Not a withdrawal from life. A way of being present inside it.
From time immemorial, civilisation has evolved and witnessed transformation. Over long periods, materials changed, human beings changed, the forms of nature changed. With all of it happening — externally and internally — one thing remained constant through every phase: the Self experience, the witness of transformation, inseparable from the system it observed.
Great souls on this planet left the pathways. Intrinsic logical reasoning. Yoga. Meditation. Japa. And more besides.
Much has shifted since. Contact with the West reshaped the vocabulary. The advancement of science and technology reshaped the standard of proof a young person is willing to accept. What none of it has done is retire the question — the quest for relevance has, if anything, made the search for the Absolute Truth more urgent among those now asking it.
And the difficulty remains what it always was. Every soul experiences the present moment. It arrives in action, and it arrives momentarily. Then maya slowly encompasses it, and the present moment is lost, either into the past or into the future.
In the light of the above, tatva-masi.com will make its best effort to bring these practices together — to reconcile and re-unite body, mind and intellect, by way of living.
No. Vedanta is an enquiry into the nature of experience, and experience is not the property of any tradition. Practitioners here come from every background and from none.
With ten minutes and a guided sitting. Nothing before that is required — not a cushion, not a schedule, not a belief.
Twenty minutes a day, kept, is worth more than two hours on a Sunday. The practices are designed for a working life because that is where most of us live.
Chants and their meanings are given in Sanskrit with transliteration. Selected sessions are offered in Kannada and Hindi; the schedule lists which.
Begin with one. Most practitioners find that the others arrive on their own, in the order their temperament requires.