Om Yoga: Its Theory and Practice – Discover the world of meditation: a complete, in-depth book on the practice of Om Yoga Meditation, the most ancient and authentic method of meditation in Hinduism. – by Swami Nirmalananda Giri. Newly revised. Including added information about the use of sound and breath in meditation. Read the book online or download it as a PDF file.
Bhagavad Gita–The Book of Life – In the Gita, Krishna outlines to Arjuna the way to live an entire life so as to gain perfect self-knowledge and self-mastery.
This text of the Gita is arranged according to the meter of the original Sanskrit text so it can be sung–as it is done every morning in our ashram and in most of the ashrams of India. – English Translation by Swami Nirmalananda Giri. Read the book online or download it as a PDF file. Also, you can read a practical Commentary on the Gita.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
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The Silence and the Word–Throughout creation we find things in which there are absolute contradictions–characteristics that logically would negate each other, yet which exist together in a single thing. For example, light is both a particle and a wave. The same is true philosophically. God is both transcendent and immanent, both with attributes and attributeless, both with form and formless. How can this be? It just IS. We, too, contain these contradictions in ourselves, physically, mentally, and spiritually. The highest activity of which we are capable–Divine Contemplation–also contains two seemingly opposite factors: Silence and The Word. Read the practical implications of this for the spiritual aspirant in the Silence and the Word.
The Veil in the Mind–A Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna has spoken of the strong net of Maya that is difficult to break through. Now he speaks of Maya as a veil that darkens and blinds the minds of those over whom it lies. We must keep in mind that in this section–as in most others–he is speaking both as the Supreme Self and the individual Self. So not only is God speaking to us, so is our own divine spirit. Read the article here.
