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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 6h

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

Sri Aurobindo

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 7h

I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
(They do not know how immortal, but I know.)

Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 7h

Live your own life.

That is to say, where you are, as you are, with what you are, and with who you are…

Accept the situation in which you find yourself and try, at the same time, to adapt to it.
You cannot escape from it.

Swami Prajnapad

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 16h

There is no weapon more powerful in achieving the truth than acceptance of oneself.

Swami Prajnapad

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 16h

Contemplation is seeing the here and now.

Swami Prajnapad

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 16h

A mind that is burdened with the past is a sorrowful mind.

Krishnamurti

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

Micro Meditation

When an intense feeling arises, do not judge or “fix” it.

Just let awareness drop back to the boundless space that contains the feeling.

That space is Shiva. That space is the real Self.

(Adapted from Tantra)

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

If you are wealthy, be humble. Plants bend when they bear fruit.

Shirdi Sai Baba

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

This chat leans toward the many forms of nonduality (Advaita, Trika Shaiva, Aurobindo), but in the spirit of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, we look for truth in all paths and resonances across faith traditions.

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

Maestro sitarist Ravi Shankar.

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

The Upanishads tell us: Know the soul that is your own. In other words: Realize the grand unique principle of the whole that is in all men.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

By the term religion, I am using it in its broadest sense, meaning thereby self-realization or knowledge of the self.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 1d

My country and your country, my God and your God - all that is the fragmentation of thought.

Krishnamurti

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.

Henry David Thoreau

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

Do not pretend – be. Do not promise – act. Do not dream – realize.

Mirra Alfassa

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Swami Vivekananda

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

Ramesh Balsekar

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

Good medicine for advanced spiritual seekers.

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

We keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also here and now

Ramana Maharishi

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

Shiva abides in every creation,

Do not distinguish between Hindu and Muslim.

If you are wise, recognize your own Self.

That is the true acquaintance with God.

Lalleshwari

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

The studio album OM by John Coltrane - cut during spiritual quest period.

He described OM — “the first vibration - that sound, that spirit, which set everything else into being.”

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

The Passion of Ramakrishna, an oratorio by the legendary American composer, Phillip Glass (2012).

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

The surest signs of spiritual progress are a lack of concern about spiritual progress and an absence of anxiety about liberation.

Ramesh Balsekar

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

This one is my relative and that one is a stranger — such thinking is for the narrow-minded.

For the noble-hearted, the entire earth is one family.

Maha Upanishad

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

May noble thoughts come to us from all directions.

Rig Veda

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