For those on the spiritual, self improvement/awareness path
There has been one very old esoteric school known as the school of Essenes. Jesus was taught in that school; he belonged to the Essenes group. That Essenes group is the only group all over the world who thinks of God as absolute darkness. The Koran says God is light, the Upanishads say God is light, the Bible says God is light. The Essenes group is the only tradition in the world which says that God is absolute blackness, absolute…
Summary: If you’re ‘here’ to attain something then you’re missing it. Mind is nothing but goal-oriented, you have to drop it. Englithenment is a realisation. Life is moving from perfection to perfection, life does not have a purpose because it IS the purpose. Hindus call it Leela (play… NOT game). The west is focused on game. A game has a result to be attained, a victory, opponent to be conquered. Grown-ups play games, children only play. Life is a Leela,…
I don’t allow non-vegetarian food in the ashram has nothing to do with religion, it is just pure aesthetics. I am not one who thinks that if you take non-vegetarian food you will not become enlightened. Jesus became enlightened, Mohammed became enlightened, Ramakrishna became enlightened — there has been no problem about it. You can take non-vegetarian food and you can become enlightened, so there is no religious problem about it. (Paras note: I know people who don’t eat meat that have…
I beseech all yoga lovers, yoga teachers and truth spreaders to spread this message. You know it means a lot when you see ‘beseech’ in a sentence. With all the yoga gimmicks popping up we need to remember the real meaning of yoga. What you know as yoga is really called asana/pose/posture and only an eighth of what true yoga really embodies. Below is a summary of the 8 limbs of yoga followed by pictures to make it clearer:1 –…
TED Talk video at the bottom of this page – Over 80 percent said that a major life goal for them was to get rich and another 50 percent of those same young adults said that another major life goal was to become famous. – For 75 years the lives of 724 men were tracked, asking about their work, their home lives, their health, and of course asking all along the way without knowing how their life stories were going…
“Anthropologists have long known that Native Americans reared courageous, respectful children without using harsh coercive controls. Nevertheless, Europeans colonizing North America tried to “civilize” indigenous children in punitive boarding schools, unaware that Natives possessed a sophisticated philosophy that treated children with deep respect.”~ The Circle of Courage “The Circle of Courage is a model of positive youth development first described in the book Reclaiming Youth at Risk, co-authored by Larry Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern. The model integrates Native American philosophies of child-rearing,…
