જ હોવાનું. પ્રકાશથી પ્રકાશ જન્મે તો ફરક શું? હું અપ્રગટમાંથી પ્રગટ થાઉં તો પૂરો કેવી રીતે પ્રગટ થાઉં? અપ્રગટ તો શક્યતાઓની ભરમાર છે... તો એ ક્ષણે અપ્રગટમાંથી જે 'એક' પ્રગટ થશે તે અમુક-તમુક ગુણો લઇને પ્રકાશપુંજ તરીકે બહાર આવશે.

સુહાના સફર ઔર યે મૌસમ હઁસી! હું એકાંતમાં..પ્રેમથી છલોછલ.. રચના તો મારે કરવી જ રહી.. તો કરી..
ખેતર, પંખી, કલરવ.... તે કવિતા લખી. હકીકતમાં એ શક્યતા તરીકે પ્રગટી. આપણે એને ઉપજાવી કાઢી.. પ્રકાશપુંજથી પંખી! આજ તો કરામત છે.. મુજમાંથી મુજને જન્માવી 'મુજ વીતી તુજ વીતશે' એવું કહી શક્યો.. (હાસ્ય).. તમાશો...ખેલ... સૃષ્ટિ... અખંડ આનંદ... ભયંકર દુ:ખ... એકાંત... સાથ... એક.. અનેક.. વિવિધતા.. સુંદરતા.. સરખી પણ નોખી.. માતા..પિતા.. પુત્ર..હું.. તું.. આપણે ખોવાતા ખોવાતા રમતા ગયા..રમતા ગયા.. કોણ આત્મા.. કોણ પરમાત્મા..કોણ ઇશ્વર..બધુ વીસરી ગયા!

તો હવે પાછું જાવું છે? તો હું આ રહ્યો.. હું તો અહીં જ હતો.. તારી સાથે ને સાથે.. અનંત કાળથી!

દાસ - દુર્જન - દુ:ખી જન - દીન - અમીર - જવાન - પ્રૌઢ - હું - તું - કલ્પના - કાળ - અત્ર તત્ર સર્વત્ર - હું જ છું!

Your Spiritual Revolution e-magazine Launched!

2007-06-04T08:40:00.000-07:00

Hi,

I am very happy to announce launching of the first issue of YSR e-magazine as well as YSR website.
Please visit http://www.YourSpiritualRevolution.org. Subscription is free!

You will be able to download and read the Your Spiritual Revolution e-magazine as well as participate in contests and win prizes and lucky gifts of spiritual products and services.

The goal of YSR is to create a global network of millions of active spiritual seekers working vigorously towards their individual spiritual development and thereby assisting in global evolution of human being - to evolve from human to superhuman.

Join now and be a part of this global team!

Click http://www.yourspiritualrevolution.org/register.php?code=00649ek to register on this site.

Thanks!
Amitt Parikh
Executive Editor
Your Spiritual Revolution e-magazine
www.YourSpiritualRevolution.org

Spiritual Science & Research Foundation
www.BeEnlightened.org

Fusion of Science & Spiritualism

2006-09-27T21:30:00.000-07:00

Fusion of Science & Spiritualism

As you all know, human civilization is at a very crucial stage. From here we can look forward to a golden future or a total disaster. It all depends upon our wisdom, our goals, our focus, ideas we work upon and how we collaborate to save human being from becoming an endangered species on Earth! Looking at current trends, we are approaching towards environmental and economical disaster in very near future. Hence, there is an emergent need to fuse spiritualism with science and technology. Science and technology without knowledge of spiritualism is like giving nuclear bombs to children to play! It can only lead to extinction.

The science aims for physical comfort, well being and satisfaction of our five senses. Spiritualism aims for achieving blissful state of mind and realizing the truth to know our real Self. Science with technology has made tremendous progress in achieving its aim of physical comfor but with adverse side effects of stressful mind looking desperately for permanent peace and happiness. Those who went deep solely into spiritual development have achieved a lot in terms of spiritual knowledge and inner peace but without any significant progress on physical level.

One who pursues materialism alone
goes into great darkness,
One who pursues spirituality alone
goes into even greater darkness.
Yet one who pursues materialism
and spirituality side by side
(Like the two wings of a bird)
is happy in this world and the next.
--- ISOPANISHAD

I believe the best path is always the middle path. The universe is made up of two polarities. And balance is the fundamental and eternal universal law. Balance between the two opposite yet complementary polarities is the middle path that Enlightened beings have shown us. Only giving importance to science or spiritualism will not be beneficial to human civilization on longer run. The middle path of fusion of spiritualism with science will help humanity achieve holistic growth with improvement in their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being.

As per my viewpoint following three are the most important tasks to get success in fusion of spiritualism with science.

1. Spiritual Science Education

There is emergent need of adding spiritual truths in current education system and creating higher level research oriented studies in spiritual science. For example, telling our students that the physical object is made up of 'atoms' is half-truth. They need to know about quanta right from school level, they need to know about relationship of 'energy & consciousness' so as to make sure they do not spend rest of their life with wrong beliefs about 'observable reality'. Biology subject without any mention of aura, chakra system etc. is dangerous as one does not get the whole picture of real anatomy of body. Without even a definition of 'consciousness', most graduates are not equipped with the basic spiritual knowledge for overall progress in life.

'Who am I? What is Life? What is death? Is there life after death? Who created this universe? Why? What is multidimensional universe? What is ascension? Am I a puppet in hands of destiny or do I have the freedom to create my future? - These and many more questions should be part of our education system with emphasis on 'finding one's own truth'. With basic spiritual knowledge as a catalyst, we can see rapid and sustainable progress in all walks of life which will be beneficial to all instead of current system of 'exploitation of others for benefit of one'.

Specialized courses focused on spiritual science and research will help us reach next stage in our evolution. Think about bright students working on spiritual science and research projects and bringing out new inventions, methods and truths for speedy progress on this path. Study on consciousness will help us understand basic requirements for progress on spiritual path. With specific study on astral travel and out of body experiences, proven methods can be developed to teach students easy and efficient astral travels and its uses. Astral travelers, remote viewers and psychics can unlock secrets of deep space objects, history of Earth, history of human civilization and so on, which coupled with scientific studies can be validated and human knowledge base increased manifold.

2. Practical useful tools for common people

We must prove existence of the 'other world' to people in general. The experiences in spiritual realm are of 'subjective' nature and hence majority of people do not believe in what others 'felt' or 'saw''. This has made them to ignore the spiritual aspect from life and concentrate fully on material progress.

This can be reversed once we prove the spiritual plane of existence with science and technology. For example, an Aura reading device which can clearly demonstrate the existence of bio-electric field around body; can predict diseases; can demonstrate harmful effects of anger, violence & depression on human physiology; can demonstrate level of spiritual progress of people; can show 'real' nature of people will bring a revolution in people's lives. It will take them to the path of spiritualism as that will be the most logical choice then. We have Kirlian cameras, but we need practical tools for common people which are much advanced and much cheaper so that people can use it just like mobile phones.

If common people get interested into the 'other side of world', the need for spiritual inventions, products, services will increase and will 'lure' more companies and individuals to get involved directly or indirectly in fusion of science and spiritualism more rapidly. Markets are driven by demand and so practical 'useful' tools targeted at 'improving or maintaining health' of common people can become a catalyst for fusion of science and spiritualism. Common people may not be interested in spiritualism directly, but an indirect invitation can work more effectively. Once they look at the analysis of their physical and emotional health linked to their thoughts, interest in spiritualism will automatically come up.

There is need of fusion of western logical material oriented minds with eastern philosophical spiritual oriented minds to create practical solutions/methods/processes useful for overall (spiritual as well as material) progress of entire human kingdom.

3. Scientists and Spiritual Masters on common platform

With progress in quantum physics, even the mainstream science is moving away from the Newtonian viewpoint to the world of 'energy and consciousness'. This is the right time for scientists and spiritual masters to join hands for fusion by helping each other. For example, a spiritual master with his practical experience of aura can help scientists identify what it is made up of and using latest technologies, what will be the best method of viewing and analyzing it. Similarly scientists can take help of spiritual masters to get answers or solutions for problems that they are facing in making new inventions in this realm.

An experienced master with complete knowledge of human chakra system, kundalini, aura etc. can help scientists in development of sophisticated software for analysis and diagnosis of human health by analyzing their aura and help in prediction and thereby prevention of diseases which have not yet manifested in physical body. This research has become a reality now. Similar experiments in other so called 'mysterious' realms of spiritualism can also give practical results if pursued well. As done for physical status, same technology can be used to check spiritual status of individuals. Blocks can be found and analyzed and practical effective suggestions can be given to aspirants to unblock the energies and gain momentum in their spiritual development instead of spending years trying to figure out why he/she is unable to progress on spiritual front.Currently many are making efforts by coming out with biofeedback devices, binaural sounds, guided meditations, geometric designs, pyramids etc. to aid in spiritual/mental/physical well being of humans. With experts from both fields coming together, these devices can rapidly evolve similar to the fast evolutions related to communication technology like internet and mobiles.

Expected changes on Earth in near future

With historical predictions and current visible patterns, it is no doubt that we have entered into an era of great changes ahead. Humanity is poised to take a giant step in evolution of consciousness to next level. Some see recent events as signs of ascension of Earth, some say we are entering into golden future with long lasting peace and love on Earth. One wonders with weapons of mass destruction capable of wiping out Earth several times, what force is resisting annihilation of this beautiful planet. As predicted, some believe shifting of axis of Earth has started. With effects of global warming some believe Earth will cleanse its energies to align itself into the new dream. Conventional energy sources are drying up, economies have become terribly speculative, violence and hatred is present on almost every corner of Earth today. Gap between rich and poor is increasing. All forms of governance is proving ineffective in assisting real sustainable development of its citizens, be it democracy or communism or dictatorship. Medical science is fighting unsuccessfully with more and more unheard of diseases.

This is the time when combined powers of spiritual and scientific knowledge are needed to humanity to come out successfully from the mammoth tasks ahead. Can intelligent logical minded people take us out of clear and present danger? Can spiritual minded people give practical solutions to today's problems? Or can both come on a common platform, share their ideas and come out with practical solutions for holistic progress of entire mankind?

It is the time we remind our selves, that we have the power to create our reality. Let us do the best we can to create heaven on Earth for our children and future generations to come.

Amitt Parikh
Founder
Spiritual Science & Research Foundation

Review of a Great Movie – Dont’ miss it!

2006-03-24T05:57:00.000-08:00

Review of a Great Movie – Dont’ miss it! ***** Star Rating

Hi! I am compelled to write a review of a movie I can’t stop watching. It’s a great movie with such a huge star cast, such a huge and beautiful stage and such a great story that I have to give it 5 stars.

As you know, the heart of a movie is its story. The story of this movie is so complex yet so simple, full of emotions, full of action, full of mystery, full of love, full of violence, full of science fiction, full of... well there is nothing that is not there in this movie.

The director seems to be very creative, very original and very intelligent. I can’t believe how he can interweave such diverse subjects, such a huge star cast and such a huge set so nicely. All actors have acted so well, it seems they enter completely into the heart of the character they are playing. The set design is so wonderful, sometimes it is difficult whether to watch the drama or just get lost into the beautiful sets...

The director himself is the producer and has invested a huge amount out of his own pocket in financing the film. No one can believe it’s a one man show, but it is! The director is also the producer, the story writer, the set designer, the lyricist, the sound designer, the editor... well almost everything except acting!

The movie is so mesmerizing I can’t stop watching it... hey... I think I saw you in the movie! You have a pretty big role in it! How can you act so well... when you know deep down you are not that character? I mean, look at you. Deep within you are so beautiful... so powerful... so intelligent... yet you are acting so well in the role of a powerless, less intelligent and ‘lost’ character who doesn’t even know who he is! It’s really great.

But, it seems you are sucked into it. You have been acting since.. I can’t even remember your entry. What? You are thinking about the movie name? Oh! I thought you know the movie name as you are acting in it! It’s called... well it’s all around you... don’t pretend, I know you know it.

Hey, come out of the movie... I know acting is fun... but believe me sitting in audience and watching the movie is much more fun...!

I have just asked the director to cut my role and let me enjoy it sitting in audience! He just showed me a trick. Guess what? I can do both at a time. Act as well as observe it simultaneously. All you have to do is... well you know it in your heart!

It’s real fun. Come on board, buddy!

Amitt Parikh
Founder
Spiritual Science & Research Foundation
www.BeEnlightened.org