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Many rivers, one ocean. Hindu Universalism. “America needs a soul boom.” - Rainn Wilson

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The mind is formless like the sky, yet it wears a million faces. It appears as images from the past, or as worldly forms; but it is not the supreme Self. -Avadhuta Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
May the tree of our life be firmly rooted in the soil of love. Let good deeds be the leaves on that tree; may words of kindness form its flowers; may peace be its fruit. Let us grow and unfold as one family, united in love. -Amma
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
On the Upanishads, by the estimable Amit Majmudar. open.substack.com/pub/amitmajm...
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The Scorpion on the Dancer's Thigh
How the Rishis Saw the Universe
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You will never succeed in bringing in light if you insist upon removing all the darkness from your room before you do so. Simply ignore the ego. -Atmananda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Yoga is skill in action. -Bhagavad Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. - Sri Aurobindo
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? - Ramana Maharishi
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It’s been a while, but here’s a short article on the pervasive presence of Hinduism in American letters. vikramdialogues.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
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The Hidden Sutra
I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ll be sharing occasional cultural essays here again, when something feels worth thinking through. I hope you enjoy this!
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I am other than name, form, and action. My nature is ever free! I am pure Awareness, always non-dual. Adi Shankara
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child. Krishnamurti
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
On Thanksgiving: Let us walk together, let us speak together, let our minds and hearts be united. Rig Veda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future. Sri Aurobindo
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Love Not for the sake of the other is the other dear, but for the sake of the Self is the other dear. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Love The river that flows in you also flows in me. Kabir
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Roots of Dharma Truthfulness, self-control, austerity, compassion, forgiveness, patience, knowledge, and lack of envy—these are the eight qualities that are the roots of Dharma. Mahabharata
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Poem Mysticism for Intermediates: Target Edition eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m... via @EunoiaReview
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Mysticism for Intermediates: Target Edition
And sometimes as you traipse through the aisles of Target A22 – Cosmetics, A23 – Stationary, ticking off your shopping list, fending off your kids demanding ICEEs with absurd sugar content, stare a…
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the vital air, nor the senses. I am verily the Brahman, the Blissful, the one without a second. There is nothing else anywhere. Ribhu Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Insight It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
In this House You don’t have to escape the world to find peace. Swami Tyagananda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The Journey The spiritual journey of Vedanta is not a journey in space. It is a journey in consciousness, a shift in perspective. You are already Brahman (the ultimate reality); you just have to know that you are. Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Harmony No religion is an island; we need each other in order to be ourselves. Raimon Panikkar
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ethics One can actually be good without being particularly spiritual, but one cannot be spiritual without being good. This is the basic foundation which connects ethics to spirituality. Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Seeds The gospel of self-realization, once heard, will never be forgotten. Like a seed left in the ground, it will wait for the right season and sprout and grow into a mighty tree. Nisargadatta Maharaj For me, it was reading Eknath Easwaran’s “Upanishads” in a Border’s bookstore in my 20s.
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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
What could be more timely: "My guru said every human has a right to be fed. Food is not a bargaining tool of power - food is a basic, shared manifestation of God." - Ram Dass
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I AM When I say: ‘I am’, I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus. I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is and knows. Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happiness Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. Krishnamurti
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you falter on the path, forgive yourself, then begin again. O Lord, what becomes of the yogi who falters? Krishna: Dear one, no effort is lost. None who do good ever come to harm. Bhagavad Gītā 6:39–40 (Paraphrase)
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Bhakti (Devotion) Bhakti is the most precious jewel in the treasure of liberation. Even those who seek knowledge ultimately take shelter in devotion. Srimad Bhagavatam
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Bhakti (Devotion) Those who follow this immortal dharma of devotion, full of faith, regarding Me as the supreme goal — they are exceedingly dear to Me. Bhagavad Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Advaita You’re not lost—only your map is. The territory you seek has been under your feet the whole time. Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Awe You are the primal God, the ancient Person; You are the supreme refuge of this universe. You are the knower and the knowable, the highest abode. O Lord of infinite forms, the whole cosmos is pervaded by You. Bhagavad Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Of what use is my going to Benares any more? At Mother's feet lie Bodh Gaya, the Ganges and Benares. I swim in the ocean of bliss while I meditate on Her in my heart lotus. Ramprasad Sen
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Rabindranath Tagore
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Your book knowledge is useful to begin with, but soon it must be given up for direct experience, which by its very nature is inexpressible. Nisargadatta Maharaj
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DakiniSpirit @dakinispirit.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Happy together Wednesday Always remember that 30 million little candles together Lights up the whole sky 💙
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Everyday Yoga (Karma Yoga) Your right is to action alone, never to its fruits. Do not let the fruits of action be your motive, nor should you be attached to inaction. Bhagavad Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Urgency Do not take pride in wealth, in friends, or in youth. Time takes away all these in a moment. Having abandoned this entire world of illusion (māyā), Realize and attain the state of the ultimate Reality (Brahman). Bhaja Govindam (Adi Sankara)
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion (karuṇā) for the suffering, delight in the virtuous, and equanimity toward the wicked, the mind achieves serenity. Patanjali
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Paradox of Effort You are pure awareness, the Self, the witness, perfectly detached. Desire for stillness binds you. Ashtavakra Gita
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Courage and love are the only indispensable virtues; even if all the others are eclipsed or fall asleep, these two will save the soul alive. Sri Aurobindo
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
And with it is born a universal love for all beings—living forms that are habitations of the Divine; not the restless grasp of emotion, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. Sri Aurobindo
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural. Wasily Kandindsky
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This forest nurtures us like a mother; you will only be able to use your axes on it if you shoot me first. Gaura Devi (Chipko environmental movement)
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The very essence of the Hindu Philosophy is that man is a spirit, and has a body, and not that man is a body and may have a spirit also. Swami Vivekananda
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child. Krishnamurti
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial. Henry David Thoreau
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Shanti Mantra May all be happy. May all be free from illness. May all see what is auspicious. May no one suffer any pain. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
You seem to want instant insight, forgetting that the instant is always preceded by a long preparation. The fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time. Nisargadatta Maharaj
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