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Come back often to find new, valuable and practical articles to help you in your spiritual life. Below the latest blog posts we also list some of our most well received articles.
Wisdom Quote of the Day
Our life is a continuous stream of karmic echoes. Yes, others become instruments for the manifestation of the karma, but we are the origin of it all. So who shall we blame? As Pogo said: ‘We have met the enemy and they are us.’ The answer is to get busy and change ourselves. Then our lives will change automatically.
Abbot George Burke

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Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna

The Two Ways of Life and Death from Three Teachers

When Buddha first spoke to others the knowledge gained through his enlightenment, the first principle he gave was: “There is suffering.” This is the fundamental fact of relative existence. What did Buddha then say about ending suffering?

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The Ever-present Witness

More from our series “Wisdom of Sri Gajanana Maharaj of Nashik” About a fortnight ago a learned shastri came to visit me. He had read some of the letters sent by me to my friends, and also the messages which I had given to some religious institutions, and owing to it a sort of respect had been created in his

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Mantra Vacillation: Experimentation or Distraction?

To a friend who wrote telling me that during japa and meditation he often switched from one mantra to another, then to another and then back to the first mantra. The mind is like a restless child, playing with one toy after another, going around and around. But the yogi must realize that the more a mantra is repeated the

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The Power Is In You

More from our series “Wisdom of Sri Gajanana Maharaj of Nashik” The real power lies in the mantra and this power is also centered in everyone I therefore say again and again, that the real power lies in the mantra, Soham. This power is also centered in you. If you thoroughly realize this power, and become one with it, you

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The Deifying Work of the Holy Spirit in Man

A continuation of our series of postings on the early Christian writings, the mystical Odes of Solomon, written in Apostolic times. Many of the Odes of Solomon are expressions of the illumined soul, as is this sixth ode. It is also an exposition of how the deifying power of God, the Holy Spirit embodied in (and as) the Divine Word, accomplishes

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Random Counsels: Soham Sadhana and More

Random counsels from a letter written to a yogi friend in India. The problem with all exoteric religion is that it eventually leads back to bondage in this world. I am very thankful that I came from a very religious family, but in time that was not enough. Certainly the knowledge of yoga is a supreme blessing. As Paramhansa Yogananda

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Jesus in the Forest feature

Yogis Who Saw Jesus

The day our Original Christianity and Original Yoga website was launched we received an irate communication from one of those Western “Hindus” that believe they are more truly Hindu if they hate other religions–especially Christianity–and deny that Jesus ever existed. Here is our answer:
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The Many Advantages of Vegetarianism

 
You can indeed reap a lot of benefits by being a vegetarian and people have become more aware of the health benefits of being a vegetarian. Animal rights issues is only one of the reasons why people decide to go on a vegetarian diet. People are beginning to care more about the environment. However, the main reason why people go on vegetarian diet is because of health benefits.
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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.

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7 Steps to Misuse Your Power of Thought

 
Thought is power–magnetic power, particularly. That is, thought can draw or repel whatever is thought about, depending upon the polarity of the individual mind. Many times we see that people bring to themselves the things they continually think about, but we also see that thinking about something can repel it from the person.

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