Atma Gnanam and The Dawn of Self Knowledge in The Sampradaya Tradition.
"Could ignoring our true selves be costing us the future?" by John Weddepohl "The creation we find ourselves in is always absolutely peaceful. Never in conflict, not a day goes by in the creation that is not absolutely perfect. So why do we human beings still keep struggling, getting conflicted? As our forebears have come and gone, left with a common legacy; individuality, humanity ends up enjoying a cocktail of conflict and crisis. First, because we take our individuality so literally taking it to be the absolute truth of who we are and second, because we have no choice, take it or leave it-these are the terms and these are the conditions. Left with no option, individuality soaks up all our human bandwidth and uses up all our resources. Stuck on repeat, repeat, repeat. Pramana - Words as the means of knowledge. For any knowledge to take place first there has to be a suitable means of knowledge. For Self-Knowledge this has always been the words of the teacher. Th...