The Effulgence Within

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Are You Ready to be Shocked?

I have, for quite a while now, attempted to share with you dear readers, the essence of the Bhagavad-Gita teachings, as I have best understood. Sanskrit is the only language in the world which has been purified over centuries with various meanings of the same word, and also words that convey the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Spiritual Surrendering

Lord Krishna says to Arjuna that until one takes refuge unto Me, freed of attachment, fear and anger, with Me alone in his full consciousness, for such a person this birth is his last, and he comes not again to this world of men but comes to Me. In other words, his individual consciousness is merged... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Attachment, Fear and Anger

God, to our ways of understanding, is the silent observer and does not intervene in affairs human, but lets his Nature machinery work in accordance with a higher cosmic principle to correct the aberrations brought forth in the world by man and his insatiable greed. But in the Hindu thought the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Pantheism of the Gita

A quick recap – Karma yoga is the path of selfless work, work done in a spirit of duty without expectation of reward, leaving the result to God’s will. The disinterested service without the motive of personal gain, for the overall good of man is considered as service rendered to God. Karma yoga... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

One of my earlier posts on Mindless Eternity

The mind is a bundle of desires - remove the threads of attachment one by one; at the end the 'cloth' disappears and themind is clear and pure. Sathya Sai Baba The one and only existent form of eternity is the Void from which come all things”, so stated the Vedas some 7000 years ago. What an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Gain Victory over an Unassailable Enemy

Krishna tells Arjuna: It is worthy to be following one own intrinsic nature even if flawed, than trying to copy another’s, however well wrought out it may be; death in one’s own law of being is better, frightfully precarious it is to follow an alien law. It is simply escapism, doing no good for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

What besets the Soul from its path?

It is the modes of Nature that man helplessly follows in doing all his actions, but bewildered by egoism thinks that it is “I” who am doing it. But one, O mighty-armed, who understands the divisions of the modes of Nature in their elements, knows that it is the modes interacting on each other, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Works and Sacrifice

The subject of today’s discussion will be yagna (sacrifice) as the secret of release from the bondage of works. In the beginning of time Brahma the creator, by performing of yagna generated all living entities and said: Through performance of sacrifice ( yagna ) may you all evolve and prosper;... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

One's essential nature bestows blessings

Arjuna said: If in your opinion O Krishna, the Yoga of the Intelligent Will is superior to fruitive works, why then, do you appoint me to such a henious act as battle? Mixed up I am by your contradictory words deluding my intellect, tell me decidedly the one by which I am to attain to glory. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 7, 2010

The Secret of Work and Intellgence

lionreign's comment, "This wisdom is profound and extremely accessible", and sam's "I am excited to learn of yoga knowledge!", has been the inspiration for this entry. A big thank you to both of you. There are two paths as we learnt which joins the individual consciousness with the Spiritual... 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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