Frank: Thank you again for the insights you have given me these last weeks. Karma yoga is liberating and challenging at the same time! I...
Satsang is a compound Sanskrit word that means “keeping the company of the Self.” The Self, Awareness, is the true nature of everyone and one keeps company with it by continually meditating on it in many ways. One of the most effective methods involves discussing non-dual teachings with someone whose knowledge of his or her identity as Awareness is doubt-free, to get clarity with reference to Self inquiry. The satsangs posted here are answers to the questions of many people around the world who are interested in enlightenment and committed to Vedanta as their preferred means of Self knowledge.
Now that Vedanta is well known in Western spiritual circles, it has become commonplace for unqualified “teachers” to identify with it. A qualified teacher is called a mahatma, someone immersed in the Vedic tradition who has been taught the methodology by someone who has been properly taught in an unbroken chain of teachers, through Shankaracharya, back to the Upanishads, the source texts themselves. My teacher, Swami Chinmaya, seen here with his teacher, Swami Tapovan Maharaj, satisfies this qualification. I have not strayed from the tradition since my introduction to it in 1968 and teach traditional Vedanta, although not in the traditional monastic format.
Chinmaya Teaching in a Traditional Setting
One of the greatest challenges facing seekers of liberation is the fact the senses are, by nature, extroverted; focused outwardly upon the world of...
Chandogya Upanishad: “Mind, the means of knowledge and experience, evolves out of Food.” 1. Earth Principle. It is virtually impossible to determine if the...
From where do thoughts arise? Where do they go after they have been thunk? After one thought, then memory, then the next thought, then...
Note from Sundari: This is a response from a Buddhist monk to my satsang on the fallacy of non-existence, and my reply to him...
There are inquirers having a fear of non-existence,they talk about worrying that nothing will be left of them.How can this fear be addressed directly...
Statement: One’s spiritual name is Videha, which is like Sanskrit for David. One was thinking, wouldn’t it be funny if God’s name was Dave?...
Mr. Not-A-Thing replied to my statement that ina non-dualreality, “ You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” He said, “ If...
Lucua: Currently, I am witnessing a few inquirers having a fear of non-existence,they talk about worrying that nothing will be left of them. How...
Question: About will-power, is it an aspect of the ego or of the heart. Is not will a desire or effect of the heart...
Inquirer: This is a realization that’s really been deepening in me lately: the fact that what is beyond ego is not trying to get...
CC: I think that we cannot read ourselves out of samsara because of fear – there are more reasons,subtle ones, but this is a...
INTRODUCTION TO VEDANTIC MEDITATION 3 The purpose of Meditation 3 is to give the mind experiences it never had nor understands and...
Questionnaire / Self-assessment before Vedantic Meditation 4 Meditation 4 is a further recognition, a much deeper and very expanded realisation from Meditation 3, that...