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Can pujas and karma yoga coexist?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I subscribe to the ideal in karma yoga of being detached from the fruits of one’s actions. This is wonderful, as it lets us live a scientific life — after all, the principle of detachment in karma yoga is precisely the method that any good scientist follows. Scientists paralyzed by a fear of having their [...]

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Karma Yoga in Harvard Square

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

It comes up very often in Karma Yoga that in order to truly help others, we must not think that we’re doing anyone else a favor. And in reality, in order to help anyone in the right way, we must really try to fully understand them first. The best advice I’ve received came from those [...]

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In Search of the True Self

Thursday, February 11, 2010

There is much discussion in Hindu literature about the true nature of the Self. Hindu philosophy is itself divided into multiple schools of thought (e.g. advaita, dvaita, vishishtadvaita), all of which have differing views on the relation of atman (Self) to brahman (Whole). One particularly interesting quote on self-identity is due to Adi Shankaracharya:
Just as [...]

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