Atmānanda- Laharī

  Harmony of Life Karma and jñāna can never be combined, like oil and water, they do not mix. Karma binds through doing, jñāna frees through knowing. Karma and upāsanā on the other hand  must go together, like diet and exercise,  each complementing the other. Diet alone may reduce weight. Exercise alone may tone muscle. Together, the body is light and strong. Kevala karma leads to a lower heaven. Kevala upāsanā leads to a higher heaven. Combined, they extend one’s stay in that realm. Two forms of upāsanā are taught: Kārya Brahma Upāsanā and  Kāraṇa Brahma Upāsanā. Practiced individually,  each yields its own result. Kārya Brahma Upāsanā, meditation upon the manifest, refines the body and mind,  making them light. Kāraṇa Brahma Upāsanā, meditation upon the unmanifest, absorbs one into the bliss of unknowing. Practiced together, they bring harmony. Harmony between  self and world, person and family, family and society, nation and humanity, humanity and a...

   Joyful Symphony Stay with the innermost Self, free of sin, doership, and enjoyership. The Atma is not to be reached, not shaped, not made, not purified, it simply is. Do not mix coffee into payasam; do not mix karma with jnana. Why chase stock market, fleeting pleasures, empty rituals? The body is a rented house. You are the light within. Observer and observed—no distance. The One appears as many: the non-doer seems to act, the non-enjoyer seems to taste, the pure seems impure, the sinless seems bound. The Upanishad is a mirror, it reveals you to yourself. A life of becoming breeds quiet sorrow, a sense of dissatisfaction of all, Forgetting your nature is delusion, Both are rooted in ignorance, Remove ignorance, Self shines. Rise beyond conditioning. Create your symphony in clarity and joy. Īshāvāsya Upanishad Sambandha Bhashya  Swami TV 3 week course AVG