If the yogi practices non-injury to excellence, a stage comes when people lose their hostility in his presence. A lamb and a lion will sit courageously in the presence of such a Yogi. There are a number of such results probable by the practice of Yoga. Thus we find that Divine or Divinity of man [...]

Men and women have evolved a number of methods to conquer the mind and thus manifest the divine nature. One of those methods is called the yoga. A perfected yogi develops marvelous powers. According to the books on Yoga, a Yogi can take off in air, can become small as an ant or become big [...]

I would now like to tell you all, the story of a lion cub which was reared along with a herd of sheep from the very day of its birth. As it grew, it learnt to gripe and eat grass. Then this flock of sheep was attacked by a different lion. He was surprised to [...]

Men are divine, and since truth liberates, the only way to be free was to distinguish the truth of one’s theology. Secondly, we tend to believe and act according to our concept of ourselves. This has deep practical, psychological and social implications. The concepts of man as a sexual, financial, tool-making or social animal may [...]

When we are awake, the gross physical body is full of life. In sleep, when we are dreaming, the physical body is dormant, but the mental body is active. But when we go into unfathomable sleep and do not even see dreams, at that time even the mental body is not lively and only the [...]

The real man or Soul is conscious, ever free, blissful and eternal. The apparent man consists of five sheaths which wrap the soul. These are the physical body or the physical sheath, the fundamental sheath or the sheath life-force, the psychological sheath, the ego sheath, and the Blissful sheath. According to a further concept, the [...]

The concept of liberation is based upon another concept of an ever unadulterated, ever free, ever ideal, ever conscious spiritual entity in man called soul. According to Swami Vivekananda this soul is the Real Man as against the body-mind compound which is only the obvious man. The relation between the real and apparent men has [...]

When we say that man is divine, this means that all men and women are divine. When by following the discipline of yoga, one starts realizing that one is godly and not mortal, he also, to that degree, starts seeing that others are also divine and he starts behaving with others in the same way. [...]

Eating, sleeping, fear and sex are frequent to man as well as animals. In human beings restraint by moral rules is extra and extraordinary. Without this, men are no better than beasts. According to saints, this is of two types. When one, observing the moral codes of conduct applicable to one’s station in life and [...]

Of the Western thinkers, particular mention must be made of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. Freud’s exceptional contribution is his discovery of the unconscious. But by laying too great a stress on sex as the most significant driving force, he has reduced man into a sexual creature, the homo-sexuals, with far reaching psycho-social consequences which [...]