Aurobindo Ghose, one of the great spiritual visionaries of the twentieth century, wrote passionately about his vision of a radical transformation in humanity. He believed that the crises of his time – the rise of totalitarian movements as well as the freedom movements that ended...
Q: Is sorrow a thought? A: All thoughts are sorrowful. Q: Even pleasurable thoughts must be sorrowful. A: Yes, because thoughts take one's attention away from the Self, which is undiluted happiness. From A Practical Guide to Know Yourself: Conversations with Sri Ramana Maharshi We are meant to enjoy life. This is the Vedic...
Were a thousand suns to light up the sky, still they could not match the light of absolute consciousness. Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 11, vs. 12 Life, as defined by Vedanta - which includes the Bhagavad Gita – says that consciousness is the truth of us; that consciousness constrained...
In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death. What was born must die. Only the unborn is deathless. Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and...
[I]f you were to fully see and know the reality of your essential nature, you would realize that it is the infinitely powerful cause of everything… The ground of your being is the ground of all Being, and that is the infinitely powerful cause of...
Live your life like a prayer. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. To live your life like a prayer does not mean to be pious. It does not mean to try to be perfect. It means to be in communication with life, to be a part of the...
The knower of Atman [the Self] is like a man who is awakened from sleep and dreams no more of empty things. He is like a man who, having been sick, is now whole again; he is like a man who, having been blind, has received back...
The Upanishads are the great mine of strength. Therein lies strength enough to invigorate the whole world; the whole world can be vivified, made strong, energized through them. They will call with trumpet voice upon the weak, the miserable, and the downtrodden of all races,...
The question is: Why is truth contemporary though uttered five-thousand years ago? The answer is: Because it is Truth. Truth never gets old. Two plus two is four today as it was five-thousand years ago. Swami Ranganathananda, in his introduction to The Message of the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad Nineteenth-century science...