by Satinder | Aug 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
True Happiness is Not Experiential We commonly use the term happiness, ānanda, to express our pleasurable experiences. There are other words that we tend to use quite interchangeably such as fulfillment, bliss, joy, well-being and so forth. These allied terms may be...
by Satinder | Aug 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Gazing Forward, Glancing Back: Connecting the i-dots! By critical acclaim, Steve Jobs is considered to be a creative genius and a great visionary leader. More than one pundit, praising Steve’s ability to transform industries with his inventions, have called him a...
by Satinder | Aug 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I?
It is wonder of wonders that fulfillment or happiness is our intrinsic nature; we keep frantically looking for it outside. Self-knowledge puts an end to this life of relentless becoming by revealing a Self that is ever full, whole, and complete (pūraṇa). Anchored in...
by Satinder | Aug 4, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories, Who Am I? |
People resort to meditation for a variety of reasons. Some just for fun; while a few others, to go with the flow. Some curious ones want to try myriad forms of meditation, having done some quick “window-shopping” on the net. There is actually quite a variety of...
by Satinder | Jul 26, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories, Who Am I?
The only thing that is self-evident is the Self. Everything else becomes evident through the Self. In this manner, our whole existence can be reduced to two basis entities: ‘I’ and ‘not-I.’ There is this ‘I’ and everything else is ‘not-I.’ ‘I’ refers to ‘I-am,’ the...
by Satinder | Jul 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Analysis of Bliss Ānanda Mīmāṁsā in Taittirīya Upaniṣad In book two (Ananda Vallī), anuvāka eight of Taittirīya Upaniṣad, a wisdom text dealing with Self-knowledge, we come across a most detailed analysis, mīmāṁsā, of different levels of bliss, ānanda,...
by Satinder | Jul 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I?
“I have learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” ~ Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1965. Knowing about things is mere information; knowing the thing-in-itself (Ding an sich) is transformation. When we...
by Satinder | Jul 19, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
भज गोविन्दंभजगोविन्दं भजगोविन्दं गोविन्दं भजमूढमते ।सम्प्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृञ्करणे ॥ १॥bhaja govindaṁbhajagovindaṁ bhajagovindaṁ govindaṁ bhajamūḍhamate |samprāpte sannihite kale nahi nahi rakṣati ḍukṛñkaraṇe ||1||Seek/attain the knowledge of...
by Satinder | Jul 19, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Profoundest truths of existence register in the sonorous silence of soul.A calm abidance, a state of steadfastness in the self—sthitaprajñatā, the means and the end of all spirituality.In the deep silence, the self revels in the Self.Silence is the beginning, the...
by Satinder | Jul 18, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Vedānta teaches us that the fundamental human problem is the lack of self-knowledge and the resultant extrovertedness of our search for happiness and the mistaken way we relate to the world. In all our quests, we approach people, objects, and situations through...
by Satinder | Jul 11, 2015 | Who Am I? |
Once many years ago, I had a “chance” meeting with an Indian saint. He asked, in broken English, “Been India?” Since I had been in India for a number of years, the best, most easily demonstrable answer was to wobble my head in the...
by Satinder | Jul 10, 2015 | Who Am I? |
There is no wealth equal to Self-knowledge in the whole creation. That is why people were/are willing to give up kingdoms for such knowledge. The Buddha is a case in point. He was a prince—the-king-to-be. He gave it all up to discover the truth of his existence. What...
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