The Effulgence Within

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Eternally Unknowable

From our previous discussion we find verses 4 and 5, Ch. 9 of the Gita to be quite disturbing; more confusing than clarifying, and paradoxically, this is its inherent beauty too. They make you wonder, make you go into deep contemplation. What, after all, is Krishna is trying to convey? Arjuna, His... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 15, 2011

The Godspeak of Utter Confidentiality

( Chapter 9. Bhagavad-Gita, v - 1 to 5) Having just expounded to Arjuna the two eternal paths of reaching the Ultimate Goal wherein one can abide forever or even return depending on the will of a perfectionist, Krishna takes him further into the depths of unknown wisdom: I shall now reveal unto you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

The reach of human voice

The resonance of our voice is invested with a variety of qualitative features that produce different sounds. The ancient yogic practitioners invariably always managed to establish a connection of all that is material with the spiritual. This was the sole object of all their researches. They found... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

The Two Paths of Final Departure

After explaining to Arjuna the secret science of reaching the highest abode from where there is no return, Krishna reveals, as we will just see, the Times for perfected Yogins departing from this world, wherein they are obliged to return, and those in which departing, they are not. Now, this is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Key to Reaching the Supreme Goal

O Arjuna, one in whose consciousness I exist without a feeling of separateness and in constant remembrance, to him I am easily available. As long as I exist, you too exist; you cannot subsist without the ‘I’. Another state is, I do not exist, only you exist; still the separateness, however fine, is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Art of Dying

It has been the experience of ascetics, the rishis and munis who are well gone into the spirit of yoga practices that they are not in the least frightened upon seeing death approach. They see the happening in a detached way as if seeing from a distance. This is because they are able to shift their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Underlying Principle of Existence

In the last verse of the seventh chapter Krishna tells Arjuna, "Those who know Me as Brahma the Ultimate Personality, the governing principle of all phenomenal existences, the basic foundation of all demigods, the sustainer of all works and performances, they, while dying, die in full... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 5, 2011

A Synopsis on the Bhagavad-Gita

Until the time I stopped writing last we ended the seventh chapter. Some publishers have asked me to write a synopsis as to how my book, were it to be published, be different from those that are extant today. I wish you dear readers to assess this. One of the most profound of all world-literatures... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 24, 2010

That Knowledge knowing which all else in Known

Lord Krishna assures Arjuna that those who surrender unto Me unconditionally with unalloyed faith, to them I provide deliverance from the cluthes of the threefold power of material Nature, called Maya (that which is not) – the illusory power which does not allow them to see Truth in its elements, in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

God Resides in His Creation

I tender my apologies for not being able to read and comment due to my having shifted to Florida from Chicago in a new internship assignment, and these writes as such taking up a long time. Things should look better with some adjustments. Nothing in Nature is without the all-pervasive Consciousness;... 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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