There are both of these birds in man himself, the objective one with its business of life, the subjective one with its disinterested joy of vision.
Read morePainted by the Master Artist
Every object reveals God’s beauty and perfection. Do not close your eyes but open them in the singleness of spiritual vision that everything about you may reveal the reality of the Supreme Spirit.
Read moreHamsa
When others around him sank into gloom and despair, Gandhiji held on to an unfailing optimism. A text often on his lips to reawaken others' lost inspiration was from Tulsidas' Ramayana: "All things - with or without life - the Lord has created with their good and bad points. The wise like the discerning swan separate the good milk and reject the adulterating water."
Read moreAshvattha
While we live on earth we must learn to see trees (as all living beings) in another way: As coming from above, from beyond creation. From an unseen source beyond heaven itself and extending downwards into the realm of Creation and, finally, to Earth—bringing the unmanifest Soul into all our surroundings.
Read moreGuru-Disciple
In the purest light of God-consciousness there is no relationship nor any bond as sacred as that between guru and disciple. Purely spiritual and divinely ordained by the cosmic law of self-unfoldment, that mutual bond of soul continues to guide and inspire the path of self-illumination which leads to absolute oneness in the perfection of God.
Read moreThe Festival of Light
The Light of Light has arrived and is in touch with the souls of all souls. Each soul is a shining light; bring your luminous lamp of joy and happiness, and lend your ecstasy to the rapturous delight of all hearts.
Read moreGandhi and the Ashram Ideal
Awareness of life as spiritual through identification and practice is no less a priority for the householder or student than it is for the “renunciate” or “sannyasin.” If we believe it to be so, then we condition spirituality by the personality or condition of the body, thus contradicting the oneness of life.
Read moreThe Revelation of The Supreme Self
The awakened mind enquired: Reveal unto me, O power of introspection, the various states of consciousness passing through which the self comes to realize its absolute perfection, as its qualities aspire to overcome the accumulated impressions born of mind through its identification with the senses.
Read moreGandhi and Advaita
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the observance of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, we reflect upon the enduring inspiration of his idealism.
Read moreI Am An Absolute Monist
That which empowers the senses, enlightens and guides the mind, and sustains the body is Cosmic and ultimately One.
Read moreSix Basic Words of Religion
In religion there are specific words that signify particular truths. Right knowledge regarding the meaning and connotation of these words is vital to our spiritual life and the attainment of self-realization.
Read moreEight Aspects of Yoga
Yoga is the realization of God. It is the attainment of soul’s absolute oneness with the supreme Spirit.
Read moreWhy Self-Revelation? What is it?
Revelation of the Self is the ONE characteristic that distinguishes human life from all other beings in creation.
Read moreOur Church Life
Self-Revelation, Atma-jnan, is the ideal and the spiritual heritage of our church. We are here for the knowledge of the Soul. But there is a second purpose—that of sharing the life.
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