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May Satsang Signup – Religious Imagery Podcast
Our May online satsang with Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) will be on Saturday, May 4th, at 12 noon, EST. Visit this page to register. Also, listen to or watch a recent podcast on “Religious Imagery and the Yogi.”
How to Overcome Grief at the Death of a Loved One
In reply to a friend who wrote asking how to overcome grief at the death of a loved one. Please accept my heartfelt sympathy over your great loss and sorrow. Karma determines all the aspects of our life, especially birth and death. Therefore your action or inaction could not effect when your beloved son would leave this world. His karma
Yajna (Sacrifice): The Many Meanings and Practical Applications in the Bhagavad Gita
Q: May I ask for your explanation of the true sense of yajna [sacrifice] and Adiyajna [Primal Sacrifice] as used by Lord Krishna, and is it found in the sacred teachings of The Christ? Although we naturally equate yajna with the fire sacrifice, agnihotra, yajna basically means any kind of offering. Those who publish and distribute books of spiritual and
Thinking of God: the Perspective of the Serious Sadhaka
Q: With regard to the particular means of thinking of God: are you advocating the traditional forms of cultivating our relationship with God through perceiving the Divine as Mother, Father, Child, Lover or even a Transpersonal Tao? No. Such an approach is totally egocentric: “I want a Mother, Father, etc.” This is most crassly expressed by the oft-cited statement: I
What to Do About Sleep in Meditation and Other Problems
To an Indian Christian friend who asked about experiencing blankness and spontaneous bodily movements in meditation. I am very happy that you are meditating regularly. This is so very important. It is also good that you are meditating longer. Sleepiness It does happen sometimes that the meditator gets into a kind of blank or tamasic state in meditation, and may
Friends: What Serious Spiritual Aspirants Need to Know
Q: What are friends? Is it good to have friends? Books can be written on the subject of friends and friendship, so I will confine myself to the perspective of a seeker for higher consciousness: a sadhaka. Not a religious or philosophical dilettante, but a committed yogi. A true and worthwhile friend is one whose company is both elevating and
Eclecticism in Religion: Is It Good?
Q: What is your opinion of those who preach the gospel of eclecticism? There are those who because of their past life involvement with various religions need to pick up the threads of those religions and follow them to some extent. One of my teachers at California State University, Los Angeles, had grown up in Hawaii attending a church that
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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.