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1.#Opinion: Sunday 03, November 2024, 05:30. 3724. /2#The Search for TRUTH -3(ENDFS): Swami Krishnananda.//

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=================================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Sunday 03, November 2024, 05:30. 3724. / Article Philosophy 2.#The Search for Truth -3. Swami Krishnananda.// ==================================================================================== This analysis would amount to saying that there can be no other standard of judgment of truth than what is provided in waking life. We usually forget that there is a subtle snag even in this relative truth of coherence (Vyavaharika Satta). That objects are mutually consistent with others' experience of them in terms of persistence in space and time is the conclusion of a particular observer to whom everything else stands in the position of the observed. How does one feel sure that others exist, and that space and time do exist except by reference to oneself, to one's bodily conditions, set-up of the sensory organs, mental state and emotional reactions? Often, we hear of objective facts, obje...

Methods of Mind-Conquest -2: Swami Sivananda

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=================================================================================== Saturday 02, November 2024. 05:30. Methods of Mind-Conquest -2:   Swami Sivananda Stages of Mind-conquest: (Continued) ==================================================================================== 11.Mind-conquest by the Method of Sankirtan Yoga: Of particular interest to the modern temper is the case Sivananda makes out in a chapter on Sankirtan Yoga, in his Sivananda Yoga Samhita for Sankirtan as the easiest and the cheapest method of mind-control and God-realisation. “Sankirtan Yoga is the easiest, surest, quickest, safest, cheapest and best way for conquering the mind and attaining God-realisation in this Kali Yuga. There is infinite Sakti in the Lord’s Names. It will remove all impurities from your mind. Vedantins say that there are three kinds of obstacles to Self-realisation–Mala, Vikshena and Avarana. To remove them they prescribe Nishkama Karma, Upasana and Vedantic Nididhyasana...