Just as a cookbook does not appease the hunger of the stomach, so also scriptural study, dry religious discussions, and lifeless, mechanical prayers cannot satisfy the spiritual hunger of the heart. …
Mandukya Karika 4.9
सांसिद्धिकी स्वाभाविकी सहजा अकृता च या ।प्रकृतिः सेति विज्ञेया स्वभावं न जहाति या ॥ ९ ॥ sāṃsiddhikī svābhāvikī sahajā akṛtā ca yā |prakṛtiḥ seti vijñeyā svabhāvaṃ na jahāti yā || 9 …
Mandukya Karika 4.7-8
Verse 4.7 न भवत्यमृतं मर्त्यं न मर्त्यममृतं तथा ।प्रकृतेरन्यथाभावो न कथंचिद्भविष्यति ॥ ७ ॥ na bhavatyamṛtaṃ martyaṃ na martyamamṛtaṃ tathā |prakṛteranyathābhāvo na kathaṃcidbhaviṣyati || 7 …
Beyond the Realm of Reason
Once Swami Vivekananda while he was moving in the Himalayan regions, became the guest of a certain person in a village. He woke up one night and found that the villagers were taking part in a big …
Worldly Attachment
A monk had a disciple who was a householder. He was deeply attached to his family although his preceptor talked to him now and then about the unreality of the world. The preceptor spoke about the …
Mere Learning Is Not Enough
In the age in which Shankaracharya lived, there was a great scholar and savant named Mandana Mishra who was a supporter of the Mimamsa section of the Vedas. Shankara in the course of his travels in …