1. The document discusses different types of knowledge - direct sensory perception, reasoning, and knowledge from scripture.
2. It argues that direct perception and reasoning have limitations and defects, as the senses are imperfect and speculation leaves us uncertain.
3. The only way to attain perfect and absolute knowledge is through knowledge from Vedic scripture, as it comes directly from God without human interpretation and is not limited by the senses. This knowledge can lead one to the highest truth and realization.
Existence is Bliss. It is Bliss Supreme. In this very life we can realize the Supreme Bliss which is our own true nature. One who realizes the Supreme Bliss becomes immortal in this very life. We are indeed fortunate to have the gift of Taittiriya Upanishad from Krishna Yajurveda. It describes the Nature of Supreme Realization in a very lucid way.
Revised (2021) flowcharts and overview.
Chapter 18: Moksha-Sanyasa Yoga (The yoga of liberation through the path of knowledge and self-surrender) - 78 verses. It is a review of the truths already presented (18:6). In conclusion, Krishna advises Arjuna to abandon all forms of dharma and simply surrender unto him (18:66). He describes this as the ultimate perfection of life. After listening to the instructions of Sri Krishna, Arjuna is confirmed and gets ready to fight (18:73). After narrating this conversation to Dhritarashtra, Sanjaya regards Krishna with enormous admiration and predicts victory for Arjuna, the supreme archer, for he is surrendered to Krishna, the master of all mystics (18:78).
For the benefit of spiritual seekers, the book “Yoga Vashista” describes seven stages of spiritual unfoldment in a beautiful manner. The book is a treasure house for all the seekers of Truth. “Yoga Vashista” gives spiritual teachings of in the form of a conversation between Shri Ramachandra, incarnation of Shri Maha Vishnu, and his Spiritual Master Sage Vashista Maharshi.
The teachings are based on the ancient philosophical foundation of non-duality which focuses on oneness of life.
In this monumental work, Shri Vashista explains seven stages of spiritual unfoldment to Shri Ramachandra.
The objective of the current book is to help the readers understand the various stages of enlightenment as described by Sage Vashista Maharshi. The book is released on the day of Shri Valmiki Jayanthi as mark of respect for the great sage.
Scientists consider that 40 drops of blood form one drop of this vital fluid. It is a sort of white blood. When we lose even a few drops of blood, we are panic stricken, although it is much less valuable than the vital fluid. We, however, waste this vital fluid, which is the king of vitality, recklessly for the pleasure of a few seconds.
Qigong is an ancient art over 6,000 years old, that builds health in body, mind and spirit. This talk outlines the history of Qigong, its common threads with modern science, how it tunes the body to the rhythms of Nature to cultivate health, and why it is relevant in modern times.
This is a mystical melody gives entire Advaita in six stanzas. It is composed an 8 yr old boy as he answers the first question of his would be guru. Yes, I am talking about Nirvana shatakam ( also called Atmashtakam) composed extempore by Adi shankara as he meets Govindapada Acharya.
Brahmacharya means control of all the organs of sense. He who attempts to control only one organ, and allows all the others free play, is bound to find his effort futile. To hear suggestive stories with the ears, to see suggestive sights with the eyes, to taste simulating food with the tongue, to touch exciting things with the hands, and then at the same time to expect to control the only remaining organ is like putting one's hands in the fire, and expecting to escape being burnt.
Existence is Bliss. It is Bliss Supreme. In this very life we can realize the Supreme Bliss which is our own true nature. One who realizes the Supreme Bliss becomes immortal in this very life. We are indeed fortunate to have the gift of Taittiriya Upanishad from Krishna Yajurveda. It describes the Nature of Supreme Realization in a very lucid way.
Revised (2021) flowcharts and overview.
Chapter 18: Moksha-Sanyasa Yoga (The yoga of liberation through the path of knowledge and self-surrender) - 78 verses. It is a review of the truths already presented (18:6). In conclusion, Krishna advises Arjuna to abandon all forms of dharma and simply surrender unto him (18:66). He describes this as the ultimate perfection of life. After listening to the instructions of Sri Krishna, Arjuna is confirmed and gets ready to fight (18:73). After narrating this conversation to Dhritarashtra, Sanjaya regards Krishna with enormous admiration and predicts victory for Arjuna, the supreme archer, for he is surrendered to Krishna, the master of all mystics (18:78).
For the benefit of spiritual seekers, the book “Yoga Vashista” describes seven stages of spiritual unfoldment in a beautiful manner. The book is a treasure house for all the seekers of Truth. “Yoga Vashista” gives spiritual teachings of in the form of a conversation between Shri Ramachandra, incarnation of Shri Maha Vishnu, and his Spiritual Master Sage Vashista Maharshi.
The teachings are based on the ancient philosophical foundation of non-duality which focuses on oneness of life.
In this monumental work, Shri Vashista explains seven stages of spiritual unfoldment to Shri Ramachandra.
The objective of the current book is to help the readers understand the various stages of enlightenment as described by Sage Vashista Maharshi. The book is released on the day of Shri Valmiki Jayanthi as mark of respect for the great sage.
Scientists consider that 40 drops of blood form one drop of this vital fluid. It is a sort of white blood. When we lose even a few drops of blood, we are panic stricken, although it is much less valuable than the vital fluid. We, however, waste this vital fluid, which is the king of vitality, recklessly for the pleasure of a few seconds.
Qigong is an ancient art over 6,000 years old, that builds health in body, mind and spirit. This talk outlines the history of Qigong, its common threads with modern science, how it tunes the body to the rhythms of Nature to cultivate health, and why it is relevant in modern times.
This is a mystical melody gives entire Advaita in six stanzas. It is composed an 8 yr old boy as he answers the first question of his would be guru. Yes, I am talking about Nirvana shatakam ( also called Atmashtakam) composed extempore by Adi shankara as he meets Govindapada Acharya.
Brahmacharya means control of all the organs of sense. He who attempts to control only one organ, and allows all the others free play, is bound to find his effort futile. To hear suggestive stories with the ears, to see suggestive sights with the eyes, to taste simulating food with the tongue, to touch exciting things with the hands, and then at the same time to expect to control the only remaining organ is like putting one's hands in the fire, and expecting to escape being burnt.
Computer Science Education From Startup perspectiveArvind Jha
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Integrating the principles of ayurveda for quality assuranceSowmya Hiremath
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Ayurveda , the Indian system of medicine is a very old system of diagnosis and treatment. Ayurveda have developed its own way for diagnosis of disease and after that a suitable treatment. The slide show will provide you information for the methods of clinical diagnosis.
2 Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons Derek Parf.docxfelicidaddinwoodie
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Divided Minds and the Nature of
Persons
Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit, who was born in 1942, has been a philosopher at All Souls
Coilege, Oxjord for many years. He has also taught frequently in the United
States. The main subjeas on which he has worked have been rationality,
morality, personal identity, and juture generations. These are the subjeas of
his book Reasons and Persons, publis hed by Oxford University Press in
1984.
It was the split-brain cases which drew me into philosophy. Our
knowledge of these cases depends on the rcsults of various psychological
tests, as described by Donald MacKay.! These tests made use of two
facts. We control each of our arms, and see what is in each half of our
visual fields, with only one of Ollr hemispheres. When someone's
hemispheres have been disconnected, psychologists can thus present to
this person two different written questions in the two halves of his visual
field, and can receive two different answers written by this person's two
hands.
Here is a simplified imaginary version of the kind of evidence that such
tests provide. One of these people looks fixedly at the centre of a wide
screen, whose left half is red and right half is blue. On each half in a
darker shade arc the words, 'How many colours can you see?' With both
hands the person writes, 'Only one'. The words are now changed to read,
'Which is the only colour that you can see?' With one of his hands the
person writes 'Red', with the other he writes 'Blue'.
If this is how such a person responds, I would conclude that he is
having two visual sensations - that he does, as he claims, see both red and
blue. But in seeing each colour he is not aware of seeing the other. He has
two streams of consciousness, in each of which he can see only one
colour. In one stream he sees red, and at the same time, in his other
stream, he sees blue. More generally, he could be having at the same time
two series of thoughts and sensations, in having each of which he is
unaware of having the other.
This conclusion has been questioned. It has been claimed by some that
there are not two streams of consciousness, on the ground that the sub-
dominant hemisphere is a part of the brain whose functioning involves no
The Daibutsu (Great Buddha) at Kamakura, Japan, construded in 1252, Derek Parfit s denial of
the concept of a person is remarkably similar to a central tenet of Buddhist philosophy (photograph by
Colin Blakemore),
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consciousness. If this were true, these cases would lose most of their
interest. I believe that it is not true, chiefly because, if a person's
dominant hemisphere is destroyed, this person is able to react in the way
in which, in the split-brain cases, the sub-dominant hemisphere reacts,
and we do not believe that such a person is just an automaton, without
consciousness. The sub-dominant hemisphere is, of course, much less
developed in certain ways, typically having the linguistic ...
Basic Spiritual Primer 8 (Inward Contemplation of Reality)Pardeep Sehgal
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Human body is the battlefield where this perpetual inner war is going on between the gods representing the spiritual or restraining forces and the demons representing the material bound natural inclinations. The seeker of Truth has to win this war if he has to regain his unity with the Universal Reality.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
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A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
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What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
6. More to Seeing Then What Meets the Eyes Phenomenon of Recognition What do you see?
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12. Defect 2: Tendency to Be Illusion Flat Earth Model Defect 3: Tendency to Commit Mistakes
13. Defect 4: Tendency to Cheat Many years, textbooks on evolution Cited the Piltdown man as evidence That human beings have descended From an ape-like ancestor. In 1912, Archaeologist excavated a humanlike Skull and apelike jaw from a gravel pit at Piltdown, in the British Isles. The bones were deemed Part of the same creature, which was duly reconstructed In full and placed in the British Museum as an example Of a transitional phase between ancient ape and modern Man. In 1953, however, investigators discovered that The jawbone of the Piltdown man was actually of very Recent origin and had simply been filed to look like a Fossil. In other word, the Piltdown was a fraud.
21. The Boatman and the Scientist Mundane knowledge of science and philosophy, although attractive to the mind and senses, cannot save one at the time of death.
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