The Modes Of The Self

The Synthesis of Yoga

"All Life is Yoga"


Part II

THE YOGA OF INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER XI

THE MODES OF THE SELF


SINCE the Self which we come to realise by the path of knowledge is not only the reality which lies behind and supports the states and movements of our psychological being, but also that transcendent and universal Existence which has manifested itself in all the movements of the universal, the knowledge of the Self includes also the knowledge of the principles of Being, its fundamental modes and its relations with the principles of the phenomenal universe. This was what was meant by the Upanishad when it spoke of the Brahman as that which being known all is known.1 It has to be realised first as the pure principle of Existence, afterwards, says the Upanishad, its essential modes become clear to the soul which realises it. We may indeed, before realisation, try to analyse by the metaphysical reason and even understand intellectually what Being is and what the world is, but such metaphysical understanding is not the Knowledge..read more

Blind Willie Johnson-Dark Was the Night,Cold Was The Ground

Blind Willie Johnson-The Soul Of Man

Bruce Springsteen-ReasonTo Believe

Bruce Springsteen REASON TO BELIEVE lyrics

REASON TO BELIEVE Lyrics
Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
She said Baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you
One day he up and left her and ever since that
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny sir to me
How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away
Take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray
Lord won't you tell us tell us what does it mean
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin' for his bride
Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
Lord and he's wonderin' where can his baby be
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

The Invention Of the jewish People By Shlomo Sand

Book's topic

In his book Matai ve'ech humtza ha'am hayehudi?(he invention of the jewish people)..sand tries to prove that the jewsih people never existed as a nation race with a common origin,but rather is a colrful mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the jewish religion.he argues that for a number of Zionists ideaologues,the mythical perception of the jews as an ancient people led to truly racist thinking..read more here

Bill Joy in Conversation with Brent Schlender

Arundhati Roy Says Out Loud And Clear

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