Meditative Devotional Offering for Sri Krishna
“You won’t reach it without singing; if you don’t sing, it’s far.
But when you sing with deep feeling, God is right where you are!”
– Kabir
Category: Wisdom
The Endless Song (Tiruvaymoli)
He is unique among those rich in understanding, but by His Grace I placed Him in my understanding to hold Him there, But even that is by His sweet Grace, and so He made me realise that all understanding and life and body and the infinite too are mere nothing, …
Bhakti & Jnana: the Bhakti schools of Vedanta
The mind sees only parts and never the whole. Both Shankaracharya and Ramanujacharya’s Jayantis are celebrated on the same day (6 May this year), ironically pointing out, perhaps, the oneness of bhakti and jnana. Shankara’s Kevala Advaita is generally understood as a pure jnana approach …
Saraswati /Essence: from mind to wisdom & flow
There is a glue of ‘I, Me, Mine’ which is like an energetic bond that makes us become identified (meaning become blinded to the wider perspective and neutral view) with thought movements and action stories in our minds. It is not just thoughts and ideas that make up …
Speaking of Saraswati (Wisdom Talk)
The one who graces with words that find harmony with the elements, with all of life singing sweet eternal melodies help bring that Sound to the ears of our Heart Sharade Namami As the best mother and best river (as the Rig Veda extols) she is the ever fresh …
Indian Rivers: More than just Water | A Wisdom Approach to Sustainability
‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam’, a Sanskrit phrase repeated in many ancient Indian texts, translates as “the Earth is one family”. This recognises not only the unity of mankind, but of all living systems on the Earth.
Reflections on ‘Truthful Living’
In the book I’m currently reading (these days for me reading means opening to random places as I feel inspired to!), Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy by Osho, Osho discusses the issues of living the Truth in the world, using the example of Krishna who is accused of playing …
Sri Dattatreya: the Avadhut’s Innocence
You are the ultimate Reality; have no doubt.The Self is not something known by the mind;The Self is the very one who knows!How, then, could you think to know the Self? Avadhuta Gita, I: 42* But the Self does not become an object of knowledge and there is no …
The Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s exhale
“When one rises in awareness, one perceives that every atom, every particle is pervaded by Bhagavan in His formless state. However all this drama of countless universes, countless worlds, which are appearing and disappearing, are in His cosmic Form, in His ‘saguna’ Form: beyond that there is nothing else. And …
From Anxiety to Ease (Mind Management)
The true nature of mind is infinite.Truly, mind does not have any identity.When we hold personal views and stories,these cannot but bring sufferingbecause we are going against our true nature. When I first embarked on the “spiritual path”, it was not for ‘enlightenment’ or to figure out any great Truths but …
Shakti & the Gunas
Moving from tamasic nature to sattva means you are refining the physical body, the mental body, the emotional body and the energy body. If you refine this so much that it became very transparent, you cannot miss the source of creation which is within you. Sadhguru As the Intelligence of …
Shakti: a poem by Shruti Bakshi
A reading from the book ‘HeartWords: mystic poems’
Ganesha: Being Intelligent with Life
In equanimity, we are aligned with the Intelligence of the Creator.
Devotion in Human Form (Ode to my Mother)
The trouble with people who are your life
Is that when they leave, they take your life with them…
The Ways of Guru and Grace
The Master – a short poem Some say there is no Master in human form. To me, if there is a Master in human form, the significance is That when you think of them, your whole being harmonises to the highest to something so bright and pure and powerful. Something …