by golden-whispers.com | Jul 23, 2024 | Blog
“Philosophy is the critical examination of the grounds for fundamental beliefs and analysis of the basic concepts employed in their expression.” This is at least one good definition of what philosophy means. And another from Encyclopedia Britannica: “The philosophy of...
by golden-whispers.com | Jun 8, 2024 | Blog
More on this important topic appears in June McDaniel’s Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, the best study on Säkta folk religion and obsession in modern India which I have ever come upon (highly recommended). McDaniel classes several types of Tantrikas. Of...
by golden-whispers.com | May 20, 2024 | Blog
In the Gheravda Samhita, we learn that there are as many äsanas as there are life-forms. have been explained by Siva. Of these. eighty-four are exceptional, and of these thirty-two are auspicious in the realm of the living. This means that lots of postures are...
by golden-whispers.com | May 17, 2024 | Blog
Indian philosophy produced several models to describe what happen withhin body. Alas, this is already an oversimplification. There are several distinct schools of Indian philosophy and, as you know, they are not always in accord with each other. Just look at the...
by golden-whispers.com | Apr 18, 2024 | Blog
THE BUDDHA SAID: To be free from the passions and to be calm, this is the most excellent way. Those who leave their parents, go out of the home, understand the mind, reach the source, and comprehend the immaterial, are called shramanas. Those who observe the precepts...
by golden-whispers.com | Apr 18, 2024 | Blog
The Upanishad first affirms the existence of this profounder, vaster, more puissant consciousness behind our mental being. That, it affirms, is Brahman. Mind, Life, Sense, Speech are not the utter Brahman; they are only inferior modes and external instruments....