Who Am I?

WHY I HAVE COME I have come to light the lamp of love… "I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added lustre. I have not come to speak on behalf of any particular  Dharma  (religion), like Hinduism. I have not come on any mission of publicity for any sect or creed or cause; nor have I come to collect followers for any doctrine. I have no plan to attract disciples or devotees into My fold or any fold. I have come to tell you of this Universal unitary faith, this Atmic  principle (principle of the Spirit), this path of love."  - Bhagawan's Discourse on 4th July 1968 in Nairobi (Kenya, East Africa). Reference:  "Sathya Sai Speaks", Vol. – VIII, Chapter – 22. Page: 118 This Sai has come in order to achieve the… "This Sai has come in order to achieve the supreme task of uniting the entire mankind as one family through the bond of brotherhood, of affirming and illumining the  Atmic  Reality (Reality ...

Hinduism has no single founder, but is a revelation of the world of the spirit by ancient seers and mystics living in India utilising prayer, meditation and austerities as a means of receiving eternal truths. Their collective experiences form the foundation of Vedic scripture and knowledge. Hinduism teaches one to see the presence of God in everything, and thus honour the whole of creation. From this perspective, there are no heathens or enemies. Everyone has the right to evolve spiritually and will in time realise the truth. Hinduism is therefore in every sense generous: souls are not limited to one life - many lives offer many chances of elevation. At the same time it is rigorous: people are responsible for every action they perform, through the Law of Karma. The major beliefs of Hinduism include: Parabrahman: One supreme all-powerful God. he is the creator, has divine form, is immanent, transcendent and the granter of moksha. Moksha: Ultimate liberation and the goal of human lif...

200 BC-2011    Search other dates Search Results   200 BC 200 BC Advaita Vedanta , the final wisdom of the  Vedas , which was set down in the years around  200 BC .  ' Advaita Vedanta  proceeds from an all- embracing whole, which, simultaneously, is the source of all, of which everything is a part' ►   788 AD 788 AD -  Shankaracharya was born in  South India  in about  788 CE . He renounced the world at an early age, became a religious teacher and established the  Advaita Vedanta  (strict monism) school of philosophy, which is based on the Upanishads, Vedanta Sutra (aphorisms on the Upanishads) and the Bhagavad Gita. He travelled all over India expounding  Advaita Vedanta , which is a masterpiece of spiritual insight and intellectual subtlety.   800 AD 800 AD -  12. The most radical school of the later philosophical traditions of Hinduism, " Advaita" means "non-duality"; "Vedanta" ...

Although I experienced my first brush with inner reality as a schoolboy at St Ronan's, lying under a great oak tree at the entrance to the playing fields, I first started to enquire deeply into these things at the prompting of my mother-in-law Timmie Watson in the (Australian) summer of 1972. At that time - and for about four or five years after my marriage to Prue and when we had just moved into Harvestgate - I devoured books beginning with William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy, Alan Brunton, anything by Alan Watts, the Theosophists, RH Nixon's Man, The Measure of All Things, PJ Sayer's Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought, Hubert Benoit's The Art of Detachment According to Zen, Raynor Johnson's The Watcher on the Hills and many other mainstream works. Then, a kind of knowing opened up in me, through which I seemed to understand the world more fully. I could feel the spiritual nature of the world a...

I saac Tigrett at friend Peter's birthday party at the German Bakery in Puttaparthy in October 2008 His talk at Dallas in February 2009 is available at http://www.saibabaofindia.com/mr-Isaac-tigrett-video-talk-given-in-dallas-usa.htm

"As regards the technique of meditation, different teachers and trainers give different forms of advice. But I shall give you now the most universal and the most effective form. This is the very first step in spiritual discipline. At first, set a few minutes every day for meditation, and extend the time as you feel the bliss that you get. "Let it be in the hours before dawn. This is preferable because the body is refreshed after sleep, and the dealings of daytime will not yet have impinged on you. Have a lamp or a candle before you with an open, steady, and straight flame. Sit in front of the candle in the lotus posture or any other comfortable sitting position. Look on the flame steadily for some time, and closing your eyes try to feel the flame inside you between your eyebrows. Let it slide down into the lotus of your heart, illuminating the path. When it enters the heart, imagine that the petals of the lotus open out by one, bathing every thought, feeling, and emotion in t...