…stances can hasten him wonderfully. Can there be any limit, then, till you come to perfection? So, what comes of it? That a perfect human being, that is to say, the type that is to come of this race, perhaps millions of years hence, that person can come today.47 He naturally was thinking of Ramakrishna, whom he referred to as “he lived the life of the whole human race and reached the end – even in this life.”48 But as always, his interest was not…
…uding both matter and spirit, Indian and Western, science and religion—are completely valid and compatible if practiced with integrity. This is another aspect of Integral Vedanta, which has had a huge effect on the work of Sri Aurobindo and through him the burgeoning world of transpersonal psychology that is increasingly global in its scope. This view, originating with Ramakrishna and Vivekananda has, in my view, the potential to bring all of us t…
…on, 2010. Paperback, 73 pages, US$6.75. Available from www.vedanta.org and www.holymothermission.org Review by William Page This is a sequel to Swami Yogeshananda’s earlier book, Six Lighted Windows. Published in 1995, that book recorded the author’s memories of six swamis who worked in the West: Swamis Yatiswarananda, Prabhavananda, Ashokananda, Nikhilananda, Madhavananda, and Ghanananda. They were all swamis of the “second generation”—that is, t…
…e of the Self. One who is desire-free destroys karma—good and bad—and so becomes free of birth and death. “Those immersed in sense-life and identified with the body live in darkness so deep that they do not realize it. Their life is hollow and without significance, for those who make a God of worldly life and do not study the scriptures are already dead. “By realizing the Supreme Soul death is conquered, while death conquers those identified with…
…le to connect, share ideas and build community in an inter-spiritual age.” www.communityofthemysticheart.org A circle of interspiritual mystics and contemplatives originally envisioned as “the Universal Order of Sannyasa” by the founder, Brother Wayne Teasdale, who says of the Order that “It should be an interspiritual order … open to all people—men and women, married and single, young, middle-aged, and old, confused or clear, adherents or not, wi…
