This blog is based on the Teachings of Shri Shri 108 Shri Swami Advaitanand Ji Maharaj. 


The First Divine Master of Shri Paramhans Advait Mat, Shri Anandpur, M.P, India and  I have written as per my understanding of his teachings.

Reference books and journals:

Reference book: Shri Paramhans Advait Mat (Amar Jyoti)

English Monthly Journal: Spiritual Bliss

हिंदी पत्रिका: मासिक अमर सत्य सन्देश

हिंदी पत्रिका: दिवमासिक आनंद सन्देश

Book:सारमयी जीवन 

The Source of highlighted text mentioned below is from Journal Spiritual Bliss, June 2021

The Divine Master enlightened:

“As a prisoner of desires, the human being is already committing animal-like deeds. Mystics and saints must enlighten such humans to the divine truth. For them to work towards gaining such powers is so ignorant. And then to feel proud of it, as if they have gained something! If you want to gain something, gain the true treasure, the treasure which liberates you from the cycle of birth and death in this false world.”

Pious company of saints gives us pious thought which leads to pious manners. Pious manners purify the mind and the mind gets transcendental bliss. 

Generate pious thoughts to do a good action and good actions leads to good habits and manners.

There is a chain of events to reach soul happiness. It starts from good thoughts and good thoughts leads to good manners and it leads to the pious mind and which leads to soul happiness of transcendental bliss.

It is in the company of Saints/sages/good people that we generate or inculcate good thoughts. A good company is the requisite for self-realization. The biggest hindrance to self-realization is arrogance and pride. Humility is the most important factor for self-realization. The way you thought the way you work. Keep your thought pure to do goods actions which leads to good habits or manners. Thoughts engrossed in material things leads to unhappiness. Godly thoughts are our real Saviours. Bad thoughts are like seeds of thorn yielding plants.

Keep a vigil on the three main sense organs such as eyes, mouth, ear. Engage these sense organs in devotion to God or else they will drag you down to hell. Whatever we hear, see, or speak has a tremendous effect on our mind and consciousness. Engage ear in hearing holy sermons and discourses and engage your eyes in seeing the good in the world. Train your mouth to speak in a good, polite, gentle, beneficial way after considerable speculation. Your words should come from the deeper regions of your soul. You should speak in such a way that words coming from your mouth should not be influenced by greed and selfishness but by selfless work. The mouth should not speak in such a way that you have to repent after utterances of bad and unpleasant words. Please make a habit of keeping away from undue criticism and false defamation of a person. Immediately leave the company of gossip mongers. They are harmful to your self-realization. Count your sins before looking at another’s sin.

Our mind is made up of such a material that every emotion gets imprint on it. From these imprints thoughts are generated and which leads to manners bad or good and these manners lead to bad or good actions. Mind listen cautiously about praise, defamation, and bad things happening in this material world. It is easy to pollute water but it is not that easy to get it purified. Bad habits die hard and good habits take many days to implement.

The mind can be purified by Surat Shabd Yoga and the company of saints. Eyes, Ear, mouth are knowledge senses and every bad or good thoughts enters our mind through them.

In Surat Shabd yoga (meditation), we close our eyes, mouth, Ear and hear the internal sound of life air and contemplate on this sound. We use the thumbs of both hands to close the ear. Internal sound is called "Anahata dhwani". We have to close outer doors so that we can open inner doors to see, feel and realize God.

Respected obeisances to my spiritual master.

Pankaj Mannan