Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

============================================================================ Tuesday, 06 Feb 2024.  05:30. Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 1: Spirituality is the Expansion of Being - 1. Post-1. =============================================================================== Spirituality is not a way of living in the sense of conducting oneself outwardly in relationship to other people, but rather it is a state of being—a term with which everyone is familiar, but the meaning of which is not clear to most people. Everybody has heard the words 'being' and 'doing'; and merely because we are familiar with the words 'God', 'freedom', 'immortality', etc., the meaning of these words is not necessarily clear. Spirituality is a state of being. But a doubt will arise in the mind: Is it not also doing something? Is it only being? We have heard from many people that spirituality also implies intense unselfish activity; the more we become sp...

================================================================ Tuesday, 06  Feb 2024.  05:30. Article Philosophy Philosophical Deliberations: ================================================================ The consideration of the nature of the Supreme Absolute is known as Ontology. Contemplation on the nature of the Creative God is known as Theology. The study of the nature of the world is Astronomy, Geology, Geography and History. The study of the individual is Psychology, including Psychoanalysis. The study of the relationship between God and the world is Cosmology. A probe into the relationship between the world and the individual is Epistemology. The study of the relationship between individual and God is Religion. The study of the relationship between one individual and another individual is Sociology, which includes Economics, Ethics and Politics. Meditation is just Total Thinking. Now, what does this mean? Generally when a person commences meditation, there is the i...

============================================================= Tuesday, 09  Jan 2024.  05:30. Article Philosophy On Reason and Higher Life -3. ================================================================ We do not 'give' merely because another man's need is identical with his lack of ability. This is not the reason behind giving. We give because thereby we evolve, and there is the end of it. In this world there is always someone who has a larger ability and some other who has a lesser one. There is no point in mentioning it in the interpretation of the psychology of giving. In the performance of duty the result is not the motive. The motive is the psychological process that is going on in the act of giving. What you think and feel is important. The end beyond it is not the consideration. Our philosophy of Karma Yoga, which is the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, is one of emphasis on the essential value of active duty and not the passive existence of its remote end. It w...