Thought Waves

Category: Advaita Vedanta

  • Insights from meeting Swami Tattvavidananda

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    It is rare to find an accessible spiritual Guru these days with whom you can have a face to face conversation. So I felt very fortunate to discover a simple, yet profound Guru in the Advaita Vedanta tradition, Swami Tattvavidananda (Swami TV) who makes himself available to people. He’s a direct disciple of the great…

  • Bhagavad Gita Study – tips and resources

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    Note: This post is part of my “Arise Awake Project” Bhagavad Gita is one of the most popular texts of Hinduism. It provides a complete spiritual path utilizing both devotion (Bhakti) and knowledge (Jnana) and offers practical guidance along the way. I got introduced to it through Swami Chinmayananda’s “Art of Man Making” book, 20…

  • Advaita Vedanta Study

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    Note: This post is part of my “Arise Awake Project” Vedanta refers to the distillation of the Hindu Vedic knowledge and has 3 canonical texts called the prasthana trayi – Upanishads, Brahma sutras and Bhagavad Gita. Advaita Vedanta is the non-dual Vedanta philosophy popularized by Sri Shankaracharya. My first spiritual influence Swami Vivekananda comes from…

  • My “Arise Awake” project!

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    I have always been interested in spirituality/religion/philosophy and have read several books over the years. My goal is not any mystic enlightenment but to learn something that can be applied in my day to day life to make it better and myself happier. In this regard, I have to admit that I mostly failed! So…

  • He did it!

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    He Did It by Swami Chinmayananda My rating: 5 of 5 stars “He did it” is a book on the life and achievements of Swami Chinmayananda. It is a beautifully designed and visually appealing book with lot of photos. It is one of the books from the “Mananam” series of books released as part of…

  • Swami Chinmayananda – Greatness personified!

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    “The day you take up the policy of giving love instead of demanding it – that day you will have rewritten your entire future destiny – Swami Chinmayananda” Today (May 8th) is Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati‘s 100th birth anniversary. This beautiful doodle created by Chinmaya Mission as a mark of devotion towards him has the…

  • Vivekananda on work

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    All the work you do is subjective, is done for your own benefit. God has not fallen into a ditch for you and me to help Him out by building a hospital or something of that sort. He allows you to work. He allows you to exercise your muscles in this great gymnasium, not in…

  • All is not “well”

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    A student countered Swami Vivekananda when he was lecturing on Vedanta at a famous university in the US. He said – This is crap! You are trying to hypnotise us into believing what you say. Vivekananda calmly replied – No, friend. You are already hypnotised. This is de-hypnosis! Like that frog in the well, we…

  • The Swami who showed the way

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    I still vividly remember that day. I casually picked-up a book from my grandmother’s library when I was visiting her during my summer holidays. I might be around 14 years of age and was more attracted to fun books than any serious reads but I somehow picked up this seriously titled book “Why I am…

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