Category: Sacred Texts
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This essay explores how a mystical experience, its later expression through language, and an ancient principle of Advaita Vedānta came to illuminate one another. It begins with a direct encounter with the Absolute, described in my book The Why, How, and What of Existence. It then examines how the same insight is reframed in my…
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The Mahabharata is best known for the war between the Pandavas and Kauravas and for containing the Bhagavad Gita. Many people know Arjuna and his story. But, after the war, it enters one of its deepest philosophical sections. In Book 12, the Shanti Parva, the dying Bhishma instructs Yudhishthira on dharma, renunciation, knowledge, and liberation.…