You Are Already What You Seek International Centers of Divine Awakening (ICODA) methods are never intended to “fix” or “change” anyone. Rather, the Advaita position that ‘you are perfect just as you are,’ fully represents our actual experience and true point of view....
When Swami Premodaya founded a spiritual center in 2004, International Centers of Divine Awakening (ICODA), he delivered these 12 spiritual insights - which continue to awaken wisdom and understanding to this day. These insights were the first ever written text Swami...
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ME (I AM ISRAEL, I AM FIJI, I AM INDIA) by Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya ISRAEL IS MY BODY. FIJI IS MY HEART. INDIA IS MY SOUL. ISRAEL IS MY BODY. If you want to know my body, go to Israel. There you can experience the nature of my body— my...
On 1 November of last year, Swami Premodaya received an invitation from the Osho Viha Information Center and Book Distributors. The invitation was from the "Viha Connection", an Osho magazine they publish, to write an article for them. Directly below is the article...
Does anything about being alive make any sense? Making sense is the need of the mind. Your mind is only a ‘one little tiny part of’ what's going on. So why would that rule everything? That's like if your little toe needed something, you gear your whole life, you gear...
Almost everything we do that we experience as negative, that we tend to think of, maybe a little later, as, “that was wrong, or that was negative, or that was stupid of me, or that was a bad decision,” is usually, quite simply, us not going along with what we somehow...
Imagine that you don’t know what the next moment is going to be. When I’m sitting here talking, I have no clue what I’m going to say. I don’t know what the next word is going to be. Imagine not knowing what the next moment is going to be for you. If that’s easy to...
There’s really no such thing as “your question,” “his question,” “her question,” “my dilemma,” “your problem.” These are all shared. There’s only a pool of so many problems, so many circumstances, so many dilemmas, so many things to be worked out and understood, and...
Spiritual practices are 100% necessary. And to enter into a true way of spiritual life, is a requirement of a human life (that’s not going to end up wasted). Anything less, and it does end up essentially wasted. This is the Buddhist view, that it's a waste of a human...
All power, all forces, all aspects of what actually goes on in reality, are simply emanations of energy. At the core, they're absolutely neutral. Existence does not deal in ‘good’ or ’bad’. That’s an entirely human interpretation, a mental calculation; it’s an add-on....