You’ve probably heard that bhakti is devotion or love. Though that’s correct, neither word completely conveys what bhakti is.
For the Bhāgavata School of Vedānta, Bhagavān is the divine perception of Absolute Reality as the Supreme Person intrinsically endowed (van) with opulence (bhaga) or sentient and insentient energy (śakti).
John Greer has spent nearly twenty years inquiring deeply into sacred texts and teachings of the world’s traditions, spurred by his own spiritual search.
Scientism is not limited to reductionistic thinking about religion. It can corrupt our thinking about even the most elementary forms of living being.
Science is unquestionably the most powerful approach humanity has developed so far to the understanding of the natural world.
David is a scholar and Buddhist teacher.
Pranada is a Bhakti teacher and author of “Wise Love.”
“Enlightenment” is often regarded as a purely “Eastern” concept, foreign to the Western monotheistic religions and to non-Western indigenous and shamanic traditions.