Sri Ramakrishna's consciousness was total. Here is another dimension of the expression of His consciousness. Seeing God in All Hazra and Mahima were two devotees known for their pretentiousness of being scholars. They loved to indulge in dry, philosophical ...
Renunciation as dealt in the previous part will have to be practised and not just reading about it in the scriptures. Similarly dwelling in consciousness is the sure sign of wisdom.Sri Ramakrishna said that a shallow man, having read a few ...
Mere reading of religious scriptures does not open the door way to spiritual realization. The truth, the underlying core of such scriptures will have to be adhered. Renunciation and Not Mere ScholarshipSri Ramakrishna saw that the pundits spoke words of ...
Introduction Having plunged the depths of spiritual realisation, Sri Ramakrishna had a first-hand account of the way to reach that state. He, therefore, discouraged any tendency to consider scriptural study (of religious scriptures) a necessary step to the realization of God. ...
Imagine a convict, hands and feet bound in chains, locked up in a cell of a tight security prison. He is serving a life sentence. Time has come to a standstill for him. He's all alone, with no companions save ...
Reality of Death In 1969, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross shattered the silence with 'On Death and Dying'. In it she described the progression of a patient's coping mechanisms in five stages of dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally ...
Reality of Death Death is a terrible reality. The fear of death is the root of all fears. Life is being, but death is non-being. No one escapes death's cruel jaws. In the words of Thomas Gray's elegy: ...
The Vedanta Kesary, p. 49-52, February 2002 Develop Self-awareness Vedanta reminds us again and again that our true identity is our ageless spiritual Self, the essence of being and the Consciousness of consciousness. ...
The Vedanta Kesary, p. 49-52, February 2002 Do Your Duties and Do Your Best. Vedanta says that life is interdependent, not independent. Our individual life is sustained by receiving support from others. Our body ...
Continued From The First Page Even world-renouncing monks and ascetics are advised to practise non-dependence. The laws of physical decay and disintegration are universal and they do not exempt anyone. When the body gets old and begins to break down, ...
As people get old, they begin to become dependent on others for support and care, and this causes them fear and anxiety for their future. 'Who will look after me when I become old and cannot function or ...
Continued From The First Page So long as we lock ourselves into an obsession with youth culture, we can only develop fear, anger, and frustration. There are two ways to face the reality of old age: to deny old age ...