The Effulgence Within

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Friday, February 5, 2021

Every Soul is Destined to be Perfect

The Shandilya Bhakti Sutra (the Thread of Shandilya's aphorisms on Devotion) says, "Jivānām brahmabhāvāpattir muktiritii vakshyate", meaning every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being in the end, will attain to that state. But the beginning has to be made from where we stand at the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 1, 2021

Should you listen to the braying of an ass?

Many people, more so the moralists seem to be hell-bent upon winning an argument, no matter whether these emanate from idiots or nondescript persons. Knowing fully well that nothing is to be gained, or: rather a lot is to be lost, - the peace, the balance, the equipoise - they still go on arguing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 31, 2021

Without Religion Science is a beautiful corpse

Science and Religion, both have a role to play in equal measure in the lives of humankind. One cannot exist without the other. Science can give you a better body, better health, longevity; it can give you more comforts, all the luxuries of life possible to be bought with money. One can buy a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 30, 2021

Mystics truly experience the Grandeur of the human heart

A mystic is a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain either union with or absorption in the Universal Spirit or God, or spiritual apprehension of the truths beyond the understanding. In the Vedic and Upanishadic traditions are enumerated many techniques leading one to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 8, 2021

Religion often goes haywire. Spirituality, Never.

Religion is not the same as spirituality. Religion, as it is understood and practiced, is about control. Religion keeps one in thralldom, Spirituality is about liberation. It is the final journey of an individual soul’s merger with the Supreme Soul, unsullied by any religious conditioning. But that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 31, 2020

The Spirit of Dynamic Universalism of all Religions

The earliest of the world's scriptures, the Rig Veda, contains the greatest declaration of religious harmony: "Truth is one but sages call it by various names". Religious harmony has been, in the main, the central theme of the Eternal Religion (Santana Dharma). Buddhism was an attempt to reform... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Homage to the Mother Form

"It is not the building that makes a home, but it is the feminine touch that makes it", says a Sanskrit poet, and how true it is! The roof that affords you shelter from heat and cold and rain is not to be judged by the pillars that support it - the finest Corinthian columns though they be - but the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 28, 2020

Receiving manifolds in your Giving

Like poles repel each other in our natural world. Just as a rich man has jealousy for the other rich and no poor feels sympathy for another poor, in the world of the spiritual the equation is altogether different; like polarities attract but on the condition that I have to first give what I want to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Can Fiction Imitate Reality (A repeat)

T he Theatre of the Absurd gained much popularity as a medium of dramatic expression, although indistinct in its conveyance but one of relief all right, of the inner conflicts of Man to which he found no answers, especially when the world was passing through a phase of transition – uprisings against... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 28, 2020

Knowledge and Knowing

Knowledge is simply a receptacle, a repository of information, mostly undigested and unassimilated, but this too, is a kind of knowing. In order to recall, memory is a must. There is another and superior kind - that of knowing - which is not rote or memorized; this one is live-knowing, known from... 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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