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Category: Vedanta

  • Arctic Home in the Vedas

    Arctic Home in the Vedas

    In which we briefly outline the idea of cosmic cycles, and illustrate them initially in the revelation of the originary Hyperborean source of the Vedas. This is then extended to Traditions following the Vedas. Finally, there is some speculation on the future course of the West.

  • The Cosmic Mystery

    The Cosmic Mystery

    The wise man, who, by means of meditation on his Self, recognizes the Ancient One who is difficult to be seen, who has entered into the dark, who is hidden in the cave, who dwells in the abyss as God; he indeed leaves joy and sorrow far behind.

  • The Cosmic Covenant

    The Cosmic Covenant

    Early man had not acquired the habit of abstract thought, as his mode of thinking was more intuitive. As was pointed out earlier, he saw the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual worlds in their integrated wholeness.

  • The Cosmic Revelation

    The Cosmic Revelation

    God as transcendent to the physical cosmos is one thing, but God as transcendent spiritually is another. Hence, we should also understand transcendence in our interiority, in our “heart”, as the I that watches the flow of consciousness. Many theological conundrums can be resolved through spiritual experience and understanding.

  • Subration

    Subration

    Subration is the mental process whereby one disvalues some previously appraised object or content of consciousness because of its being contradicted by a new experience. A judgment about something is contradicted by a new experience when it is impossible to affirm both the previous judgment and what is learned or acquired in the new experience.

  • Chaos in the Noosphere

    Chaos in the Noosphere

    We do not understand our identity, certainly not as Atman, but we identify as a false finite self, a creation of the causal body. Due to ignorance, the causal body creates an illusory world that we believe we inhabit.

  • Crest Jewel

    Crest Jewel

    study the scriptures, engage in altruistic activities, participate in rites, and worship the gods. Ultimately, however, what is necessary is the knowledge of the oneness of the self.

  • The Aumkara of The West

    As is well known, the Mandukya Upanishad explicates the individual letters of the sacred monosyllable “AUM” as symbols of Atma within various states, and finally with the twelfth verse describes the AUM taken as a whole as the “state” of Turiya: the identity of Aum and the Self, the ineffable reality of Atma knowing Atma,…

  • Vedanta and Western Tradition

    Vedanta and Western Tradition

    The educated man of today is completely out of touch with those European modes of thought and those intellectual aspects of the Christian doctrine which are nearest those of the Vedic traditions.

  • Buddhism and Tradition

    Buddhism and Tradition

    Mahayana absolutism and the Advaita Vedanta are valuable as providing the basis on which a world-culture can be built. It is only absolutism that can make for the fundamental unity of existence and at the same time allow for differences.