Deepak Atri | Advaita Vedanta

How to Attract Lakshmi, in Her Own Words

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Every Diwali we clean the house so that Goddess Lakshmi will come in. But in the Mahabharata, Lakshmi is asked directly: who do you stay with, and who do you leave? Her answers have nothing to do with a clean house. So how do you attract Lakshmi, or invite her into your home this Diwali? In her own words.

Topics: What Lakshmi was asked · Why Lakshmi left King Bali · "Divide me into four" · Rukmini's question · The tiny gap · The line that surprised me

How to Meditate Without Trying Too Hard

217 views · 3d ago · 10:21

Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → My Book — A Simple Introduction to Vedantic Non-Duality A practical introduction to the central insights of Advaita Vedanta and the question of who we really are.

God in Advaita Vedanta: Who Is Worshipping Whom?

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → f Advaita says everything is one, then what is the point of devotion? Who is worshipping whom, and for what?

Topics: If everything is one, why devotion? · Reason 1: preparing the mind · Reason 2: the spiritual ego · Reason 3: a dry path needs the heart · Reason 4: orders of reality · Reason 5: too heavy a burden

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra: Anger as a Doorway

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Someone says one sharp sentence, and before you’ve said a word there’s heat in your chest and a tightness in your jaw. Most of us do one of two things: we explode, or we push it down.

Topics: Heat in the chest · A 1,000-year-old verse · The driving example · Three steps · A word of care, and try it now · The one word: nistimitām

Advaita Vedanta Explained: Ashtavakra & King Janaka's Dream

295 views · 1w ago · 9:58

King Janaka wakes in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat. A moment earlier he was a beggar, running from his enemies. Now he is lying in his royal bed. Which one was real? His ministers and wise men all tell him it was just a dream. He isn't convinced, because in the dream the fear, the grief and the hunger were completely real. So he goes to the sage Ashtavakra, who gives him one answer: "Neither was that real, nor is this real. The only reality is you."

Topics: Janaka's dream · Ashtavakra's answer · What makes something real? · The one present in both · The I behind every thought · The movie screen

Tantra and Advaita Vedanta: Two Paths to the Same Truth?

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Two of India's greatest traditions say the same thing: there is only one reality, and you are it. So why do Advaita Vedanta and the Tantra of Kashmir (Kashmir Shaivism) disagree about almost everything else?

Topics: Two traditions, one truth? · Where they agree · The real argument: what is the world? · Kashmir Shaivism's objection · Advaita's reply · Two practices: step back, step in

Maa Siddhidatri Story: What If You Were Never Incomplete? | Navratri Day 9.

489 views · 2w ago · 5:49

Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Maa Siddhidatri's story, and the final night of The Inner Navratri. Eight nights ago we started at the foot of a mountain. Today we reach the final form of the goddess: Siddhidatri. Siddhi means perfection or attainment; Dhatri means the giver.

Topics: The final form: Siddhidatri · Shiva and Ardhanarishvara · Siddhis: powers or knowing? · Patanjali's warning · Think back: eight nights · Fullness from fullness

Maa Mahagauri Story: What Was Under the Dust? | Navratri Day 8

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Maa Mahagauri's story: after the darkest night, what comes? Yesterday we met Devi Kalratri, the goddess of the dark nights. Today, Day 8 of The Inner Navratri, we meet the radiant goddess Mahagauri: Maha means great, Gauri means bright, shining, like the moon or jasmine. Her inner power is clarity.

Topics: After the darkest night · The story: covered in dust · Clarity is revealed · The dusty mirror · Covered, not missing · Purnam: always complete

Maa Kalratri and Raktabija: The Story That Explains Overthinking

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Maa Kalratri and the story of Raktabija, the demon who couldn't be killed. Every drop of his blood that touched the ground became another demon: the harder you fought him, the more of him there were. It may be the best description of overthinking ever written.

Topics: The demon who couldn't be killed · Day 7: Devi Kalaratri · Fear not: Shubhankari · Kali and Raktabija · Stop it at the source · Lying awake at night

Katyayani Devi and Mahishasura: The Story Behind Navratri Day 6

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → You break one bad habit, and it comes back in another form. You change one pattern, and something equally bad takes its place. Why?

Topics: Yesterday: compassion · The habit that comes back · Day 6: Devi Katyayani · Mahishasura and the goddess · The shape-shifting battle · The buffalo: tamas

Who Is Skandamata? The Story of the Goddess and Her Son

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → How do you talk to yourself when you make a mistake? More importantly, if somebody else talked to you the way you talk to yourself, would you still be friends with them?

Topics: How do you talk to yourself? · Day 5: Devi Skandamata · Skanda, the great warrior · Before he can be a warrior · How we treat ourselves · Kristin Neff: self-compassion

Who Is Kushmanda Mata? The Universe Born From a Smile

161 views · 2w ago · 4:41

Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → My Book — A Simple Introduction to Vedantic Non-Duality A practical introduction to the central insights of Advaita Vedanta and the question of who we really are.

Who Is Chandraghanta Mata? The Meaning of Her Moon Bell

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Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Think of the bravest person you know. Are they loud, aggressive, always looking for a fight? Or is there something quiet about them, an inner stillness, even when things outside are frightening?

Topics: The bravest person you know · Day 3: Devi Chandraghanta · The moon bell · Ready for battle, yet serene · What courage isn't · When fear takes over

Who Is Brahmacharini Mata? The Story of Parvati's Tapas

274 views · 2w ago · 5:30

Free 7-day course: Find the gap. Seven 5-minute guided practices drawn from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra and Advaita Vedanta → Day 2 of The Inner Navratri is Devi Brahmacharini, the form of Parvati as a young ascetic. She walks barefoot with a mala in one hand and a kamandal in the other. Her tapas for Shiva lasted thousands of years: first fruits and roots, then only leaves, and then not even a leaf (Aparna).

Topics: Beginning vs continuing · Day 2: Devi Brahmacharini · The story of Parvati's tapas · "That's not for me" · Discipline from love, not fear · Consistency and the mala