Sublime

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual

The best-known English translation of Bhāskararāya’s commentary is by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry via the Adyar Library and Research Centre, Madras (first edition 1899, last edition 2010).

“Mauna vākya Prākṛtita Parabrahma tattvam.” “The Parabrahma tattvam, or unmanifested supreme principle, can only be explained by silence, not by words.” In not only the physical silence, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.

That’s why Patañjali says the supreme Puruṣa, or Īśvara, is the Guru of the gurus.

The primary texts of vēdānta are the prasthānatraya, the ‘triple origin’ or ‘triple source’, namely the Upaniṣads, Brahmasūtra and Bhagavad Gītā, and these contain a wide variety of spiritual teachings suited to the needs of people at different stages of spiritual development, so they can be and have been interpreted in many different ways by the

God: to meditate regularly every day, and on one night each week to meditate several hours,

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat-Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its