Cosmic Consciousness or the Vedantic Idea of Realisation or Mukti (Annotated)

"Cosmic consciousness is not something outside of us to work towards;
it is the nature of our true self waiting to be discovered."
— Jeff Carreira

In this book a seasoned practitioner of the Vedantic tradition offers powerful commentary on the experience of cosmic consciousness. In 1892 the term cosmic consciousness was introduced in the publication of a book describing the travels to the East by an English poet named Edward Carpenter. Carpenter’s book set off a veritable firestorm of activity among spiritually minded intellectuals and religious asperents. By the year 1909 M.C. Nanjundra Row, a doctor of Ayurvedic medicine and a prominent disciple of the famous Swami Vivekenanda, decided that it was necessary for him to reconnect the idea of cosmic consciousness to its roots in the Vadantic tradition. Dr. Row felt that the idea of cosmic consciousness had become overly psychologized and sometimes viewed only as a vast evolutionary possibility that would take generations to realize. In this book, you will see that cosmic consciousness is available to all of us right now. In fact, it is already a latent potential lying within us that can be unleashed through the practices of the Vedantic tradition.