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Yoga
Yoga and Evolution of Consciousness
Insights into the Life Divine in the words of the Master The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation,—for it survives the longest periods of skepticism and returns after every banishment,—is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It ...
Darshan
Vedanta, the End of Knowing
Vedanta is the end, or culmination, of knowledge in the Knower. Knowing the Knower, nothing remains to be known — Glimpses into the mysticism of Vedanta. The word vedanta is made up of two components—veda, which means knowing and knowledge, and anta, which means end, consummation or completion. Thus, vedanta implies the completion, the pinnacle, ...
Perspectives
The Wonder that Is the Gita
The Gita is one of the greatest national treasures of India. This article explores some fascinating aspects of this monumental work. The Gita is one of the greatest national treasures of India. There are, of course, the great Srutis created by the magnificent pre-historic people of the Indian subcontinent, the ...
Dharma
The Vedanta In All Its Phases-1
The first of a four part series on Vedanta from Swami Vivekananda’s famous ‘Calcutta address on Vedanta’ delivered in Calcutta on January 19, 1897. This talk marks a significant moment in Swamiji’s life and is considered one of his most important speeches on Vedanta, where he explains some significant aspects ...
Inspirations
The Mother
Sri Aurobindo always loved deeply his Motherland. But he wished her to be great, noble, pure and worthy of her big mission in the world. He refused to let her sink to the sordid and vulgar level of blind self-interests and ignorant prejudices. This is why, in full conformity to his will, we lift high the ...
Dharma
The Metaphor of Deepavali
Deepavali, or Diwali as commonly known, will be celebrated on the 12th of November this year. What is the inner, or spiritual, significance of Diwali in Sanatan Dharma? An excerpt from Partho’s latest book. Deepavali, meaning row of lights, is the annual festival of lights and fireworks in India, and ...
Perspectives
The Gita as Trope
This is a drama worthy of a Shakespeare, but in an Indic setting, and the stakes are far higher than just the life of one person. This is a plot on a scale humanity has not seen in any literature since… Sage Vyasa in composing The Gita must have had a great ...
Spiritual
The Distilled Wisdom of the Gita
Sri Krishna reveals to Arjun what he calls the rahasyam uttamam, the supreme mystery, in four movements of consciousness This, then, is the essence—the distilled wisdom, as it were—of the Bhagavad Gita. Sri Krishna reveals to Arjun what he calls the rahasyam uttamam, the supreme mystery, in four movements of consciousness. ...
Katha
The Boon of Boons
Asking for one boon, the young man got all that his five companions had obtained, and in fact much more, just as praying to avail of the Divine directly one gets the other wealths like devotion and purity all in its wake… It was a dark rainy night. The King was ...
Inspirations
Swami Vivekananda
This is the ancient land where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country, the same India whose influx of spirituality is represented, as it were, on the material plane, by rolling rivers like oceans, where the eternal Himalayas, rising tier above tier with their snowcaps, look ...