Moksha

The Panch Kedar Darshan is a spiritual journey to the five sacred temples of Lord Shiva located in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. It is believed that visiting these temples during Sawan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, brings ...

The concept of spiritual freedom, therefore, must be clearly distinguished from the idea of freedom as it is commonly understood in daily life. Only when one begins to feel like the convict described at the beginning of this article, when the ...

Bhagavan Ramana enlightened all those who approached Him with their various, contrasting doubts regarding their spiritual progress. Though Bhagavan advocated self enquiry, He never stood in the path of seekers who pursued other spiritual practices that could later form a base ...

Evil and sufferingAll religions accept that evil and suffering have been allowed by God for some inherent purpose. Apparently suffering seems to be an evil but it really isn't evil because it has some moral purpose behind it.(Both Judaism and Islam ...

Continued From The First Part God is indeed the one supreme governing principle behind the functioning of this whole universe. He is everywhere, He is everything. His particular manifestations as Sri Rama or Sri Krishna appear to the ...

Moksha or liberation is the fruit of all spiritual endeavors. Every spiritual aspirant is aware of it as the ultimate goal. However some seekers weave fanciful ideas of Moksha without clarity in understanding its true nature or ...

Once a group of people from Vimalapuram embarked on a pilgrimage to Sri Sailam, one of the Jyotir Lingas of Lord Shiva in Andhra Pradesh. ...

Samadhi is the state of enlightenment. It is an irreversible experience, which signifies the union of the individual Self with the collective consciousness. ...

This is what happened: One morning Swami was talking to a student of the MBA class. This student had completed his engineering and was now doing his MBA, business management. Swami looked at him and said, "You, boy, you applied for ...

Samsara is our ordinary worldly life and nirvana is liberation, moksha or bliss. We continuously experience Samsara with the hope of ultimately experiencing and attaining nirvana. ...

Sri Sathya Sai Baba gives a simple example in one of his discourses about desires. There is an earthen pot with a narrow neck. ...

Originally, the Samkhya system did not permit the inclusion of Ishvara (the Lord of all Creation), since the early Samkhyas argued that the existence of a personal God cannot be proved and hence cannot be admitted to exist and ...