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Sampriya

Mar 4, 2020
3 min

You are the ever-present Presence

When we think of "me", or "my identity" as a human being, we think of our body. In most people, the sense of I is consisting of the physical form we see in the mirror and of the thoughts we have about it. We think of ourselves as being this or that; as small or tall, smart or stupid, beautiful or ugly. All these qualifications are messages from the surrounding environment that we have internalised and accepted as true. Our own thinking may have added to these definitions and

Mala Meditation - The Mystical Power of the number 108

Sampriya

Jul 10, 2018
5 min

Mala Meditation - The Mystical Power of the number 108

Urvashee is a dear friend and the gifted creator of countless exceptional Malas. She has dedicated her life to Meditation and to helping others find their way to the light of their own Self with the help of her lovingly crafted Malas - the perfect support for your Meditation practice. In this post, Urvashee tells of the mystical, magical power of the number 108 and shares nine exceptional stories as to why a Mala is made of 108 knots. I highly recommend you visit her website

Meditation allows the caterpillar to know it is a Butterfly....

Sampriya

Jun 4, 2018
3 min

Meditation allows the caterpillar to know it is a Butterfly....

Just as a caterpillar doesn’t know it can fly until it experiences its own metamorphosis, most human beings are not sure of their Divinity. They doubt it, unless they are offered a moment of grace where life is experienced in an entirely different way from the habitual waking state reality. A distinct experience of a different dimension often helps us confirm what we may have hoped for or suspected for the bigger part of our lives: that there truly is more to us than what we

When I leave behind what I think I am...

Sampriya

Mar 8, 2018
1 min

When I leave behind what I think I am...

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You are That which you have been seeking all your life...

Sampriya

Feb 20, 2018
2 min

You are That which you have been seeking all your life...

An old Hindu legend speaks to this essential point that the Sages and Saints have been sharing since the beginning of time with those who have ears to hear.... ...there was once a time when all human beings were gods, but they so abused their divinity that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take it away from them and hide it where it could never be found. Where to hide their divinity was the question. So Brahma called a council of the gods to help him decide. "Let's bury it de

When Space becomes a form, it forgets the Source....

Sampriya

Feb 6, 2018
2 min

When Space becomes a form, it forgets the Source....

Through the mystery of Creation, when the eternally Pure and Free Space manifests as a human being, an individual mind gets formed. In this process of embodiment, the vision and knowledge of the Eternal Being get confined to a small fraction of the Pure Vision. The result is the human instrument of perception that we call the mind. In order to function in the world, the mind is given a set of helpers in the form of the senses. They all have different functions, but they can o

In Meditation and in life, a busy mind is not a problem...

Sampriya

Jan 25, 2018
3 min

In Meditation and in life, a busy mind is not a problem...

A persistent and pervasive myth keeps countless people from pursuing their own Meditation practice; namely the belief that one needs to empt

You are already Free - Meditation is how you know it

Sampriya

Jan 9, 2018
3 min

You are already Free - Meditation is how you know it

The part of you that recognizes that you are already Free is not the human mind. It is the Self, the Freedom itself, that recognizes its own Truth. This statement may appear cryptic, for as human beings, we think our only way of knowing is through the individual mind or intellect. That‘s what we were told from an early age and that‘s what we have practiced and believed throughout our lives. The Sages and Saints have been telling a different story for thousands of years to tho

Sampriya

Dec 13, 2017
1 min

Grace is always there...

The eternal Self, our Source, is unchanging and ever-present. The same is true for Grace, which is the very nature of the Self. In fact, we could say that Self, Source and Grace are synonymous, for all three words are attempts to describe the indescribable, infinite Space of Divinity. Grace is not something we need to deserve or seek, it is who we are in essence. We may have accepted our body and mind as our identity, just like a wave has accepted the sense that it is separat

Sampriya

Nov 19, 2017
2 min

Gratitude is more than an attitude...

Our friends in the United States will be celebrating Thanksgiving this coming Thursday. The Holiday of Thanksgiving is traditionally a time when people count their blessings. Engaging in gratitude is also a recommended practice in many ancient and more recent spiritual traditions. As for how to practice gratitude, it is commonly understood as focusing on the good things and the blessings we have in our lives. Often it means paying attention to the things we take for granted:

Sampriya

Oct 31, 2017
2 min

Truth is That which never changes

The dictionary defines truth as “conformity with fact or reality”. Most people call it truth when they perceive something with their senses, when they recognize a situation through their eyes, or when they know a fact with the help of their mind and intellect. Anyone who has contemplated their own mind has noticed its constant movement. Even though we may call the mind‘s perceptions the truth, we know they tend to fluctuate - and they change depending on one‘s interpretation.

Meditation is the door to
unchanging Happiness

Sampriya

Oct 16, 2017
1 min

Meditation is the door to unchanging Happiness

Happiness of the waking state is always determined by the fluctuations of mind and circumstances. We are high and happy one day, unhappy and depressed the next - depending on whether or not our hopes, desires, expectations and preferences are met. Even though we aspire to be happy at all times, for human beings the state of continuous or unchanging happiness is elusive. The reason we can't find it is that we are looking for continuity the wrong place. We expect to find stabil

In Meditation we realize that we are free from thoughts, beliefs and conclusions

Sampriya

Oct 5, 2017
3 min

In Meditation we realize that we are free from thoughts, beliefs and conclusions

In our waking state awareness, the thoughts in our head are what we experience as reality. As the thoughts arise when we wake up in the morning, their meaning and their content define how we experience our circumstances as well as ourselves. Whatever mood the thoughts project on a given day - that will be the colour and flavour of the day’s experience. Whatever thoughts the mind produces - they dictate what we do and who we think we are. When we live our lives on automatic pi

How choosing the perspective of the Self changes everything...

Sampriya

Sep 26, 2017
2 min

How choosing the perspective of the Self changes everything...

From a human perspective, with our mind as the instrument of evaluation, we see every situation we find ourselves in as either good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant. The mind's vision is dualistic by nature. It forever assesses life in terms of black or white. Although we rarely argue with pleasant experiences, as soon as something unpleasant happens we are quick to try to get away from it. When circumstances go against our preferences it is human nature to assume that "this sh

Compassion is the nature of the Self - Kindness is how it manifests...

Sampriya

Sep 20, 2017
1 min

Compassion is the nature of the Self - Kindness is how it manifests...

Just as love is much vaster than the sense of attraction or infatuation we experience as humans beings, compassion is much vaster than the sympathy, commiseration or care we may feel towards our fellow human and animal friends. True compassion is unchanging and unconditional in nature. It is a state of being rather than a feeling - and it is one of the characteristics of the all-permeating Self. The fullness of compassion lives hidden in our innermost core as the knowledge of

In Meditation we experience our Oneness with the Divine Self

Sampriya

Sep 12, 2017
2 min

In Meditation we experience our Oneness with the Divine Self

The Vedic scriptures say that the sense of separation from our Divine Self, is the cause of all human difficulty and suffering. In most cultures we are told from an early age that Divinity exist "out there" and that as human beings we are inherently separate from it. Divinity or the Self is described as the unattainable state of eternal bliss that we might get a glimpse of at the end of a long road of practices and renunciation, if we are lucky and deserving. This leaves many

Meditation gives us access to the Knowledge of the Self

Sampriya

Sep 6, 2017
3 min

Meditation gives us access to the Knowledge of the Self

We grow up with the idea that knowledge is power. We are told from an early age that a good education will give us a chance to better our lives, to reach our goals and to have a happy and fulfilled existence. Our school system fills the heads of children with unceasing information, as if accumulating facts and figures might improve their intelligence and give them an advantage over others. As adults we are constantly bombarded with information from all sides. Our heads are cr

Freedom from the dictates of the mind - one of Meditation's many gifts....

Sampriya

Aug 24, 2017
2 min

Freedom from the dictates of the mind - one of Meditation's many gifts....

Everyday human experience is also referred to as waking state consciousness. In this state, the mind and the content of its thoughts are experienced as me; a person who is functioning in the world and whose thoughts are real and true. If these thoughts are repeatedly judgmental, telling me that I am not good enough - that I am too much of this and not enough of that - then what the thoughts say becomes my reality. If, for example, the mind produces thoughts every day that tel

Sampriya

Aug 17, 2017
2 min

Find the unchanging Self in Meditation

The quote of the Sage says that we find the unchanging Self where the senses and ego are not. Then where is it to be found? In our everyday waking state awareness, there is never a moment where the senses or the sense of I/ego are not alive and active. The senses are collecting experiences and the thinking mechanism is producing thoughts in the mind from the moment we wake up in the morning, until we fall into deep sleep at night. As long this process is active, the sense of

Sampriya

Aug 11, 2017
1 min

It isn't the Matter that matters...

Antoine de St. Exupéry, the famous author of “The Little Prince” said that: “What is essential is invisible to the eyes, one can only truly see with the heart”. He is hinting at the same Truth that the sages and saints have been sharing for thousands of years, namely that we are mislead by the limited perceptions of our senses. They can only recognize things and forms, objects and persons. Our eyes can only tell us the shape of things, never their Source. They inform us of ho

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