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The tradition followed by Shanti Sadan is 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 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.
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What is
Adhyatma Yoga?
One of the articles on key Yoga teachings to be found on the dedicated Self-Knowledge journal site.
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What is
Advaita Vedanta?
Another key Yoga teaching from Self-Knowledge journal.
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The Triumph of Truth
The goal to be discovered is the true nature of the seeker. The consciousness and intelligence that motivates our quest, when realized in its subjective purity, is the Self. This consciousness is the innermost principle in man and it is self-luminous. It enlivens our mind from the interior by casting a kind of reflection of its light in the mind. Yet this consciousness, that is, our own consciousness, remains totally free and transcendent. This is the testimony of the God-realized sages.
From the Winter 2008 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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The Knowledge that Satisfies Forever
"Can we really secure liberation and fulfilment through knowledge — through knowing? If so, what kind of knowledge is meant? In the ordinary affairs of the world, including the worlds of science and learning, many believe that if a person is clever enough, he can know practically anything. But in the realm of spirituality, the situation is very different. Here the principle is: If the mind is pure and clear enough, it can gain an altogether higher kind of knowledge, resulting in the permanent conviction: 'I have known all that was to be known. Thus knowing, I have achieved all that was to be achieved.' There is no more inner darkness, doubt, error or confusion. Unlike the worldly knowledge, there is finality and fulfilment..."
From the Autumn 2007 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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The Triumph of a Hero
"The realm of the spirit of man is not a mental image, nor does it change. It is more internal, more subtle and more abstract than thought itself. It is a realm of silence, calm and rest, an inner dimension without walls or boundaries, and which, when fully revealed, has been compared to an infinite ocean of pure consciousness, being and bliss...."
From the Summer 2007 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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The Yoga of Non-separation
"If the supreme power which rules the universe were really cut off from the inner being of man, there would be no road to salvation or liberation. Thankfully this is not the true situation. For hidden within and behind the individuality is that ‘divine thread running through all beings’. ..."
From the Spring 2007 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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As Far as the Eye Can See
"The Vedanta Philosophy says that the real experiencer or knower does not appear or figure in any of three states, waking, dreaming or deep sleep. He is Atman, the real Self, but he is unknown to the objective world of the waking or dreaming states. This is precisely what makes him the true subject, for as soon as he appears in those worlds, he has become an object of experience..."
From the Winter 2007 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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Adhyatma Yoga and the Question: Who am I?
"For the traditional teachers of Yoga, there is no ignorance; there is no world of plurality; there is no teacher, no pupil, no texts, no bondage and no liberation. There is only the one universal, undifferentiated Self. Without giving away one jot of that standpoint, the traditional teachers come down to the standpoint of us, the students, and construct various patterns of teaching to enable us to climb out of our spiritual and metaphysical ignorance and solve our problems..."
From the Autumn 2006 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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Yoga and Love
"The true Guru is a gateway from the ordinary human loves to the higher divine love. He stands on the borderline and helps his disciples over it. By giving him love - which means in Christian theology by seeing and worshipping the image of God in him - the disciple opens himself to the possibility of receiving the knowledge which he has. The other gurus can be paid in cash for their services, but the Sadguru does not accept that currency. He has to be paid in the heart’s blood, which is love. What else could be paid for the pearl beyond price?..."
From the Summer 2006 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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A Great Scientist and Vedantin, Part VI
"How are we to explain the apparent multiplicity of selves? Not, he suggests, by the ‘horrible doctrine of monads due to Leibnitz, each imprisoned in a world of its own, without windows, in agreement only through a pre-established cosmic harmony,’ but by the only alternative, that there is only one consciousness. One powerful evidence of the unification of consciousness is that it is never experienced in the plural...."
From the Winter 2006 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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The Wisdom of the Katha Upanishad
"The Upanishad speaks of ascending grades of experience within the being of man, characterized by increasing refinement and penetration. These grades of experience have a rising order of subtlety, inwardness and pervasiveness. At their peak shines the true Self of man..."
From the Winter 2005 issue of Self-Knowledge Journal.
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Putting the Yoga Teachings into Practice
Here are specially selected articles on dharma (right values) which the traditional teachers say is the essential first step, and the art of meditation. On the dedicated Self-Knowledge site is an article about the value of a holy name. And the Winter 2004 edition of Self-Knowledge includes another spiritual practice given by Hari Prasad Shastri.
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