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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.”
Worship of God in Meditation or in Church: Which Is True?
Q: In meditation, I feel myself OF God; in church, in the sacraments, I feel a “surrender” to God. Both are beautiful and in my mind, they are compatible energies, one feeding the other. But, I would welcome your thoughts on this matter in the event I am missing something or perhaps “confusing” energies. Your experiences of meditation and sacramental
Why Meditation Can Be Unpleasant, and Why This Can Be a Good Thing
Drilling through the layers It is not uncommon for meditators to complain about negative traits arising in their mind which they believed were already eliminated. It should be understood that the meditator is like a geologist boring through strata laid down through millions, even billions, of incarnations. Let us say we have been greedy to an extreme degree in a
Paramatma, Prakriti and Jivatma: Three Concepts You Need to Understand to Pursue God-Knowledge
Q: I am wondering about the concept of Paramatma, Prakriti and jivatma: Why have a construct of Paramatma, Prakriti and atma/jivatma? Why not simply have Paramatma, without the need for any existence, any Universe, creatures or beings, given that Paramatma is eternal, unmanifest, not of Prakriti, and does not require Prakriti or jivatma to “be,” whilst the latter two require
Soham Yoga Now Available in Paperback and as an Ebook (and for Reading on Our Website)
We are happy to let you know that Abbot George’s latest book, Soham Yoga: the Yoga of the Self, is now available for purchase on Amazon and other online outlets. It is also available for reading on the web, each chapter a separate web page, and as a free downloadable PDF on our eLibrary page. We have revamped our Home Page and
How Karma Affects Our Thoughts and Actions
Q: Would you address the interaction of karma and bad choices (for example, self defeating, free will choices in life possibly made from a poor sense of self esteem). If they do affect each other, how does one affect the other? Simplistic statements are usually not very trustworthy, but I believe we can safely consider that our experiences within relative
Anandamayi Ma’s Instructions on Diety Puja (Image Worship)
Q: Could you tell me the procedure to perform the standard Deity Puja as it is done in India? I can tell you something much better than that. I will tell you how Ma Anandamayi told me to do puja. During a conversation with Ma I asked her if the basic form of doing puja by making offerings with simple
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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.