Centre of Adhyatma Yoga and Advaita Vedanta
Shanti Sadan is a centre of the Yoga of Self-Knowledge, Adhyatma Yoga.
This Yoga is based on the philosophy of non-duality, Advaita Vedanta, which is taught in the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita as interpreted by Shri Shankara.
The Upanishads declare that the true Self of each individual is not in essence different from the universal Self, called God or the Absolute. Direct realization of this identity is the highest goal of life, and brings the complete cessation of all limitations and suffering.
Adhyatma Yoga is a traditional path to Self-Realization, through ethical living, devotion to truth, study, service and learning meditation.
The teaching is universal and is free from sectarianism and political or nationalistic bias. It encourages a love of wisdom and true spirituality, whatever its source.
There are articles on Adhyatma Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta among the key Yoga teachings from Self-Knowledge Journal
"In reality, our inner resources and hidden wealth have no boundary. They belong to what one teacher has called 'that region of Self-experience which knows no horizon'. There is infinity hidden in the finite, immortal divinity at the source of our mortal personality. The root of the mind and emotions, the source of our inner life, is spiritual..."
From Discovering Infinity in the Finite in the Winter 2010 issue of Self-Knowledge.
"The process of Yoga is to awaken our faculty of insight, of spiritual penetration, so that we may know ourselves to be one with that changeless divine reality that is apparently veiled by the changing forms of the universe. We first find that reality in ourselves, as our true I - that which abides unchanged behind the movements in our mind, and is the constant light of awareness....."
From The Liberating Truth in the Autumn issue of Self-Knowledge.
"The time has come when we should communicate with our eternal spiritual home, the time, the remembrance of which, in the form of a deep-seated dissatisfaction, haunts us in all our enterprises and under-takings. The apex of human life is conscious communication with that eternal home...."
From The Yoga of the Upanishads in the Autumn issue of Self-Knowledge.
"Yoga is the method of combining the functions of the mind with a view to create a super-function (vritti) producing peace and freedom. The mind in its natural state serves the instincts, but when the refined part of it is brought into the service of the cognitive and introspective processes, the results are psychologically wonderful....."
From Yoga Scientific in the Autumn issue of Self-Knowledge.
"The supreme Truth is to be discovered as the essence of our own being. It is approached through the contemplation of some image or symbol that indicates, in a finite and imaginable form, the infinite spiritual reality that lies within and beyond the symbol...."
From True Christianity and Yoga in the Summer issue of Self-Knowledge.
"Our personality is like the outer court of a sacred temple. It may seem to us to be all we have and are, but there is so much more to our being: imperishable treasures, a realm that is totally free from sufferings and limitations..."
From The Light Behind the Mind in the Spring issue of Self-Knowledge.
A new edition of the Ashtavakra Gita, a classic statement of the pure non-dual teachings, has been published. It is currently available post-free for on-line orders.
