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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
“Many words with those whose ways are opposed to ours are enough to disorganize the inwardness of an attentive man.”
Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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The Safe Path of Yoga

Even to try the path of yoga for a while and then abandon it, or to try it and fail, or to follow it and die before making any significant progress–all these will result in tremendous benefit. Find out more.

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Perspectives on the Subtle Anatomy of the Yogi

A selection on the Subtle Anatomy of the Yogi, from Perspectives on Yoga: Living the Yoga Life, now available at Amazon.com. It is good for the aspiring yogi to have some theoretical knowledge of his subtle anatomy, for that is the inner mechanism which comes more and more into function on the conscious level as he progresses further and further toward

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What is a Worthy Spiritual Teacher Like?

A selection on the Spiritual Teacher, from Living the Yoga Life, a new book by Swami Nirmalananda Giri. In the Srimad Bhagavatam (11.7.33-35) the first human guru, Sri Dattatreya, describes how he had twenty-four gurus, including elements, planets, animals, insects and human beings. A guru is something or someone which gives us a push in the direction of higher consciousness,

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The Upanishads for Awakening: a New Book from Light of the Spirit Press

We are happy to announce that Abbot George Burke’s new book from Light of the Spirit Press, The Upanishads for Awakening: A Practical Commentary on India’s Classical Scriptures has been launched on Amazon as a paperback and ebook at all Amazon stores. (This universal link takes you to the book page at the Amazon store of your country.) With penetrating insight,

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Karma: What Every Aspiring Yogi Needs to Know

A selection on Understanding Karma, from Perspective on Yoga, a new book a new book now available on Amazon and other online bookstores. Everything, without exception, material, or immaterial, arises from a cause, and is a revelation of that cause. Because of this, everything has a meaning. Those who believe in karma should carefully analyze their life situation in order to

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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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