The Effulgence Within

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Karma, Vikarma, Sin, Crime, and their Release in Akarma

I am posting the comment from dsm­_tchr, “... your spirit and willingness to try and make meaning for us -- Eastern philosophy is so different from ours. We are full of it and always trying to pack more in. You seem to lay out the thoughtful rationale for what we do and the way we live”. Eastern... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Aspiration for Freedom

A little background is necessary for understanding the import of the fifth chapter of the Gita. Renunciation of works, called Nishkama karma, is the objective of both karma yoga and gyana yoga. It is a question of what is best suited to a practitioner's internal nature. Men of active temperament... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 28, 2010

Inspired by Shobana, Shamasehar, Sinome and Kabu

Shobana has asked, “Why the mind loves to live in lies. If there is a spate of unquestioning reasoning and if the mind refuses to submit to control do you think it is living a lie?” Unless the mind is chastened it will always lead you anywhere else but to truth and despite a spate of unquestioning... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Always be Faithful towards your Doubts

Shamasehar has raised a very pertinent question, “One's faith could be free from doubt yet there are questions you want to ask, inquiries you want to make!” The question is why, if faith is doubtless? I will attempt an answer by going a bit beyond the sphere of the material, or better still the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 25, 2010

Move from Doubt to Faith

Krishna, the divine teacher’s whole emphasis of instruction from chapter II through chapter IV of the Gita, to his beloved friend and disciple is: O Arjuna, realize your originality, be your self, make your latent potential patent and then act in accordance with your innate nature (battle, in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Salvaging Oneself is Salvation

In the Gita we learnt the four main among the various kinds of sacrifices, yagna. These are: (i) Dravya Yagna, sacrifice of material possessions, (ii) Tapah Yagna, sacrifice in tapasya or mortification in strict penances, (iii) Yoga yagna, practice of the eight-limbed yoga (of sage Patanjali) – Yama... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Various Practices in the Yoga of Sacrifice

We may not see it this way but life is impossible without sacrifice, yagna, when the means are honest. Suppose one of my goals is to enjoy the comforts of a large mansion, it will not come to me free. A firm resolve that I will amass enough money backed by the fire of my effort will have to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sacrifice and Yagna

Yagna is sacrifice. All works in sacrifice is like roasting the seed (in the fire of knowledge i.e., works in non-attachment) and then sowing it into the soil; no sapling will ever sprout. The Gita now gives an elaborate explanation of the meaning of Yagna. The words used here are symbolic and they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Action in Inaction ... Inaction in Action!

Krishna tells Arjuna the secret of works, Karma yoga, that despite my creating the fourfold social order ( Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and the Shudras, according to the nature of works each could best perform in keeping with their natural ability ), know that I remain the eternal non-doer. Gita,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Perception through Observed Images of Spiritual Reality.

In the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth states that one of his aims in poetry was to throw over his subjects “a certain coloring of the imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect”. Coleridge distinguishes between two kinds of imagination in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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