ATMAN
Prakriti meets AI
The article draws on the Bhagavad Gita to explain how human actions, shaped by the three gunas, bind individuals to the cycle of birth and death, while Krishna’s teachings offer paths to liberation. It applies this philosophy to the rise of artificial intelligence, warning that emotional attachments to AI companions could weaken genuine human relationships and blur the line between real and virtual experiences.
The cosmic classroom
Creation is explained in the Gita as a process involving Krishn's two divine energies of Atman and maya. The Atman represents the spiritual aspect while maya encompasses the material dimension of existence. Individuals, influenced by the three gunas, seek to transcend desires and attachments for spiritual growth. Experiences in life serve as lessons aiding in the evolution of the soul. Ultimately, liberation leads to reunion with the Supreme in Vaikuntha.
What a sport is
Mixed-gender teams could introduce a new dimension to sports such as cricket, hockey, and football. Athletes like Smriti Mandhana and Virat Kohli could showcase their skills in a combined team. The concept challenges traditional views that separate men and women in competitive sports. Philosophical perspectives, like those from Vedanta, highlight the essence of human identity beyond physicality. Engaging in mixed-gender sports could represent a progressive step towards equality and inclusivity.
The self is ever free
Political freedom is a significant aspiration for humanity and society. However, true liberty transcends physical and mental limitations of the body. The essential Self, pure Consciousness, remains ever-free and unlimited by time. Discovering this truth allows engagement with the world through wisdom and compassion. This realization of the Self alone offers complete and limitless sovereignty.
Thou art that
In a tranquil grove, Sage Uddalak shared his insights with Svetaketu, his son, emphasizing that the invisible can resonate and the unfamiliar can be grasped through introspection. With vivid analogies—comparing salt in water to the unity of all forms and clay to the essence of existence—he revealed that everything arises from one fundamental truth.
Get into the witness mode
True renunciation is about inner freedom, not outward change. Living in witness mode, or sakshi bhav, allows one to observe emotions without being controlled by them. This practice helps maintain equanimity and handle challenges effectively. By recognizing our true self, the Atman, we can overcome emotional reactions and remain centered.
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Radha and Andal
Within the heart of India's spiritual landscape, two remarkable women, Radha and Andal, illuminate the theme of divine love. Radha's devotion to Krishna is a powerful metaphor for the soul's insatiable quest for the divine, while Andal's heartfelt poetry reveals her vibrant longing for Vishnu.
Claims of originality
Ambition can blind us to our minute position in the grand scheme of the cosmos. Concepts aren't owned, fostering a culture of remixing and enhancement. Innovative thinkers can draw from an extensive sea of insights.
Reality is not fixed
The Gita illustrates a compelling duality similar to the enigma of Schrodinger's cat: the soul seems tethered by karma, even as spiritual enlightenment hints at liberation. Maya, the divine energy at play, shrouds the soul's authentic essence, luring it into the grasp of transient cravings, inevitably resulting in rebirth.
Discovering the source
The article explores Krishn's transcendental analysis, contrasting it with Transactional Analysis. Krishn's teachings in the Bhagavad Gita reveal the divine's immanence within creation, guiding individuals towards self-realization and liberation. This path transcends emotional intelligence, integrating material and spiritual realms to achieve union with the eternal Atman and ultimate moksh.
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Independent and evolved
People display fanatic dedication to political or religious beliefs due to underlying doubts. According to Robert Pirsig, truly evolved individuals need no external validation. Krishn advises equanimity, urging one to stay detached from desires, focusing on steady wisdom and universal consciousness while fulfilling responsibilities conscientiously.
Profound metaphor
Maya in Vedanta symbolizes the dynamic interactions of nature influencing human behaviours, leading to distorted perceptions of reality. It advocates for self-awareness over sensory gratification, highlighting the impact of the 3 gunas shaping our personality. Understanding maya can help address modern-day challenges by realizing the true essence beyond material entanglements.
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Is mortality subjective?
To get liberated from repeated lives and become immortal as when the Atman unites with Paramatman, the mind needs to detach itself from desires and sense-objects, to break free of the birth-death cycle. The argument here is that aiming for liberation is a lofty ideal, unrelated to attachment for sense-objects.
What is Dharana?
Concentration is a great necessity for all aspirants. During concentration, the various rays of the mind are collected and focused on the object of concentration. The whole energy of the mind is concentrated on that one idea. The senses become still. They do not function. When there is deep concentration, there is no consciousness of the body and surroundings.
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Be sensitive to life, not ego
Today, in the world, we need to bring about simple sense - life sense. Right now, people only have ego sense, no life sense. They are ego sensitive, not life sensitive. When you are ego sensitive, you only see yourself as life, no one else is life. You can trample upon anything and anyone. But if you are life sensitive, everything is life in your experience, so you naturally behave very sensibly with every other life around you. The ego will no longer be a problem if you become life sensitive.
Lower self, higher self
This lower self may dominate us often; but it is a tiny pathetic thing. When we sit in meditation or enter into the depths within ourselves, we will realise that this lower self is nothing but the speck of the speck of a speck. We follow its impulses like obedient servants.
The Practice Of Truth
Meditate on truth. Derive inspiration from the lives of those who have sacrificed their all for the sake of truth. Punish yourself by fasting if you tell a lie and record the lies in a diary.
Hindrance to Happiness
Desire, when transformed into aspiration, helps life soar into the highest liberation, and supreme salvation does not seem so out of reach, after all.
Seek the Atman
Go to a quiet corner, sit in silence and look within. Ask yourself, ‘Who am i? Am i this body?’ The answer will surely come to you, ‘No. I am the Atman.’
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Centring of The Mind
The mental contents are of an undesirable nature. You can hardly experience the divine thrill, ecstasy and elevation when the mind is filled with impure thoughts. Every object has its own mental associations. You will have to fill up the mind with sublime, spiritual thoughts. Then only the mind will be expurgated of all worldly thoughts.
A closet full of beliefs
Imagine Adi Shankaracharya as a brand ambassador of spiritual atheism. Others walked that way before him - Siddhartha Gautama, for example.
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Avian Atman
Scholars have interpreted the term two fair-winged birds ( dwa suparna) fancifully as "two species of soul; day and night; the Sun and Moon
Love and loss
Impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of life from which nothing that belongs to the realm of earthly existence is ever free.
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