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You Are the Light (opens the original)
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Each week on Sundaram Online Ashram we join together to contemplate abstract concepts like Silence, Space and Consciousness. Unlike traditional meditations where we might sit and watch the breath or use visualisation, vedanta offers us Upasana. The opportunity to experience ourselves as the meditation itself. In this week’s class John shared a short text called Eka Shloki (एकश्लोकी). Eka Shloki is a one-verse teaching by Shankara. A teacher asks his student, “What is the light for you?” The stud
Mantra, Yantra, Mudra: Remembering What We Already Are (opens the original)
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I am not quite sure when I became curious about Hindu deities and their significance and meaning, but it had something to do with my tenure with my teacher and mentor Alan Finger when I was living in NYC in the early 2000s.He liked to joke that he was like Ganesha with a big round belly and would often chant different mantras at the end of a class. He told me that mantras were keys that unlocked parts of ourselves, profound tools to rebalance. When we chanted Tara’s mantra we were asking for hel
The one relationship you can't get out of (opens the original)
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Every other relationship we get into, we worry about it, we’re careful with it. Except the one relationship we can never get out of and never let go of, which is the relationship with ourselves. We take that one completely for granted.Try. Try to exclude yourself, include yourself, escape yourself. Can you? It’s impossible. This is the one relationship you cannot escape or run away from. You have to accept that you are nothing but the truth.So this is the logical conclusion of the whole of exist
Holding a Stranger's Hand (opens the original)
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I was swimming underwater during a volcanic eruption. I dove deeper as the lava seemed to be all around me. I tried to escape the heat and woke up gasping for air. Thankfully it was a dream, but the nightmare I’d just experienced wasn’t.It’s been 25 years since that fateful day that the planes hit the towers in NYC. People often look shocked when I tell them I was there. Not at Ground Zero but in the city and close enough to hear the sirens roaring down the avenues. I was on 56th Street at the y
Right where there is agitation there is meditation (opens the original)
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“Right where there is agitation there is meditation.” This was the theme of a recent class with our teacher, and it’s caused me to reflect this week on what it is to manage my health ( I live with Type 1 diabetes) while knowing I am not my body, I am not my mind. Mind and body are happening in my presence. And this does not mean I am a witness, or I have transcended the body, rather I have learned that there is no distance between the relative and the absolute. But what does that mean?Using the
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