Entries from February 2008

February 28, 2008

You eat what you are

 
Great post from Atma Jyothi blog. Check it out.
“The food which is agreeable to different men is also of three sorts. So, too, are the kinds of sacrifice, austerity and giving. Listen; this is how they may be distinguished.”
-(Bhagavad Gita 17:7)
It is interesting that these three things are major indicators of the dominant [...]

February 28, 2008

What should be our attitude – Sri Aurobindo

 

From Light for students – Thanks to Surasa
People sleep, they forget, they take life easy — they forget, forget all the time…. But if we could remember… that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a [...]

February 26, 2008

Gayatri is Kamadhenu

Source : Super Science of Gayatri by Pt. Sri Ram Sharma Acharya

Kamdhenu is another name of Gayatri. Devata means a person who possesses divine nature. If a person having divine nature worships this great power, he drinks spiritual milk from the breasts of the Divine Mother. He is saved from all botherations. The basic [...]

February 24, 2008

Yoga’s forgotten foundations

Free online book from Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami from Kauai’s Hindu Monastery. Its a nice read, nothing heavy and with lot of examples from our daily life.
Check it out here  (The document is about 6MB so it might take some time to download).
 

February 23, 2008

Love and sincere prayers bring success in your life

Discourse given by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai Baba on the occasion of Christmas, 2004
How is it that the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening       with utmost regularity every day?How is it that the stars twinkle beautifully in the sky at night and       hide themselves during the day?How is it that [...]

February 23, 2008

Activation of Internal power centers by Gayatri Sadhana

Source: Super Science of Gayatri
There are many large and small, visible and invisible glands in the body. Yogis know that some specific energies lie hidden in these glands, ShatChakras (six energy centre) related to the Sushumana are quite well known but there are several other such glands in the body. The utterance of different [...]

February 21, 2008

Shiva’s cosmic dance at CERN

Reference: Fritjof Capra
On June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva — a 2m tall statue of the Indian deity Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of Dance. The statue, symbolizing Shiva’s cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to CERN [...]

February 21, 2008

Crossing Paths with Sai Baba – Caroline Myss

Thanks to Edgelife.net
(Caroline Myss, a renowned medical intuitive who lectures all over the world on the untapped potential of the human spirit, is the author of four New York Times best-sellers: Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can, Sacred Contracts, and her latest effort, Entering the Castle.)
I gradually had [...]

February 20, 2008

Dialogues with Masters – Interview Series

Interesting collection of interviews with different spiritual masters. Check it out.
Dialogues with the Masters

February 20, 2008

Hidden Messages in water – Masaru Emoto

A few months back I saw the movie, “What the bleep do we know“. It was a very interesting movie which tried to describe the metaphysical connection between science and spirituality. I felt it even touched on a few concepts of the need for self discovery a la Vedanta. Check out the trailer [...]