Monday, July 20, 2009

Lectures on Hinduism

Here is a link to lectures on Hinduism and Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna from Vedanta UK.

http://www.vedantauk.com/Audio%20Files.htm

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Swami Vivekananda's Chicago address - audio

I found the following videos (actually not videos but running scrolls of the transcript) of Swami Vivekananda's Chicago address. I thought I should share it with u.

Playlist

Monday, July 6, 2009

What is soul made up of?

I was just reading about the Hindu concepts of Atman and Paramatman and this question hit me. In some philosophies of Hinduism, like Dvaita, there is a distinction between Atman (the individual soul) and Paramatman (the Supreme soul). In that case, the Atman is what manifests as us, people, by taking a body. They say that this atman is trapped inside the body and is waiting to be liberated (called Moksha). Now my question is what is this atman made up of? They say its not physical. Its not the mind either. Then how is it trapped inside a physical body? How can something non-physical be trapped inside a physical body? What is it then made up of?