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An Encyclopaedic Upanishad

July 1, 2022

— Swami Vireshananda — The main purpose of spiritual sādhana is to transcend physical understanding of reality and to raise our awareness to the realm of pure Consciousness. This is an extraordinary spiritual endeavour that takes us beyond the relative plane into a wonderful sphere of mystical revelations. It culminates [...]

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Personality and Its Development

June 1, 2022

— Swami Vireshananda — The study of human beings is one of the many fascinating studies undertaken within religion, philosophy, and the physical sciences for hundreds of years. In this study, a human becomes an object of investigation, the medium is the human mind, while oneself becomes the investigator. In [...]

Immense Idealism with Immense Practicality: Ramakrishna Mission—A Phenomenon

May 1, 2022

— Swami Vireshananda — Vedanta speaks of a universe filled with the consciousness of Brahman, the Supreme Reality, whose conscious presence is felt in all the individual components, however small they may be. This idea is graphically described in the Mundaka Upanishad: तदेतत्सत्यं यथा सुदीप्तात्पावकाद्विस्फुलिङ्गाः सहस्रशः प्रभवन्ते सरूपाः । तथाक्षराद्विविधाः [...]

The Path towards God — Bhagavata Way

April 1, 2022

— Swami Vireshananda — Sri Ramakrishna once remarked about Srimad Bhagavata: ‘Bhagavata is fried in the butter of knowledge and steeped in the honey of love [for the Divine].’1 The scholars echo this sentiment. They say that this great devotional work is a beautiful blending of jnana and bhakti; while [...]

‘He is I and I am He’: Sri Ramakrishna and the Ideal of God-Realisation

March 1, 2022

What is the goal of philosophy and religion? We find different views in Eastern and Western civilisations regarding this. The goals of Western philosophy are said to be truth, rational necessity, and being good, while that of the East, especially Indian philosophy, is the realisation or Darshana of the eternal [...]

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Mayavati Charitable Hospital

Advaita Ashrama at Mayavati, apart from being a monastery, also runs the Mayavati Charitable Hospital which serves nearly 1400 villages in this remote and backward region of the Himalayas, free of charge. The helplessness of the people here would touch any heart if only it were known. The hospital depends upon public charity for its [...]

Construction of new building (publication & educational) at Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata

This new building is going to be a ground-plus-six-storied structure. It will have a vast area for the stocking of printed books and publication related activities. Every department will have its individual office space. There will be a spacious sales section, a 400-seat auditorium to hold regular classes for the benefit of all, a meditation [...]

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