#chandogya

As great as the infinite space beyond is the space within the lotus of the heart. Both heaven and earth are contained in that inner space, both fire and air, sun and moon, lightning and stars. Whether we know it in this world or know it not. everything is contained in that inner space."

¨Hay una luz que brilla más allá de todas las cosas de la tierra, más allá de nosotros, más allá de los cielos, más allá de lo más elevado entre los cielos elevados. Es la luz que brilla en nuestro corazón¨.

When you do not enrich every person with the fruit of enriching after constantly being enriched by the sacrifice of the Existence, the Supreme, your life becomes full of sins and you live a useless, incomplete life

This metaphorical explanation in a few verses actually has a deep meaning about life, about how we connect with life, how we depend on the Universe, and how we affect the whole Universe. Just this concept that Kṛṣṇa explains in a few verses here is explained in detail in the Chāndogyopaniṣad. Our relationship with the activity of Nature is a very deep one. Our actions are like oblations offered…

Bholenath is the one whose pure innocent inner space creates the bliss and causeless auspiciousness wherever He is, wherever He happens!

In the Shiva Sutras, Shiva gives us techniques to achieve this innocence. If you follow Shiva’s life as is described in the Hindu mythological stories, you will not be able to see any social or traditional innocence in him. But there will be the pure and ultimate innocence. The place where he lives or the way in which he lives is not directly related to his purity or innocence. Shiva lives in a…

Bholenath is the one whose pure innocent inner space creates the bliss and causeless auspiciousness wherever He is, wherever He happens!

In the Shiva Sutras, Shiva gives us techniques to achieve this innocence. If you follow Shiva’s life as is described in the Hindu mythological stories, you will not be able to see any social or traditional innocence in him. But there will be the pure and ultimate innocence. The place where he lives or the way in which he lives is not directly related to his purity or innocence. Shiva lives in a…

सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्म तज्जलानिति शान्त उपासीत। अथ खलु क्रतुमयः पुरुषो यथाक्रतुरस्मिल्लोके पुरुषो भवति तथेतः प्रेत्य भवति स क्रतुं कुर्वीत॥

Transliteration

sarvaṁ khalvidaṁ brahma tajjalāniti śānta upāsīta | atha khalu kratumayaḥ puruṣo yathākraturasmilloke puruṣo bhavati tathetaḥ pretya bhavati sa kratuṁ kurvīta ||

Translation

All this is Brahman. From It the universe comes forth, in It the universe merges and in It the universe breathes. Therefore a man should meditate on Brahman with a calm mind. Now, verily, a man consists of will. As he wills in this world, so does he become when he has departed hence. Let him with this knowledge in mind form his will.

i have never seriously delved into spiritual texts, but in two days I just read the first three parts of chandogya upanishad 1, matthew 4-7 (the sermon on the mount) AND corinthians 12-14 and my mind is so blown right now.

[[background: i was raised catholic but never seriously - didn’t have strong ties to the practice & beliefs much. my boyfriend is hindu and we live together in india, so i am greatly connected to hinduism & vedanta philosophy through him]]

it’s everything i’ve learned and believed in outside of organized religion, (via new age spirituality & witchcraft mainly) reflected back at me from right within these ancient texts. everything i have already set down in my own foundation of beliefs are right here infront of me, spelling out what i have already discovered. It’s like pouring concrete into the mold I have spent so long building. it’s like pouring water on the seeds that have spent so long germinating.