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Samadhi by “Giving the Life to God”: Ishwara Pranidhana
Yoga Sutra 1:23: “Or by total giving of the life to God.” This could legitimately be rendered: “Or by total merging of the life with/into God.” This is NOT a mere: “Here, O Lord, take my life; I give it to you.” Find out more.
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
Worship of God in Meditation or in Church: Which Is True?
Q: In meditation, I feel myself OF God; in church, in the sacraments, I feel a “surrender” to God. Both are beautiful and in my mind, they are compatible energies, one feeding the other. But, I would welcome your thoughts on this matter in the event I am missing something or perhaps “confusing” energies. Your experiences of meditation and sacramental
Why Meditation Can Be Unpleasant, and Why This Can Be a Good Thing
Drilling through the layers It is not uncommon for meditators to complain about negative traits arising in their mind which they believed were already eliminated. It should be understood that the meditator is like a geologist boring through strata laid down through millions, even billions, of incarnations. Let us say we have been greedy to an extreme degree in a
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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.