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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.”
A Yogi’s View of Christian Scriptures
When Paul writes (Ephesians 5:14): “Thus God speaks through the scriptures: ‘Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light,’” which scriptures is he referring to? The King James Version simply has: “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” And so does the Greek
Krishna and Jesus: Are They God, or Teachers, or What?
Q: Is Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead or just a teacher like Jesus? Krishna is not Parabrahman, the Absolute Being, and Jesus is not the Godhead, either. Nor are they “just teachers,” either. Both Krishna and Jesus were perfect siddhas, thoroughly deified persons, truly god, having evolved through all the worlds of relative existence and transcended them in total
How and Why You Should Transcend Raga and Dwesha (Attraction and Aversion)
This article on Raga and Dwesha is an excerpt from The Bhagavad Gita for Awakening, by Abbot George Burke (now available here). However, with attraction and aversion eliminated, even though moving amongst objects of sense, by self-restraint, the self-controlled attains tranquility (Bhagavad Gita 2:64). The words translated “desire” and “hatred” are raga and dwesha. Raga is both emotional (instinctual) and intellectual
The Inner Meaning of Bhagirathi’s Penance to Bring Down the Ganga
Q: Is there an esoteric meaning of Bhagirathi doing intense tapasya to bring Ganga to earth? Also, what is the significance of Lord Shiva and the redemption of Bhagirathi’s ancestors in this episode? There is a symbolic, esoteric meaning to this, but that does not mean that the account in the shastras is only symbolic. The Ganga is the water
Possession and Obsession by Negative Entities, and How to Protect Yourself
Q: What is “possession” by spirits? It is the same as “obsession”? This is a most important subject. Possession by negative entities is absolutely possible, although obsession is much more common. Let us look at both phenomena. What possession is Possession occurs when an entity actually enters into the body of a physically living being (it need not be a
Sexual Scandals the World Over
Q: Can you comment on the continuous sexual scandals in the Catholic Church, and why it is that western people and the Catholic Church never understood what celibacy is about? First, such scandals are not just in the Catholic Church, but in Protestant churches as well. But they, too, get hushed up. Because of the Catholic Church’s size and prominence
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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.