Sublime

about his silent teachings. It ought

The idea of ta’wīl, or spiritual hermeneutics is, he says, the central principle in all spiritual disciplines

The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta encourages us to wholeheartedly enter this path of freedom: “…all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect.”

At the deepest level, the one without whom none of this would have happened is Gurumayī. The spiritual awakening I had through her grace catalyzed a process of unfolding that allowed me to encounter the words of the Tantrik master Abhinava Gupta as palpably living energy, not mere fossils. Without Gurumayī’s unfailing love and grace, I would likely

“The word swaraj is a sacred word,” he said, “a Vedic word, meaning self-rule and self-restraint, and not freedom from all restraint which ‘independence’ often means.”

the mind, which, as a prakṛtic entity cannot “grasp” that which is finer than itself, namely, puruṣa (Īśvara, as we know, is a “special” puruṣa), can grasp or focus on the prakṛtic sound oṁ. But since Īśvara has invested his presence in this sound (as an act of grace), the mind is, for all intents and purposes, coming into direct contact with Īśvar