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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
“Through the power of pure reason and discrimination, you must be able to differentiate the essentials from the non-essentials in religion and philosophy. Then only can you be happy.”
Swami Sivananda

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Buddha’s Words About Attention

It is important for us to comprehend about attention, for if loose lips sink ships, then lax and unaware minds sink lives. Find out what Buddha says about attention.

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The Christian and Psychic Phenomena, Part 1

This is the first of a series of postings on the authentic Christian view and attitude regarding psychic Phenomena “The angel which shewed me these things saith he unto me, I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets” (Revelation 22:8). “God hath set some in the church,…prophets,…miracles…” (I Corinthians 12:28. “The mystery of Christ…is now revealed unto his

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Political Correctness

In days when things need to be politically correct, this cartoon is very apt: What would people want Moses to say on Mt. Horeb now? This cartoon is used with kind permission of Rex May at baloocartoons.com.

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Sitting Like the Buddha

When Gotama Buddha sat beneath the bodhi tree he vowed that until he was enlightened he would not get up even if his flesh and bones were to be dissolved. This is why it is said that Buddha got enlightenment because he knew how to sit. His “sitting” was in the consciousness of the Self, not just the body. So

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Eternal and Universal Dharma (Part 4 of What is Dharma?)

This post is the fourth and final of a series where we present our view of dharma, which we view as the teachings of the dharma which Jesus brought back from India. Dharma is Eternal The principles of dharma, like the principles of mathematics, are both eternal and universal in their application. Just as mathematics has no originator or author

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Four Fundamental Facts of Existence (Part 3 of What is Dharma?)

This post is the third of a series where we present our view of dharma, which we view as the teachings of the dharma which Jesus brought back from India. There are four fundamental facts of our present existence: The law of cause and effect, or action and reaction, expounded to us by the rishis as karma. Karma renders necessary the

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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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