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New at Sacred Visions Art: Deity Paintings and Sacred Landscapes
We have launched a new category at SacredVisionsArt.com, Sacred Landscapes of India, featuring five artworks that depict the serene beauty of India’s sacred sites. See them here.
What is Yoga?
“Yoga” is a Sanskrit word that means “to join.” Yoga is both union and the way to that union. What do we join through yoga? First, we join our awareness to our own essential being: the spirit whose nature is pure consciousness. In yoga philosophy this is known as the Atman or spirit-Self. Next, we join our finite consciousness to
Part 2 of “What If?”
This is Part 2 of a guest article by Paul van Oyen of the Netherlands, who has done extensive research into the time Jesus Spent in India. The full text of “What If” can be found here. The message of Jesus Christ was to alleviate the suffering of the people and to teach them to focus on the transcendental reality
What If?…The Implications of Jesus’ Time in India
This is Part 1 of a guest article by Paul van Oyen of the Netherlands, who has done extensive research into the sojourn of Jesus in India. The full text of “What If” can be found here. The significance of Jesus’ studies in India and Tibet for us today If we take Jesus’ sojourn in India and Tibet as a conceivable
New Content: Text of the Aquarian Gospel
We will continue to add content to OCOY.org, and have recently added the complete text of the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi Dowling. What is the Aquarian Gospel? Here is the beginning of Abbot George Burke’s Introduction to the Aquarian Gospel: In 1908 a book appeared on the shelves of American bookstores that was destined to garner
19 Exceptional Web Resources for Spiritually Minded People
An essential part of spirituality is conscious growth and evolution. And an important aspect of growth is the willingness, even a thirst, for learning: what works, what doesn’t work; what helps and what hinders our spiritual life. We can learn from the wise, who have cut paths through the dense forest of ignorance, or who have successfully followed those paths,
How to Develop Intuition
An article by Paramhansa Yogananda from the October 1939 Inner Culture Magazine Intuition is that directly perceiving faculty of the soul which at once knows the truth about anything. Unless you have the power of intuition, you cannot possibly know Truth. It is the knowing power of the soul without the help of the senses or the mind. Intuition can
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Yogis Who Saw Jesus
The Many Advantages of Vegetarianism
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.