Yoga

Krishna as the Immanent and the Transcendent, Before and After

A Self-explanatory Note

पूर्वम्

Krishna in the mind is luminous force and pure vision of the Truth. He is not the amplification of our ethical and…

How to Meditate and Why

The purpose of Meditation is to fix the Divine or God as the living symbol in the thinking mind initially, and gradually, to enter into a wideness beyond and be seated there in some secure foundation of Truth, different from the physical mind. The object of Meditation can be anything of…

Preludes to Yoga — To See

We begin with the Isha Upanishad.

Preludes to Yoga — Will to Begin

One often wonders what set us on this path. What recklessness, what impulse to adventure unmoored us…

The Four Propensities

The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Veda recognise four propensities in the evolving human individual. Four tendencies in various proportions. First, the impulse to wisdom and knowledge. Second, the impulse to heroism and force. Third, the impulse to skill and enjoyment. Fourth, the…

The Conquest of Fear — Part 1 of 3

We are not going to dwell upon the psychological constitution of fear through the Freudian temper, for the Internet is replete with his theories and well substantiated by research scholars and practitioners of modern psychiatry. Such theories, even while they are based…

The Mother’s Fragrance

O my sweet, mellifluous force
Sweet, sweet fragrance of our Lord

Soul of the flower and the tree
O sweet, sweet fragrance of our Mother

A note on Mahakali and the Ishwara principle

Mahakali is a supreme principle of decimation, working constantly upon the earth-consciousness and, the forces and powers present in the terrestrial & the planes above feel her searing power, but it is only the supreme Ishwara who can bear the violent…

Sri Krishna and me!

The fell quarter of my fortune

The high-price I paid for His bounty.

On a raft I rode upon the high seas

In search of my heart’s seraglio.

On Parvati, Shiva’s Consort

From the haze of Life she stood above;