by Satinder | Jun 28, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
Self-Realization (Atma-Anubhava): Some Preliminaries By the mysterious operation of the sheer Divine Grace,[1] one comes in contact with the non-dual Vedānta teachings and a realized teacher. Vedānta is not an abstract philosophy but a concrete science of Reality—a...
by Satinder | Jun 27, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
Meditation According to Patānjali Yoga and Advaita Vedānta According to Patānjali, yoga is defined as “stilling the modification of the Mind”: योग: चित्त-वृत्ति निरोध: (yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ): Yoga Sutras 1.2. In Advaita Vedānta, Self-Knowledge...
by Satinder | Jun 21, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
ONE IN MILLION: A LEAF FROM A TRAVEL DIARY! Only a seeker who is ready benefits from the teachings. Otherwise, one may be living with or around the greatest teacher in the world and completely miss it! History and our current experience amply bear out this fact. The...
by Satinder | Jun 19, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
THE MEANS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHEST SELF Praśnopaniṣad (प्रश्नोपनिषद्) consists of six questions asked by six students to the great Seer, Pippalada. At the very outset of his commentary, the Ādī Śaṅkarācārya, points out that this Upaniṣad serves to teach...
by Satinder | Jun 17, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
THE PATH AND THE GOAL! NO FREEDOM WITHOUT SELF-KNOWLEDGE! जन नानक बिन आपा चीन्हे, मिटै न भ्रमकी काई…गुरुबाणी Nanak says: O man, without knowing thyself the darkness of illusion cannot be dispelled. नानकजी कहते हैं: हे मनुष्य, बिना स्वयं को पहचाने भ्रम की...
by Satinder | Jun 13, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
The Goal and Uniqueness of Vedānta-2 In the first essay, we saw that the usual means of objective knowledge such as perception and inference are not appropriate for cognizing or realizing our true Self. It is because the Self, being the very subject, is not available...
by Satinder | Jun 12, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
First 11 verses of ईशोपनिषद् īśopaniṣad in Devanāgarī The Goal and the Uniqueness of Vedānta-1 The purpose of Vedānta is one and only one: To help cognize in oneself by oneself the one unchanging conscious principle—the Universal Witness—which is the real Self...
by Satinder | Jun 12, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
WHAT IS ŚRADDHĀ श्रद्धा ? ‘When the student is ready, the teacher appears!’ In this regard, the Sanskrit word श्रद्धा (śraddhā) is very meaningful: it is made by conjoining two words–śrad (सत्य truth) and dhā (घारण embrace); literally, the ability to embrace or...
by Satinder | Jun 9, 2016 | Happiness Inc., Practical Spirituality, Who Am I? |
Lord Krishna Quilling Paper Art work by Shally Dhiman DO NOT WORRY! The message of the Gītā starts with verse eleven of chapter two (BG 2.11) and concludes with verse sixty-six of chapter eighteen (BG 18.66). If we look at the first word of BG 2.11 and the last word...
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