Back to the Beginning

Earning wealth is one of the legitimate objectives of human endeavour, without a doubt. It is one of the four objectives (purusharthaas) of every human life, the four being - righteousness, earning wealth, desire and liberation.
The order they are mentioned in, has a purpose too. Righteousness has to direct and control the process of earning wealth and liberation has to be the regulating factor for one’s desires.

All wealth accruing through unrighteous means is to be treated with contempt as unworthy.

All desires that do not subserve the one supreme need for liberation are to be given up as beneath one’s dignity. So the spiritual basis of righteousness and liberation must be the root of both the pursuit of wealth and fulfillment of other desires.

Baba (thought for the day)

If Soham meditation turns into Hamsa, the experience is different even if the outcome seems the same. With Soham we inhale So and exhale Ham, Soham is first light and we exhale darkness, or inhale cool and exhale warm air.

The Hamsa is the swan and it feels like plunging into the depth of water with its long goose neck and finding there the light and discrimination. Dark is first and therefore, Ham and only after Sa, light and discrimination, and that seems kind of natural.


Long time ago when observing began and by that waiting for a self-experience, it was based on self-confidence.
There was a swan gliding silently, it seemed hardly to move until I saw far away a spot of another swan, just a little small white spot, but in that moment I saw that there was movement.
And it somehow felt similar waiting for the higher self, it was a far away light and even if we didn't see the movement, it felt like only waiting, the direction of movement was there similar to that swan in the intention to meet God.  
It is amazing how those experiences are still present, going back to the beginning.

The Hamsa, the swan was there before the experience of the light of the self and it was darkness first until the light of self reflected in the dream, it feels very close, very familiar, like nothing had been there ever but that, it was present all life, but we have to get aware of it. It is present in the silence of night. It was present during childhood, but it had no name. It is the same, but today it has a name, Hamsa.

It is somehow amazing to get aware of details, it had not been there before, it is growing consciousness.
And there is that ‘we’, it means ‘togetherness’, we are the same and that makes it real and to be separate from that ‘we’ is only ego.  
We are one, but the main thing is to realize that, we are the same 'I am that' and 'we' and not 'I' consciousness on body level. If it is about body it is, 'not this and not that' (not body and no mind).