Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) Q: What is the Virgin Mary? Is she a saint? An avatar? Divine Mother of some sort? What is the difference between her and the mothers of other avatars? I can only reply to your question according to my own study and my personal experience. … Continue reading
A response to someone who asked how increase their meditation time from meditating 30 minutes to 3 hours of meditation.
What is the mind? Sanskrit and Pali have the same word for mind: mana. Mana comes from the root verb man, which means “to think.” However, mind takes in more territory than the intellect; it includes the senses and the emotions.
A selection from Abbot George’s Commentary on the Four Gospels It is imperative that we discover the real meaning of that spiritual state to which Jesus called his disciples. The Beloved Disciple John in his epistle speaks of those that overcome the world (I John … Continue reading
Today we are beginning a new series of occasional blog posts: selections from Abbot George’s Commentary on the Four Gospels, which he is currently working on. We begin with his introduction.
Arjuna looked out at the battlefield, and seeing those he loved and even revered was overwhelmed with the enormity of killing them, and expressed his feelings to Krishna. Krishna’s reaction to this impassioned speech was to smile and say: “Your words are wise, Arjuna, but you are wrong.”