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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 speak or act with a defiled mind is to draw pain after oneself, like a wheel behind the feet of the animal drawing it
Gautama Buddha, Dhammapada 1

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7 Steps to Misuse Your Power of Thought

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. Learn how to avoid these 7 mental traps.

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Can Eggs Be Eaten on a Vegetarian Diet?

Q: I am a student preparing for my civil service examinations next year. Eating meat has greatly decreased my concentration level. Every year for at least a month I eat only vegetarian food before I make a pilgrimage to the Sabarimala Temple. I can feel the difference in my intellectual level during that time. Now I would like become a

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Vote in the Readers Choice Awards for The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening

Hello friends, we need your help! The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening, by Abbot George Burke, was just nominated for the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards! Please vote for it at www.tckpublishing.com/readers-choice-voting. The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening: A Commentary on Jesus’ Sayings as Recorded by the Apostle Thomas has proved very popular and has garnered some excellent reviews. “An

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Sanatana Dharma: a Ploy or the Truth?

To an Indian Methodist bishop who wanted to visit us because: “Here in India I am deeply concerned about reaching Hindus with the Christian gospel, in a way acceptable to them in the language and form they understand. After a lot of research and browsing I have found your way of understanding and presentation of the Christian faith may be

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Why You Should Find the Right Kind of Satsang or Spiritual Association

In reply to a sadhaka living in an area where there were no others of her practice or philosophy. She asked which meditation groups I would recommend to a person looking for some spiritual association. The problem with meditation groups is that they are often for propaganda and keeping people followers of whatever philosophy or guru they have. And frankly,

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Cremation, Organ Donation and Reincarnation

Q: Can you be reincarnated if you donate organs or get cremated? Or does the physical body not come into it at all–is it just our soul and spiritual self? Human beings are made of many layers. When we die we leave both the physical body and an energy body behind–which is why the hair and fingernails of dead people

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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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