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Love in Stillness

6 March, 2013 @ 7:45 pm

Let me but once still myself. When I am still, will my senses become inoperative? Will my activity all cease? Is that a state, something, to aspire for? Only that stillness, which at present lies occluded, will be experienced and it will become known that stillness is not absence of activity, it is the only source of activity. That, silence is not an absence of speech; silence is the source of speech. It will be known that non-violence is not an absence of violent action; it is overflowing love in which there is no other.Love ceases when love exists. There shall be no more love, for another. There shall be no more love towards an alien. When I have ceased the otherness, I cannot love another. When there is no alien, there is no hate. When love is, love ceases. When love ceases, then love is. If love is between two, the ‘two’ ceases, so love ceases. God, give me that love, that by its very existence ceases and I fail to say ‘I love another’. For, I look around and I find no other. Whom shall I love? Then love becomes my own Self, filled with the Self to the brim.

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Resort to Silence

9 February, 2013 @ 6:17 pm

satya-cid-ghanam akhaṇḍam advayaṁ sarva-dṛśya-rahitaṁ nirāmayam | yat padaṁ vimalam advayaṁ śivaṁ  tat sadāham iti maunam āśraya ||6||

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Silence Day 2013

7 February, 2013 @ 9:43 am

It occurs on the no-moon day of the Maagha month in the Hindu calendar when sun and moon are both supposed to enter the sign of Capricorn (makara rashi).

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New Year Message

6 January, 2013 @ 10:54 am

Each second a new year begins.

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Upaaya-Kaushala: Expertise inthe Means of Liberating Oneself and Others

26 December, 2012 @ 3:11 pm

I am constantly experimenting with upaaya-kaushala paaramitaa, one of the ten perfections required of an aspiring-to-be Bodhisattva. The perfection in the means and methods for liberating oneself and others.

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Christmas Greeting, 2012

22 December, 2012 @ 11:07 am

On a silent night did Krishna incarnate in a prison to liberate the world. On a silent night did Jesus take birth to give salvation to his world-wandering herd.

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Chitta-Prasaadanam

19 December, 2012 @ 12:49 pm

The eight angas of yoga from the second chapter of the Yoga-sutras of Patañjali are commonly identified as the essence of yoga. Here it is to be remembered that the second chapter, saadhana-paada, from sutra 28th onwards is for a saadhaka of the mrdu-samvega (mild progress and momentum) as the term is defined in YS 1.21-22 and the commentaries thereof.

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Diwali Greetings, 2012

10 November, 2012 @ 6:42 pm

May the ever-giving Mother Night grant us her stars that burn as flames of souls in our clay bodies.

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Three Festivals

30 September, 2012 @ 2:26 pm

Of the many religions indigenous to India, three stand out as the most ancient: Vedic-Hindu, Buddhism and Jaina.

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Day of Forgiveness

19 September, 2012 @ 7:18 pm

On this 'kshamaapana'-day, the annual day of asking for forgiveness according to Jaina religion, today I ask the forgiveness of all and any whom I may have intentionally or inadvertently caused any hurt, pain or offense.

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