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Wisdom Quote of the Day
“It is necessary to strive to achieve silence of spirit, because there can be nothing good in a stormy soul. When you calm down you will be wise and will be able to achieve much. I told you about the inner silence: that is the true state of a recluse and a hermit.”
Elder Michael of Valaam

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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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The Journey to God Through the Practice of Yoga

Part 3 of Making Attraction and Aversion Work For Us, Not Against Us, a commentary on the 7th Ode of Solomon, written in Apostolic times (to be available as a paperback and ebook later this year). For he it is Who is incorruptible, the perfection of the worlds and their Father. This is an exposition of the nature of Ishwara. If

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New Book Now Available: “The Unknown Lives of Jesus and Mary”

The Unknown Lives of Jesus and Mary Compiled from Ancient Records and Mystical Revelations, by Abbot George Burke, is now available as a paperback and ebook at Amazon and other online retailers. *** “There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not

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How and Why God Draws Us to Himself

Part 2 of Making Attraction and Aversion Work For Us, Not Against Us, a commentary on the 7th Ode of Solomon, written in Apostolic times (to be available as a paperback and ebook later this year). My joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward him. This is a completely theocentric matter. God is the total focus. As the desert

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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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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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