Moment to Speak

Detachment, or Vairāgya, is discussed widely in the tradition of Sanatana Dharma (eternal order or righteousness). Vairāgya is an i mportant concept in this tradition. It signifies detachment at the levels of body, mind, and intellect as well. It refers to a state of being emotionally detached from worldly desires and attachments, leading to a sense of freedom and liberation. Accordingly, this involves letting go of the notion of "I" in the body-mind-intellect complex along with all attachments to material possessions, relationships, and ego-driven desires. Sri Krishna in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita says that the mind is indeed very difficult to restrain. But with practise and detachment, or v airāgya , it can be controlled. In the Sanatana Dharmic tradition, attachment is in the cycle of birth and death, but detachment is away from this cycle and into the realm of liberation, salvation, or elightenment. Detachment is closely associated with the concepts of self-realisat...

Scriptures are considered sacred texts with epistemic authority that hold significant importance for culture, society, traditions, and the ways of life of the people. These also serve as valuable sources of wisdom, guidance, and inspiration for people’s lives, denominations, and societal order and organisation. The Scriptures are revered for their teachings on duty, righteousness, and the nature of reality. It is a way to discover the inner self, or self-knowledge. It discovers a way for life processes to be based on righteousness, truthfulness, virtue, honesty, asceticism, forbearance, humility, purity, chastity, and a steady demeanour. In other ways , Swami Sivananda says, "Serve, love, give, purify, meditate, realise; be good, do good, be kind, be compassionate." It's a fact that in a democratic, constitutional, or legal and political realm, the primacy of law or the constitution takes precedence over the subsequence of all other scriptures. It's importan...

The universe is not just conscious ; it is consciousness, and this consciousness is Brahman . Ignorance veils the Consciousness to realise the supreme consciousness through self-realisation , or the realisation of the self , or the realisation of the true nature of being. The self is the atman (inner self or inner spirit) within every being, not the objects outside. The purpose of the perceiver is to perceive the atman . The inner spirit is eternal, invisible, imperishable, and unchanging. It exists beyond the grasp of our ordinary senses and can only be perceived by a true perceiver. Self-realised beings, with their senses turned away from sense objects, see the atman within. There are limitations to knowledge pursuit through sensory application based on the body-mind-intellect complex. "Knowledge," or Jñāna is to remove the veil of ignorance, thus unravelling the Truth. This has been brusquely stated in various scriptures and Mahavakyas (Great Sayings) of Sana...