The Effulgence Within

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Why the Need to Move to Higher Consciousness?

A body without the spirit is a corpse and a spirit without the body is a ghost. As living entities we are neither; we are both the matter and the spirit. Focussed in the matter, including the body, mind and the intellect, our consciousness is attached with the material, subject to fluctuations and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Verily Eats Sin?

Today I am taking up a serious query from Tzippy. She says, “I have a book called "Bhagavad-Gita as it is", but I don't understand it, for example this is what it says Text 13: The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 9, 2010

Works and Its Cessation

Now begins the sixth chapter of the Bhagavad-Gita. The blessed lord said: Totally indifferent and devoid of all dependence on the fruits of work, one who works utterly devoted with a sense of responsibility of duty, he is both a sannyasi ( a renunciate ) as also a yogi ( united in Supreme ), and not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Attaining to Liberation through Karma

Driven by the attraction of external objects our energies are drawn outside and we become fragmented and weakened. Centered within in the self we remain integrated and strong. Krishna says: Enjoyments born of the external touches of things are sorrow-causing, because they have a beginning and an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Zigzag

T wo days and three nights A violent storm raged deep In the quarters of my mind Dark and dank and black Pregnant clouds sans rain Sent me the to the throes of pain So much so to madness’ height That none could understand my plight Oh how l longed for some invisible delight To come my way and kiss... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 5, 2010

Remain Untouched and Enjoy the World

God accepts neither your sins nor your virtues. This is so different from the Western thought that the Gita teaches us. In other words, this is a fine assertion in strength, so as not to be overburdened with guilt-ridden consciousness. Sins are committed only in ignorance is the message. In... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Freedom from Bondage of Actions

All involuntary actions on which I can have no control, called kriyas, cannot be the causes of any fruitive work or bondage thereof; only the ones that I can voluntarily or through various practices in yogic techniques/breathing/resolute will, bring under control, but falter impelled by motives of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 3, 2010

No Love is Love unless it is Soul-Centered

So excited I was on the Argentina-Germany match that I could write nothing, so it is an older post as a filler. Those who have read, please excuse. I was absolutely delighted to find the sense of ecstasy in one of John Donne’s poem by the same title. It is, he explains, the realization through a... Sign in to see full entry.

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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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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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