Pravritti and Nivritti
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Pravritti and Nivritti
Gandhi calls ahinsa sadhan. The concept of sadhan does not map neatly into the western framework of means. Sadhana is part of a tri-partite framework. If you wanted to understand any purposeful action you need the telos, instrument and how to use the instrument. The procedure usually doesn’t come in the binary of the means-ends framework of the
... See moreWith the right attitude and practice of the LSN, we cultivate the ability to appreciate the beauty of the composition and immerse ourselves in its sweetness—not just when we are chanting or listening to it, but in the way it radically changes our thinking, feeling, behavior, worldview, and attitude toward others (and ourselves). It is said6 that
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desireless activities, when undertaken and performed in a spirit of dedication, purify us, and the intellect thereby gains a new keenness. Out of such a purified head, a new faculty, as it were, arises. The capacity to observe oneself as an actor on the stage of life, is a capacity divine and noble, inasmuch as it immediately redeems us from our
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