Brahma-sūtra: Levels of Meditation Practice
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2022-04-24

From the Vaidik period to the present day, religious and spiritual practices have become more indirect, with several levels of symbolism, abstraction and superimposition. Nevertheless, a lineage remains potent, if—and only if—the connection to the original Vaidik literature is maintained as the basis and ultimate authority. If mere human intelligence tries to replace the Vedas in a lineage, it deteriorates into an ordinary dualistic religion.