“My devotee who is free from enmity, welldisposed towards all creatures, merciful, wholly exempt from pride and selfishness, the same in pain and pleasure, patient of wrongs, contented, constantly devout, self-governed, firm in resolves, and whose mind and heart are…
In my opinion non-violence is not passivity in any shape or form. Nonviolence, as I understand it, is the most active force in the world…..Non-violence is the supreme law. During my half a century of experience I have not yet…
Om: this syllable, this imperishable, is the All. Its expansion is what has been, what is, what shall be. All, verily, is Om. And whatsoever else surpasses the three times, this also is Om. For all this is the Eternal,…
He who loves lives; He who loves himself lives in hell; He who loves another lives on earth; He who loves others lives in Heaven; but he who silently adores the Self of all creatures lives in that Self; and…
(1) Transcendental (parã) – The illumining principle behind is the pure Self, the Consciousness, which is one without a second upon which the universe of names and forms is an illusory projection. Hence Brahman is indicated in the philosophy of Vedãnta as…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Beings are nourished by food, food is produced by rain, rain comes from sacrifice, and sacrifice is performed by action. Know that action comes from the Supreme Spirit who is one; wherefore the all-pervading Spirit is at all times present…