Swami Anand Arhat: Spiritual Wisdom on Compassion, Success, and Inner Balance

We are endowed with so many different sensations in the experience of life: happiness and misery, anger, love, hate, etc. According to renowned spiritual teacher Swami Anand Arhat, the choices we make based on our emotions have the direct capacity to determine our spiritual lineage and the memories we leave behind. He speaks at great length about previous lives, reincarnation, and karma.

He shares his beliefs on unresolved karma and business that are left behind by us, causing us to reincarnate.

The life and experiences of this great man embody the truth that the worst experiences of our lives can become the sparks of our spiritual awakening.

Swami Anand Arhat’s Early Life

The story of Swami Arhat’s journey to spirituality from rural Nepal is incredibly inspirational. Swami Arhat opens up regarding how his birth was a profoundly unusual and spiritual event.

In 2028 B.S. (1971 A.D.), Swami Anand Arhat was born in Dudhe, Jhapa. His mother thought he had passed away during childbirth. A passing yogi declared him a yogi child after giving him a herbal drink that roused him up while she was crying.

He recalled his mother having had powerful visions when he was being born, and taking it as something unique.

Swami Anand recalls that he intuited at a young age that he was somewhat different from other children. He recalls being rather skinny and picking things up fast as a child. He recalls understanding life faster than other kids his age.

Regarding his early schooling experiences, he recalls being a quick student in school, earning good scores, and quickly grasping the subjects. He also mentioned having to face various pressures and challenges at his school.

For Swami Arhat, spirituality became an increasingly attractive path over time. Ultimately, he followed a path in meditation, yoga, and spirituality. He stated that he still remembers the many hours he spent learning and engaging in spiritual activities.

According to him, his early spiritual awakening set him on a journey to discover the use of meditation in emotional healing and consciousness, hence creating the awareness he now imparts to the world.

Spiritual Awakening Through Osho’s Teachings

Swami Anand Arhat states Osho Tapoban’s teachings include osmosis and meditations to transcend “karmas,” He mentions experiencing deep relaxation and respite upon arrival, leading to sustained peace.

Swami Anand was just thirty when he arrived in Osho Tapoban Nagarjun Hills, Kathmandu, with no marriage weight on his shoulders. Osho’s teachings inspired individuals to remain in the present and embrace whatever life has to offer them. He explains that he feels blessed by Osho’s profound values.

In contrast to its current state, Swami Arhat described Osho Tapoban in 2002 as being extremely impoverished and undeveloped. He described it as shrouded in darkness due to virtually no electricity, very modest one-story mud dwellings, and a barren atmosphere. However, amid this hardship, It was the incredible labor and discipline used to build the place that created an atmosphere for personal and spiritual development.

Swami Arhat defines totality in Osho as the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit, promoting the complete expression of energy without reservation or fragmentation.

He also advises integrating Osho’s transformative methods into modern life, thereby empowering individuals to transcend suffering and discover joy.

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The Ripple Effect of Emotional Pain and Past Lives

Swami Arhat highlights the significance of the previous life series and reincarnation in human suffering. He holds the belief that individuals carry memories and energies with them from past lives, forming karmic patterns that will require reincarnation until deeds are finished, which supports self-realization and spiritual growth.

He states that the reverberations of past emotion and energy left do not vanish when the body dies. They persist and condition subsequent lives. He stressed how these feelings and imprints for the deeds continue to affect the consciousness of future incarnations.

He also states that conscious waking, mindfulness, meditation, and emotional intelligence are essential to breaking these cycles. A true deepening of consciousness weakens the pull of karma that we have experienced in our past.

The True Meaning of Success and Beauty

Swami Anand Arhat elucidates the true meaning of success and beauty by emphasizing their relational nature rather than their individual or materialistic definitions. According to him, success is ultimately for the people around us, not for ourselves. He continues stating that success is not acknowledged until it is recognized and validated by others.

His idea differs from the egotistical belief that success is only concerned with the accomplishment of one’s objectives. He expresses his belief that genuine achievement is validated only through recognition and appreciation of others in society.

Similarly, he states that beauty is not self-evident to the individual. One is not truly beautiful unless others perceive and declare it so. The speaker emphasizes the interconnectedness of success and beauty, influenced by social connections and societal impressions, and emphasizes the importance of spiritual and emotional intelligence over negative emotions, urging against their control.

Emotional Intelligence and Meditation

Swami Anand Arhat also discusses the relationship between meditation and emotional intelligence as a vital means of achieving inner peace and healing. He stresses that hurting other people not only has an impact on them but also ingrains a sense of sadness in us.

He continues by explaining that this negative energy and sadness do not vanish through physical death; it lingers as a psychic impression and could potentially shape our “inner” state, which is also our outside world. He highlights how people now more than ever require emotional intelligence and must learn to take control of their emotions.

He emphasizes the importance of self-emotional awareness, allowing positive emotional experiences and preventing negative emotions from controlling actions.

He identified five points regarding emotional intelligence that benefit both spiritual and personal development. They refer to self-emotional awareness, empathy, intentional management of feelings, the promotion of positive expression, and emotional resilience.

Swami Arhat advocates for youth meditation to foster spiritual growth, emotional intelligence, and mental resilience in the new generation, helping them learn the path to a peaceful life.

Karma, Reincarnation, and the Soul

According to Swami Anand Arhat, our past karma is the culmination of previous lives and accumulated actions, affecting our current life and mental state. The cycle of birth, life, and rebirth aims to rectify unfinished karmic debts. He explains that our past life and karma are not visible, as what remains from our past experiences is not a complete and positive picture but a “negative” image.

Without the right energy and consciousness to “develop”  these negatives, they remain unseen or invisible. Past life memories and emotions are stored in subtle layers of consciousness as unprocessed energies forming desires, attachments, or unresolved emotions that linger as impressions rather than clear images.

He defines the soul in spiritual terms as a permanent, eternal, and immortal entity, separate from the body and mind, always present and unchanging. It is stable, containing the past, present, and future in itself.

Swami Arhat explains that regression therapy involves using the subconscious to reactivate buried memories or traumas, allowing the individual to access and reveal buried emotions and psychological issues.

Balancing Life With Joy and Sorrow

Swami Arhat recommends three daily practices for joy: emotional awareness, self-discipline, and empathy. These practices help maintain balance and break the cycle of negativity. Negative thoughts and feelings can cause mental illness and pain as they release chemicals and create psychological imprints.

According to Swami Arhat, too much stress overloads the nervous system. He states it creates an imbalance that presents as physical problems, mental exhaustion, and emotional instability. This overload leads to symptoms such as headaches, sleeplessness, anxiety, and chronic fatigue when the proper homeostasis of the body is disrupted.

Swami Arhat asserts that life flows in a continuous motion, involving interactions both around and within us, with nothing being completely stable or permanent. He argues that unresolved emotions or energy that manifest as feelings and emotions, such as attachment and anger, which are connected to energy imprints, are frequently the cause of our suffering. To achieve inner peace, we must become aware of this and develop emotional intelligence to change our energy and ourselves.

He enlightens us about the origin of mental illness as a state of imbalance of the nervous system and mind, brought about by stress, conflict in feelings, and equilibrium between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

He emphasizes the importance of experiencing both the good and bad sides of life as a prerequisite for spiritual consciousness and happiness, recognizing that happiness arises from accepting things as they are rather than from external circumstances.

Swami Anand Arhat emphasizes that crying is a crucial emotional healing activity that aids in the release of psychological pain, promotes mental clarity, and prevents emotional stagnation.

Living with Compassion: Managing Anger and Building Healthy Relationships

Swami Arhat teaches us to show compassion, emotional sensitivity, and responsibility for our actions. He also promotes the spread of empathy instead of resentment globally.

In this video, Swami Anand Arhat discusses self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and the relationship between our past and current life based on unresolved karma. To promote a happy life, he spoke about the benefits of yoga and mindfulness. He also advised caution against aspects of stress and negative emotions.

He emphasizes four sutras for heart purification, happiness, compassion, and emotional intelligence, promoting kindness, empathy, peaceful relationships, and forgiveness for inner peace.