The Effulgence Within

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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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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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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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