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"God is kind. He teaches us through our experience that our desires are our enemies
and that the sense-objects are wombs of misery.
Still we crave for them and suffer! Whose fault is it?
Ours only. Why, then, blame God?"
Papa Ramdas
Grace of God Alone - Love for It's Own Sake
A devotee can know everything when God's grace descends on him. If you but realize Him, you will be able to know all about Him. You should somehow meet the master of the house and become acquainted with him; then he himself will tell you how many houses he owns and all about his gardens and government securities."
Paramhansa Yogananda on the Importance of Meditation
A rare audio recording from the Master
"Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition..."
Major Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“The Self manifests externally as Guru when occasion arises; otherwise He is always within,
doing the needful.” Sri Ramana Maharshi in Talks
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Devotee: “How long is the practice to continue?”
The Maharshi replied: “Till success is achieved and until yoga - liberation becomes permanent. Success begets success.
If one distraction is conquered the next is conquered and so on, until all are finally conquered.
The process is like reducing an enemy’s fort by slaying its manpower - one by one, as each issues out.” (Talks #28)
Major Teachings of Sri Anandamayi Ma
"To tell the truth, while some people undoubtedly do approach this body in quest of Reality, very many come only to get their desires and longings fulfilled. By sorrow does the Lord dispel sorrow and by adversity does He destroy adversity. When this is done He sends no more suffering — this must be borne in mind at all times" Sri Anandamayi Ma
Major teachings from the Saints on Spiritual Life and Practice
"As the lotus dies without water, as the night is blind without the moon, So is my heart without you, Beloved.
I wander alone at night, driven by my longing for you. I hunger for you all the day..". Mirabai
The Rugged Path - A Personal Letter from Swami Sivananda
“Realization of the Absolute is not a talk, is not a play. It is the most difficult and the hardest of all tasks. It demands the price of one's very self. Will you really and willingly pay it? It demands your ego. It demands your very being as the cost for Self-realization.”
Dhamma Talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu from Metta Forest Monastery
Love Me, Love my Defilements
"The concept that a lot of modern people find very hard to accept is that their minds have defilements. They think that their minds are perfectly fine, that there is nothing dirty or defiling in their minds. Although there are types of Buddhism that teach that we all have a Buddha Nature, the Buddha Himself never taught that!"
From the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ - Meeting of the World Sages -
Presentation of the seven universal postulates
“Man was evolved a seed of everlasting life; but in the ethers of the Triune God the light was far too great for seeds to grow. And so man sought the soil of carnal life, and in the darksomeness of earth he found a place where he could germinate and grow...The quality of soul that makes it possible for man to rise to spirit life is purity.”
Gentle Hatha Yoga
This one hour session of Gentle Hatha Yoga will guide you through positions (asanas) that are uniquely suited to achieve an easy but profound union between the body and the higher mind, being taught by one of the most famous instructors of the Hawaiian Islands. Those attending ranged in age from 15 to 75 (or older if the truth be told).
A Meditator’s Guide for Reducing Stress
Choose any Name of God you wish; such as Om, Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Buddha.
Sit upright as comfortably as you can, gently close your eyes.
Make the mind cool and still. Do not allow your meditation to become your opponent.
Approach meditation as a real friend, allowing adequate time to become best friends.
Dealing with the habits and tendencies which interfere with the practice of Yoga.
The student who tries to practice Yama-Niyama brings with him the momentum of all kinds of tendencies from previous lives, and in spite of his resolve, the undesirable habits and tendencies in which he has indulged assert themselves strongly and force him to act, feel and think in ways which go against his ideals. What is he to do under these circumstances?
The Lord, Who is in all things, is NOT in all thoughts
In our "modern" times, the fast-food approach to spirituality and religion is a most sought for commodity. This mind-set, technically referred to as Neo-Advaita, is in traditional scripture referred to as pramada - spiritual death. Although the Gita's fundamental philosophy declares that the Atman does not ever die, the human capacity to reveal and awaken the consciousness of the Atman can be crippled unto death.
The Spiritual Enemy Within - Pramada
The Sage Sanat Sujata is indicating that the presence of pramada brings about a spiritual death. Thus the spiritual madness that at first manifests as indifference, inattention and negligence becomes deadly because it is directed towards God. This is not to be defined as forgetfulness of the Self, unless one admits to a willful and belligerent forgetfulness.
The Final Words of Saint Francis to this World
When the hour of his death approached, St. Francis caused all the Brethren, who were then at Our Lady of Angels, to be summoned; and consoling them for his death with sweet words, he, with paternal affection, exhorted them to Divine love, to patience, to poverty, and to constancy in the faith. Then he added: "Farewell, my children, in the fear of the Lord, and abide always in it. And since the time of tribulation and temptation is approaching, blessed shall they be who shall persevere in what they have begun. I, indeed, have done what I had to do; may Christ teach you what you ought to do!"
The Mystical Meaning of the Sermon on the Mount - Lectures 1, 2 and 3 and more...
The Mystical Meaning of the Sermon on the Mount, given by Jesus to all mankind. These rare lectures, the first 3 of 11 parts, were given by Swami Jyotirmayananda of the Yoga Research Foundation.
Rumi says: "Always prefer Cash over Credit
There are three types of secrets… Those hidden from people...Those hidden from angels...Those hidden from self.
What's hidden from people can be explored in seclusion. What's hidden from angels is the discovery of the truth.
What's hidden from self is achieved in union with the absolute Truth.
I Lalla - Poems of Lal Ded
The road I came by wasn't the road I took to go...As I stood on my mind's embankment, the day faded...
I looked in my purse and couldn't find ...Shiva's name to give the ferryman.
Remembering the Beloved
Heart is a fish: don't leave it dry...Irrigate it with the remembrance of God:..It will flourish then.
This self is a jewel: don't lose it...Lord is the Beloved...He will thus be pleased.
Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi on Prayer and Faith in God
“If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be mere seekers,
but have become one with God, for truth is God...
Prayer has saved my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.”
Performing the highest form of worship
Your daily worship should remain dynamic in the sense that it will change as your spiritual progress proceeds. Thus, your prayers will change to conform to the aspirations of your mind and heart.
The important thing is to stay focused on the prayerful supplications, and that the physical offerings are only vehicles that carry the prayer to God. The finer and more beautiful the offerings are, the greater they should reflect the virtues you are seeking.
Traditional Meditation and Spiritual Life
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This lecture on the traditional methods of meditation and spiritual practice in the East was given at a University in the United States. It covers not only meditation practices but all aspects of successful spiritual practices.
A Smile, the Highest Operation of Grace
There is so much that can be said about a smile; indeed the exaltation it brings is indispensable even for saints. Saint Francis de Sales once said: “A saint who is sad, is a sad saint!” Indeed, smiling opens the heart and lets your light shine. Scientists claim that it encourages good health; it reduces stress, increases the endorphin flow (the inner happy chemicals in the blood) and it is contagious.
Metanoia, part 2 - Changing our mind to Higher Life from "The Mark" by Maurice Nicoll
It is not sorrow or repenting in any ordinary sense that brings about a change of mind. Man may sorrow, but not to the point of metanoia. Yet there is a special kind of suffering that leads to metanoia and it is of this suffering that Paul speaks when he contrasts it with the ordinary suffering of life: 'For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation . . . ; but the sorrow of the world worketh death' (II Corinthians vii.10).
From "The Bhagavad Gita - God Talks With Arjuna" by Paramhansa Yogananda
Every man has the power to resist the influence of sense-identified, habit-bound existence. This power of renunciation does not involve any loss to the devotee, but gives him the opportunity to remove and forsake all those things that retard his spiritual progress.
From the Philosophy of Gorakhnath
Mahayogis thus point out how the Ultimate Reality and the Ultimate Ideal of our life presents Himself every moment in the constitution of our body and is within our easy reach.
From the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Master: “This second view is held in the Devi Purana. According to it, Kali Herself has become Krishna; but what difference does it make? God is infinite, and infinite are the ways to find Him.”
Meditations on the Holy Mother - Victory over Death
Enter here and finally hear for yourself the Truth the Lord declared to mankind at the moment of death:
"What you are today, you will be tomorrow!" Read More
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Bhagavan Sri Krishna declares to Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita
'Through Bhakti one comes to know Me perfectly: who I am and what My atributes are,' The Bhakta fully realizes Sri Bhagavan in his own Self. And what is He, the Great Lord?
An enlightening commentary on the Bhagavad Gita is found within the Great work:
A Peep into the Gita by Swami Purushottamananda Ji of Vasishtha Guna.
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