Swami Sarvapriyananda is a young monk of Ramakrishna Order in India famous for his lucid and simple method of describing the essentials of religion and spiritual life. He belongs to the Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism and gives frequent talks on the subject. He has given many lectures, including a Ted Talk, all available on … More Defining God
What is the human receptacle but a prism that refracts the pure light of the One into the rainbow of infinite divine possibilities, the phenomenal world! This world is lit and known with the light of a consciousness that comes from without and passes through within man. Where I am not, the world too is … More The Sole Dweller of The Void
There is no field in modern science that is misunderstood or misinterpreted more than any other. Two reasons should be mentioned: First, quantum physics deals with the microscopic world, atoms and subatomic particles; it is a world inaccessible to our direct perceptions, to human experience as such. And as much as we like to but … More What is Quantum Physics
The one idea closest to truth, summarizing the Absolute-Relative polarity, is expressed both in The Bhagavad Gita and The Gospel of Thomas, and I am sure elsewhere, particularly in European Phenomenology. Gita 2:16 says “What is real cannot not be; what is unreal cannot be. This has been realized by the seers of truth.” In … More The Gospel of Thomas & The Gita
Supreme science is the science of the first and the highest principles. It is known as metaphysics in the strictest sense of the word and not metaphysics as wrongly associated with the supernatural. The principal subject of metaphysics, according to Aristotle, is Being qua Being, Being as such. Thus, metaphysics is an a priori science, … More Metaphysics: The Supreme Science
What are the things that characterize human life? What is the wish of all men and women? There are three things that characterize human, three objects for which all men and women strive and which have shaped the course of human civilization: 1) Knowledge, in the sense of an answer to the questions “Who am … More The Direct Vision of Truth
Salutations to my revered Guru whose blessing and grace is the light of the Self and the guide of intelligence; may it be that we speak only of truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The path of knowledge as the highest undertaking for the attainment of truth is designed for the intellectually … More Toward Truth: The Way of The Gnostic
To lead a spiritual life is to live in vicinity to God, or Jnani’s Supreme Principle, and constantly moving upward toward the realization and establishment of the Supreme Identity, that man is essentially divine: “Thou Art That.” God, the supreme principle, is Satchidananda, that is, pure Being-Consciousness-Bliss. It is not that God is that which … More Present: The Divine Present
“The face of truth is concealed by a golden vessel.” Isha Upanishad
[The wave image below depicts a wave packet, the wave aspect of a particle; but unlike the physical particle this wave packet is not in physical space; it is a vibration in an abstract mathematical space known as Hilbert Space. The only physical significance of this vibration is that it is related to the probability … More From Quantum Physics to Advaita Vedanta Metaphysics
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