What is Soul or Atma?

Shrii Shrii A'nandamu'rti: Vis'aya purus'a'vabha'shah jiiva'tma' The reflection of Consciousness in the unit object is known as "jiiva'tma'", the unit soul. Purport: In spiritual parlance Soul is one. In whatever conditions the mind be--manifest (e.g. in animate beings and plants) or unmanifest, e.g., in inanimate earth, Iron, etc.), the Soul or Atma goes on reflecting...

P.R. Sarkar on Ideation & Meditation [advanced]

The following is the first part of a discourse by P.R. Sarkar, given on 10th June, 1990 in Kalikata, India. The discourse is titled, Ideation and Meditation and is available in the book, Yoga Psychology. IDEATION AND MEDITATION With spiritual progress the mind grows in magnitude, the mind increases its periphery, until it finally merges...

P.R. Sarkar’s R.U. Speech, 1990, “Mind Grows in Magnitude”

MIND GROWS IN MAGNITUDE YouTube link for audio reading: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yctmxmLRZ6s Amongst the different faculties of this globe in the physico-psycho-spiritual realms, mental faculties are of maximum importance. These faculties may be categorized into four main groups or offshoots. The first mental faculty is that the mind thinks, the mind discovers and invents newer modes of...

Shrii Shrii Anandamurti on Bhakti – Spiritual love…

LOVE - THE ESSENTIAL PREREQUISITE As you know, the curry, even if it is prepared with maximum care in all other aspects, can not be treated as a palatable dish if there is want of salt in it. Similarly, all human endeavors to find out a link between the finite and the infinite fail, if...

Bhakti – Devotion 2: by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

The following is a Spiritual Discourse on Bhakti - Devotion, by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti DEVOTION It has been said in Bhakti Shastra "Bhaktir bhagavato seva. Bhaktih prema svaru'pin'ii. Bhaktir ananda rupa cha. Bhaktih bhaktasya jiivanam." What is meant by 'bhakti' ? The word 'bhakti' has been derived from the root verb 'bhaj' by adding the...