Science of Knowledge & Wisdom

Tantra is the oldest and most scientific system of self - awakening. Tantra evolved in ancient times from a desire of the people to understand the psychic behaviour of the mind.  Expansion of the Mind: Tantra is the founding philosophy of yoga and all the spiritual sciences. The etymological meaning of tantra is expansion of the mind and liberation of energy. In tantra the expansion and liberation take place in the realm of the mind. In order to liberate the energy, the first thing is to expand the mind. What is expansion of the mind? Our mind is limited by our conditioning. Due to the society, culture, customs, political ideology and so many personal desires, our mind is very conditioned and unable to move outside of its habitual areas. The ordinary mind is dependent on the senses for knowledge, and if they do not co-operate, it cannot function, cognize or perceive. Even if you dissociate the senses, you still think about the limited things like lunch, dinner, busine...

Amana is a Sanskrit term which means ‘without mind’. Amanaskata is a condition where there is no mind. It is mindlessness. This is the state in which jivanmuktas or liberated beings exist. Who is a Jivanmukta:   A Jivanmukta’s state* is described in laudatory and eulogizing terms in all vedic scriptures.  [* :  Special Note on the word “State”:  We normally use this word to describe a phase or a transitory condition. It implicitly indicates that there are other states in which an entity could exist. But this is not the sense we use the word here. What we try to convey is the ‘disposition’, natural isness of Jivanmukta after one achieves ‘realization’. So the ‘state’ of Jivanmukta is not something that comes and goes. As per Advaita Vedanta, this state is always there; other states, conditions may superimpose on that veiling it, making it invisible. For lack of a better word, we shall continue to use ‘state’ to denote the position of a Jivanmukta in order...

Brahma Jnana: Brahma means totality. What does sampoorna Brahma mean? Sampoorna means everything; you may drink a glass of water, but sampoorna refers to all the water in all the seas, ponds, lakes and wells in the world. You have taken only a glass out of all the water that exists in the world. There was another Brahma jnani born in the last century in India: Ramana Maharshi. This south Indian boy had a strange experience one day – he felt as if he was dying. He lay down, but now a question appeared in his mind: ‘If I am dying, then who is the one watching me die? I am watching me die. How can it be that the one who is dying and the one who is watching are one and the same? No, they must be two different entities.’ Therefore, at the age of 12, he left his home and travelled to a sacred place in south India known as Tiruvannamalai. He lived there all his life. He did not have a guru and would not make disciples. He would ask only one thing of those who came to him: “Think ‘W...