Serve and guard the light, never allowing doubt, distrust, or despair to creep into your life. Bring the light of goodness and godliness to your own Prag-Jyotis-Pura and keep the lamp lit to draw others to their divine light. Try to see the same light in nature—the light that draws all life together, that emanates from one source and that leads, draws and guides all life onwards.
Read moreThe Cosmic Vibration of Prana
Astronomers bring us to the threshold of pure Yoga philosophy with their assertion that we see only ten percent of our universe. The ninety percent that is imperceptible to our senses exists as potential to be penetrated by our minds. We must bring that light of consciousness within our minds to a similar state of vibration of cosmic light to be aware of the rest of the vast, yet unseen, universe.
Read moreThe Birthright of Every Soul
The purpose of Yoga is seeking our largest, most enduring and most powerful identity. In this process we realize a potential consciousness that may seem dormant or undeveloped but is ultimately the most powerful, meaningful and sublime reality of Life.
Read moreLight of Pure Consciousness
How do we utilize the light of consciousness, the knowing faculty of the soul? We can describe the ways that the light of pure consciousness manifests and grows in “terms of enlightenment.” First of all, the soul, as God in man, is Pure Consciousness, Suddha Chaitannya.
Read moreOur Legacy and Our Future
In religion, in the arts, in science, as in many fields of human relations and vocations, representatives as pinnacles of achievement emerge to help us and to teach us. We continually turn to those whose examples we need and respect for their experiences to inspire and nourish our development. In their presence and with their encouragement and guidance, we find ourselves ennobled and enriched.
Read moreThe Breath of God and Pranayam
“To live is to breathe” is to assert the obvious. We do not need medical science to tell us that the whole marvelous mechanism of the human body stops when breath departs. Otherwise stated, however perfect the physical body is, with the absence of breath it is but a corpse. Yet there is more to know about breathing than the obvious, and from the spiritual heritage of Yoga comes the invitation to learn to expand what it is “to live.”
Read moreThe Authority of the Mind
By what power does the mind color our vision and govern our personality? Is the mind an entity which, once set in motion, proceeds of its own will to be the final authority to our consciousness?
Read moreThree Ways of Living
Buddha’s many stories are teachings, rich with illustrations from animal and human life, helping us to discover and perceive as he did that the Eternal lives with us here on earth in companionable ways. In one Nirvana Sutra (teaching on self-realization) he brought to mind three ways of living by describing how three animals - a hare, a horse, and an elephant - cross a river.
Read more"Tapas" as Spiritual Discipline
The meaning of discipline in yoga is self-mastery. The Sanskrit term used by Patanjali expresses the goal: “Tapas” is “that which generates heat or energy.” Discipline in yoga philosophy as explained by Patanjali is the practice of directing or channeling energies towards a spiritual goal and thereby realizing greater light or energy.
Read morePeace of Self-Subjectivity
Every person craves self-composure and strength of calmness, yet few people are willing to devote even a few minutes of their day to find themselves in silence and solitude. Yet we can free ourselves from the habits of worldliness and get into the peace of self-subjectivity in many beautiful, meditative ways…
Read moreDivine Messengers
The Angels, Gracious Light of Soul, bending near the earth in me touched the golden heart strings of my heart and the worlds in silent obeisance lay to hear their voices: "Peace and Joy! Peace and Joy unto All!”
Read moreThe Yuletide Tree
O, if we could meet other humans beings with as much love and respect as we do our beloved Yuletide Tree! If we could recognize how they too came to live and grow on earth, striving for growth, for light and companionship of their surroundings as we do.
Read moreGuidance
Who, or what leads us? How are we led? What is the goal of guidance? The ideal of guru is profound and universal, not delimited by human association nor confined to any one religious tradition. It is inherent in the unfoldment of cosmic life as well as human spirituality.
Read moreAshvattha
While we live on earth we must learn to see trees (as all living beings) in another way: As coming from above, from beyond creation. From an unseen source beyond heaven itself and extending downwards into the realm of Creation and, finally, to Earth—bringing the unmanifest Soul into all our surroundings.
Read moreGuru-Disciple
In the purest light of God-consciousness there is no relationship nor any bond as sacred as that between guru and disciple. Purely spiritual and divinely ordained by the cosmic law of self-unfoldment, that mutual bond of soul continues to guide and inspire the path of self-illumination which leads to absolute oneness in the perfection of God.
Read moreGandhi and the Ashram Ideal
Awareness of life as spiritual through identification and practice is no less a priority for the householder or student than it is for the “renunciate” or “sannyasin.” If we believe it to be so, then we condition spirituality by the personality or condition of the body, thus contradicting the oneness of life.
Read moreI Am An Absolute Monist
That which empowers the senses, enlightens and guides the mind, and sustains the body is Cosmic and ultimately One.
Read moreWhy Self-Revelation? What is it?
Revelation of the Self is the ONE characteristic that distinguishes human life from all other beings in creation.
Read moreOur Church Life
Self-Revelation, Atma-jnan, is the ideal and the spiritual heritage of our church. We are here for the knowledge of the Soul. But there is a second purpose—that of sharing the life.
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