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Freewill and Destiny
FATE AND FREEWILL FREEWILL AND DESTINY ARE EVER EXISTENT. Destiny is the result of past action; it concerns the body. Let the body act as may suit it. Why are you concerned about it? Why do you pay attention to … Continue reading
Posted in Advaita, awakening, non-duality, spirituality, vedanta
Tagged advaita, ego, Free will and destiny, God, knowledge and action, knowledge and ignorance, Ramana Maharshi, samsara, self, surrender, wisdom
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Tristan and Isolde (the feminine principle) – lll
In the last post we quoted Wagner (“What Destiny separated in life emerges as life transfigured by death”), noting how his real spiritual aspirations, his actual yearning despite his failings in the ethical and moral sphere, have been either by-passed … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, Poemas/cuentos, spirituality
Tagged artistic creation, Beauty, ego, Immortality, spirituality, surrender, the Self, transformation
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Tristan and Isolde (expanded)
Tristan und Isolde Liebestod – ‘love death’ – is the central theme in Wagner’s opera with that title. A theme that reverberated through European culture from the time of the Romantic revolution – especially German Romanticism (Fichte, Schelling, etc.) – … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, ego, experience, Immortality, Isolde, life, Love, realization, surrender, Tristan, Wagner
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Tristan and Isolde – ll (fem. principle)
Tristan und Isolde Liebestod – ‘love death’ – is the central theme in Wagner’s opera with that title. A theme that reverberated through European culture from the time of the Romantic revolution – especially German Romanticism (Fichte, Schelling, etc.) – … Continue reading
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Tagged illusion, Immortality, individuality, live and death, Love, realization, redemption, Romanticism, sacrifice, suffering, surrender, transcendence, woman
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The feminine principle
The power of the feminine principle (Shakti, Prakrit-Nature): Creation, Life, Nurturing – and its cycles. Also desire, with its attending temptation. Woman, however, (embodiment of the Goddess) can also be redemptress (e.g. Mary in Christianity). In Wagner’s opera ‘Tristan und … Continue reading
Posted in non-duality, Poemas/cuentos, spirituality
Tagged Creation, death, desire, dream, ego, life, longing, Love, night, redention, Romantic ideal, surrender, tranxcendence, Wagner, woman
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Renunciation and detachment (the Gita)
‘Renunciation’ and ‘detachment’ are two words which, while not being synonyms, are intimately related to each other. As verbs, they both are active (dynamic), in the sense of voluntary action, and, as nouns, both passive (static), implying a state or … Continue reading
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Tagged Gita, knowledge and action, renunciation and detachment, surrender, word meaning
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Devotion
The best thing for the servant who desires to be near his Lord is to possess nothing in this world or the next other than Him. I have not served God from fear of hell, for I should be like … Continue reading
Two ways
Either surrender because you realize your inability and need a Higher Power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery. The Divine never forsakes one who has surrendered. —Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Tagged Divine mercy, investigation (vichara), searching, surrender, the Divine
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God is merciful
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a … Continue reading
Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime 