Merci Christine Rabette, Svadhyaya@urbanOM
CO-CREATING INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY. Atma Vidya आत्मा विद्या (Self-knowledge) is a quintessential teaching of the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta. Svadhyaya Realising The Lightness of Self (aka The Great Cosmic Joke ~ Why So Serious? Do You Get It, Yet? ) Svadhyaya – (self-study or self reflection) "... the Self must be experienced as the deep basis of individual awareness, and this is possible only when the mind can grasp its own underlying nature (sva) through yogic means. Broadly speaking, we could say that all yoga leads to svadhyaya, but certain specific methods are more closely associated with it. The sages tell us that we are the Self and that to “study” it is to gradually know it. The specific techniques for gaining this kind of experiential knowledge are collectively called svadhyaya." https://atma-vidya.tumblr.com/post/655464020423393280/iyta Allen Crawford's "Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself" from David Scott Kessler on ...