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[ Shobhna | 31 Jul 2007 | 2 Comments | 859 views]
Importance we give spiritual practice

I had an important realisation the other day with regards to the importance we need to give our spiritual practice.
I have been working for the better part of my life and like most people my job has pretty much occupied the main part of my day. As office-goers we revolve our entire lives around our job. We reshuffle our personal life and family matters so that they do not come in the way of our job timings. Even if we are ill we sometimes ignore it for a …

Clarity on Spirituality »

[ admin | 23 Jul 2007 | No Comment | 981 views]
Spirituality or Spiritualism

We were recently asked what SSRF is all about – Spirituality or Spiritualism. Our definition of Spirituality which is synonymous with what we call Spiritual science is about understanding God and His creation and how to realise/experience Him. Most dictionaries describe spiritualism as a process of contacting the dead and spirits from the after-life etc. From our viewpoint Spiritualism is just a part of Spiritual science or Spirituality.
In a seeker’s journey for God-realisation, he invariably faces obstacles by negative energies such as ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies, etc.) etc.

SSRF studies …

Clarity on Spirituality »

[ Vamsi | 21 Jul 2007 | 2 Comments | 2,449 views]
Fear of ghosts

Quite often we come across people who are interested in Spirituality, but evade listening to any mention of negative energies or ghosts. For example a number of people walked out of a recent viewing of the SSRF video ‘Live an aware life’ at the Mind, Body, Spirit festival in Melbourne. The reason? – Scenes of manifestation of demonic possession.
Our guess is that the following thoughts go through their minds:

If we don’t know about it, it won’t trouble us
Don’t get to something that can harm us
I am scared, I don’t want …