People are often identified as Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc. Is it possible to accurately describe my personal spiritual life by such labels? What does it mean when I am said to belong to a faith, tradition or religion? How is my religious identity defined?
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After the Lord heard what Nārada had to say, he saw how lost Nārada was, how his ego had managed to divert his mind away from the ideal. To help his devotee, Śrī Hari projected a magic kingdom. What happened when Nārada visited it? How was this meant to teach Nārada? And, as before, what do we learn from it?
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God—Personal or Impersonal?
Three Rare Blessings
In Vivekacūḍāmaṇi, Śaṅkarācārya’s masterly manual of Vedanta, we read of the three rare blessings which are received only through God’s grace. What are those blessings? What do we do with them?
Trinity of Freedom
Swamiji Vivekananda asks: “What is this universe? From what does it arise? Into what does it go?” And this is his answer: “In freedom it arises, in freedom it rests, and into freedom it melts away.” Swamiji’s words on the trinity of bondage and the trinity of freedom are useful springboards for our own personal reflections on the subject.
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Spiritual Maturity
Creation – Gradual or Sudden?
Did the world come about gradually or did it manifest all at once? When a disciple asked this question to Holy Mother Sarada Devi, her answer was direct: “Everything came into being at once, not gradually.” What are the implications of that answer, keeping in mind the theory of evolution and the religious stories about creation?