Commentaries on various scriptures and other wisdom
We have just published Swami Nirmalananda’s newest book, Light on the Path For Awakening: A Commentary on Mabel Collins’ Spiritual Classic. It is now available in paperback at Amazon.com and the ebook is on sale for only 99¢ for a limited time in our new book release sale.
The problem with the thoughtless man is that he is completely heedless of the spiritual life. Find out how to correst this.
Buddha lets us know quite clearly that the Holy Life is what matters, and that is a matter of living–that is, doing.
Meditation is not an end in itself, but rather the means to an end–to the daily living out of the illumined consciousness produced by meditation. We go into meditation so we can come out of meditation more conscious and better equipped to live our life.
We have added Swami Nirmalananda’s Commentary on some of Shankara’s works, which we have called “The Catechism of Enlightenment.” Read this uselful introduction.
“Even if he is fond of quoting appropriate texts, the thoughtless man who does not put them into practice himself is like a cowherd counting other people’s cows, not a partner in the Holy Life” (Buddha, from the Dhammapada 19).