Seeing More: Appearance and Reality

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The central teaching of Adhyatma Yoga is that if we calm and purify our mind through a spiritual way of life, we will arrive at a deeper understanding of the nature of ultimate reality. This principle is expressed in a response given by the Indian holy man, Shri Dada of Aligarh, to a questioner who…

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Action as an Offering to Me

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One expression used in the Gita is ‘Be My-minded’. This means that the mental energies, which before were spread over a hundred diverse interests, are now preoccupied with the quest for divine knowledge. By using the word ‘My-’ in this way, the Gita links the idea of God with the idea of Self. The quest…

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On the Life of Higher Love

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All human beings are born with an innate need to love and to be loved. Love is one of the two most precious urges of human nature— the other being the urge to know. Love means expansion. We do not like to have our experience confined to a fraction of the finite world. Nor are…

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