Pulkit Mathur

About the author

The Spiritual Bee is founded and authored by Pulkit Mathur. Pulkit has an M.Sc. degree in Physics from IIT Mumbai, and a dual M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Financial Engineering from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. She received a full scholarship to pursue her US education. After working as an investment banker and a hedge fund professional on Wall Street for some years, she returned back to India to found the Spiritual Bee. Pulkit presently resides in Mumbai. The Spiritual Bee Foundation is a Charitable Trust (NGO) located in India, dedicated to teaching and spreading the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta. For those not familiar, Vedanta is the spiritual philosophy which underlies Hinduism. Vedanta is the name given to a collection of truths about the nature of the Universe that the ancient Rishis discovered in their states of meditative super consciousness. These truths about the Universe are so profound that they resolve some of the deepest mysteries of life, which have confounded even modern science.

Only The Pure In Heart Can Attain To Samadhi | Story of the Endless Pitcher ~ Pulkit Mathur

Purity forms the absolute bedrock of spirituality. Purity of heart comprises frankness, innocence, straightforwardness and absence of all evil thoughts. Only the pure in heart can attain to Samadhi (God-realization). Through his narration of enclosed story, Swami Vivekananda, who had himself attained to Nirvikalpa Samadhi, has tried to emphasize this very truth. This story which was a favorite of Swamiji’s, having been recounted to him over and over again in his childhood by his nurse, was retold by him to a small group of disciples at Thousand Island Park, in America.

One Does Not Need to Take Sannyas (Monkhood) to Attain God-Realization ~ Pulkit Mathur

There is an age old misconception prevailing in India concerning two groups of people: Sannyasins and householders (those who have married). The misconception centers on how they view each other. Sannyasins, who are monks, who have renounced the world and its material comforts, tend to feel spiritually superior and look down upon householders as lesser mortals, who are caught up in the attachments and entanglements of Maya. Householders similarly look down upon Sannyasins, as lazy people, who are not willing to work hard to earn their daily bread, who like to live the easy life off of public funds. Through the enclosed story, Swami Vivekananda has resolved this misconception by bringing forth the truth that each person is great in his own place. Doing his or her duties in the world selflessly, a householder too can attain to Moksha, just as a Sannyasin meditating in the Himalayas can. The emotion (bhavana) of selflessness with which one performs one’s duty is what is of utmost importance. The nature of the duty itself is entirely irrelevant.

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