The Advaith

This is from "Lights on the Ancients" by Shri T.V. Kapaly Sastry: p 22-38. Among the stupendous achievements of the mystics of the...

On Mandukya: [by searching in the advaitin for Mandukya Sadananda] announcement intro 1 agama prakarana and intro intro 1 intro 2 intro 3 i...

A Constructive Survey Of Upanishadic Philosophy: Being An Introduction To The Thought Of The Upanishads by R.D. Ranade. This is from p 163-1...

Wish everyone a Happy Gita Jayanthi. May Lord Krishna show us the way through right action, right meditation, right devotion and right know...

Crossing the ocean of calamities: If you firmly fix your mind in Me you will, through My grace, be saved from all calamities [ 18(57,58) ]....

Longing for the Vision of the Form: Arjuna's longing to see the real form of God [ 11(3-4) ]. Gift of divine vision: God's form ca...

Nature of worship: The worship of the unmanifested is very troublesome [ 12(1-5) ]. Those who work for me and meditate on Me with single-m...

Synthesis of the four paths: Meditation, Knowledge, Action and Devotion -- these are the four paths leading to God [ 13(24-25) ]. Steadines...

Annihilation of Action: What is the highest knowledge? Sri Bhagavan said: I shall fully explain to you both knowledge of the Self and of t...

Transcendence of actions: Renunciation of fruits and attachment: We must perform all actions with an equanimous mind, by giving up the des...

Individual virtues: Self-control: One's self alone is one's brother. One's self alone is one's enemy [ 6(5-6) ]. Single-m...

The amnion of desire: The enemy of desire envelops knowledge and impels even the wise to commit sin [ 3(36-39) ]. Seats of desire: Let the...

The bond of the Gunas: The nature of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and their bondage [ 14(5-8) ]. The growth of the Gunas: The growth of Sattva,...

Stay and departure: I am Myself assuming the form of the Self in this world, with a single spark of Mine [ 15(7) ]. The stay and departure o...

Imperishable : The Reality is imperishable - immortal; It has brought forth all this extension (universe) [ 2(16,17) ]. The Atman is not bor...

Supreme Person: We should cut down the Ashvatta (tree of creation) with the sword of detachment and begin our search for the supreme person...

The book "Lights on the Ancients" by Shri T V Kapali Sastry has an appendix which has a translation of Mantra 1.164.45 of Rig Veda...

While browsing through the archives of advaitin list , I came across a beautiful dialogue between a devotee and HH Sri Chandashekara Bharat...

अथातो ब्रह्म जिज्ग्य्नासा nirguna brahman, saguna brahman, karya brahman, ishvara, parameshvara, para brahman, apara brahman, paramaatma,...

There was a question asked in advaitin mailing list about sources of text and audio-renditions of Dakshinamurthy Stotram. This post collate...