Knowledge is acquired in two ways: through understanding and through experience. Understanding operates within the intellect and is therefore limited.
Moving in the Sky of Pure Awareness
God, the Atman, becomes the stage, the actor, and the costumes. He enacts His dramas within Himself, for His own sake and delight. Assuming physical forms, He appears as separate entities, manifesting His cosmic play through the senses by the power of His own dynamic Shakti.
The Unification of Desires in God
The mind’s activity, its thoughts and feelings, obscures the Self. We lose sight of our universal nature, the inner Source from which the mind arises. In forgetting our Self, our mind grasps at endless desires in hopes of obtaining lasting bliss.
An Uncontrolled Mind: The Fearful Time
We all want relief when our mind wanders uncontrollably in an inner land filled with fear. The Ramayana says, “The fearful time, which is like death, comes when the mind forgets about God and starts wandering here and there.”
To Calm the Restless Mind
The only thing the mind wants, the only thing all our desires seek, is love. The restlessness of our mind shows us that our mind will never stop seeking and desiring until it finds permanent love.
Removing Limited Identifications
The basis of suffering is false identification. We firmly believe we are our body, thoughts and feelings. This is what we see and experience so we trust this to be the whole truth.
Omnipresence
Is my awareness in this space or this this space in my awareness? We make the universe manifest within ourselves in the sky of the one consciousness.
Loneliness
Loneliness arises when we feel imbalanced and incomplete. The imbalance and incompleteness stem from being identified with our body and mind while the realization of our Self as pure consciousness
Finding Happiness and Meaning
The main issues facing people today revolve around our physical and mental health, money and problems with other people. We are firmly convinced that when we get what we need and our problems are resolved, we will acquire happiness. We have been conditioned that if we get our health, our money, our way, when we have more progress, acquire more things and find pleasure, we will somehow get our happiness.