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  ============================================================================= Friday 01, Mar 2024 05:30. Article on Philosophy What is Consciousness? - Swami Krishnananda (Darshan given during 1993) ================================================================================== 1.A visitor: Swamiji, may I ask you a question? What is consciousness? Swamiji: Now, who is speaking to me? That is consciousness. It is consciousness that is speaking to me because the person who seems to be apparently speaking may be there, and yet there may be no consciousness – for instance, with a corpse, a dead body. It is exactly like the living body, but it does not speak because it is having no consciousness. So the person who sees, speaks, hears, performs any action, is really the consciousness; and the organs, which apparently perform this function of seeing, hearing, speaking, etc., are only instruments of this consciousness. The intelligence that is behind every activity, the awareness that...

Swami Chinmayananda: Before you eat, remember this! Satvic, healthy food, avoid this food, eat right, Bhagavad Gita, spicy food, dead food, say no to junk food, choose wisely ================================================================================ Thursday 29, 2024 05:30. WHO IS A JIVANMUKTA? -Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Yoga And Realisation. ================================================================================= A Jivanmukta is a liberated sage. He is released even while living. He lives in the world, but he is not of the world. He always revels in the eternal bliss of the Supreme Self. He has no identification with the body and senses. Hence he has no idea of enjoyment or enjoyer when he exhausts the residue of his Prarabdha. He has no idea of action or agent. He roams about happily without attachment and egoism, with a balanced mind and an equal vision. His state is indescribable. He is Brahman Himself. The sage, who has realised tha...

================================================================================ Wednesday 28, 2024 05:30. The Essence of Devotion: Gems of Wisdom from Narada Bhakti Sutra:  Swami Swaroopananda Global Head, Chinmaya Mission ================================================================================== We seek the spiritual path to free ourselves from the inevitable sorrows that accompany human existence. We seek permanent happiness, peace and contentment but don’t find any lasting joy in our worldly pursuits and successes. They seem to elude us like a mirage. In this context, it is the Vedas that light up various paths that lead us to discover the essence of Sat Chit Ananda. ============================================================================== Jnana Marg: On the jnana marg, as expounded by Adi Shakaracharya, viveka or discernment between the permanent and impermanent is required to lead us to vairagya (detachment). This purifies the mind and makes it one-pointed, quali...