Beyond All Intellection

There was a time not that long ago Reading Plato, Nietzsche and their ilk Would fill my being with unalloyed…

Carrying the Cross

I carry the cross Without so much as a murmur But unlike Jesus Who carried it for humanity’s sins I…

In times like this I miss my mother Who can love one truly Except one’s mother.

I keep talking Talking, talking None understands Understand not me Nor understand the talk Why do I still keep talking?…

Nothing in this world in one sense Mere geography if you ask my eyes Until my mind comes along and…

“To not want anything from life other than the bare maintenance of the body, or sometimes not even that, is…

Hard to believe that movie title When the heroine is Drew Barrymore But believing as she did in true love…

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

“He who has his eye on wealth, wine and women has not understood what wisdom is.”

“One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half a century is that the universe is not locally real.…