Ved Darshan- 11This epiphany continues with a description of the ascetics’ ascent to the skies and the manifestation of the Kesins’ vision as a universal form or Viśvarūpaantarikṣeṇa patati ...
Read moreSAMA DṚṢṬIWithout further ado, Shri Krishna addresses Uddhava’s despondency in Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.7.6–10 by reiterating the philosophical foundations of the Gita.HE counsels Uddhava to ...
Read moreVed Darshan- 107This epiphany continues with a description of the ascetics’ attire or its lack as if of wind and dust beyond the mundane time-space matrix.munayo vātaraśanāḥ piśaṅgā vasate ...
Read moreVed Darshan- 100In submitting the 100th meditation, I repeat that the Rig Vedic epiphanies speak to the Sadhak who humbly submit to the verses, lets the words peal their layers of meanings rather than ...
Read moreThe Bhagavad Gita is a seven hundred verse conversation between Lord Krishna and the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. In the final moments before the war, Arjuna felt that the war wou ...
Read moreKrishna uses the word ‘guna’ at the beginning of the Bhagavad Gita, but the real explanation comes from 13th Chapter onwards. Krishna says, “Know that prakriti (nature) and purush (spirit) are b ...
Read moreContinuing with the theme of Tapa. It may be illuminating to meditate on how the Vedic seer approaches it. Its origin is in the eternal simultaneousness that was embedded in primal night manifested as ...
Read moreThe essence of the Bhagavad Gita is to attain internal equanimity and realise external harmony. Equanimity (samatva) is the crux of the preachings of every enlightened soul that has ever roamed this p ...
Read moreKrishna starts the Bhagavad Gita by saying that there was no time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these rulers of men; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be (2.12). This looks paradoxic ...
Read moreThe fundamental nature of the manifested (vyakta) is that it is perishable, whereas the un-manifested is imperishable. Manifested life forms take birth, they live for a certain period, and eventually ...
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