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How a Vegetarian Diet Affects Your Yoga Practice
You cannot lessen the effect of yoga, but you can certainly lessen or even prevent your responsiveness to it and the effect it will have on you. Therefore you should understand responsiveness to yoga practice and the Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet.
Swami Rama of Hardwar (Ram Kunj) | Podcast
Click here to listen to Swami Rama of Hardwar (Ram Kunj) if you do not see the player above. The podcast length is 11:06 minutes. Late one afternoon when I was staying for a while with Srimati Rani Bhan and her family in Delhi she told me that we (Rani, her son and I) would be going to see a Kashmiri saint
The Purpose of Life, and How to Attain It
Sutras 23 through 26 of Book Two of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Yoga Sutra 2: 23. The purpose of the coming together of the purusha and prakriti is the gaining by the purusha of the awareness of his true nature and the unfoldment of powers inherent in him and prakriti. This is an expansion on what has been already said,
My Karma Made Me Do It
To someone who wrote asking about involvement in an avocation for the enjoyment of it. Our lives are an unimaginably complex system composed of innumerable influences. Any simplistic view or opinion must by their very nature be irrelevant and often (usually) wrong. Karma is an irrevocable and all-encompassing law. Nothing can be done that is not in our karmic store,
Four First-Class Sadhus | Podcast
Click here to listen to Four First-Class Sadhus if you do not see the player above. The podcast length is 16:00 minutes. Sadhu: a seeker for truth (sat); and a person who is practicing spiritual disciplines. Usually this term is applied to monastics. In this podcast, Abbot George relates his experiences with four monks he met in India that were definitely of the
Is Initiation Necessary?
Q: Some say anyone can practice meditation and some say only initiated persons should meditate as it could be dangerous for some. What is true? Over half a century of yoga practice have demonstrated to me that anyone can practice authentic, traditional yoga safely and with benefit. By “authentic” I mean what is taught in the eleven principal upanishads (Isha,
99¢ New Year’s Awakening eBook Sale
To start the new year off well, we are offering all of our Amazon Kindle ebooks by Abbot George Burke on sale for only 99¢ until after January 14th. This includes both of our published books in the “Awakening” Series, The Gospel of Thomas for Awakening and The Dhammapada for Awakening, as well as May a Christian Believe in Reincarnation?
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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.