Exercise: Becoming the Soul
In order to purify your mind, the best thing to do is to feel every day for a few minutes during your meditation that you have no mind. Say to yourself, "I have no mind, I have no mind. What I have...
26 August 2006
Exercise: Becoming the Soul
Exercises to purify the mind
1. Harnessing Your Mind
2. Purifying the Breath
3. Strangling Bad Thoughts
4. The Inner Flame
5. Throw Thoughts Out
6. God Wants Me, I Need God
7. Becoming the Soul
26 August 2006
Exercises to purify the mind
Emptying the mind
You must not think that when there is nothing in your mind, you will become a fool or act like an idiot. This is not true. If you can keep your mind calm and quiet for ten or fifteen minutes, a new...
26 August 2006
Emptying the mind
Q&A: Music, the universal language
What is the best way to become one with soulful music?
The best way to become one with soulful music is to have the firm inner conviction while listening to it that as you are breathing in, the...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Q&A: Music, the universal language
What does 'soulful' mean in relation to music?
What do we mean by soulful music? If you say it is the music that embodies the soul, then I wish to say that you are mistaken. You have to feel that...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Q&A: Music, the universal language
How do we know if music is spiritual and if the musician is aspiring?
Whether or not the musician is aspiring is not your business. That is only God's business. Somebody may appear to be spiritual,...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Can we use music to help us in our spiritual life?
We can definitely use music to help us in our spiritual life. Music and the spiritual life are like twin brothers; we cannot separate them. How can...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Can some kinds of music cause us to feel upset and change our spiritual condition?
Yes. There is some music that is really destructive to our inner being. This music comes from the gross physical or...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Music, the universal language
Music, the universal language question and answer index
1. Can some kinds of music cause us to feel upset and change our spiritual condition?
2. Can we use music to help us in our spiritual life?
3. What does 'soulful' mean in relation to music?
4. How...
26 August 2006
Music, the universal language question and answer index
Q&A: Meditation in action
Is it possible to maintain the inner peace we feel during our morning meditation throughout the day, especially when our jobs are hectic and we sometimes find ourselves in irritating situations?
In...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Meditation in action