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Category: Karma / Destiny

My Path to the Truth


I try to live my life with the following understanding forming the backdrop from which I do whatever I do:

Advaita Vedanta, Consciousness, Consciousness (Awareness), Ego, Ignorance, Sense of Doership, Truth

A Re-examination of the Caste System in India


Introduction A friend insisted that I write about the Caste System in India so that others in society can be … More

Aryans and the Caste System, Caste, Caste System in India, Gita on Caste, Introduction to the Caste System, Jati, Origins of the Caste System, Purusha Sukta, Svadharma, Varna, Vedas on Caste

Free Will & Dharma by Swami Sarvapriyananda


Do we have free will?, Free Will, Libertarianism, Predetermination

Do We Have Free Will? by Swami Medhananda


1-hr 8-min Video This lecture is based primarily on Swami Medhananda’s academic article, “Hard Theological Determinism and the Illusion of … More

Compatibilism, Destiny, Determinism, Do we have free will?, Free Will, No Free Will, Predeterminism, Theological Determinism

Karma


Karma

My Dear, No Such Thing as Karma


This world of names and forms is mere imagination, so don’t take for real all the concepts they drill into … More

Action, Change, Karma, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes

Bhagavad Gita on the Sense of Doership


The forces of Nature do all works. But due to delusion of ignorance people assume themselves to be the doer. … More

Bhagavad Gita on sense of doership, Doership, Gita on sense of doership, Sense of Doership

Bhagavad Gita on Karma Yoga


(Source: A. Shah, Glimpses of World Religions, Jaico Publishing House) The law of Karma is the conservation of moral energy. … More

Bhagavad Gita, Freedom, Karma, Karma Yoga, Salvation, Self-realization / Liberation, Sense of Doership

Swami Sarvapriyananda on Advaita Vedanta (Hinduism)


Please see these videos of Swamiji roughly in the order in which I have listed them to get a very … More

Advaita, Advaita Vedanta, Consciousness (Awareness), Hinduism, Self (Brahman), Self-realization / Liberation, Swami Sarvapriyananda, Upanishads, Vedanta, Who am I?

Ramana Maharshi Quote


“A Self-Realised sage (Atma Jnani) alone can be a good Karma yogi. After the sense of doership has gone let … More

Doership, Karma, Karma Yoga, Quotable quotes, Quote, Quotes, Ramana Maharshi, Sense of Doership

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