This Upaniṣad invites us to look beyond our daily reality as revealed by our senses and our mind. Our real truth lies beyond speech and imagination. But this truth is what connects us to the rest of the cosmos. Kena Upaniṣad I: 1-5 केनेषितं पतति प्रेषितं मनः केन प्राणः प्रथमः प्रैति युक्तः । केनेषितां वाचमिमां […]
Translated by Dr. Victor van Bijlert, Faculteit Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Praise of the great Goddess Lakṣmī. नमस्तेऽस्तु महामाये श्रीपीठे सुरपूजिते । शंखचक्रगदाहस्ते महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ||१|| namaste’stu mahāmāye śrīpīṭhe surapūjite / śaṃkhacakragadāhaste mahālakṣmi namo’stu te /1// 1.You are the great creative magic power (māyā); salutation to You, Who are the seat of […]
The following verses are from the Bhagavad Gītā: B.G. 3.3 श्रीभगवानुवाच |लोकेऽस्मिन्द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मयानघ |ज्ञानयोगेन साङ्ख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम् || 3|| śhrī bhagavān uvāchaloke ’smin dvi-vidhā niṣhṭhā purā proktā mayānaghajñāna-yogena Sāṃkhyānāṁ karma-yogena yoginām O sinless Arjuna, in this world to achieve equanimity a twofold path has been enunciated by Me before, the path of […]