by Babaji Bob Kindler IN CONTINUATION of the study of Maya’s evolutes, eight more can be listed which are generally more subtle. Whereas the first eight evolutes concentrate on basic mental distortions like possessiveness and selfishness, the additional eight focus on tendencies that are more difficult to comprehend and renounce such as the sense of agency and the acquisition of …

by Babaji Bob Kindler Taken from the book entitled An Extensive Anthology of Sri Ramakrishna’s Stories, six selections focusing on the Guru are introduced. Cooking With Compassion informs us that there is a state of enlightenment beyond sagacious silence wherein the luminary, out of compassion, ventures forth into the realm of reiteration in order to share ignorance-destroying and life-giving truths. …

Integrator of Paths, Faiths, and Philosophies by Babaji Bob Kindler Indian Philosophy and Practice in All Religious Traditions In all religions — Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, etc., it is mundane convention which acts as the main despoiler, veiling most of the transformative substance naturally present within them. The world, and especially the Christian-based West, must take a cold, hard look at …

Babaji Bob Kindler answers questions from students About that nondual teaching that Vedanta proposes first and foremost, mainly ‘God is real, the world is unreal’ — if one understands that properly, what does it do to one’s actions and responsibilities in the world? How can one function? Vedanta states emphatically that “Brahman is real and the world is unreal” — …

by Babaji Bob Kindler   “In the Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Truth), Sankhya provides the cosmological structure, Vedanta, the uncompromising and unalloyed Truth of indivisible Existence, Knowledge and Bliss, and Tantra and Yoga offer and define the method and the practice. All of the above, together, represent the consummate path and way.” Vedanta, the conclusion of the Vedas, with its broad …

by Babaji Bob Kindler  The author of this nondual stotram, mute from birth, was actually a mahasiddha who had entered into a drowned baby’s body to console the mother.  After the wondrous incident related below, he became one of Shankara’s four main disciples and wandered with him throughout India.  Hasta-amalaka means, “fruit in the palm of one’s hand,” and has …

Ahimsa’s Multiple Shades of Meaning by Babaji Bob Kindler  Are war, its violence, and its injustices only a result of external circumstances, or are they products of subtler inner ramifications?  Most original thinkers believe it is the latter case.  If this is accepted as fact, it places all the possibilities, as well as all the responsibilities for peace, fully in …

Srishti Rahasya – The Secret of Creation by Babaji Bob Kindler  ALL OF CREATION is verily an excellent artform, is God’s handiwork. Therefore, to receive an inkling of what true art is all about, it would benefit everyone immensely to “look” long and longingly, via focused internal and external meditation, at the consummate Artist, called Brahman, Ishvara, Allah, Yah Weh, …

The Avatar’s Unique Way of Teaching by Babaji Bob Kindler In order to make the truths of existence known to embodied beings in need of relief from suffering, who are searching for fulfillment or seeking eternal life, the great beings who have blessed this earth have often taken recourse to stories based upon incidents of everyday life. Such was the …

 A Testament to the Eternal Teachings and their Practices by Babaji Bob Kindler UNDERLYING EVERY WALK OF LIFE, pertaining to all relative occupations, and contained within every philosophy — personal, collective or empyrean — there exists a fourfold axiom that is undeniable and most worthy of notice. Primarily, there is an Ultimate Truth that holds within It the eternal principles …