Advaita News announced today the launch of its new website that busts the myth of enlightenment with an evolutionary new look at the ancient teaching of Advaita Vedanta. It is a radical, fresh and naked perspective reveals the power and grace of Advaita Vedanta as well as provides an opportunity to delve into the cause […]
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]]>Bhagwatgita in the seventh chapther has tried to explain to us the knowledge of absolute.Hear is a inroduction to the same. Now hear, O son of Prtha [Arjuna], how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt.Geeta 7(1). I shall now […]
]]>This article conveys the Advaita Vedanta view of God as truth and is based on Swami Bhaskarananda’s “Journey from Many into One”. Advaita Vedanta means “beyond knowledge” and was taught by the famous yogi adi Shankara and is regarded by many as the highest school of Vedic (hindu) philosophy. The final part includes a Buddhist […]
]]>“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and … you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.” via Advaita Vedanta.
]]>An individual experiences the three states of wakefulness, dream and deep sleep. A baby in the womb lies in deep sleep for about twelve hours, dreams for about nine hours and is awake for about three hours. As age advances sleep decreases. Out of these three states, the specialty of the wakeful state is that […]
]]>One of the most difficult concepts to grasp in any attempt to understand Indic thought, and Hinduism, particularly in its arguably most complex form, namely, Advaita Vedanta (literally non-dual end of knowledge), is that of the Atman. Once this concept is grasped, however, a whole world opens up, and the results are pretty profound, and […]
]]>Interpreting the Upanishads by Ananda Wood translates the Upanishads and explains the content in modern terms. The original statements of the Upanishads have been interpreted and explained in many different ways, through many different schools of thought. Some schools have emphasized a religious approach to truth, through devotion to a worshipped God. Some schools have emphasized a mystical approach, through exercises of meditation that [...]
]]>Once in a hundred years, solitary among a hundred thousand, there arrives at the caravanserai of life one, at the sight of whose features the seekers instinctively arise from their varied occupations and greet him and see in him and his ways a clear commentary, a silent interpretation, a radiant centre of all that they […]
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