A king was touring his kingdom on his elephant. Suddenly he stopped in front of a shop in the market and said to his minister, “I don’t know why, but I want to hang the owner of this shop.” The minister was shocked. But before he could ask the king why, the king had moved… Read More What is Karma ?
All that transpires on earth and all beyond Are parts of an illimitable plan The One keeps in his heart and knows alone. Our outward happenings have their seed within, And even this random Fate that imitates Chance, This mass of unintelligible results, Are the dumb graph of truths that work unseen: The laws of… Read More Hidden Cause of Things
Modern science has come to the conclusion that all is one energy. Long ago, India’s wisdom came to the conclusion that all is one awareness/ consciousness, i.e. the one energy of science ‘knows itself’. It is not inert, not dead. So far, science either does not know about the claim of the Indian rishis or… Read More Modern Science and Indian Wisdom of yore
He can be with form, without form and also beyond all that. Swami Shantatmananda writes in a column in the Sunday Guardian: “Sri Ramakrishna would often caution his devotees about the dangers of being rigid in one’s spiritual beliefs. He would ask the devotees whether they knew where those who speak of the formless God… Read More Formless Power or Powerful Forms ? – A Hindu view – 2
Dhyana shlokas of various forms of God are potent storehouses of the divine properties attributed to the respective form. There are worldwide records of people seeing the form when the bijamantra of the deity is recited with devotion after invoking the form by first reciting the dhyana sloka. People from the West who learnt mysticism… Read More Formless Power or Powerful Forms ? – A Hindu view – 1
The five senses are doorkeepers which bring knowledge of the outer world to the mind. There are many things which we know indirectly without the direct aid of the senses. Hindu sages have classified the means of valid knowledge into six broad groups called pramānas. The knowledge that we gain through these means should be… Read More Six Ways of Knowing as per Hindu philosophy
The Real Human Being By Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on November 18, 1976) Continued from third post Hence, we have got subtle difficulties which can threaten us, and the greatest threat is death itself, the great fear of mankind from which one tries to escape by hook or by crook. We are inventing enzymes, elixirs… Read More The Real Human Being – 4 (Concluding)
The Real Human Being By Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on November 18, 1976) Continued from second post What is this that separates one human being from another? It is fear, and a subtle desire to exploit another human being. That is at the background of this so-called culture behind us. Why do we fear one another?… Read More The Real Human Being – 3
The Real Human Being By Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on November 18, 1976) Continued from first post We have to study the human being in his essentiality to find out whether we have really progressed through the centuries or not. What progress has mankind made? Let him declare it in a very specific manner, logically and… Read More The Real Human Being – 2
