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The Challenge of Emptiness – Vimala Thakar
Vimala Thakar on the Spiritual Emancipation of Women an interview by Shanti Adams Shanti Adams: This morning I would like to talk with you about women in relationship to spiritual liberation. In the...
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Prayer by Shankarcharya – Vimala Thakar
Translation & Commentary by Vimala Thakar Pratah smarami hridi samsphura ta twam Satchitsukham paramahansa gatim turiyam Yat swapna jagara sushupta mavaiti nityam Tad brahma nishkalamaham na cha...
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O-theism
O-theism Religion-less Religious-ness The no Religion of Whole religion It is the perennial philosophy. It is the Heart of the teachings of all the Awakened Masters including Krishna, Lao Tzu, Buddha...
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Consciousness is Not an Object
An interview with Roy Whenary given by Ben Hassine Can you give us a short biographical sketch with emphasis on the spiritual aspect of your life? For example which teachers and teachings inspired you...
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Mutation of Mind – Vimala Thakar
The following is extracted from the book Mutation of Mind. The conscious mind, realizing its own limitations, becoming aware that it hasn’t got any other channel or groove to function in, can become...
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Notes from Yoga Beyond Meditation – Vimala Thakar
Pratyahara, dharana, dhyanam, and samadhi Pratyahara is the state of the individualised mind where the movement of memory and the movement of the senses has discontinued. So the mind is inwardly and...
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Growing Into Silence – Vimala Thakar
Growing into Silence The voluntary cessation, non-action of movement, can become possible if the brain, the cerebral organ, is not a restless, disorderly, chaotic brain. Orderliness One doesn’t have to...
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Explosion – Vimala Thakar
EXPLOSION On the 14th August I had another interview with Krishnamurti. While I was waiting for him his hostess was kind enough to come and have a word with me. ‘Do you understand what Krishnaji says?’...
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The Vertical Ascendance of a Sadhaka – Vimala Thakar
The following dialog took place between Vimala Thakar and Yoga teachers from all over the world in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India on the 11th of September, 2000. Question: What are the most difficult...
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Observation, Emptiness and Dhyan – Vimala Thakar
What is involved in being an observer of the stillness? When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the voluntary...
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Set Them on Fire! – Vimala Thakar
A Portrait of a Modern Sage An interview by Chris Parish This interview was published in EnlightenNext magazine. “I am a simple person, a human being who has loved life and who has seen life as...
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To Work for Our Own Salvation – Vimala Thakar
Question: You seem to be very optimistic about the development of the human mind, and yet the world has not changed in spite of Buddha and Christ? Vimala: The world has changed due to Buddha and...
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In the Fire of Dancing Stillness
A review of In the Fire of Dancing Stillness – Reflections with Vimala Thakar A film by Renata Keller Renata Keller introduces the life and teachings of Vimala Thakar in an extraordinarily accessible...
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The Complexity of Life – Vimala Thakar
Life is a complex phenomenon. I would like to go into the issue of this complexity this morning as it seems that you would prefer to have a talk. Man is born in the midst of duality, duality that seems...
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Wake Up Mantra – Vimala Thakar
I will recite today a mantra from second Veda, Yajurveda, and it means: “Wake up! Oh, my mind, wake up! To the infinite divinity that surrounds you. Those who are aware of that infinite life Receive...
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The Mind – Vimala Thakar
As we are meeting in the morning, let us hope that all of us are more fresh, alert, and attentive perhaps than yesterday. We shall go together into an issue that is very subtle and very complex. We...
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