Ganapati has form, and yet he is formless. Form is finite and formless is infinite. Form becomes the bridge through which the mind approaches the formless. How do we understand this?
Tag: philosophy
Why Do Our Gods Carry Weapons?
Our Gods carries weapons that can annihilate the universe, yet they remain the embodiment of Ahimsa. This is not a contradiction. Fire has the nature of heat. It can warm or burn. Both are possible. Yet fire remains fire, untouched by its own actions. In the same way, Ahimsa is the nature of the divine. The weapons do not represent violence. They represent the power of Ahimsa.
The Road to Hell.
Animals live in complete ignorance. Humans live in partial ignorance. Most see only their ignorant half and remain blind to the other half, the divine.
Bhairavi Yaatanaa.
You exist only in the present. The present alone is real. Neither past nor future has any independent existence.
Nithyānanda.
Longing begins as the sense of something missing. It drives us through desires, journeys, and encounters. But when longing ripens into shraddha and bhakti, it ceases to be a search and becomes a recognition. Truth is not found outside; it rises within. And in that rising, questions vanish, leaving only the fragrance of Ananda — eternal, uncaused, infinite. This is Nithyananda.
You are the Artist; The Universe is the Canvas.
The world is Maya, dependent on the consciousness. The illusion is not false in the sense of non-existent, but contingent: like a reflection in a mirror. Without the gaze, the reflection vanishes. Awareness is the silent ground upon which the play of forms arises.
Death is dear.
The earth is four billion years old. It is expected to exist for another five billion years. Five billion years is a jiffy in the cosmic space. A jiffy is like the duration of a heartbeat. The earth will disappear in a jiffy in the cosmic space. So are the suns, stars and the galaxies.
Chapter 1. Death.
The atman is not born nor dies; nor did it come from anywhere; nor was it anything. The atman is unborn, eternal, ancient, ever present and not slain though the body is slain – Katopanishad.
