On Narada Bhakti Sutras – 6
Part – 5 We ought to know first what really real Reality is in order to find it. To say so does not make sense either. If we knew the Reality already, what’s the purpose of this struggle? Obviously,...
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Part – 6 The Intelligent Design people and almost all religions speak about ‘Creation’ by a God accepting “The Doctrine of Creation-based perception (sRiShTi-dRiShTi-vAda).” The assumption behind this...
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Part – 7 At the end of Part – 7, we made a reference to the bag of tricks that the mind had acquired to help in the preservation and the perpetuation of the “form” of the body-organism. Before we...
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Part – 8 At the end of Part – 7 we made a reference to the tricks that our mind plays on us. I think I can safely bet that all of us (unless you are yourself a magician) wonder how a magician or...
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Part – 9 Modern Evolutionary Biologists are increasingly realizing that “thought” evolved its own survival tricks. Thoughts get replicated and passed on by ‘memes’ just like biological traits are...
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Part 10: In the last ten Posts, we have had a quick synoptic view of the contours of the subject matter that we will be discussing in the coming days. We touched on the efficacy as well as the...
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On Narada Bhakti Sutras – 12
Part – 11 We will now take a brief look at the Stories of Narada appearing in different purANa-s. Some of the stories repeat themselves in different purANa-s with slight to significant alterations....
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Part – 12 2. FROM DEVIBHAGAVATAM: Once Narada went to visit Vishnu. Noticing that Narada was approaching them, Laksmi, the consort of Vishnu, moved away from being near to Vishnu. Narada wondered...
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Part – 13 4. FROM ADBHUTA RAMAYANA: The Musician Kaushika was singing melodious tunes in the Heaven. Goddess Lakshmi along with her cohorts, several Sages, Narada, Tumbura and several others visited...
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On Narada Bhakti Sutras – 15 Part – 14 6. FROM MARKANDEYA PURANA: Narada happened to go to Indra’s court at a time when the celestial damsels Rambha and others were giving a dance performance....
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From the Grossest to the Subtlest – 1/2
Shankara opens his commentary on the 6th chapter of chAndogya with a very brief intro. bringing out the context of Svetaketu’s story and its relationship (sambandha) to the rest of the Upanishad. He...
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From the Grossest to the Subtlest – 2/2
Part – 1 Narada climbs up the staircase from Name up to Spirit almost hopping and jumping spurred by his own enthusiasm and curiosity. He asks his venerable teacher at each step after meditating,...
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