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By bringing together philosophical and spiritual traditions of the East and the West, Ravi Ravindra explores several concerns of eternal wisdom: the nature of ultimate reality, the spiritual and material structure of the cosmos, and the purpose of human incarnation. Annie Besant's Ancient Wisdom and Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy are among the texts referenced in this class.
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Our attitude toward death and dying has a direct impact on our living. The class explores the understanding of death and what happens after death as perceived and articulated in three major religious traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity--and also in some theosophical literature. Scientific data dealing with reincarnation, near-death experiences and the shifts in attitudes of people nearing death are also explored. There is a Sufi saying:...
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Wishing for a sense of unity cannot have substantial meaning unless it emanates from a certain quality of being. Normally, our worldly self is occupied with self-advancement, even when thinking that it is practicing and promoting a sense of unity. We must possess a willingness to submit to the universal call for a radical transformation of the whole being, a new birth, which will lead to freedom from the conditioned self. Only then is there a possibility...
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How do we understand the meaning of freedom? In the West, the idea of freedom is closely linked with religion and politics. There is freedom to express one's opinion, to support the political candidate of one's preference, and the right to worship in the church or synagogue of one's choice. But how does the idea of freedom relate to spirituality? In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna is told that the enlightened person has learned how to be "free from the...
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The 2002 Founders address, given at the 116th Annual Meeting and Summer School of the Theosophical Society in America, outlines the need for an "interpilgrim" dialogue between individuals who are "pilgrim souls" on a journey with a "hunger for the unknown, " searching for Truth and the Infinite.
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It has been noted by many deep thinkers that the human being encapsulates a profound mystery. The ancient Rig Veda contains this timeless observation on the human condition: "I know not clearly whether I am the same as this Cosmos; a mystery am I, yet conceited in mind I wander." This observation was made several thousand years ago but it still seems relevant today. The speaker explores the mystery of the human being as a nexus between the inner and...
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We can gather all sorts of empirical knowledge and be awarded degrees and honors in recognition of our intellectual attainments, but does any of that really change who we are? The speaker maintains that real self-knowledge is knowledge of an entirely different order, and there can be no authentic Self-knowledge without it leading to a transformation of character, nor can there be any inner transformation without obtaining an impartial Self-knowledge....
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