Swami Vivekananda

========================================================================= Thursday,   15 Jun, 2023. 05:30. PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS CHAPTER II CONCENTRATION: ITS PRACTICE : 2. (continued) ========================================================================= विवेकख्यातिरविप्लवा हानोपायः ॥२६॥ 26. The means of destruction of ignorance is unbroken practice of discrimination. This is the real goal of practice — discrimination between the real and the unreal, knowing that the Purusha is not nature, that it is neither matter nor mind, and that because it is not nature, it cannot possibly change. It is only nature which changes, combining and re-combining, dissolving continually. When through constant practice we begin to discriminate, ignorance will vanish, and the Purusha will begin to shine in its real nature — omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- तस्य सप्तध...

Adi Sankara Nilayam, Veliyanad Eranakulam, Kerala, India 682313 Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF), the Academia of Sanskrit Research and Indology, is the research wing of the Chinmaya Mission Worldwide. Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) Celebrating Adi Sankara Jayanti with pomp and splendour 🪔 The day’s proceedings began with a beautiful shadashopachara puja performed by Swami Sharadananda Saraswati, well-attended by devotees of all ages both online and on-site.  This was followed by an informational session presented by students of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, with insightful dialogue on various aspects of the great saint’s life. The Sanakara Jayanti Sammelana brought together esteemed scholars and speakers Prof. Ramakrishna Bhat (Sri Sankara University Kalady), Swami Viviktanananda (Regional Head CM), Swami Advayananda (President CIF) and Prof. Ajay Kapoor (VC Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth). The programme ended with the prize distribution ceremony for Sankara Jayanti Elocu...

R K MATH : THRISSUR-Kerala CITY CENTRE BOOKSTALL INAGURATION : ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Wednesday, February 08, 2023. 06:00. Volume-1. POST-12. ========================================================================= PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS : CONCENTRATION: ITS SPIRITUAL USE The Chitta is always trying to get back to its natural pure state, but the organs draw it out. To restrain it, to check this outward tendency, and to start it on the return journey to the essence of intelligence is the first step in Yoga, because only in this way can the Chitta get into its proper course. Although the Chitta is in every animal, from the lowest to the highest, it is only in the human form that we find it as the intellect. Until the mind-stuff can take the form of intellect it is not possible for it to return through all these steps, and liberate the soul. Immediate salvati...

========================================================================= Wednesday, February 08, 2023. 06:00. Volume-1. PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS : CONCENTRATION: ITS SPIRITUAL USE POST-11. ========================================================================= Introduction continued The really difficult part to understand is that this state, the Absolute, which has been called the highest, is not, as some fear, that of the zoophyte or of the stone. According to them, there are only two states of existence, one of the stone, and the other of thought. What right have they to limit existence to these two? Is there not something infinitely superior to thought? The vibrations of light, when they are very low, we do not see; when they become a little more intense, they become light to us; when they become still more intense, we do not see them -- it is dark to us. Is the darkness in the end the same darkness as in the beginning? Certainly not; they are different as the two poles. Is...