asato ma sadgamaya | Lead me from the asat to the sat. tamaso ma jyotirgamaya | Lead me from darkness to light. mrtyorma amrtam gamaya | Lead me from death to immortality (Brhadaranyaka Upanishad – I.iii.28) Introduction I remember being a child and hearing narrations of how Brahmarishi Vishwamitra (formerly known as a warrior named […]
The Vedic View of the Universe – Macrocosm (Part 1)
(CHAKRA) hariH Om. Before the variegated world of names and forms, there was only consciousness in its unmanifest state. This was the ‘being’- brahman. mAyA shakti is the potential of Brahman to manifest as the universe. Just as you cannot separate heat from the fire, wet-ness from the water, or sunlight from the sun, similarly, you […]
Brahma – The Shape of the Ultimate Reality
By Prashant Saxena Bhagavad Gita Hexagonal, triangle, square, fat, large, small etc are all having a definite shape, a definite form. A human body has a definite shape, so does the sun when viewed from the earth. Thus, if one analyzes the fundamental definition of shape and form, then one would realize that these are […]