The mind is formless like the sky, yet it wears a million faces. It appears as images from the past, or as worldly forms; but it is not the supreme Self. -Avadhuta Gita
Hindu Wisdom
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Many rivers, one ocean. Hindu Universalism. “America needs a soul boom.” - Rainn Wilson
May the tree of our life be firmly rooted in the soil of love. Let good deeds be the leaves on that tree; may words of kindness form its flowers; may peace be its fruit. Let us grow and unfold as one family, united in love. -Amma
On the Upanishads, by the estimable Amit Majmudar. open.substack.com/pub/amitmajm...
The Scorpion on the Dancer's Thigh
How the Rishis Saw the Universe
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You will never succeed in bringing in light if you insist upon removing all the darkness from your room before you do so. Simply ignore the ego. -Atmananda
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. - Sri Aurobindo
All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? - Ramana Maharishi
It’s been a while, but here’s a short article on the pervasive presence of Hinduism in American letters. vikramdialogues.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
The Hidden Sutra
I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ll be sharing occasional cultural essays here again, when something feels worth thinking through. I hope you enjoy this!
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I am other than name, form, and action. My nature is ever free! I am pure Awareness, always non-dual. Adi Shankara
Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child. Krishnamurti
On Thanksgiving: Let us walk together, let us speak together, let our minds and hearts be united. Rig Veda
The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future. Sri Aurobindo
Love Not for the sake of the other is the other dear, but for the sake of the Self is the other dear. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Love The river that flows in you also flows in me. Kabir
The Roots of Dharma Truthfulness, self-control, austerity, compassion, forgiveness, patience, knowledge, and lack of envy—these are the eight qualities that are the roots of Dharma. Mahabharata
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Mysticism for Intermediates: Target Edition
And sometimes as you traipse through the aisles of Target A22 – Cosmetics, A23 – Stationary, ticking off your shopping list, fending off your kids demanding ICEEs with absurd sugar content, stare a…
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I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the vital air, nor the senses. I am verily the Brahman, the Blissful, the one without a second. There is nothing else anywhere. Ribhu Gita
Insight It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti
In this House You don’t have to escape the world to find peace. Swami Tyagananda
The Journey The spiritual journey of Vedanta is not a journey in space. It is a journey in consciousness, a shift in perspective. You are already Brahman (the ultimate reality); you just have to know that you are. Swami Sarvapriyananda
Harmony No religion is an island; we need each other in order to be ourselves. Raimon Panikkar
Ethics One can actually be good without being particularly spiritual, but one cannot be spiritual without being good. This is the basic foundation which connects ethics to spirituality. Swami Sarvapriyananda
Seeds The gospel of self-realization, once heard, will never be forgotten. Like a seed left in the ground, it will wait for the right season and sprout and grow into a mighty tree. Nisargadatta Maharaj For me, it was reading Eknath Easwaran’s “Upanishads” in a Border’s bookstore in my 20s.
What could be more timely: "My guru said every human has a right to be fed. Food is not a bargaining tool of power - food is a basic, shared manifestation of God." - Ram Dass
I AM When I say: ‘I am’, I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus. I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is and knows. Nisargadatta Maharaj
Happiness Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. Krishnamurti
If you falter on the path, forgive yourself, then begin again. O Lord, what becomes of the yogi who falters? Krishna: Dear one, no effort is lost. None who do good ever come to harm. Bhagavad Gītā 6:39–40 (Paraphrase)
Bhakti (Devotion) Bhakti is the most precious jewel in the treasure of liberation. Even those who seek knowledge ultimately take shelter in devotion. Srimad Bhagavatam