In this article I attempt to provide an overview of the spiritual heart-centre and the role it plays in realisation of the Self.

I am slightly out of my comfort zone on this one. Around 1992 I was asked by the editor of The Mountain Path to write an article about Bhagavan and Christianity. I decided to focus on the common theme of ‘I am’ as the name of God.

This is an explanation of Bhagavan’s views on Iswara, the personal god, and the role he plays in allocating karma to jivas.

The ajata doctrine takes the position that since the world was never created, there can be no jivas within it who are striving for or attaining liberation. Though it violates common sense and the experience of the senses, Bhagavan regarded it as ‘the ultimate truth’.