Tag: philosophy
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64. Āpas – the Universal “Dissolved” State
Everything we ever wanted, or will ever want, is in this element, in a dissolved unmanifest state, like salt in ocean water. We just need to do the necessary to manifest it! In a similar way, this element apas is capable of dissolving away anything that we don’t want, like past karmic residues. Again, we just…
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63. Agni – the Ubiquitous Fire
So, how many fires are there? The famous Rig veda starts and ends with a sukta for Agni! In a nutshell, since change is the nature of this universe, Agni is everywhere, in infinite forms, depending upon what needs to be converted from what to what. For example, you want to dissolve away the past…
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62. Yoga, Creation and Gods: The Power of Prayer
What do yogis, the ancient rishis of yoga, think of Gods? Is there a God? Is it many Gods, 330 million gods, or just one God? We will cover two famous suktas related to this at the end. If a human worships a deity thinking the deity is one and s/he is another, he does…
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61. Death: The Final Teacher
prehi prehi pathibhiḥ pūrvyebhir yatrā naḥ pūrve pitaraḥ pareyuḥ |Depart, depart, by the former paths by which our forefathers have departed – Rig Veda 10.14.7 śataṃ caikā ca hṛdayasya nāḍyastāsāṃ mūrdhānamabhiniḥsṛtaikā…A hundred and one are the nerves of the heart. Of them, one has gone out piercing the head; going up through it, one attains…
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