Shining World – James and Sundari Swartz, Vedanta, And Non-duality

Be the Perfect Child of God that You Are

ShiningWorld

For the Dissemination of Non-dual Vedanta & Yoga

Be the Perfect Child of God that You Are

ShiningWorld

For The Dissemination Of Non-Dual Vedanta & Yoga

Be the Perfect Child of God that You Are

About ShiningWorld

ShiningWorld is a non-profit charitable institution dedicated to the dissemination, realization and application of Non-Dual wisdom worldwide. It attracts seekers of freedom and non-dual love, who understand that modern “non-dual” teachings do not deliver what they purport to deliver and offers common sense advice for those who are open to it. James Swartz, Isabella Viglietti, and others, teach the ancient science of existence shining as consciousness, popularly known as Vedanta. Vedanta is not a religion, but it is not opposed to religion. Any sincere person who wants to know the answers to the universal existential questions is welcome. ShiningWorld offers online courses, weekly interactive Zoom discussions (satsangs), talks and meditations worldwide in clear modern English. Immerse yourself in this site at your leisure.

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You are Not Separate Incomplete and Inadequate

Bedeviled by a sense of incompleteness and inadequacy we seek to know what we are and why we are here. The time-tested ancient science of Vedanta definitively reveals immortal blissful self and ends the search to know the true meaning of life. Click here to learn more.

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Recent Satsangs

Satsangs are discussion between a student and a teacher on the topic of identity.
Am I a Who? or Am I a What?

January 5, 2026

James Swartz

Gratitude – A Perfect Teacher or a Perfect Teaching?

I have been thinking of you and wanting to write to you – no questions arise – only the desire to say something. Only...

November 28, 2025

James Swartz

Is Ishvara a Provocateur?

X. I suspect Ishwara gives us bugs in the system of our being and our lives, either mentally, spiritually, physically, etc, which seem to...

November 28, 2025

James Swartz

OCD & Vedanta

Hi James, How was Amsterdam, I guess it was a great success, are you already in Berlin? Anyway I hope you had a good...

ShiningWorld Courses

ShiningWorld has Foundation, Advanced, One Year courses. If you are new to Vedanta you must start with the Foundation course and learn the terminology. Without a proper terminology it is impossible to communicate with ShiningWorld teachers.

FOUNDATION COURSE

The Vedanta Foundation Course will give you— in plain and modern English— everything you need to become familiar with Vedanta, and prepare you to study the scriptures in depth.

FOUNDATION COURSE

ADVANCED COURSE

Once you have developed a firm understanding of Vedanta by completing the Beginners Course, you are ready to undertake a systematic study of the Vedantic scriptures themselves.

Advanced Course

VEDANTA ONE YEAR COURSE

This 14 part Vedanta course is based on James Swartz’s book, The Essence of Enlightenment. Meant to be carefully studied over the course of a year, the book materials are followed by questions and answers to assure you have correctly assimilated the knowledge.

VEDANTA ONE YEAR COURSE

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ShiningWorld presents regular interactive teachings to seekers around the world.

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Vedanta and Yoga – Not the same but not different

The teachers at ShiningWorld use a special ancient means of knowledge that proves your nature is effortless bliss. It is called Vedanta. The word veda means knowledge and the suffix anta means not two. We prove that you are not separate from anything. The result? Conflict disappears and you love yourself and others unconditionally.
We not only prove it, we show you how to achieve it in many ways.

Knowledge Yoga

1. Listening with an unbiased mind
2. Removing doubts about what you’ve heard
3. Actualizing a non-dual lifestyle

Karma/Dharma Yoga

1. Right Attitude
2. Right Action
3. The Dharma/Karma Connection

Ashtanga Yoga

“Freedom and non-dual love can only be accomplished by Self-knowledge because we are already free. What exactly is that knowledge? brahma satyam, jagan mithya, jivo brahmaiva na aparah – the self alone is real, the universe is apparently real: the individual is non-different from the self. Self-Knowledge is not merely a conceptual understanding of this statement; it is enjoying an ever-present direct unshakable conviction of the underlying truth that it expresses.”

Bhakti Yoga

Lusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias provident destiny is about voles.

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