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May Satsang Signup – Religious Imagery Podcast
Our May online satsang with Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) will be on Saturday, May 4th, at 12 noon, EST. Visit this page to register. Also, listen to or watch a recent podcast on “Religious Imagery and the Yogi.”
Breaking False Spiritual Bonds
To some people that found after twenty years that the guru they had been following was a fraud. First of all, please accept my deep and sincere sympathy for this terrible shock that has come to you. I myself followed with total faith more than one false guru and practiced several worthless yogas that led nowhere. So I know your
What If I Don’t Have Faith?
More from our series “Wisdom of Sri Gajanana Maharaj of Nashik” It might be asked: Is there any use in carrying on the japa of Soham without faith in its efficacy? The answer to that is that the repetition of the japa will always be useful, even though done without faith. It will never do you any harm. No doubt
The Unmanifest (Avyakta)
More from our series “Wisdom of Sri Gajanana Maharaj of Nashik” The power of the Avyakta is such that it will more than suffice for solving all possible difficulties in your worldly life If you repeat the Soham mantra in your mind, by continuous practice your mind gets concentrated upon it. The concentration may be called dhyana. If this force
Those Who See God: Alive in Divine Consciousness
Part 4 of Making Attraction and Aversion Work For Us, Not Against Us, a commentary on the 7th Ode of Solomon, written in Apostolic times. The Seers shall go before him, and they shall be seen before him. And they shall praise the Lord for his love, because he is near and seeth. Those who see God are ever before his
Five Quick Questions for Abbot George
Q: How do I exhaust all my vasanas totally in this life before death, so that I will no longer transmigrate/reincarnate totally? Even if you do not exhaust all your vasanas in this life, if you have been constant in your sadhana you can be freed from returning to earthly embodiment. Instead, you will go to a higher world (loka),
The Road to Happiness
More from our series “Wisdom of Sri Gajanana Maharaj of Nashik” Every human being is ceaselessly trying to acquire happiness Every human being is ceaselessly trying to acquire happiness or to increase his share in it and to avoid pain, or at least to lessen it as much as possible. But the experience is just the contrary. He is ever
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Yogis Who Saw Jesus
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Seeing the One in All
In response to our recent blog posting about the reality of Jesus in the experience of India’s great yogis, we received a most heartening letter from India. I want to share parts of it with you and my reflections on it for I feel it presents the most authentic perspective on these matters.