Religious scriptures of Hinduism and Hindu philosophy, the puranas, the vedangas , darshanas and devotional literature and the Bhagavadgita
Religious Literature - Methodology of Spiritual Development
Excerpt: GOTT UND WIR: STUFEN DES SPIRITUELLEN WEGES. Ein Mensch, der den spirituellen Weg betreten hat, kann uber folgende sieben Stufen gehen: -- 1. Rechtes Erkennen des eigenen hochsten Zieles und der Wege zu dessen Erreichung. -- 2. Elementare ethische Selbstanpassung an den Vorsatz Gottes durch den Abbau ethischer Unvollkommenheiten und die Entfaltung notwendiger Eigenschaften. Die wichtigste der Letzteren ist die Liebe. -- 3. Selbstverfeinerung als Bewusstsein mit ...
Excerpt: Es gibt keinen Zweifel daran, dass Menschen mit philosophischem Denkvermogen sich uber die gesamte Menschheitsgeschichte hinweg die Fragen nach dem Sinn ihres irdischen Lebens stellten, aber auch nach der Moglichkeit eines Bestehens in nichtverkorpertem Zustand sowie nach der Existenz Gottes. Diese Denker entwickelten mehr oder weniger adaquate philosophische Vorstellungen, begrundeten philosophische und esoterische Zirkel, Schulen oder gar religiose Bewegungen....
Excerpt: Previous Lives and Beginning of This One. I remember my two previous incarnations. Of course, I had other incarnations before, but those more early human incarnations were too ?common? and ?plain? to mention them. Although they had prepared me for the next ones. In the first of these two incarnations I was a chieftain of an Indian tribe in Cuba. It means that the experience of previous lives already supplied me with necessary quantity of personal power to become...
Excerpt: The meaning of the Sanskrit word yoga is the same as of the Latin word religion. It means union', connection, merging of human consciousness with god.
Excerpt: Preface to the Russian Edition of the Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita ? or, in translation from Sanskrit, the Song of God ? is the most important part of the Indian epic poem Mahabharata. The latter describes events of 5-7 thousand years past. The Bhagavad Gita is a great philosophical work that played the same role in the history of India, as the New Testament did in the history of countries of the European culture. Both these books powerfully proclaim the pri...
Excerpt: What Is Ecology. Ecology is a science that studies relationships between living organisms and the environment they live in. Its branches focus on studying specific kinds of these organisms and are called respectively. For example: ecology of river beaver or ecology of sturgeon, etc. The object can be researched in terms of its habitat, places and conditions of reproduction, mating patterns and other kinds of interaction with representative of the same species, c...
Excerpt: The Apocryphal (i.e. that which was not included in the New Testament) Gospel of the apostle Philip, a personal disciple of Jesus Christ, found by archaeologists only in 1945 in Egypt, contains very important information imparted to Philip by Jesus Christ.
Excerpt: The author of this book was born in Russia in an atheistic family in April of 1946. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg State University, majoring in Ecology, he worked in medicine for almost ten years, obtained a Ph.D. degree researching the formation of behavioral patterns under influence of outer factors.
Excerpt: As a preface let me outline some aspects of bioenergetics interactions that occur every day regardless of whether people are aware of them or not.
Excerpt: Jesus Christ Speaking to a Group of His Disciples. Hesychia is the inner quietness in which only I remain, I ? coessential to the Father, I ? One with the Father, I ? Love, I ? the Heart ? as a Gateway into the Abode of the Father! Previously, you lived only to reach, to grow to the Abode of the Creator and to merge, to unite?
Excerpt: The highest stage of yoga is buddhi-yoga. This term is translated as yoga of consciousness and denotes a system of methods of methods for developing individual consciousness of adepts.
Excerpt: Fundamentals of the Islamic Ethics. Islam is one of the three major religious systems on the Earth. But this is not the only reason why we need to speak about Islam. Islam expresses the ethics of the attitude of man to God in laconic and methodologically true form. Moreover, the attitude to God, which was taught by Jesus Christ, was realized in Islam and not in the mass Christianity. This is why it is in the field of Islam?s activity (namely, in Sufism) that the...
Excerpt: The Teaching that was brought to the Earth from God-the-Father by Jesus Christ came to us in the form of Jesus? conversations with His disciples and other people, His appeals to the Heavenly Father and descriptions of His deeds and of the miracles He performed, which were described in the Gospels. There are also writings of His disciples, which contain information obtained from Jesus, prophecies received from the Holy Spirit and God-the-Father, as well as person...
Excerpt: We have already mentioned that the self-development of a person is conducted along three major lines: ethical intellectual, and psycho energetic.
Excerpt: The Teaching of Juan Matus was described in detail by Carlos Castaneda ? our contemporary from Los Angeles. His books known to us were published in the period from 1966 to 1987. We also know the book by D.C. Noel Seeing Castaneda, which contains interviews with him.
Excerpt: Today we are going to deal with the laws of yoga formulated in part our predecessors and in part-in the process of work of our school.
Excerpt: Throughout the history of people on the planet Earth God has been repeatedly giving them His Teaching through His Messengers (Messiahs, Avatars) and prophets. Each time the information was presented in the form that was adequate for concrete group of people ? according to the level of their philosophic and religious awareness and the conditions of life in that particular historical period (whether it was period of war or peace, first stages of religion?s formati...
Excerpt: To approach God we, first of all, have to possess the development ability to love: from the heart What can unite one consciousness with another!- Only love.
Excerpt: We STUDIED God as scientists. Though we do not belong to any religious tradition, we fully accept all the best that was created in each of them.
Excerpt: Speaking of Christianity we should differentiate between two meanings of this word. The first one the teaching of Jesus Christ.