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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
“To live and move in Brahman is real brahmacharya. Continence, of course, is very helpful and indispensable to achieve that end. But so long as you identify yourself with the body, you can never escape sex-thoughts and distractions. It is only when you realize that you are formless pure awareness that sex-distinction disappears for good. That is brahmacharya, effortless and spontaneous.”
Ramana Maharshi

Latest Blog Posts

Ignorance in Religion - Turning Wisdom Upside Down

How to Avoid Ignorance Disguised as Wisdom

Krishna has already told us that the sole purpose of yoga is the realization of the Self and the liberation that produces. It is not hard to conceive that this should also be the intent of religions. But it rarely is. Find out why.

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Beyond gain and loss to our eternal nature

Bringing Forth Our Eternal Nature

A lot of time is wasted “cultivating virtues” and pursuing yogic “attainments.” As Sri Ma Anandamayi often pointed out, getting implies losing. So any artificial progress we may make will evaporate in time. What is necessary is that we learn to bring forth, to reveal, our eternal nature.

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Hagia Sophia dome

Remembering Our Destiny

We all come into this world with a destiny that is known to us on the subconscious level, and which often trickles up on the conscious level. This destiny is what the Bhagavad Gita calls swadharma.

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Gita Talks website

New Gita Talks Website

In order to create a more focused environment for watching the Gita Talks videos and studying the Gita, we have created a distraction-free dedicated website for the talks, appropriately called Gita Talks. Find out more here.

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Gita Talks

Gita Talks News

We are glad to share news about our new audio podcast show, based on these videos, available on most Music and Podcast apps: Gita Talks–Talks on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Nirmalananda Giri.

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Featured Articles

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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