The three main objectives self-inquiry The three objectives we use self-enquiry is discerning our divine essence from apparent or lower self, investigate the psychological issues and tendencies and maintain conscious contact with our divine essence (the silent space of consciousness within) and be established in it. To Discern our Divine Essence from the layers or 5 sheaths. To inquire into the Psychological structures and tendencies. To Establish our attention in our True Self, that is, in the silent space of Consciousness. The 5 Sheaths: According the Advaita Vedant ..read more

  ATMAN IS SAT-CHIT-ANANDA Sat, Chit and Ananda are one. Atman is partless and homogeneous. The three characteristics Sat, Chit and Ananda are not distinct from one another. They are coeval and coexistent with Atman. Sat-Chit-Ananda signify the one Atman. Sat is Chit. Sat is Ananda. Chit is Sat. Chit is Ananda. Ananda is Sat. Ananda is Chit. You cannot split up Sat-Chit-Ananda into three separate entities, just as you cannot separate light, heat and luminosity from fire.   Atman is Sat Atman is Sat. That which exists in the past, present and future, which has no beginning, middle an ..read more

The Silence by Atman Nityananda /blog Mysterious is this silence, magnificent is this silence, untouched is this silence and yet ever present, peaceful and blissful. This silence is What You Are! If you are attentive you will see that this silence has no beginning, no end; it is limitless. It neither begins nor ends. It neither comes nor goes. It is motionless, changeless, formless, timeless. It is ever present, peaceful, silent and full. It is not disturbed when the mind or emotions are disturbed. Bodily, energetic, emotional and mental movements neither touch it, nor affect it. You ..read more

Self-surrender    Surrender to God's will is the most powerful means to accept life just as it happens (what life brings us to experience), to live in peace, love and plenitude, to dissolve the ego (all egoic tendencies) and to attain God-realization, i.e., to establish ourselves in conscious union with the Absolute Consciousness or God.   Surrendering to God (self-surrender) means offering our body, mind, intellect, heart and ego to God and taking everything as God's will. It is keeping our mind and heart steadily focused on Him through repetition of His name or oth ..read more

A pure mind is Brahman itself ¬ Swami Sivananda A pure mind is Brahman itself. Just as camphor in the presence of fire is turned into fire and absorbed in fire when burnt, so also a mind when purified becomes of the nature of Brahman. Just as water in the presence of salt, when a lump is placed in a basin of water, becomes saltish, so also mind in the presence of Brahman, when purified, becomes of the nature of Brahman.. Comment Brahman is Absolute Consciousness. Brahman is Satchitananda (Absolute Existence, absolute Consciousness, absolute Bliss ..read more

    SENSUAL PLEASURE AND SPIRITUAL BLISS  by Swami Sivananda   This article is a chapter - Happiness-  from his book "Bliss Divine".      "At the doors of large granaries are placed traps containing fried rice (Moori) to catch mice. The mice, attracted by the flavour of the fried rice, forgets the more solid pleasure of tasting the rice inside the granary, and fall into the trap. They are caught therein and killed. Just so is the case with the soul. It stands on the threshold of Divine bliss, which is like millions of the highest worldly pleasures sol ..read more

 La quintaesencia del trabajo interior momento a momento Métodos para desidentificarnos de las tendencias egoístas, impulsos. deseos, emociones, pacificarlas y reducirlas y conectar con la paz silenciosa interior. Para vivir momento a momento conscientemente y trabajar con nuestra psicología hace falta estar en alerta, auto-vigilancia, auto-consciencia y autoobservación consciente. Para mantener el estado de vigilancia, atención plena y auto-consciencia (estar en conexión consciente con el silencio interior), profundizar en el silencio y purificar la mente nos ayuda repetir un m ..read more

The essence of Advaita Vedanta    There is only one absolute non-dual reality (without parts, form, time, space and cause). There nothing else beside That nondual reality. This nondual dual principal it is called Brahman and in relation with the individual Atman. That nondual reality is what we really Are. The identity of the apparently individual Consciousness (called Atman) with the absolute or Universal Consciousness (called Brahman) is clearly affirmed by the great sentences -Mahavakyas of Upanishads): ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (‘Brahman I am’), ‘Tat Tvam Asi’ (‘That you Are’), ‘Aya ..read more

THE MENTAL AND THE VITAL EGO Extract from the book  "The Life Divine" of Sri Aurobindo From the Chapter, The Origin of Falsehood and Evil  But here the second condition or factor of the evolution intervenes; for this seeking for knowledge is not an impersonal mental process hampered only by the general limitations of mind-intelligence:  the ego is there, the physical ego, the life ego bent, not on self-knowledge and the discovery of the truth of things and the truth of life, but on vital self-affirmation; a mental ego is there also bent on its own personal self-affirmatio ..read more

The I am and the witness! ~Nisargadatta The witness is both unreal and real. The last remnant of the illusion, the first touch of the real. To say: I am only the witness is both false and true, false because of the ‘I am’, true because of the witness. It is better to say: ‘there is witnessing’.  The moment you say ‘I am’, the entire universe comes into being along with its creator. 34. Immortality is freedom from the feeling: ‘I am’. Yet it is not extinction. On the contrary, it is a state infinitely more real, aware and happy than you can possibly think of. Only self-consciousness i ..read more