Swati Prakash

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Tag: spiritual reality

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Midsummer Night’s Dream

    When the sun is so high and the moon is so full

    When you feel the strong veil of a mystery’s pull

    Dance to the rhythm and sing to the tune

    This midsummer night’s dream is about to end soon

    For ages and aeons you wandered aside

    Searching for signs in the dark of midnight

    You spoke to the faerie and talked to the gods

    You built walls of magick against all the odds

    As you cast every spell and you brewed every potion

    With cards and your runes faced the glimpse of intuition

    You made up your life and its every adventure

    Its crests and its falls in your fountain of splendour

    Reveling in moments with joy and delight

    You danced in the shadows and took astral flight

    You marveled and praised the creations of mind

    While the truth everywhere and threadbare you could find

    To know and to will and to dare are the keys

    But you won’t find the door till you just silent be

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    Swati Prakash

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  • Seven Reasons for Being More Spiritual

    Seven Reasons for Being More Spiritual

    On one hand we have seen people who are purely materialistic and for whom the physical world observed through the five outer senses is all there is. Yet, on the other hand we have spiritualists who believe that the outer perceivable world is mere illusion while the truth is hidden within. In this internet driven corporate world, why should you try learning and practicing spirituality at all, when success is measured through the size of your material achievements? Well, it turns out that those who are purely material are prone to losing their health, wealth, happiness and success all too easily, while those who are spiritual seem to have blissful lives even with a modest lifestyle.

    Here are 7 powerful ways that spirituality can transform our lives forever…in a way that materialism never can:

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    1. PROTECTING FROM THE NEGATIVE: At the base of it we all have to deal with our fears that manifest in the form of various negative situations and experiences around us. Spirituality teaches us that everything that happens on the outside has an inner cause,even those things that seem to be happening to us through others. Therefore if anything negative has been observed anywhere in our life, the source is most likely to be an inner fear that caused it. Release that fear and replace it with trust…that’s the way to peace. Being spiritual helps us by transforming our fears into love because we know that everything has its source deep within us. This way no matter how much the negativity that surround us we know that if we find peace within we shall be  just fine.
    2. ATTRACT POSITIVE EXPERIENCES: Just as we know that fears caused our sorrows, we know that positive thoughts and emotions will bring us positive experiences with equal certainty. Spiritual secrets can surely help bring us more abundance, real love, lasting peace, joy and success in anything that is positive for our whole self. The moment we shift our focus to inner peace and start feeling better it begins to create all good things that our soul truly desires us to have. We might find that we are effortlessly attracting a better quality of friends, relationships, opportunities and situations than ever before and we accept them with open arms.
    3. PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT: It is ignorance that makes us feel vulnerable, pitiable, sad, hurt or victimized. A spiritually aware and enlightened soul knows that every moment there is infinite energy within at all times. The awareness of what lies within us expands our inner power to the extent that we can help ourselves anytime. Whether it is our physical or monetary health, career or personal goals, there is less of dependency on others and more self-reliance. We know that an inner switch can change everything for the better and that we can manifest our life with our own choices at any point of time as we keep brimming with limitless positive energy.
    4. DEEPER HEALING: Spiritual energy connects our mind, body and soul together seamlessly as we know that everything is ultimately woven with threads of spiritual energy alone. Since this positive energy is the source of all there is its enhanced flow can heal everything at every level of our being. The moment we shift our focus to the spiritual through meditative state, an enhanced flow of spiritual energy is triggered and staying in this peaceful radiant state continues healing us from inside out. From physical to social life, from home to all of earth, spiritual healing helps everything and everyone in a tremendous way.
    5. AWARENESS: Learning the truth and sharing the truth that we have learnt help us in expanding our consciousness and that of the universe. The remarkable fact is that as our consciousness expands it helps in expanding the consciousness of everything around us too. This consciousness when awakened is the power that transforms the entire world for the better. Whether through books or discourses, workshops or seminars, we know that amazingly wise teachers and masters will find us eventually and we will be equally enlightened provided we follow and practice what we have learnt with total dedication.
    6. SIDDHIS: Once we attain a higher state of consciousness and learn more about who we are, it increases our magickal and psychic powers in several ways. Through spiritual practice and inner focus we awaken our natural yet latent superpowers that are a necessary part of our spiritual awakening. We not only realize but actualize our multi-dimensional, infinite nature. In time we know that there is absolutely nothing that can be called impossible because we become masters of the illusion of life, rising above all of it. We are no longer limited by anything around us and ready for the next level of awakening.
    7. MOKSHA: The highest possible reason for being spiritual is that it sets you free from all illusion. Contrary to what you might have been told before, relinquishing desire may not lead to liberation but to deeper blockage or repression. The right way to be liberated from all desires is to find a deeper contentment. At this greater level of spiritual progress there is little else that you would seek. Imagine that you could have just about anything in the world right now…yet you feel that you have everything already…in-fact in a very real way, you know that you already ARE everything. With nothing more to want or seek, nothing left to crave for, you are ready to be permanently liberated from the illusory nature of the world process and be one with your ultimate truth.

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    Swati Prakash is a spiritual author and teacher. Her writings can be found on www.amazon.com/author/swatiprakash

  • God, Goddess and We

    God, Goddess and We

    Who is God…

    Who is Goddess…

    Who am I …

    Who are We…

    In this world full of religions we need to respect all beliefs, whether monotheistic or polytheistic, atheistic or any other.

    In monotheism we find one supreme God who claims that we should not worship anyone else but ‘HIM’ who is perfect in every self-declared way. In polytheism we find all kinds of gods and goddesses…Gods who fall in love ….gods who are sacrificed and die…gods who are reborn…goddesses who are vain…gods who hunt…gods who suffer in pain….goddesses who learn lessons…gods who are exiled…goddesses who burn….goddesses who to earth return. Gods and goddesses going through life, death and rebirths… just like us.

    To me monotheism and polytheism are both valid. To me there is one God or Goddess, whatever you call the highest power, and it has several forms too at the same time, all different and similar too in many ways across time and space.

    We are all realizing that true unity is possible only with diversity, when no longer does one culture dominate or oppress others. That is why it is so important to see God or Goddess, our own higher self in its many infinite forms and not just as one rigid personality.

    When we speak of a God or Goddess who is supreme we no longer refer to one of the limited forms of god as supreme such as some religions had asserted. Instead…what we refer to is the Universe, ever expanding, diverse, set of our experiences of life that are essentially self-created and not at all separate from us.

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    ‘Aham Brahmasmi… Tat Tvam Asi’

    So basically, I am the Universe …(and by the way) ..you are too…

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    Yes, the gods and goddesses are we all…. living, learning, suffering and liberating themselves in cycles of being and transforming, changing and growing eternally to every higher states of becoming. Each person, animal, plant, thing, particle or wave…anything that has ever been, anything that is and will ever be…is totally and perfectly divine. We are all several gods and goddesses and One at the same time, all at various stages of self-awareness and self-acceptance.  We are the God, the Goddess and we are gods and goddesses…whatever you want to call  this energy or this supreme being in its many multiple avatars and forms…collectively as well as individually.

    When we are unaware of this truth we carry within us we behave less than perfect, yet the inner part of us..our essence is divine always. In every being…no matter how big or small, how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ or even ‘evil’. And the mystery within all of us is so amazingly, and beautifully divine, its a shame that all of us could not recognize it yet.

    Imagine a world where every person recognized his or her own inherent divinity.

    Just imagine! (and it will be so)

    This would be a world free of all evil. A world with so much light, love and happiness…that it will be impossible to even think or imagine anything negative.

    Does this sound scary to some of us?

    If yes, then it is only our own real Self that we fear.

    ‘Let go of the fear…. Embrace our inner truth.’ says the voice within. (Can you hear it now?)

    So imagine (this time without fear) …a world where we are now at peace…where forgiving each other is absolutely effortless in the realization that we all are just our own projections. When there is supreme bliss in knowing that all that happens in life is just our own subconscious projecting itself.

    Peace. Real peace.

    Yet we forgot who we are. We imagined our souls to be limited…as ego…as our physical form, or as a string of lifetimes that began ‘somewhere’ tracing our past lives as those few memories from here or there which we picked up again during our past life regression sessions. We thought I was ‘me’ and you were ‘you’ separate, distinct, different people…

    Oh come on and remember yourself…all the way…through and through. …not just as a soul with a few past life memories, but as the infinite soul…the soul which is all there is.

    So, now…who are you?

    When and how did you start, if ever …and when and how will you end? 

    Someone had once asked…’What is the difference between a dream and reality?…isn’t it just that in a dream you cannot remember how you got there.’

    Is our existence any different than a dream if we cannot remember how we got here in the universe in the first place…how the universe (we) got here in the first place…and which ‘here’???…exactly where is this universe? Will science have the answers (ever!) …maybe, maybe not, maybe spirituality does…but where is the proof?

    For everything that has a beginning has an end. And you (I) have neither.

    Spiritually speaking…it is said that we are all the creation of Brahma who happens to be just a character in a recurring dream emerging from the navel of the consciousness called God who is an aspect of the energy called Goddess that is very simply all there is.

    So then Aham Brahmasmi means… I am merely a dream of the divine…and so are you (by the way).

    What about the divine me, you, everything…??

    Yet the dream is no separate from the dreamer, than your thoughts are from you. Just because the world, you and I are a dream…still… Aham Brahmasmi, Tat Tvam Asi – I am divine and you are too…

    Hope we remember it from now onward in each moment of this lucid dream of our life that we call the universe.

    Blessed Be!

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    Swati Chandra Prakash

    www.swatprakash.com

    Author page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swati-Prakash/e/B00V54BBHQ

  • Are You Still Looking for a Soulmate?

    Are You Still Looking for a Soulmate?

    Facebook is our new world, social media replaces railway and telecom networks as our new lifelines..everyone seems to be saying everything over twitter all the time. The lines between friends, followers and public are blurred. But as we try posting our thoughts and updates to the world, who are we talking to? Others or our-self?

    What if there was no-one else really out there…no friends, no followers, no lovers, no soulmates, no twin-flame, and no world ..

    If spirituality is an inner-journey, why do you need outer lovers anyway?

    What if this world is all an illusion…and all the people we know mere characters of a dream. Are we living in a dream world of our own creation? If duality is illusion and non-duality the truth, then infinity is just a distorted zero…and the masses of people are all mere projections of the illusory mind.

    Think about it – what exactly is impossible? Have you ever tried controlling the weather with your mind? Ever tried living without food or water? Can people have the powers to move things with their thoughts? Can all wishes come true if we believe? Can you think of someone and make them visit you? Is everything indeed Magick? Yes, I have tried all of these and so I believe.

    Do you feel there are any features of the world that cannot adjust with the mind? What if the world was indeed a mental projection and silence the only truth? How would you feel about family, friends, wealth, sex, food, movies, celebrities, media…

    What if we were all indeed free of illusion?

    No more hunger. No more anger.

    No more disease. No-one to please.

    No more desire. No need for power.

    No more struggle. Nothing to figure.

    No problem or solution. Only dissolution.

    There is nothing to know, not even the know-er.

    Nothing to lose and nothing to find.

    Nothing at all, for there is no-mind.

    Real love is indeed found when there is no-one to love anywhere around.

    Blessed be!

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    Swati Prakash

    www.swatiprakash.com

    (featured image – Osho Zen Tarot – Lovers card)

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  • Are We Playing The Game of Life?

    Are We Playing The Game of Life?

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    Today I landed on a small ‘super-mario’ style video my son was watching for a minute and I observed how similar our life in this World is to this kind of play.

    In many of these gaming videos we get to begin our journey with a lower level challenge. We enjoy overcoming the hurdles, and the whole idea is to stay alive while gathering all those points or powers that we can. In case we die we are reborn so that we can once again attempt to cross the level we left incomplete when we died. The levels go on and on to endless complexities until we have had enough of play and no longer seek any more.

    Now picture your your life as one such game where you assume a character and start on a journey that goes on life after life merely to help you learn how to encounter various challenges, enjoy overcoming the hurdles and collect all your karma (points) when you do really well.

    In our game of life our good deeds are our karma points while our self-destructive behaviors lead to our struggles and rebirths life after life. We are born and reborn into higher levels and planes of operation depending on how much we learn.

    But consider these questions

    • Who is the programmer of your game of life – an outer force or the self?
    • Who assigns all these character and roles you encounter, including your own?
    • Who has created the rules of the game?
    • Are other characters and objects (whether friends or enemies) all ultimately here to support your game of life?
    • What all have you learnt and are willing to learn?
    • What degree of power do you have in the game of your life?
    • To what extent are your own focus and will power being used in your game of life to improve your play?
    • How deeply engrossed are you in the game of your life to even forget it is a game?
    • Do you feel disheartened or start all over giving yourself a new chance each time you are down?
    • If you feel like giving up out of sheer frustration, will the game end forever or will it go on until you learn life after life?
    • Are you having fun, or are you suffering in this game?
    • Most importantly – with this awareness – that it is ultimately nothing more than a game, how do you feel?
    • What would you do after you learn that it is all a self-simulated game – would you keep playing on and on into the endless levels and if yes, until when?
    • What is the whole reason or purpose of your play (not just the objective set in the game, but the reason you ever began playing in the first place?)

    I wish you all the joy, peace and liberation through your self-realization.

    Blessed Be

    Swati Prakash

    www.swatiprakash.com