An overview of our articles about spiritual awakening, enlightenment, self-actualization, non-duality, and personal growth.
Churches, temples, and in a more general sense the inner domains of sacred places are usually territories marked by silence. These are typically devotional spiritual or religious spaces meant to contemplate, to rest from the [ Read more … ]
One of the questions that arises for a person who’s interested in Advaita Vedanta is how to find the right teacher or Guru. Certainly today you’ll easily find many Advaita teachers “offering their services,” notably [ Read more … ]
What exactly the characteristics are of the Jnani — the spiritual enlightened one — is a question often asked by Advaita Vedanta aspirants i.e. Advaitins or spiritual seekers. In fact, Advaitins want to know what [ Read more … ]
Dvaita Vedanta is a religious and philosophical school in the Vedanta tradition and was founded in the 13th century CE. Dvaita is a Sanskrit word that means “duality” or “dualism,” which has the opposite meaning [ Read more … ]
The idea of Karma (or the Law of Karma) in Hinduism involves action, work, or deeds, and the effects or consequences of those. More specifically, it involves the idea that actions of individuals cause or [ Read more … ]
The Sanskrit word Maya in the religious and spiritual sense can mean illusion, delusion, unreality, trick, earthly ignorance, phantasm, attachment, or worldly illusion. It’s a common concept appearing in Hindu philosophies. Maya points to the [ Read more … ]
One of the tenets of Neo-Advaita — and in a broader sense all nondual practices such as Zen Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, or Dzogchen — is that one cannot do anything to attain Self-Realization i.e. understand [ Read more … ]
Dzogchen, also known as Dzogpachenpo, Atiyoga, Great Perfection or Great Completion, is a wisdom tradition and practice within Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and indigenous Tibetan religion that aims at discovering and recognizing the ultimate ground of existence, [ Read more … ]
Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon are by many thought to be the three great Indian Advaita Vedanta teachers and gurus of the 20th century. Sri Ramana Maharshi (who’s birth [ Read more … ]
Nondualism includes several philosophical and spiritual approaches and traditions that appeared across cultures and over time, in which it’s claimed that there’s no fundamental duality in (our) existence. As an approach, or rather as a [ Read more … ]
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