Mysorean

Quoting my dear friend Arjuna, on the strength of desire to see God. He quotes an incident involving Sri Ramakrishna Paramahmsa.
Once when Ramakrishna Paramahansa was standing in a river along with a disciple. The disciple told that he wanted to see God immediately. Ramakrishna then pushed the head of the disciple inside the river. The […]

In this very miserable state of the body, we started out, we realized that infinite soul is inside us. If I hadn’t realized I would have lived in tremendous difficulties. Whoever knows the Atman goes beyond the stages of death. They become eternal. Those who remain in ignorance will come back to this world again […]

Advaita says “I am brahma”. The body has created all ills. The body makes us ill. We think we are ill if our body is ill. Getting into a body is like gettting into a dense forest thinking I will come out easily. But actually, It is difficult to get out of a dense forest. […]

The Atman has no fear. Fear comes with the possibilityof destruction. Atman full of joy. When we think that this world is infinity and we are one with that world, there is no fear. Attachment to the body, will get us only sorrow. […]

The discourse was on “Brihadaranyaka Upanishad” by Swami Gautamananda. Swamiji started of with a recap of the last shloka of last week’s discourse. We had ended on Sloka 11, last Sunday.
Sloka 11:
The external actions have to bring in inner […]

The Hindu has an article on the acquittal of Geelani.
Giving Mr. Geelani the benefit of the doubt, a Bench consisting of Justice P. Venkatarama Reddi and Justice P.P. Naolekar said his conduct at the time of the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001 was disturbing and created a serious suspicion about his role as […]

C. Rajagopalachari in his English translation of the Bhagavad Gita has this to say about the Soul:
The first step in religion is the realization of the existence of an entity behind the apparent body, i.e., the soul. The visible body is not the whole reality. There is in it an unseen but ever-active master of […]

Swami Harshananda quotes in his book on “An introduction to Hindu culture”:
A human being is the conglomeration of several parts, apparently different from one another, but acting cohesively for a common purpose, that of a jivatman or the individual soul (a conscious entity) inhabiting them. They are: the physical body including the sense organs, the […]