Yoga has become increasingly popular in recent years, with people of all ages and backgrounds seeking its numerous benefits, such as reduced stress and anxiety, increased flexibility and strength, and improved overall health. But what is the essence of yoga, and its ultimate goal? In this episode of Breaking Trail, Balakhilya shares his journey towards…
You’ve come to realise that you want to live a more spiritually oriented life. Now what? This episode is centred around a question a friend of Ruben had for him, namely what the next step is if one wants to develop spiritually. What practices are important, and if I’d like to make some form of…
“Treat others the way you want them to treat you” – a simple and powerful philosophy, but also just an empty philosophy if we fail to actually implement it. In this episode, we discuss the decline of morality in modern society through the example of Balakhilya’s father, who lived by the golden rule and always…
You’ve just been caught by an avalanche, and you’re now rock stuck underneath a deep layer of hard-packed snow. You’re helpless. You’re stuck. There is nothing you can do materially. And thinking positively will not change the reality of the situation you’re in. But you’re still you; the spirit soul inside the body. You are…
We have a choice to make in life. I can be immersed in meditation upon the things I don’t have – I can meditate upon how difficult my life is, how I don’t deserve the hardships that come my way – and fuel the fire of anger. Or I can meditate upon the things I…
500 years ago in India lived a spiritual personality of extraordinary character and devotion, called Haridas Thakur. Due to their unfortunate team-spirit, both the Muslims and Hindus rejected him as he failed to abide to any particular process or religion. Joined by their envy of Haridas, they planned to send a prostitute to his home…
A relative to a friend of Ruben is right now on his deathbed, in the later stages of cancer. And sooner or later, you and me might also be in a similar situation—facing the reality that at any time, one of our loved ones will leave this world. We might feel confused, uncertain, uncomfortable, or…
We learned from the previous episodes how we are actually an eternal spark of life, a spirit soul. Now what? Do we just kind of float around and exist, that’s it? No – we have an eternal function, an activity in which we align with our true selves and find true happiness. And that is…
We learned last week that we are not our bodies; neither our gross physical body or our subtle mental body. This time we dive deeper into the truth that we don’t stop existing at the time of death. You, me, and everyone else – indeed everything around you that shows the symptoms of a life…
“Perfection starts with the perfect understanding that I’m not the body. That’s a perfect truth, a perfect realization.” If you don’t know who you are, how could it ever be possible to know where to go and what to do with your life? Without knowing you you are, you cannot solve any of the problems…