Author: Swami Nishchalananda
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Where does space come from?
There is an interesting philosophical conundrum: Everything exists in space, but in what does space exist? This is not only a question in yoga and mysticism, but also a conundrum of science. After all, modern science hypothesizes that the universe was formed out of the so called ‘big bang.’ Before the big bang, apparently nothing…
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Initiation into Wisdom
In one of the wonderful collection of books by Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan, the Yaqui Indian shaman says: ‘The worst that could happen to us is that we have to die and since that is already our unalterable fate, we are free; those who have lost everything no longer have anything to fear’. This is…
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The Essential Nature of ‘I’
What is this ‘I’ with which we so identify and which we spend our entire life-time feeding, pampering, protecting and re-producing? What is this ‘I’ that we fear for after death? Will the ‘I’ be extinguished or will something survive? For thousands of years, yogis, sages and seers, as well as the yogic texts, have…
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The Edge of Infinity
When I was eight years of age I had a dream, a very lucid and vivid dream, that repeated itself over a period of some weeks. I dreamed that in my search for Truth I traveled endlessly into space passing uncountable stars and galaxies. Eventually, I reached the edge of the universe. There I found…
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The Pathless Path
All religions, philosophies, systems and sciences are different fingers pointing at the moon (symbolizing Reality). They do not and cannot encompass Reality. This includes the systems of yoga, tantra and advaita. Realization of the Reality behind our embodied existence can only take place when the sense of ego-identification temporarily dissolves through meditation, reflection, insight, love…
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