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Way of the Mystic

Swami Vivekananda on a Universal Approach to Spirituality Through Meditation

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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Way of the Mystic

Swami Vivekananda on a Universal Approach to Spirituality Through Meditation

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

In arousing the power within, the challenge is to free up consciousness from the external world by collecting and focusing attention on an object, person, holy word, or concept. Eventually, attention or concentration matures into a state of meditation. Through deeper meditations on higher ideals, we arouse our inner spiritual power. The more centered and open our acts of concentration, and the larger our thoughts and feelings, the more our consciousness is able to intuit an ultimate Truth, within and without. Eventually, a state of uninterrupted absorption occurs in which we are able to discern higher Reality as our core Self.

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Temple Universal

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0972805141

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Seeing Beyond the Circle

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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Seeing Beyond the Circle

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

There has always been an ongoing dispute between the realists and the idealists as to what is ultimate and fundamental. The realists see matter as absolute, whereas the idealists see mind as absolute. Swami Vivekananda sees both mind and matter as aspects of a larger reality. The human soul is not separate from other souls, but is an expression of one singular, spiritual Ocean out of which the whole of creation arises. Our problem is that we are clinging to the waves rather than opening out and resting in the Ocean or Source Itself. This is all explained in the ancient Sankhyan model of perception and evolution, which Swami Vivekananda empowers with the philosophy of non-dualism. Among other things, Vivekananda puts the traditional Sankhyan idea of the gunas into a familiar psychological context: tamas being attraction, rajas being aversion, and sattva being balance. Almost a century earlier, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German philosopher framed this dynamic as thesis or status quo (tamas), antithesis or breaking free, (rajas), and synthesis or ongoing levels of integration (sattva). In light of Swami Vivekananda's message, the Vedic position gives this process a higher evolutionary direction, that direction being an experience of a spiritual Reality that is omnipresent and ever-free.

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0977483002

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9780977483006

Way of the Saint

By: Swami Vivekananda

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Way of the Saint

By: Swami Vivekananda

In transforming the mind through the power of love, the aim is to develop a larger devotion by grounding our emotions in a relationship with the loving God of the universe. According to the Vedanta, this "loving God" is the Absolute, seen alive and responsive in and through the whole creation. Thus, a deep love and affection can flow between the Lord and us as we intensify our affection. A rapport is established. Christs and Krishnas, the prophets and saints of every religion and country are but ongoing manifestations of the same universal love and beauty.

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0972805133

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Way of the Sage

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on a Spiritual and Universal Approach to Reason

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on a Spiritual and Universal Approach to Reason

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

In awakening consciousness through higher understanding, this practice is geared to those who choose to see all of the matter and energy as qualified expressions of one singular Transcendent Reality. In the tradition of philosophers and sages, we're asked to discriminate between what is real (the Absolute) and what is unreal (this changing world). Through affirmations of the underlying Reality, along with the practice of detachment, this world of seemingly rigid outlines gradually weakens. Eventually, an omnipresent, ever free, immortal Truth is directly intuited within everything and behind everything.

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0972805168

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View from the Center

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on a Universal Spirituality

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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View from the Center

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on a Universal Spirituality

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

Vol. I: View From the Center In the lectures contained in this volume Swami Vivekananda lays the logical foundation for a dynamic and inclusive universal religion. He argues the necessity of total freedom while providing a coherent metaphysics and psychology of the mind, upon which much of contemporary transpersonal psychology appears to have been built. The model provided in this first volume feeds into all the explanations contained in the remainder of the series. For Swami Vivekananda, the religions of the world are all prototypes of transcendental Reality, various doors through which our feelings and wills can open out into the Infinite, and the Infinite can in turn, express itself. This grand view of spirituality is what Swami Vivekananda has reawakened for our modern world.

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0972805109

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9780972805100

The Grand Illusion

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on Seeing the Many in the One

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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The Grand Illusion

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on Seeing the Many in the One

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

Maya as a philosophical concept is found throughout the religious literature of India. This model states that there is a fundamental act of misperception to which every being is subject. As a result, a creature labors under confusing ideas about the surrounding world and itself. We're always superimposing our relative perceptions and understandings onto an absolute, spiritual condition. The analogy given is in the late afternoon wherein we might see a rope and imagine it to be a snake or see a tree stump and imagine it to be someone we know. This discovery of mental irresolution with a resulting compensation and psychic projection is a prime contribution that Freud and his contemporaries gave to the world. The idea is that if psychic energy is denied and repressed, the mind becomes energetically projective in a more confining way. Shankara, the 7th Century philosopher of India, took this process of projection to a collective level. For him, every being is ignoring divine Reality and projecting incomplete interpretations onto It through this basic dynamic of maya. Swami Vivekananda interjects an evolutionary model into the process, showing how the hidden destination to which the healing of all of our irresolution and confusion is ultimately headed is an open, holistic perception of Reality, free of compulsivity and distortion. This, in effect, summarizes Vedic psychology and philosophy.

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311

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0972805176

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9780972805179

Way of the Hero

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on a Universal Approach to Spiritual Action

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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Way of the Hero

The Lectures of Swami Vivekananda on a Universal Approach to Spiritual Action

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

In achieving spiritual freedom through everyday activity, the aim is to progressively remove attachments by learning the art of remaining balanced in success and failure. In our everyday lives, we're driven into the external world by one thought after another, generally contaminated by strong likes and dislikes. But when action is done without addictive expectations, we free up psychic energy. As an instrument of God, or by remaining in the present moment, action becomes elevated. Eventually our mind rises above its likes and dislikes as consciousness calms down and rests in inner peace. Spirit is everywhere and a calm mind inevitably perceives this higher Reality.

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0972805125

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The Sleeping Giant

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

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The Sleeping Giant

By: Swami Vivekananda,Swami Brahmavidyananda

From where does life come? Does an external God quicken creation into existence or is there a life potential abiding within creation itself? Traditionally, theologians tell us that an external God is the source of all this vitality. In some mysterious way, God creates the universe out of nothing. The scientific response to these unscientific ideas is "evolution." Nature has a potential existing within itself that's causing higher and higher life forms to manifest. The Vedic position interjects a spiritual dimension into it, adding that a primary "involution" always has to precede an evolution. As Swami Vivekananda puts it: The seed is the father of the tree, but another tree was itself the father of the seed. This larger model says that the seed in the material world is spiritual potential. The whole evolutionary process isn't driven by the material world of external stimuli and everyday experiences, but by the presence of an infinite, undivided and unchanging Reality that resides within and behind the surface of everything. This is what is gradually expressing and ultimately manifesting as our Christs, Buddhas, sages and saints.

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280

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0977483010

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9780977483013

Inspiration:Timeless Stories of Divine Love

By: Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda

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Inspiration:Timeless Stories of Divine Love

By: Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda

Our lives are a journey to the Divine, full of highs and lows, as we seek to quench our thirst for Love. Naturally, we search for inspiration along the way. When we come across a Divine teacher such as Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda, we know we have found someone special. He inspires us to deepen our relationship with the Divine. But because the Divine can seem so distant and unfathomable at times, Guruji often uses a meaningful story to help bring us closer to the Divine Self within us. This book brings together some of Guruji’s most frequently-told stories and is a treasure chest of answers waiting to be found. We hope they will inspire you to reach new heights on your journey of reaching the Ultimate, your true Self, Love Divine.

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3963430206

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9783963430206

Enlightening Stories

By: Swami Vimohananda

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Enlightening Stories

By: Swami Vimohananda

‘Enlightening Stories’ is a collection of 74 stories culled from the Indian and other religious traditions. Geographically, they range from the jungles of India to the deserts of the Middle East and the hills of Italy; historically, from the Vedic period to the 20th century; culturally, from the Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, and Christian traditions. Wide-ranging and eclectic, they reflect our rich heritage and illustrate the universality of spiritual truth. Compiled by Swami Vimohananda from Bengali title ‘Galpa Malika’ by Swami Chetanananda and other sources and published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math. #AdvaitaAshrama #RKMathBelurMath

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Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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8175059249

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9788175059245

Book's by Swami Brahmavidyananda

Way of the Mystic

Way of the Mystic

Seeing Beyond the Circle

Seeing Beyond the Circle

Way of the Saint

Way of the Saint

Way of the Sage

Way of the Sage

View from the Center

View from the Center

The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion

Way of the Hero

Way of the Hero

The Sleeping Giant

The Sleeping Giant

Inspiration:Timeless Stories of Divine Love

Inspiration:Timeless Stories of Divine Love

Enlightening Stories

Enlightening Stories

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