Category: Suffering
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Oh! Ahankara!
Our ahaṅkāra is relentless. It never gives up and is one-pointedly devoted to itself. It only has a single-point agenda – “I am Supreme. There is no one like me.” Unfortunately, the first part is not true and not possible even theoretically. If it were true, then everyone would be supreme. Then being supreme would become worthless…
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Abusive Relationships
Question: I understand that when there is an event associated with rāga, or attraction to something good that happens, meaning a positive experience, then if something else happens that is similar to that event, one is again naturally attracted to that. But in the case of a bad experience, or dveṣa, normally one should reject it. If…
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Bhakti Is the Remedy to Human Suffering
We have previously defined bhakti yoga here. Here we examine how bhakti yoga is the solution to the suffering of the world. We quote Babaji’s commentary from the Bhakti Sandarbha below: Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī begins Bhakti Sandarbha by pinpointing the root cause of the living being’s suffering in this world. He says that although by…