Luna Arjuna's Blog – November 2024 Archive (6)

Footprints in the Sand

Any true spiritual insight or realisation leaves no trace in the memory. This is because the quality of the spirit is timeless and can only be realised in the immediacy of the present. What happens is that when…

The Spiritual Crisis

The relentless pressure of the spirit, when…

𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡, 𝑛𝑜, 𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡, "𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑." 𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑…

Karma

Whatever is happening now or at any moment is the unfolding of karma. Many people assume that karma applies solely to the difficulties and hardships encountered in life. This is not so. Karma also unfolds…

As long as you are born of the flesh you have to suffer. This is the way of the flesh.

Do not try to improve your life. You're making a big mistake. For there is no question about it, if you use positive thinking and use your mind, you may appear to improve your life. But remember, this world in which you live is a world of…

Greed has poisoned men's souls,

has barricaded the world with hate,

has goose-stepped us into misery

and bloodshed.

We have developed speed,

but we have shut ourselves in.

Machinery that gives abundance

has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical;

our cleverness, hard…