Is Paramahansa Yogananda God? Swami Vivekananda & Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual Experience With God (VIDEO)
Uplift your consciousness! Receive daily Advaita Vedanta quotes from great Rishis. Subscribe to the Spiritual Bee on WhatsApp. Do you pray to Paramahansa Yogananda? Do you wish to receive his help and guidance in times of difficulty? Then as a first step, we must clear our conception of him. We must understand who he really […]
Great Avatars Maintain a Presence in the Subtle Realm After Death
What kind of yogic powers do God-realized sages possess? How are they able to help devotees even after giving up the body? Find out by subscribing to our Yogic Powers of Pandit Shriram Sharma Newsletter on the Spiritual Bee Academy App. On 5th December 1950, Sri Aurobindo gave up his physical sheath. In the enclosed […]
Many Times Sri Ramakrishna Gave Seemingly Contradictory Advice
2 disciples reported to Sri Ramakrishna that people were speaking ill of the sage. To the first disciple Sri Ramakrishna said: Keep calm and don’t reply back. To the other he said: You should stand up and defend me. Why this difference in advice for the same situation?
A Guru’s Body Eventually Falls Off. Therefore Devotees Should Establish an Inner Contact with the Guru
The body of a guru has to fall off one day; no one is immortal. Therefore devotees must strive hard to establish an inner contact with the guru and try to see him/her in their visions. Sri Ramakrishna is in his subtle body today, and he reveals himself to all devotees who call on him sincerely.
P9 – Want Enlightenment (Samadhi) Bestowed Upon You By a Guru? Cultivate This ONE Thing
“Maharishi Ramana bestowed enlightenment upon Annamali Swami by a mere touch. He also gave enlightenment to HWL Poonja (Papaji) by merely looking at him.
So can you facilitate a meeting of mine with a great sage, who can transmit complete enlightenment to me by merely looking at me?” Someone asked me this question…
Part 8 – Want a God Realized Guru to Help You? Inner Contact is Must. How to Establish It?
“If you give up your lustful ways and lead a good moral life for 6 months, I shall accept you as my disciple.” Lahiri Mahasaya said to a person who had come to him for initiation. Did the man listen to Lahiri Mahasaya and reform his habits? Was the man able to open up his consciousness to receive the sage’s Divine Grace? What steps should a sadhak take so that he can establish an inner contact with a God Realized sage who has left his body. An inner contact as we saw in our last video is a must before we can receive the help of a great guru, even one who has left his body.
Part 7: Inner Contact with Guru MUCH MORE Important than Outer Contact (VIDEO)
Gurudev please stop the train! cried Abhoya silently in her heart, remembering her guru Lahiri Mahasaya who was situated in far away Benares. What happened next demonstrates the truth that a disciple must have a deep inner contact with a God Realized guru.* Then only the guru’s help can reach the disciple. If the disciple […]
Easiest Way to Distinguish a Real Guru From Fake! (VIDEO)
Is it ok for a guru to live a lifestyle of sensual indulgence – owning fleets of expensive cars, wearing loads of gold jewellery and seeking sexual favours from their devotees? In this video we see how this behaviour of today’s Godmen contrasts sharply with the frugal lifestyle of genuine God realized sages, who despite possessing Lakshmi Siddhi, never used this power to better their own condition. Instead they used their Lakshmi Siddhi prudently to help deserving devotees.
Part 6: Don’t Try to Listen to Voices in Meditation – Harmful Entities of Subtle Realm Can Come Through
EXERCISE CAUTION ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH – In the previous video we saw how Sri Aurobindo used to hear the voice of Swami Vivekananda’s spirit explaining Sadhana to him. So likewise should we also try to hear the voice of Swami Vivekananda during meditation? NOT AT ALL! In this video we understand why attempting such […]
Part 5: How Swami Vivekananda (in Spirit Form) Guided Sri Aurobindo After Death (VIDEO)
Swami Vivekananda gave up his body in 1902. About 6 years later in the year 1908, Vivekananda came in his subtle body and gave very detailed guidance to Sri Aurobindo, who was at that time lodged in jail, imprisoned by the British. About this guidance Sri Aurobindo said: *”It was the spirit of Vivekananda who […]
Part 4: Where is Swami Vivekananda Now? 4 Incidents Showing Swamiji Still With Us, In His Subtle Body
Great God Realized Gurus after leaving their physical body, choose not to merge their Consciousness in God the Infinite Brahman. Instead they deliberately continue to maintain a separate existence by staying on in their subtle or causal bodies in order to help devotees. In this video, we visit 4 incidents related to Swami Vivekananda, which […]
Part 3: Why is a Guru Necessary? Third Eye Awakening – 4 Steps to Reach our Soul (VIDEO)
Why is having a guru so essential on the spiritual path? At the point of death who will help us cross over into the subtle realm? Who will guide us in the after-life? What is Third Eye Awakening? How do we go inwards and connect with our soul? One guru says this, another says that…Why […]
Part 2: What Do Gurus Do After God-Realization? Relax? Tapasya to Awaken India’s KUNDALINI (VIDEO)
Tapasya Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo and Sri Ramana Did to Awaken India’s Kundalini Many people feel that if they were to find a God Realized Guru living in the physical body, such a guru: Will sit down with them and teach them the ABCs of spirituality from scratch, Will answer each and every question they […]
Part 1: How to Find a Guru? Is a Living Guru Important for Spiritual Progress? (VIDEO)
Is it important that the guru be present in the physical body, or can we choose someone who is no longer living in an earthly body? Consider the example of a guru living in Rishikesh. This guru has disciples spread all over the world. Now suppose it is the middle of the night and 5 […]
Part 1 – Pavhari Baba from whom Vivekananda Almost Took Deeksha, But Was Stopped by STRANGE Vision
Can a Wicked Person Ever Become Good? Can a Murderer Have Good Qualities? Is Evil Permanent? In this video we visit the story of Pavhari Baba, a great saint who lived during Swami Vivekananda’s time, in whose Divine Sattvic company even a criminal transformed into a saint. So magnetic was Pavhari Baba’s Divine personality, that […]
Hindu Scriptures Are NOT Mythology – Best Way to Know a Real Guru From a Fake (VIDEO)
In this video we go through 2 interesting stories, based upon which we shall answer 2 important questions. How do we know whether a particular guru is genuine or not? Is there a test we can apply? Are Hindu scriptures really mythology? Because word mythology means something which is false, a misguided belief in imaginary […]
Choose a God Realized Guru, As Only a Knower of God Can Guide to Samadhi
The following excerpt has been taken from the book Spiritual Teachings of Swami Brahmananda (Free). In it Swami Brahmananda explains the necessity of a God Realized guru for an aspirant pursuing the spiritual path. For those not familiar with Swami Brahmananda – he was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, who under the able guidance […]
How Shriram Sharma Acharya’s Guru Guided Him Through An Astral Body
“The grace of Divine Souls is granted only for public good, for the growth of righteous attitudes and tendencies in humanity and it is not showered upon anyone who hankers after fame or material prosperity.” – Shriram Sharma Acharya Enclosed is a wonderful experience from the life of Shriram Sharma Acharya which demonstrates that a […]