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May Satsang Signup – Religious Imagery Podcast
Our May online satsang with Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) will be on Saturday, May 4th, at 12 noon, EST. Visit this page to register. Also, listen to or watch a recent podcast on “Religious Imagery and the Yogi.”
What Are the “Seven Spirits of God”?
Q: Revelation 4:6 speaks of “a Lamb…having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth” (Revelation 4:6.) What are the “eyes” and what are “the seven Spirits of God”? In Ezekiel and Revelation various supernatural beings are described as being “full of eyes” to indicate that they are fully conscious,
Who Are the 24 Elders in the Book of Revelation?
Q: Please explain the twenty-four elders standing around the throne of God. It is most important to realize that the book of Revelation is purely spiritual symbolism and not prophecy at all. Rather, it is a book of mystical teaching, relating especially to the esoteric experiences of the evolving consciousness. Paramhansa Yogananda stated that it is a book of yogic
Bhagavad Gita for Singing, Maharshi Gita, and More
We continue to add more useful content to OCOY.org, and this month have added three important articles: The first is the The Bhagavad Gita for Singing , a translation of the Bhagavad Gita arranged according to the meter of the original Sanskrit text so it can be sung–as it is done every morning in most of the ashrams of India. The second
Yogananda on America’s Good Karma
Swami Yogananda was officially presented to President Calvin Coolidge by the Hon. J. Balfour, Second Secretary of the British Embassy, on January 24th, 1927. President Coolidge can be seen standing in the window. A special 4th of July article extracted from a talk by Dr. M.W. Lewis given in San Diego,California on June 22, 1958 Patriotism Patriotism, when considered in
What is Yoga?
“Yoga” is a Sanskrit word that means “to join.” Yoga is both union and the way to that union. What do we join through yoga? First, we join our awareness to our own essential being: the spirit whose nature is pure consciousness. In yoga philosophy this is known as the Atman or spirit-Self. Next, we join our finite consciousness to
Part 2 of “What If?”
This is Part 2 of a guest article by Paul van Oyen of the Netherlands, who has done extensive research into the sojourn of Jesus in India. The full text of “What If” can be found here. The message of Jesus Christ was to alleviate the suffering of the people and to teach them to focus on the transcendental reality of
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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.