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7 Stages of Spiritual Progress in 7 Systems #151
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The recurring philosophical phenomena of 7-fold systems of knowledge in India makes for an interesting study for the avid spiritual aspirant. In this dharma art wisdom chart these helpful looks at gradated wisdom are placed side by side for easy study and comparison, offering up clues for the deeper understanding of stages of progress along the spiritual path.
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The Purusha, the all-intelligent, self-luminous eternal principle, is master over all of nature, called Prakriti. At least that is the way it should be. If the insentient material principle is taken to be the source of all instead, then the Purusha falls from its rightful status, and bondage occurs, along with suffering. To keep this from happening, the dharma teachings in Sankhya Yoga are transmitted in order to show the soul its own innate divinity, using six undeniable proofs that are both exceedingly powerful and deeply convincing.
The Thirty-Six Cosmic Principles of Shaivism #148
Utilizing Lord Kapila’s original twenty-four tattvas as its basis, the various philosophy schools inside of the darshana of Shaivism have fashioned an umbrella of subtle principles over the top, a sort of frosting on the cake of Indian philosophy in general. But much more than a sweetening, the upper twelve tattvas cover a range that had remained hitherto unexplored by most inner travelers of the terrain of consciousness. What was revealed as a result came in the form of vibrational fields too subtle for the mind to fathom through rationale and speculation. Contact with such ultimately living principles as Ishvara and Sadasiva brought to the fore the very meaning of direct darshan with higher deities that stretched far beyond mere visualization. Even a basic study of these spandas alerts the mind to their existence, opening up close relations in the near future.
The Mighty River of Brahman #185
In the view of the ancient Indian rishis, the look at, or perspective on, the Absolute Reality, called Brahman, was all-inclusive. Beyond form, transcending time and space, indivisible and all-pervasive, free of all attributes — this was Divine Reality. But they also left room for Brahman inside of the worlds of name and form, or Brahman with attributes. In this wisdom chart, Brahman is compared to a mighty river with all its features, characteristics, and movements— many of them containing all the risks and dangers that relativity and life here on earth is known for. In the words of Sri Ramakrishna, God must contain the full weight of the fruit, i.e., not just the flesh which undoubtedly is the Essence, but also the skin, seeds, pit, and core of the fruit as well.
Kalpa — The Concept of Time in Vedic Cosmology #78
For the higher elucidation of the Western cultures in modern times, the dharmic teaching of kalpas is offered forth so as to inform the people of the ancient rishi’s way of looking at time — predominantly that it is a concept in the mind, and ultimately illusory. Also, its appearance, real or not, rolls on far longer than even the western evolutionary theory assigns to the age of the physical universe. The kalpa reckoning takes into account how time expands inside of worlds that are contained within the mind, and in God’s Mind (Mahat). Thus, it broadens the human thinking process far beyond the short-sighted conventional ideas of a very young Western scientific view.