Monday, February 14, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 2:24 AM
Spiritual awakening
is awakening
from the dream of thought.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 1:52 AM

In your dealings with people, can you detect subtle feelings of either superiority or inferiority towards them ? You are looking at the ego, which lives through comparison.

The ego's identity depends on comparison and feeds on more.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 2:23 AM
You don't create your body, nor are you able to control the body's functions. An intelligence greater that human mind is at work. It is the same intelligence that sustains all of nature. You cannot get any closer to that intelligence than by being aware of your own inner energy field - by feeling the aliveness, the animating presence within the body.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 2:51 AM

People worship idols and statues without understanding and bow down before them without knowing why. Their hearts do not participate - it is just a formality that has remained. Such people will only be the cause of the destruction of the idol, because although they worship every day, there is no transformation in their lives, and hence it seems futile to worship an idol or a statue.

An idol or statue is a method meant for total, inner transformation.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 1:40 AM
Without man having some dep awareness of the Divine, a temple could not be built. Even if that awareness is later lost, the temple still remains; and it is quite certain that it could not have been built without a deep experience of the Divine.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 11:07 PM

The temple is not the fanciful result of the imagination of some eccentric people,

its roots lie somewhere deep in the inner consciousness of man.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Posted by Swami Om On 2:24 AM
Though godliness is everywhere and human beings are also present everywhere, only during specific circumstances within us do we become attuned to that godliness. So temples served as centers of receptivity, to enable us to feel the divine in existence, to feel godliness, and to become spiritually elevated. The whole arrangement in temples was motivated with this in view.