Self-Knowledge Journal – Winter 2018

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Meditation Practice: Universal Consciousness

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A session led by the Warden at Shanti Sadan If we practise meditation regularly, we find we have a great inner support that helps us in many ways. For meditation becomes a source of strength, a way to peace and a means of expanding our consciousness. This leads to fulfilment independent of outer aids and…

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Sayings of Saints Universal (Three)

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A further selection from the Sant Vani, compiled by Hanuman Prasad Poddar and translated by Hari Prasad Shastri People devoted to sense-objects die in grief over the following: the senses are not satisfied with the joys of gratification; many of their ambitions remain unfulfilled; they take nothing from this world to the other with them. Increase…

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Existence is Revealed by Contemplation Alone

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By Hari Prasad Shastri The human mind has two purposes. Its lower function is to work for the preservation of the species, and its higher function is to know the Truth and be free. Souls not yet developed devote their mental faculties to their individual and selfish ends, that is, they work for the sustenance…

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How to Be Inwardly Rich

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Within the hope of man alone The highest goal draws nigh. He chooses, raises up his soul To that which is on high. He can duration to the moment give, He can in Time the Eternal live. From Rudolph Eucken, The Truth of Religion How to be inwardly rich? What does it mean? In the…

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The Wisdom of Shri Shankara

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Shri Shankara was a great teacher and enlightened sage, who formulated the non-dual teachings as the true interpretation of the upanishadic wisdom. One of the cardinal features of Shri Shankara’s thought is that it is concerned, not with abstract principles, but with the analysis of experience itself. In his introduction to the Brahma Sutras he…

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The Sufi Path from Fear to Love

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This article is about Hasan al Basri, who lived from 642 to 728 of the common era, and Rabia Basri (about 715-801 CE), both of whom in their different ways exemplified qualities associated with the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. Their expressions and teachings were bound up with the circumstances in which Hasan al Basri…

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