We are Truth seekers, but Truth always eludes us. By Truth is meant Absolute Truth, Cosmic Truth, Universal Truth.
To some, Truthful existence is suffering. Somebody wrote
Truth on the scaffold
Wrong on the throne
We find that Truthful existence is painful and difficult. Truth always puts us in a controversial situation. Imagine the lifes of Socrates, Jesus, Bruno & Mansoor. They were martyred because of Truth.
But poets say Truth is omnipotent. Let us listen to Swinburne
Truth only is living
Truth only is Whole
His for only giving
Man's polestar and pole !
or Aurobindo
For Truth is wider, greater than her forms
A thousand icons they have made of her
And they find her in the idols they adore
But she remains herself and infinite !
or Gandhi
Truth will win ultimately.
In our search for Truth, may be we confuse perspective with Truth. Maybe what our enemies say about us may be true. Are they saying falsehoods ? Yes, Truth is wider !
Philosophically, Truth is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Truth is all this. It is only our Ego which prevent us from actualising Truth !
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Hegel's Three Phase Dialectic
Thesis, Anti-Thesis and Synthesis - this the the three phase dialectic.
Thesis - The Absolute is Being
Anti- Thesis - The Absolute is Becoming
Synthesis The Absolute is Nothing
And what is the Absolute? It is one immutably homogenous Infinite !
The Absolute is 'Pure thought thinking about pure thought ' said Hegel.
The Hegelian Absolute has its critics. Somebody said "The Absolute is Absolute nonsense ".
Thesis - The Absolute is Being
Anti- Thesis - The Absolute is Becoming
Synthesis The Absolute is Nothing
And what is the Absolute? It is one immutably homogenous Infinite !
The Absolute is 'Pure thought thinking about pure thought ' said Hegel.
The Hegelian Absolute has its critics. Somebody said "The Absolute is Absolute nonsense ".
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Hymn of Cosmic Consciousness !
In the void of Mind involute
The fleeting Universe rises and floats
And sinks back into the current " I "
wrote Vivekananda. Where only the Universal "I" is and nothing else is !
I am the Silence which is more than sound
If therewithin thou lose thee, thou art found!
The nameless, shoreless ocean which is "I"
Thou canst not breathe but in its bosom drowned !
wrote Tennyson.
Cosmic Consciousness is a state wherein there is Pure Awareness, Awareness of Being, Knowledge and Bliss !
The fleeting Universe rises and floats
And sinks back into the current " I "
wrote Vivekananda. Where only the Universal "I" is and nothing else is !
I am the Silence which is more than sound
If therewithin thou lose thee, thou art found!
The nameless, shoreless ocean which is "I"
Thou canst not breathe but in its bosom drowned !
wrote Tennyson.
Cosmic Consciousness is a state wherein there is Pure Awareness, Awareness of Being, Knowledge and Bliss !
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
SCI & TM
The Transcendental Meditation technique is a powerful relaxation technique. TM triggers the Relaxation Response.
TM can take you to higher levels of Consciousness. The Fourth State of Consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness, becomes accessible to the TMer.
Continous practice can lead you to Cosmic Consciousness. It is better to learn this from a bona fide TM teacher.
TM has centers all over the world.
TM can take you to higher levels of Consciousness. The Fourth State of Consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness, becomes accessible to the TMer.
Continous practice can lead you to Cosmic Consciousness. It is better to learn this from a bona fide TM teacher.
TM has centers all over the world.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Everything is He !
He is Timeless & Time. He is Spaceless and all that is in Space. He is the Causality and the Cause and the Effect. Brahman, the Iswara, is all this by His Yoga Maya. For we find the Being turns into Becoming and is always Itself and other than its Becomings. The Universal individualises itself and the Individual universalises itself.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Mythology is symbolic, never literal !
Carl Gustav Jung was a genius. He declared that all Mythology, including Christian Mythology, is symbolic and allegorical and not literal.
A disciple of Freud, Jung came across a fanstastic discovery. He was researching on the dreams of some of his patients. He wrote the figures seen by his patients and saw that they bear a close resemblance to the figures seen in Alchemy and Astrology.
He postulated that dreams are projections of the Unconscious.
He postulated that The Ocean of Reality resembles an ocean. The waves are the individual egos. Deep within the gross level is the subtle level. The subtle level of an individual ego he called the Personal Unconscious and the rock bottom of the Ocean of Reality is the Collective Unconscious, known as Brahman, the Absolute, in transcendental philosophy !
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Henry David Thoreau
" In the early hours of the morning, I bathe in my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Geetha, before which the modern world appears puny & trivial."
Thoreau can be said to be Gandhi's Guru. It was Thoreau's book " The Civil Disobedience " which gave Gandhi the inspiration to launch the Non-violent Movement. It is said that Gandhi brought back from America what was fundamentally the philosophy of India, after it was baked in the mind of Thoreu !
His masterpiece ' The Walden" has 18 chapters, modelled after the 18 chapters of the Geetha and the 18 parvas of the Mahabharatha.
He was truly the American Sage. Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau are the Trinity of American Transcendentalism !
His famous quote " When the law of the land is against the Law of Conscience, the best place for a man is jail " !
The Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Turning to the Inmost God is what is called " Vibhakthi ", or worshipping the Absolute Self, knowing that I am Thee ! Vibhakthi in Sanskrit corresponds to the Amor Intellectualis ( Intellectual Love ) of Bruno. We are One. Only through Vibhakthi, Intellectual Love, Amor Intellectualis can the world be saved !
Walt Whitman wrote
Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God
At Nature and her wonders, Space, Time & Death
Then I turn to Thee, O Actual Me,
Lo ! Thou gently mastereth the orbs,
Thou matest with Time, smilest content with Death
And fillest swellest the vastnesses of Space !
The great poet Melpathur also wrote about the Absolute Self thus
In reality I am Thyself
For me there is no binding
By Nature's triune attributes
Nor Salvation; as Nescience
It is that binds the Absolute Self !
The Individual Soul Thou art, all Thou art,
Thou art the Intelligence visible, Nature,
There is nothing in this visible Universe
Which is different from Thee !
Walt Whitman wrote
Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God
At Nature and her wonders, Space, Time & Death
Then I turn to Thee, O Actual Me,
Lo ! Thou gently mastereth the orbs,
Thou matest with Time, smilest content with Death
And fillest swellest the vastnesses of Space !
The great poet Melpathur also wrote about the Absolute Self thus
In reality I am Thyself
For me there is no binding
By Nature's triune attributes
Nor Salvation; as Nescience
It is that binds the Absolute Self !
The Individual Soul Thou art, all Thou art,
Thou art the Intelligence visible, Nature,
There is nothing in this visible Universe
Which is different from Thee !
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson was a transcendentalist. He and other intellectuals founded the Transcendental Club. Carlye gave him a copy of the Geetha. Influenced by it, he founded the Concord Movement.
His poem Brahma shocked the Western world. He sang the glory of the Absolute Self !
If the red slayer thinks he is slain
Or if the slain thinks he is slain
They know not the subtle ways
I keep, tread and pass again
Far and forgot to me is near
Sunlight and shadow are the same
The vanished gods to me appear
For one to me are shame and fame !
They reckon ill who leave me out
But when me they fly, I am the wings!
I am the doubter and the doubt
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings !
The strong gods pine for my abode
And pine in vain the Sacred Seven
And thou meek lover of the Good
Retrace and turn thy back on Heaven !
Hegel
Hegel built so great an edifice that it encompassed the entire realm of human knowledge.
His main postulates are
The Absolute is Being (Thesis )
The Absolute is Becoming ( Antithesis )
The Absolute is Becoming ( Antithesis )
The Absolute is Nothing
The Absolute is spiritual ( Synthesis )
And what is the Absolute ? It is One immutably homogenous Infinite.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Bruno - The Western Sankara !
Giordano Bruno was a non-dualist or an Advaitist. To him the Universe was an integral Whole.
"This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things." ( De la Causa, principio et uno, On Cause, Principle, and Unity) .
His philosophy was similar to the philosophy of the great Sankara, who maintained that the sum total energy in the Universe is an absolute constant and that Absolute Constant is divine !
When Bruno said that annihilation was impossible in Nature, he was confirming what scientists call the Law of Conservation of Energy or Matter. The Universe, in its aspect as Matter or Energy, can neither be created nor destroyed and all Universal Matter is One.
Many philosophers were inspired by Bruno's idea of Universal Unity. Sankara in the Orient also propounded this theory of Non-dualism or Monism. The great Max Muller said on his deathbed " If I believe in anybody in this world, it is Sankara of the East ".
Our salutations to Bruno for highlighting this idea of Universal Unity. Let this idea of Universal Unity end in World Peace, in a World Government !
To quote John J Kessler Phd, who wrote about Bruno " He is one martyr whose name should lead all the rest. He was not a mere religious sectarian who was caught up in the psychology of some mob hysteria. He was a sensitive, imaginative poet, fired with the enthusiasm of a larger vision of a larger universe ... and he fell into the error of heretical belief. For this poets vision he was kept in a dark dungeon for eight years and then taken out to a blazing market place and roasted to death by fire.
It is an incredible story.
"This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things." ( De la Causa, principio et uno, On Cause, Principle, and Unity) .
His philosophy was similar to the philosophy of the great Sankara, who maintained that the sum total energy in the Universe is an absolute constant and that Absolute Constant is divine !
When Bruno said that annihilation was impossible in Nature, he was confirming what scientists call the Law of Conservation of Energy or Matter. The Universe, in its aspect as Matter or Energy, can neither be created nor destroyed and all Universal Matter is One.
Many philosophers were inspired by Bruno's idea of Universal Unity. Sankara in the Orient also propounded this theory of Non-dualism or Monism. The great Max Muller said on his deathbed " If I believe in anybody in this world, it is Sankara of the East ".
Our salutations to Bruno for highlighting this idea of Universal Unity. Let this idea of Universal Unity end in World Peace, in a World Government !
To quote John J Kessler Phd, who wrote about Bruno " He is one martyr whose name should lead all the rest. He was not a mere religious sectarian who was caught up in the psychology of some mob hysteria. He was a sensitive, imaginative poet, fired with the enthusiasm of a larger vision of a larger universe ... and he fell into the error of heretical belief. For this poets vision he was kept in a dark dungeon for eight years and then taken out to a blazing market place and roasted to death by fire.
It is an incredible story.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Song of the SELF !
I am neither Mind, Intellect or Ego
Nor the sense organs five
Nor am I the Great Elements Five
I am Consciousness Pure. I am He, I am He
Transalation of the Sloka of Master
Sankara. " Neervanashtakam "
Manobuddhyahamkara Chittani Naham
Na Karnam Na Jihva na cha Ghrananetre
Na Vyoma Bhoomir na thejo na vayu
Chidananda Roopa Sivoham Sivoham !
Nor the sense organs five
Nor am I the Great Elements Five
I am Consciousness Pure. I am He, I am He
Transalation of the Sloka of Master
Sankara. " Neervanashtakam "
Manobuddhyahamkara Chittani Naham
Na Karnam Na Jihva na cha Ghrananetre
Na Vyoma Bhoomir na thejo na vayu
Chidananda Roopa Sivoham Sivoham !
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