Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love is growing up. James Baldwin There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be...
In the beginning this universe was the Self alone, in the shape of a person. He reflected and saw nothing else but His self. He first said: "I am." Therefore He came to be known by the name I (Aham). Hence, even now, when a person is addressed, he first says:...
Where there is creation there is progress. Where there is no creation there is no progress: know the nature of creation. Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy. Where there is the Infinite...
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. Mary Oliver The Veda speaks of itself as being the science of consciousness. It says that consciousness is all there is. Everything in the universe, and beyond, is nothing but consciousness. Therefore if we wish to change our...
Ask the physicist. He'll tell you: "It's all mere vibration; particles or charges in constant motion or just waves of different frequencies in a perpetual flux. Your three-dimensional world is largely a concoction of your senses and mind. And you? You are the consciousness which is the...
The first chapter of Bhagavad Gita is 'Arjuna Vishada Yoga' - it begins with the sorrow of Arjuna. This is an important thing to understand. One will not turn around and try to find the truth behind the appearances unless sorrow comes about in some form. Otherwise, one would...
The heart of the world is breaking. This is good. The heart of the world has been in need of breaking since forever. In nature, the only thing happening, ever, is evolution. Whatever is happening, no matter how painful, no matter how uncomfortable, no matter how...
The teachings of Vedanta are very clear: There is only one thing. I Am. God Is. There is only one thing. In one telling, the relative world – this experience we are having as separate and individual, you over there, me over here – exists for...
We cannot kill our way to peace. We cannot hate our way to love. We must look past the voices of division in our own minds, as well as in our communities. Each of us must find our own way through this crisis, but then find...
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein The Sanskrit word maya often is used to describe the world as illusion. In fact, maya refers more to the mind's propensity to divide the world--which the Veda tells us is one, whole, complete reality--into apparent duality. When we...