Dharma Studies

We all seek wholeness, to connect the wounded part of us with something completely beyond ourselves, and that is made possible through devotion.

Images and text from Ekabhumi Charles Ellik. Previously published by Sounds True in The Bhakti Coloring Book (2018) and The Shakti Coloring Book (2015)

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).

It has been unfashionable for veterans returning home from war to talk about the effect their experiences during the war has had on them.

There is no longer a need for an external temple or sacrificial pyre, as the body of the haṭha yogin serves this function itself.

Mind wandering, task-independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms used to describe what occurs to our mind when we notice its functioning, or when we allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid.

This article explores transcendental experiences during meditation practice and the integration of transcendental experiences and the unfolding of higher states of consciousness with waking, dreaming, and sleeping.

The roots of scientism extend as far back as early 17th century Europe, an era that came to be known as the Scientific Revolution.