A statue showing a Hindu interpretation of Mary, in meditative pose.

Sanskrit inscription:

“Salutations to beloved goddess Mary!  May your blessings be showered upon us.”

Self-Realization magazine, 1960

Avijeet Das

 Everything beautiful has an expiry date. I learn this again and again

Paramahansa Yogananda, Solving the Mystery of Life

 After I had sought for years, the One whom I looked for through the mist of tears — the One I had sought in the vacant sky, the unanswering stars, and the boisterous blue brine — that Mighty One suddenly talked to me. Nature is very beautiful; but still, in one sense, it is very silent: it tells us of the beauty of everything without revealing the Beauty that is behind everything. But when we find God within, His presence becomes so evident without. When in deep meditation I felt His presence, no longer was God hiding from me. All of Nature’s veils were lifted and I was face-to-face with the Deity.

Terence Mckenna, The Archaic Revival

“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”

Huzur Maharaj Rai Saligram

"A heart devoid of Love or Affection is as hard as stone, and does not form a suitable receptacle for the Light of Heavenly Grace and Mercy.Where Pure Love dwells there sheds the Light of Grace, as it forms a link with the Spirit or Love Current from It's Source, the Supreme Being… Love is most sublime, having its origin in the Highest Region, the Abode of the Supreme Being. In whatever heart it springs up, It will gradually raise and carry the fortunate possessor of this lofty and noble passion to the Highest Region."

Ramprasad Sen

Behold my Mother playing with Shiva, Lost in an ecstasy of joy! Drunk with a draught of celestial wine, She reels, and yet does not fall. Erect She stands on Shiva's bosom, And the earth Trembles under Her tread; She and Her Lord are mad with frenzy, Casting aside all fear and shame.

Erwin Schrodinger

In a famous essay on determinism and free will, he expressed very clearly the sense that consciousness is a unity, arguing that this "insight is not new...From the early great Upanishads the recognition Atman = Brahman (the personal self equals the omnipresent, all-comprehending eternal self) was in Indian thought considered, far from being blasphemous, to represent, the quintessence of deepest insight into the happenings of the world. The striving of all the scholars of Vedanta was, after having learnt to pronounce with their lips, really to assimilate in their minds this grandest of all thoughts." Schrodinger wrote: “Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.” “the stages of human development are to strive for Possession (Artha), Knowledge (Dharma), Ability (Kama), Being (Moksha)”

“Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge.. It has nothing to do with individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further – when man dies his karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.”

 Atma, the Eternal Witness BY UNKNOWN

Within the Vedantic knowledge, the eternal witness within every living being is called the Atma. The word Atma means light or effulgence. The Atma is the very core of each individual which registers all feelings, thoughts, consciousness, and awareness. Western science has taught us that our living forms or bodies have evolved from simple one celled organisms into the complex organization of the human body as it exists today.

Inherent in this view is that our thoughts and feelings arise as illusions from the electrical nerve activity in the brain. But the sage knows the body to be secondary and dependent on the primary spirit within. Without the spiritual Atma, the perceiver of all thoughts, feelings and sensations; the organically living form would fall down senseless in an instant. The spiritual entity is the cohesive force behind the physical organization and once the Atma withdraws from the body, disintegration begins immediately.

Kularnava Tantra

''The body is the temple of God. Jiva is Sadashiva. Let him give up his ignorance as the offering which is thrown away (Nirmalya) and worship with the thought and feeling, 'I am He'."

Mundaka Upanishad