Crest Jewel of Wisdom By SANKARA
April 27th, 2010 | No Comments
Crest Jewel of Wisdom
Also known as the Crest Jewel of Discrimination or Viveka-Chudamani
Translated by JOHN RICHARDS
Verses 1-50
I prostrate myself before Govinda, the true Guru and ultimate Bliss, who is the unattainable resort of all scriptures and Vedanta. 1
Human nature is the hardest of creaturely states to obtain, even more so that of manhood. Brahminhood is rarer still, and beyond that dedication to the path of Vedic religion. Beyond even that there is discrimination between self and non-self, but liberation by persistence in the state of the unity of God and self is not to be achieved except by the meritorious deeds of hundreds of thousands of lives. 2
These three things are hard to achieve, and are attained only by the grace of God – human nature, the desire for liberation, and finding refuge with a great sage. 3
The Real Is Unknowable, the Knowable Is Unreal By Robert Powell
February 27th, 2010 | No Comments
The Real Is Unknowable, the Knowable Is Unreal By Robert Powell
Wisdom is to reject conventional wisdom about almost everything.
Thus begins Robert Powell’s inquiry into the nature of Totality and the unreality of all else. This small but profound book is divided into three parts. In the first, Reflections, Robert Powell comments on some of humankind’s most timeless puzzles and questions: Does the body actually exist? What is man, if not that bundle of concepts and images that comes upon him at birth? The second, Interchanges, uses a dialogue format that recalls Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which a teacher and student questioner in a modern setting
Ultimate Medicine By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaja, Robert Powell
February 27th, 2010 | No Comments
Ultimate Medicine By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaja, Robert Powell
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ( 1897-1981), one of the most important spiritual preceptors of the twentieth century, lived and taught in a small apartment in the slums of Bombay, India. A realized master of the Tantric Nath Lineage, Maharaj had a wife and four children.
