And why should I have a daily sadhana?
What is the meaning of sadhana? Sadhana originates from the root sadh meaning to accomplish, to attain, or going straight to a goal. It acts as a spiritual practice and is a tool for personal transformation, allowing the sadhaka to work on themselves to achieve their life purpose. Continue reading
Worshippers of the Devi or shakti are called Shaktas. The Agama (received knowledge) literature details the Upasana for Shaktas, the concept behind Shaktism which play an important role in Tantrik worship. Continue reading
Temples have domes so that the resonance of one’s prayers can rebound on one. The dome is just a small, semicircular prototype of the sky. It has the same shape as the sky touching the earth on all four sides. Whatever prayers are conducted under its canopy, the words do not get lost as they would under the vast sky. The dome throws back the chants at the devotee. The rounder the dome, the easier it is for the sound to travel back, and its echo increases in the same proportion. Continue reading
Understanding the religious life with practicing one’s religion. Continue reading
Krishna said to Arjuna:
Karma is your nature. You cannot avoid karma; it is something you are bound to do, something that is an integral part of you. Life without karma is no life and karma without life is no karma. The relationship between life and karma is the same as that between you and the air you breathe. Can you stop breathing the air around you? If you did what would happen? You would die. There is a similar association between the boon of life and karma. Karma is an integral part of you; it is an inherent ability in life which expresses itself naturally. Wisdom or jnana is something for which you have to train your mind. You train your intellect to increase its ability to receive, hold, realize, experience and experiment with different forms of karma.
Arjuna asked Sri Krishna how many categories of mortals were there?
Sri Krishna replied there are two categories of people in the world, divine and demonical. The divine have been described at length; hear from Me about the demonical. (16:6) Continue reading
Learning to listen to the trees. Hermann Hesse.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth… So, the trees rustle in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have longer thoughts, long breathing and restful, just as they have longer lived than ours. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts but not himself. Thus spoke Ramanna Maharishi. Continue reading
The Goddess spoke: Continue reading
Description of the Goddess by Vishnu for the Gods. Continue reading
What are ITIES? ITIES are words which end in ity. Each one of these words can change our life and lead to becoming a Jiwan Mukta. They are interconnected and they are all virtues.
Swami Sivananda summed the ITIES in a song. When one sings it, they end in rhyme. Continue reading
The Rudram Chamakam is a prayer for blessings, where the devotee asks for a series of material and spiritual boons. Continue reading
Valentine’s day is coming. There are advertisements everywhere asking one to buy gifts, flowers, and sweets for one’s loved ones. It is so compelling and sweet deals are offered. We all want and wish to send Valentines. Continue reading
In order to know, who we are we need to connect to our koshas. The Taittiriya Upanishad describes these five veils which are the five koshas. Continue reading
Rama’s meaning is given in the Ramayana itself. Rama is that Sat-Chit-Ananda (existence, consciousness, bliss) Brahman, in which all yogis ever revel.
Rama is also, “He who delights everyone”. Continue reading