The Hidden Sutra I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ll be sharing occasional cultural essays here again, when something feels worth thinking through. I hope you enjoy this!

It’s been a while, but here’s a short article on the pervasive presence of Hinduism in American letters.

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Merry Christmas

I am other than name, form, and action. My nature is ever free! I am pure Awareness, always non-dual.

Adi Shankara

Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus,
or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,or listening to the singing of the birds,
or looking at the face of your wife or child.

Krishnamurti

On Thanksgiving:

Let us walk together, let us speak together, let our minds and hearts be united.

Rig Veda

The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future.

Sri Aurobindo

Love

Not for the sake of the other is the other dear, but for the sake of the Self is the other dear.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Love

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

Kabir

The Roots of Dharma

Truthfulness, self-control, austerity, compassion, forgiveness, patience, knowledge, and lack of envy—these are the eight qualities that are the roots of Dharma.

Mahabharata

Mysticism for Intermediates: Target Edition And sometimes as you traipse through the aisles of Target A22 – Cosmetics, A23 – Stationary, ticking off your shopping list, fending off your kids demanding ICEEs with absurd sugar content, stare a…

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I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the vital air, nor the senses. I am verily the Brahman, the Blissful, the one without a second. There is nothing else anywhere.

Ribhu Gita

Insight

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Krishnamurti

In this House

You don’t have to escape the world to find peace.

Swami Tyagananda

The Journey

The spiritual journey of Vedanta is not a journey in space. It is a journey in consciousness, a shift in perspective. You are already Brahman (the ultimate reality); you just have to know that you are.

Swami Sarvapriyananda

Harmony

No religion is an island; we need each other in order to be ourselves.

Raimon Panikkar

Ethics

One can actually be good without being particularly spiritual, but one cannot be spiritual without being good. This is the basic foundation which connects ethics to spirituality.

Swami Sarvapriyananda

Seeds

The gospel of self-realization, once heard, will never be forgotten. Like a seed left in the ground, it will wait for the right season and sprout and grow into a mighty tree.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

For me, it was reading Eknath Easwaran’s “Upanishads” in a Border’s bookstore in my 20s.

What could be more timely:

"My guru said every human has a right to be fed. Food is not a bargaining tool of power - food is a basic, shared manifestation of God."
- Ram Dass

I AM

When I say: ‘I am’, I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus. I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is and knows.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Krishnamurti

If you falter on the path, forgive yourself, then begin again.

O Lord, what becomes of the yogi who falters?

Krishna: Dear one, no effort is lost. None who do good ever come to harm.

Bhagavad Gītā 6:39–40 (Paraphrase)

Bhakti (Devotion)

Bhakti is the most precious jewel in the treasure of liberation. Even those who seek knowledge ultimately take shelter in devotion.

Srimad Bhagavatam

Bhakti (Devotion)

Those who follow this immortal dharma of devotion, full of faith, regarding Me as the supreme goal — they are exceedingly dear to Me.

Bhagavad Gita

Advaita

You’re not lost—only your map is. The territory you seek has been under your feet the whole time.

Swami Sarvapriyananda

Awe

You are the primal God, the ancient Person; You are the supreme refuge of this universe.

You are the knower and the knowable, the highest abode.
O Lord of infinite forms, the whole cosmos is pervaded by You.

Bhagavad Gita

Of what use is my going to Benares any more? At Mother's feet lie Bodh Gaya, the Ganges and Benares. I swim in the ocean of bliss while I meditate on Her in my heart lotus.

Ramprasad Sen

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love.

Rabindranath Tagore

Your book knowledge is useful to begin with, but soon it must be given up for direct experience, which by its very nature is inexpressible.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happy together Wednesday
Always remember that
30 million little candles together
Lights up the whole sky 💙

Everyday Yoga (Karma Yoga)

Your right is to action alone, never to its fruits.
Do not let the fruits of action be your motive, nor should you be attached to inaction.

Bhagavad Gita