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Jyotisham is a Vedanga. It  means astronomy, science of the stars, Jyot - of the lighted objects. Astrology is a small part of Jyotisha.  

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The spiritual journey is not a search for power. It’s a search for peace, happiness and quietude. Because you are spiritually on a higher level, you may have some power, that is different. But if y...

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If one learns to live within oneself, without being dependent on any external factor then one is free. 

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The whole principle of life is - something coming in and something going out. Nobody can stop it, and no amount of anything can help to get out. So to accept it and be, this is the sign of going de...

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If the mind is made up of thoughts and thoughts are always vibrating, constantly in motion;  that movement of thought or the waves of thoughts are known as vrittis. The stopping of the vrittis, com...

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The Buddhists say, ‘One who has walked across’ - paraa gati – ‘one who has gone beyond’, such a person is called ‘Bodhi’, one who has the ‘bodh’.  ‘Gate Gate Pāragate Pārasamgate Bodhi Svāhā’ -  ‘M...

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Good and evil, famous and notorious, darkness and light, positive and negative, all are in the Supreme Being and yet in its essential essence the Supreme Godhead is not affected by the opposites.

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The only true Apara-vidya, which leads to Vijnana, is the non-verbal transcendental experience of the Supreme Truth.  It takes place when the mind becomes absolutely still, having discovered the us...

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When we say control your thoughts during meditation, it is impossible to control and make them disappear.  Because the moment you try to make thoughts disappear, you are thinking.

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When dharana becomes effortless and quiet, it naturally goes into dhyana. In that dhyana state even ‘I’ does not exist. 

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Supreme Brahman is present everywhere not in any particular place.

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Because our puny little brains cannot understand the plan of life. We think our plan is the best plan. Well, it is not or it may not be.