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a A Confession A dip in Lake devotion A Forty-Year Koan A Glimpse of Shankara's Person... A Poem in Praise of Advaita A prepared mind A Simple Explanation of How th... A Triple Boon A personal note to begin with A reflection on 'reflected' co... A reflection on understanding ... A reflection on understanding ... A ruffled mind makes a restles... Access of Western Advaitins to... Adi Shankara Adopt the Opposite Advaita & Universality, Experi... Advaita and Personal Morality Advaita as a Practical Philoso... ADVAITA SIMPLIFIED - Part I: Y... ADVAITA SIMPLIFIED - Part II: ... ADVAITA SIMPLIFIED - Part III:... Advaita Vedanta Sadhana Advaita is not Idealism Again and again Aids To Self Enquiry All Beings Yearn to be Happy All Beings Yearn to be Happy (... Allegory of the Charioteer and... An Advaita Tale from BhAgavata... Ancient Sanskrit Grammar - a p... Armchair vedAntin Vs Armchair ... Atma vichAra Austerity and a Balanced Mind Awakening, Non-dualism, and th... Awareness and Experiences	b Beauty Belief Benefit of a teacher #1: taitt... Benefits of a teacher #2: from... Between Lives bhagavadgItA Home Study Course... bhagavadgItA Home Study Course... Birth and Death Bliss Bluebell Wood Body...A Temple Boredom Brahma Sutras Bright Shining as the Sun Bursting the bliss bubble But what does it mean?	c Catching the Big Fish Cleaning the Mind's Lake Coincidentia Oppositorum Common sense Gita: for day-to-... Continuing Reflections (on ref... Credo ut intelligam – I Believ...
d Dante Gabriel Rossetti Desires and Dharma and prArabd... Did I really wake up, or was I... Digital Media and Nonduality: ... Direct experience of Self is n... Divine Sight Do the Gods Obstruct Brahmavid... Do You Want Your Ignorance Bac... Doership and the doer dUrAt	e Elephants and spURRious capiTa... Enlightenment (Part 1) Enlightenment Part 2 Enlightenment is for the Indiv... Experience is a given. Sufferi... Experience Seeking Experience versus knowledge – ... Experience versus knowledge – ... Experiencing Higher Knowledge	f Farmer Takes Samadhi, Turns Go... Fearlessness in Vedanta and Fe... Free Will Again (or not) Friendship From Dreams Awake From turmoil to tranquility: M... From Swami Dayananda's Ashram
g General and Specific Knowledge... Generations, Aging, Staying Aw... Ghanshyam Das: A Story of Dev... Gita on Human Nature God's Gift Guru Purnima	h Hold the horses, Arjuna! Holy Task: Basic Meditation an... Holy Task: Consciousness, Awar... Holy Task: Diving into the Hea... Holy Task: How Can We End the ... Holy Task: On the Unreality of... Holy Task: Study of the Teachi... Holy Task: Surrender Holy Task: Surrender Continued... Holy Task: The Aim of Self Kno... Holy Task: Wastage of Energy Hymn to Krishna	i I Am A Camera I am deeply and madly in love ... I Felt A Funeral In My Brain I’ve never heard that before… I wonder Identity, Memory, and Smoked M... Ignorance – not so obvious! Inconclusive Conclusions: Veda... Injunction or telling it how i... Intellectual Knowledge Interview on 'Nonduality Stree... Is IshavAsya really an upaniSh... Is there an intelligence at wo... It May Be That I Am That, But ... It was seen (by no one)
j Jiva Samadhi - The Death of Ra... Jivanmukta and the workings of... Journey Of a Seeker...	k Karma - in Traditional Advaita... Karma and Reincarnation Karma, Reincarnation and Suffe... kausalam Key vedAnta texts: study order Knot of the Heart	l La Femme Inspiratrice Let's start at the very beginn... Letters to a Young Poet Light and Consciousness Light of lights Limitless Non-Dual Love Limitless Happiness Listening (1st Phase) Looking Out Through the Pot of... Love: The Definite Article
m Making everyday actions sacred Maya, melanin and madness Me? The Upanisads are Talking... Means and Ends Meditation Meditations for a Modern World Meditations of a Solitary Walk... Missionary Zeal Musings on the banks of Tunga ... Musings on the banks of Tunga ... My Teacher's Face	n Namaste Neither existent nor Non-exist... Neti Neti and You are Everythi... New Sanskrit Editor Nididhysana Nine Essential Points Non-dualism, Non-attachment, N... Nothing is Wasted	o Of Gender and Vedanta Of Gods and Men OM On a Drop of Dew On Meditation: On non-doership On having a self versus mainte... One Verse By shrI shaMkara One without a Second Only In India 1: the cockroach Only in India 2: the traffic Only in India 3: the traffic c... Openings
p parables from the Samkhya Sutr... Paradox of the Mind Peace of Mind Perception of the World from R... Personality Plato and a Platypus Walk into... Practical notes about the ping... Practice makes perfect? Prayer Preachers vs teachers Pseudo Vedanta Psychology and Vedanta	q Q&A on prArabdha and free will Q & A On Doership and Two Ord... Qualifying examination Quotation Database	r Random Reflections Rasgulla Reading Review Regaining Innocence Reject, accept or connect Resolve to be thyself: and kno... Rise in Love Rumi on Love Rupert Murdoch's Experiments w...
s samAdhi and knowledge of brahm... Sanskrit: the key to vedAnta Sanskrit chanting: faith vs vi... Sappho Sat Sanga With Swami Paramarth... Sat, Sang, and Karmic Slaps. Satsang Tales Satyam j~nAnam anantam Brahma,... Seeing Red Seeking moksha – the longing f... Self-Realization in Traditiona... Sentience in Celluloid Shama and Shanti Shastra and the Teacher-A Few ... Shastra vasana Shh... Snake Begone! So What? Solving The Problem of Sufferi... Some Thoughts on Devotion and ... Some Hindu symbolism Song of Myself Space Sringeri - A seeker's paradise Stalker States of Consciousness - 2, 3... Steve Jobs Stillness Story of the Bull's tail leadi... Supermarket of Identities Swami Parthasarthy: 'Intense W... Sweet Lotus Feet	t Tales from the Non-dualistic E... Teaching Children Vedanta test Thanksgiving The antidote to unhappiness The Art (ifice) of Happiness? The Body-Mind-Complex and Its ... The Chrysalis (Part 1) The Chrysalis (Part 2) The Chrysalis (Part 3) The Colors of mAyA The Desire For Liberation The Difference between Preachi... The Exhaustion of Karma The Fires of Reincarnation The Give and Take Equation - M... The Glass Ceiling – Vedanta in... The Greatest Show on Earth The Gunas in Vedic Cosmology &... The Holy Task The Hymn of Creation RRigveda ... The ladder of efforts The Lives of Others The Mirror of Simple Souls The Music of the Self The need for a solid foundatio... The Neo Neos The ping-pong game of hyperact... The Poetry of Emily Dickinson The Real Q&A The Secret of Western Classica... The Snake and the Rope The Tendency to objectify - i... The Tree of Life The Wages of Sin is Death The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Le... The Desire for Liberation and ... The Domino Effect The Ganga The Importance of Having a Tea... The Time of One's Life There is a Silence which Trans... There's a 'whole' in my bucket There's Glory for You Tradition or Traditionalism? Translating Vedantic terms to ... Tsunamis and Sadness Two Snowflakes Two Types of Knowledge the Ved...	u Unseen Weaver Unseen Weaver - Cosmic Vision
v Vairagya and the Helium Balloo... Vapour Trails Vedanta as a Reflecting Mirror Vedanta as a Reflecting Mirror Vedanta is Not a Path Vedanta pre-requistes & Leader... Vedanta, Teens, and Young Adul... Viparita Bhavana Vyapti & Upadhi	w Waking and dream Wants and Needs Was Sankara a Crypto-Buddhist? Was Dogzen PC? Wave and Ocean We are such stuff as dreams ar... Western and traditional Advait... What Happened to Silence? What is advaita? What is Brahman? (Part 1) What is Brahman? (Part 2) What is Brahman? (Part 3) What is the Ego? What is This World Coming To? What’s in a name: #2 brahman, ... What’s in a name: #3 gods, Atm... What’s in a name: #4 Consciou... What’s in a name? #1. Advaita ... What is Grace? What is Samsara? What is Samsara Good For What's in a name? Where Three Rivers Meet Who (or what) is it that ‘acts... WHO IS THE JIVA? – 1. Man is a... WHO IS THE JIVA? – 2. The Jivi... WHO IS THE JIVA? – 3. Holy cow... Who owns whom? Who on earth am I? Who realizes that I am Brahman... Whose Thoughts Are These, Anyw... Why Vedanta is the Best Path Will I lose my identity?	y You are the Material of the Dr... You Are the Whole You Can't Hold On