Why does the Soul needs Body
Living Dwij Disciplines
Living Dwij’ disciplines cover aspects of a ‘Dwij’ life for developing to live an awakened life. These are exercises to train the mind to build spiritual strength. These disciplines incorporate inward exercises without compromising the importance of interpersonal relationships required to live in the society with peace and harmony.
In today’s fast paced world, people live a restless life in the race for satisfying ever increasing physical wants. Becoming a ‘Dwij’ is a kind of awakening to the aspiration of living fully conscious life that is spiritually balanced.
Like physical exercises are for body fitness, ‘Living Dwij’ disciplines are practices to realise the true self by removing all old ‘sanskaras’ (impressions) on the mind and progress towards the highest spiritual goal of gaining liberation from life (‘moksha’) and merging with the ‘Daata’.
Dwij disciplines require ‘offering’ the self before the ‘Daata’ without reservation and in the true essence and meaning of ‘offering’.
- Live with spiritual consciousness by observing ‘Daata’s’ energies in all things and do not harm anything and anybody
- Live with the consciousness that everything belongs to Him, the ‘Daata’
- Prepare and eat food in ‘Daata’s’ remembrance
- Cover your head in ‘Sat–Dham‘
- Regularly spend time in contemplation of the eternal existence and connectivity of the self with the supreme consciousness, the ‘Daata’
- Truthfully confess your wrong doings and sins to the ‘Daata’ for never to repeat
- Be reverent to the ‘Daata’ at all times and remain content
- Refrain from Gambling
- Promote spiritual fraternity
- Believe in ‘Sat-Dham’ and ‘Param Dham’ as the homes for You, God and Me – HUGME
- Consider ‘Brahm–Jyoti Stambh’ as the symbol of the ‘Brahm’ – the ‘Daata’ and keep it at your home in the prayer and meditation rooms and call this place your home ‘Sat-Dham’
- Train your spiritual intellect (heart of the soul) to overpower physical intellect (brain)
- Wear the ‘Living Dwij’ emblem of the ‘Brahm-Jyoti-Stambh’
- Live the maximum part of your ‘Dwij’ life truthfully where there is nothing to confess before the ‘Daata’
- Realise yourself as a deity – a giver of light, peace, and hope, who is in the highest state of dignity and full of love and truth
- Practice fasting
- Avoid Procrastination
- Respect all including their religions, beliefs, traditions, festivals and rituals as long as they do not conflict with ‘Living Dwij’
- Regularly assess your spiritual progress as a ‘Dwij’
- Be your own government by setting and following laws that are not only spiritual but also moral and ethical and also incorporate the laws of this world
- Perform charity and offer your services for the ‘Living Dwij’ cause
- Recognise your core skills and build on them to contribute to ‘Living Dwij’
- Live with simplicity
- Keep your earlobes pierced
- Study spiritual text and practice journaling
- Always perform righteous actions
- Practice following ‘sanyam’ – a triad of ‘Dhaarna’ (determination, concentration and focus), ‘Dhyaan’ (meditation) and ‘Samadhi’ (absorption).
- Share and consume food together
- Offer stewardship to ‘Living Dwij’
- Practice silence and solitude
- Organise, participate and enjoy celebrations
- Practice taking ten seconds of contemplation before reacting to others
- Follow cleanliness and hygienic practices
- Maintain physical health and fitness
- Be spontaneous and follow inner prompts
- Forgive others and also the self
- Be a benevolent ‘Living Dwij’ representative
- Perform ‘akarm’ – no trace of any desire of any fruits from any action
- Be tolerant
- Be prepared to withdraw
- Control thought traffic
- Remain detached but loving and caring
- Avoid suspicion
- Accept others as they are
- Remain free from expectations from others, and show your gratitude and reciprocate to any favours received from others
- Never get jealous
- Do not spend efforts and energy in over-possessing materialistic things
- Do not worship humans, idols, pictures, scriptures and graves, and always remain soul conscious in the remembrance of the ‘Daata’
- Do not indulge in promiscuity and perversion, and live a normal marital sex life
- Do not consume alcohol, tobacco or any other intoxicants
- Refrain from gambling and stealing