Ramana, one of India's great enlightened beings, lived in Tiruvannamalai. At the core of his teachings is the concept of the Self: its emptiness and simultaneously immeasurable vastness. His teachings are simple; he does not follow a long tradition of interpretations. He was a simple man who meditated on the mountain and held satsangs. As a contemporary of Aurobindo, people listened to both and compared their radically different approaches. I am currently in Tiruvannamalai. I have attended some satsangs. I had a question in mind: How…
I read Sri Aurobindo slowly and with long intervals. Why not read a lot and quickly, absorb everything, and finally bring order to my mental world, which wants to break free from the consequences of rational monotheism? Why don't I give my intellect the freedom, concentration, rest, and strength to embark on one of life's greatest adventures? As a student, I once swam very naively in the Rhine, somewhere near Basel, where the water was clear and cold, fast and broad green mountain landscapes…
It is so beautiful and also so sad to live in a world that understands the West as alien. I am increasingly adopting this perspective and no longer understand many things. The obsession with career, comfort, security, prosperity, correctness, self-righteousness, know-it-all attitudes, arrogance, ignorance, and intolerance. All of this is becoming evident, it's practically obvious. I was sick for a few days, and as many people do then, I also watched movies, nothing inspiring. Trashy series. I have this...
Many of my friends have a strong will, they are creative, they design, they do, they act, they make... They confront the world with their own will and add to it or refuse to accept it as it is. This creates creativity, change. It is the power of Shakti, the creative energy of the universe. I am different, I observe, I try to understand the world as it is. I don't want to change it, even though I see a lot of suffering and injustice, I observe, I listen...
we experience the power of consciousness through the blending of different vibrations. This text explores the constitution of consciousness in a meditative state.
There was a time in Europe when people spoke of polymaths. In Germany, that would be Alexander von Humboldt or Goethe; in France, an Enlightenment thinker; in Italy, the Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. In antiquity, Aristotle. Certainly, in many cultures and eras, there have been wise people whom history tells us knew everything that could have been known at the time. This is nonsense, of course. But this narrative serves a longing. We want to know everything, but we have...
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