Mystery of Manifestation
“Nor Aught nor Nought existed; yon bright sky Was not, nor heaven’s broad woof outstretched above. What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed? Was it the water’s fathomless abyss? There was not death—yet there was nought immortal, There was no confine betwixt day and night; The only One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing […]
Meditation Upon AUM
O Satyakama, AUM is the Supreme Brahman and the conditioned Brahman. By meditating upon It the wise man may attain either the one or the other. If he meditates upon one letter (matra) alone and is enlightened thereby, then after death he will quickly be reborn on this earth. The Rik verses lead him to […]
Dana-Tapas-Yajna
Each aspirant has to perform daily actions in the natural course of his life, using his own free will and knowledge. He has to eat to build his body as a shrine of his soul; again he has to sacrifice himself to fulfill his obligations to his inner life and self-discipline; further he voluntarily gives […]
The Sacred Dance
His form is everywhere: all pervading in His Shiva-Shakti: Chidambaram is everywhere, everywhere His dance: As Shiva is all and omnipresent, Everywhere is Shiva’s gracious dance made manifest. His fivefold dances are temporal and timeless. His fivefold dances are His Five Activities. By His grace He performs the five acts, This is the sacred dance […]
Unity in Multiplicity
The Self seems to move, but is ever still. He seems far away, but is ever near. He is within all, and he transcends all. The man who sees all creatures in himself And himself in all creatures knows no fear. The man who sees all creatures in himself And himself in all creatures knows […]
Hymn To Vach
When, O Lord of the Word, the Wise established Name-giving, the first principle of language, Their inmost essence, pristine and pure, Hidden deep within, was brought to light through love. When the Wise created language with the mind, As winnowing ground barley with a sieve, Friends acknowledged the essence of friendship; Upon their speech was […]
Food for the Soul
“Just as food is necessary for sustaining physical life, even so meditation and worship are needed for keeping up the spiritual life. The physical man must be made more ethereal by taking pure food; moral man more self-denying and philosophical; mental man more penetrating and profound; and spiritual man more devotional.” — Bhavani Shankar