Bowing: A Hindu View of Divinity All-Pervasive—Part 2
Bowing is a most natural expressive result of this latter worldview. But the Lord’s Maya is ativicitraṃ (Supremely amazing). The worldview which is exclusive and contains the seeds of destruction seems...
THE SHAD-DARSHANAS—HINDU PHILOSOPHY—Part 1
Philosophy—Its Origin and Its Limitations
Philosophy is the rational aspect of religion. It is an integral part of religion in India. It is a rational enquiry into the nature of Truth or Reality. It gives...
Mahabharata Series by Swami Vivekananda Part 5
Now, as the thirteenth year of the exile was drawing nigh, the Yaksha bade the Pandavas to go to Virata’s kingdom and live there in such disguises as they would think best. So,...
Sri Krishna: The Greatest Exemplifier of Non-attachment
The central figure of the Gita is Krishna. Hindus worship many Incarnations of God. They believe in not one or two only, but in many, who have come down from time to...
The authoritative scriptural trinity in Hinduism
Scriptures are indispensable to all religions. They save religions from mutation and from extinction. That faith which has no gospel for its guidance gets lost in a series of transformations. Finally it disintegrates...
Allegory of the Mahabharata
The Mahabharata warfare allows itself to be viewed allegorically. Laws of nature are eternal and uniform. What happens once is bound to repeat itself under similar circumstances. The Law of Incarnation of God is equally...
The Yoga of Synthesis develops the head, heart and hand and leads to perfection
Some maintain that the practice of Karma Yoga alone is the only means for salvation. Some others hold that devotion to the Lord is the only...
The Guru
Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection. Whatever we are now is the result of our acts and thoughts in the past; and whatever we shall...
Jnana Yoga—The Path of Spiritual Insight
Jnana Yoga is the path of knowledge. Moksha is attained through Knowledge of Brahman. Release is achieved through realisation of the identity of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul or Brahman. The cause...
Raja Yoga—Discipline of the Mind
Raja Yoga is the path that leads to union with the Lord through self-restraint and control of mind. Raja Yoga teaches how to control the senses and the mental Vrittis or thought waves that arise...
