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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
“Remember, habits are nothing but crystallized concepts and by exerting yourself you can alter your habits and develop a character which will express spiritual truths. One overcomes difficulties in spiritual life by determination, not by confusion. Know what you want to get, and it is yours. You have all the tools.”
Swami Gnaneshwarananda

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The Religion of Ignorance

What Jesus said to his disciples about those who propagate ignorance, from the Gospel of Thomas Jesus said, The pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge [gnosis] and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.

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Vegetarianism: an Interview of Abbot George on Australian Radio

About a month ago, Bianca Vlahos of Adelaide, Australia, became a vegan for a multitude of reasons. She researched the topic exhaustively and found several articles about aspects of vegetarianism on our website (See Spiritual Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet and Humans: Are We Carnivores or Vegetarians by Nature?) She is a radio announcer and producer at PBA-FM in Adelaide,

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How to Wipe Out Negative Karmas

Q: Please help me: In some religions if one commits a sin and then sincerely asks for forgiveness the same is granted. On the other hand in the Hindu philosophical thought, one has to keep on being reincarnated until all the Karmas have borne their fruits. How do we reconcile this? Karma is a law: whatever we sow we reap–for

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Mother Teresa of Calcutta – A Different Kind of Christian

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Winston Churchill Like Christ her master, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a source of controversy at many times during her life, and continues to be so, especially at this time of her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church. Her heroic example of uncompromising compassion has

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How to Benefit the Most from Your Spiritual Pilgrimages

The last of five blog posts about our recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land (see part 1 here) PART 5 – Having it here, having it there Note: to see the images in this post full size in a new tab, simply click any  image. Like our trip to Israel and Palestine, our 2003 pilgrimage to India was a magical experience. After

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We Visit the Land of Jesus’ Beginnings

The fourth of five blog posts about our recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land (see part 1 here) PART 4 – Nazareth, Cana, and Galilee Note: to see the images in this post full size in a new tab, simply click any  image. The Byzantine (Greek Orthodox) Church has a significant presence in the Holy Land, which includes guardianship over the most

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We Discover Ancient Christianity in the Judean Desert

The third of five blog posts about our recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land (see part 1 here) Part 3 – Desert Christianity Note: to see the images in this post full size in a new tab, simply click any  image. In the fourth century when the Egyptian bishop Saint Athanasius wrote “The Life of Saint Anthony” he helped to open a

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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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