Marriage in India According to Pankaj Goyal , as with any other hot-button issue, there are Hindus on both sides of the marriage equality question. When Hinduism Today interviewed various swamis about their opinion of same-sex marriage, they gave a wide range of opinions both positive and negative. Because Hinduism has no central authority, it ..
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When one is really alive one is conscious of his true self, he is really living. Otherwise the body is a tomb that encases the soul and buried as if dead awaiting resurrection. The great masters and yogis are souls walking with a body (aware of their divine nature) and we are bodies walking with ..
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Desires are momentarily pleasing to the senses or the body. A worldly man foolishly tries to please himself with the pleasures of the body and that is all in vain. Those people die of broken hearts having vainly tried for lasting happiness from worldly material treasures. The happiness promised from mortal desires gives sorrow instead. ..
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This is the message from this talk. When Jesus said in my Father’s house there are many mansions he meant there are various states of consciousness acquired during your life on earth which will be your passport to where you will be going to be located in the astral world; that is the sum ..
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There is a message to all of you who are middle age and to those of you younger to heed this message as a clear forewarning. The second part of your life is the most important part of your life. Because you shall be reborn in your next incarnation with the state of consciousness you ..
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Lemon and Baking Soda Combination Saves Lives: The combination of lemon and baking soda has 10,000 times more stronger effect than chemotherapy! Why was this fact kept as a secret? Being totally aware of the powerful properties lemon provides is completely opposite to the interest some world organizations have. One organic lemon with 1/2 tsp ..
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This is aimed at uninformed people who use drugs for recreation or to just get high to escape reality and for the hopeless addicts who need to seek help. The youth and unenlightened of today is going to have some sad awakenings. Anything you take that dulls the senses or anesthetizes the brain will alter your ..
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There is a special warning here for anyone, especially parents and would be parents see below. Part I and part II what you will never learn in school. On the American campus today it is more advantages for a lot of people never to set foot on one. There is all this talk about artificial ..
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These newspaper editors and reporters who peddle leaks and gossip are around like vultures that soar high in the sky but are always keeping their minds eye circling on the carrion on the ground below awaiting their chances to swoop in to pick at the dead carcass. Journalists, professors, commentators, progressive websites, newspapers, radio, ..
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The mass karma of this earth is teaching us some very humbling lessons isn’t it. We are all linked together and bound by common fate and by our own thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. We totally affect our own lives and this helps us bind or liberate the world at large. When materiality predominates ..
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What is the fate of those who do not meditate? Those who ‘save their lives,’ keeping themselves identified with the demands and comfort of the body, and who are reluctant to make the required spiritual labor in the struggle to sit and meditate, will discover eventually he will ‘sacrifice his life,’ of transitory happiness that ..
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Are you not generally happy because the only happiness you get comes from external circumstances and you don’t know why? There is more to the meaning of life than just peace or comfort but you are still unaware of life’s real meaning; most people are searching for happiness everywhere except within themselves where true ..
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This planet is a Cosmic UCLA, a school of wisdom for immortals. Earth is the gladiatorial boot camp where so much learning must be experienced before man is prepared to use his free will to discriminate toward the emancipating patterns of God and all delusive soul-binding patterns of illusion. Man cannot be held responsible for ..
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In this world of relativity, discrimination must be our guide. However, those of you who think you are qualified to give spiritual advice to friends, co-workers or relatives who have not asked for it must realize it is of no benefit to those unappreciative who would snap at their-would be-spiritual advisor with scorn and cynicism. ..
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A guide to motivate you in becoming the architect of your future in preparing for your destiny. The various principles revealed here will completely modify your subconscious influences in playing the proper script of your life on the stage of time and space…..Talks, Meditation & Satsanga
Any drastic or sudden action of any coalition in America or in the politics of the world should not alarm the people in the United States too greatly nor incite in them unwarranted anxiety or fear for the security of their hard-won freedom and their countries safety. From judging the collective bad and good ..
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Dr. M.W. Lewis The Astral Body – 19 Elements Encinitas, 03/19/59) Going on with our discussion of Yoga Explained; last time we discussed this subject we took up from a metaphysical standpoint the Physical Body. The Physical Body is one of the three coverings, so to speak, of the Soul, which prevents us from realizing our ..
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These lectures are the ones given only to the monks as Dr. Lewis was in charge of them while VP of SRF. His young audience included Brother’s: Dharmananda, Bhaktananda, Anandamoy, etc…… Finally after many requests Dr. gave and recorded these precious advanced lectures to a few lay-disciples at the Hermitage in Encinitas. Thus we have ..
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The laws of karma govern out what is measured in the degree of prosperity one has been dealt with in life. Your past karmic actions will determine your financial success not your happiness. In spite of that there are outer circumstances that cause happiness or joy to temporarily express itself from within but to ..
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Don’t think because you are feeling a dry state that one hasn’t enough devotion. Why should you bother yourself because He is not showing Himself to you? When you feel this way think how long you have ignored Him! Remember God chooses those who choose Him. You must meditate more and go much deeper. In ..
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The sleeping tendencies of success in your subconscious mind must be awakened by repetitive efforts of the power of will. If you are a failure, stop wasting time or your willpower will become paralyzed. When your mind is made up on what vocation to follow don’t give up even if the ground underneath ..
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When the two currents come together at the point between the eyebrows they become one. When you meditate do you see any light? Most of us see only darkness, complete darkness, that’s the Kali Yuga state. What does that mean? We all have cosmic light ever present at the point between the eyebrows. You want ..
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For Advance Thinkers. The very foundation of the universe and everything in it rests upon the laws of equilibrium. In the Hindu Sanskrit etymology of nature it is known as Prakṛti or that which can work beautifully by itself. Now what does that mean? The sages have taught through the millenniums the structure of the ..
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How would you like it if your prayers were put on hold because you could not get through? Maybe you should call God’s Complaint Department for Unanswered Prayers. Everybody thinks their problems are the worst. For if you pray from your mind and your prayers are not heartfelt, you are doing a little better ..
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On this planet the good the bad and the ugly are all here together and you are stuck here with the barbarians and the savages but when you leave this world your vibration will be your passport to the hereafter into the astral plane. To enter the higher realms of the astral worlds your vibration ..
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The low information spiritually illiterate may find this depressing. You may classify yourself. Couples under the hallucinogenic influence of emotion and passion make the impossible promises of eternal love. When they leave their bodies the sun shines over their bones in their graves along with the eternal promises they made to each other. Human love ..
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Committing suicide is an extremely grave and fateful spiritual crime. Dim minded people who foolishly hope by ending their life to get away from the miserable burdens of their bad karma have another thing coming; suicide multiplies their karmic burdens by fueling it instead of removing it. Those individuals who have left their bodies in ..
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How would you like to find out who have you been and who you have turned out to be now and what your current karmic conditions are? Some of you have been told you were royalty in past lives and run to psychics, clairvoyants, fortune-tellers and astrologers to gather information on your past-lives and some ..
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In listening to the voice of our own ego, attributing it to an aura of divine guidance one soon learns that no matter how much misguided rationalization one uses, nothing can lessen the karmic responsibility of wrongful actions. This is why the saints and sages say children should be started on the path at age ..
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What are falling angels? They are evil beings who dwell in gloomed drenched regions of the lower astral cosmos working out their evil karma in the nether regions of dark astral worlds in base natures in vile conditions that are primarily dominated by manifestations of evil and they appear from time to time on our ..
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There are universal and cosmic laws that compel man to be active in creation. Everyone in this creation has obligations and responsibilities toward this creation. All the sacred writings and scriptures are full of passages forewarning even those advanced in the inner circle will fall from the heights if or when they choose not to ..
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The bee loves the fragrance of the lotus flower and forgetting sits in his grave while the petals close in on him to its death. The male elephant is lured by his love for sense of touch right into the trap of the tamed she-elephant. How the fish love the water and its taste and ..
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Jesus wasn’t the only Master who spoke in parables I will explain. Why do you think Jesus spoke in parables? His disciples asked him why and he said, “You are advanced in spiritual thought and receptive and the enlarged cup of your comprehension can grasp the oceanic expositions of truth from my own realizations. But ..
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For the mass consciousness of people everything is already pre-programmed and pre-written. There are millions of people on this earth who keep bringing unconsciously upon themselves all kinds of unpleasant incidents, and invite disaster or failure by the power of their own thoughts and set feelings, and they ignorantly blame some imaginary external factor, ..
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Most people measure their intellectual progress by the degree one obtains when finishing their school or college career. When a person grows fat or skinny they can tell how much by weighing themselves. In growing stronger or weaker physically, you can test your muscles by lifting weights; however it is not that easy to ..
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With what is going on in the world these days, Heaven could end up a ghost town. Earnest people who have become content with mechanical worship and spirituality better not take for granted and assume their salvation or deliverance. There is very little value in the eyes of God when verbal praise is offered ..
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There are different phases and types of Yoga. For those of you in `Rio Linda` by definition yoga means Union, there is Jnana Yoga the Yoga of Knowledge or Wisdom. This is the most difficult path, requiring strength of will and intellect, Hatha Yoga the bodily activity for perfection of the body, karma Yoga the ..
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Sexual immorality frequently controls otherwise ethical and moral persons despite their eagerness and purpose to pursue the acceptance of moral correctness. As soon as one is stimulated by act or thought, the sexual force is the most compelling sense desire to be controlled and the most enslaving mortal habit there is to bring into line ..
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If you don’t know what that means continue reading. There is after-death oblivion of consciousness, identity and previous memory. Past memories can be preserved only when your consciousness is highly evolved. As death approaches you enter into a state of coma or unconsciousness and everything is forgotten. Your mind does not remember anything, only ..
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They are astral beings who are earthbound because of their attachments and strong material urges desirous to return to a physical form and roam around in the ether to satisfy their need for sense pleasures. The spiritual master says there are some tramp souls who take possession of someone’s mind and body but only of ..
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Deeply buried within your subconscious mind are multiple personalities from past incarnations. That is why most people are laden with moods which are remnants of past personalities. You may not be born with charisma but you may have had plenty of it in past incarnations. You can develop charisma and bring out your past talents ..
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Those present were, Margaret Lancaster, Laurie Pratt, Virginia Wright, Margaret Wood and Faye Wright. To this group Swamiji speaks of the incarnation following our next existence which, according to Virginia Wright and Florina Darling (Durga) to whom it was told, will be on the planet were Swamiji’s Master, Sri Yukteswarji now exists. According to Swamiji, ..
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It is so obvious but for those in Rio Linda this explanation is so simple that even a 3rd grader can understand. Opening the borders of this country to non-citizens and putting them on the welfare rolls and calling it immigration. That just sent most of the people in this country over the edge ..
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All of the happenings on earth including previous and future events as well as human earthy affairs leave vibratory images in the ether. Those who posses a slight amount of psychic ability or power who have a sensitivity may tune in and see visual images or mental visions and is called clairvoyance. This is only ..
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* * * * * Have you convinced yourself that you utterly refuse to be treated the same way a human animal is and you will not be bound by the sluggish progress of natural evolution. If you don’t you are gambling that destiny will guide your life and you will never become a master ..
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The Universe Is Acting Very Suspicious. Past, present and future are being enacted in one entire colossal finite screen. Long before anyone in the western world could understand the concept Albert Einstein said our entire universe is finite and floating in the absolute. The very foundation of the universe and everything in it rests upon ..
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Do you have the yo-yo syndrome with your emotions when you have a loss? What about with a big win? Emotions are like a moving pendulum with most people. Why? Because pleasure comes with a fulfilled desire and sorrow comes with a unfulfilled desire that is not satisfied. How many times do you have to ..
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31 Articles. Most people are never able to acquire success or make enough money; it does not make any difference how much they try. There are a small percentage of people that automatically tap into their subconscious mind without being consciously aware and are utilizing the laws of success. With these few it is no ..
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Do you want death to surprise you? No, I don’t mean to frighten you; down the road life will take care of that. This is just a humble warning to save yourself much pain and disappointment. You will be astonished as how happy the rest of your life could be without the attendant demands of ..
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Here are never revealed secrets for success. Many people think all they need to make money is to be smart, wrong. While the majority of wealthy people are smart, a combination of other factors comes into play. If you take several thousand money-oriented men, one unswervingly pursues wealth! Out of these unwavering pursuers, only a ..
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There are many serious illnesses medical science cannot heal. Isn’t medicine the power that is supposed to heal? Why isn’t everyone who is ill get healed? It is because medicine is not the main source of curing or healing. But when you’re sick you run to the doctor, but what happens when the limited power ..
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There is still the big unanswered question that has always begged an answer. Why creation and why were we created against our will? Why did He do it? The scriptures refer to God’s creation as His lila or play, a delusive deceptive appearance for the entertainment of man with the interaction of his creator. ..
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1 Through 18….. One. The understanding of karma as the law of cosmic justice underlines life’s inequalities and will serve to free the human mind from hatred and resentment against God and men. To fully understand the law of cause and effect you have to first take the word innocent out of your dictionary ..
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Some are destined to live in times of social upheaval, massive unemployment and war, victims of a painful destiny unable to find peace in the past or comfort in the present time. They suffer from cosmic amnesia; they don’t know where they came from, who they are or where they are going. These are the ..
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A vagrant panhandler went to the richest house he could find. He went through the front gate and strangely there were no guards on duty to stop him. He advanced to the front door and pounded on it until someone answered. A voice rang out “what do you want?” the transient pleaded to the voice ..
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To view Satan as an actual being is rejected as a mere medieval superstition that could be slain like a dragon by the sword of a conquering knight. In the simplest way “what is the devil?” The answer to the big question is creative intelligence. It is a portion of energy and intelligence which came ..
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We are told by the great ones and spiritual masters that a human being has been endowed with only twenty-five percent of free will. Where is the remaining seventy-five percent? It is broken up between karma, pre-natal and post-natal habits deeply buried within the subconscious mind. You can test yourself by taking five of ..
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Also How To Clear Up Misunderstandings of Direct Bible Quotes From So-Called Experts and Writers. Why do you think Jesus spoke in parables? His disciples asked him why and he said, “You are advanced in spiritual thought and receptive and the enlarged cup of your comprehension can grasp the oceanic expositions of truth from my ..
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Is there a test to determine which friends are true friends from the past? Yes, I will explain. What a wonderful experience it is to recognize and meet somebody you knew before, a person with whom you have journeyed the same roadmap of life within previous incarnations. So, in one way we are all strangers ..
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While our souls are still closeted in a powerless body in the womb, memories of the past cause the baby to move around with activity; it incessantly tries to get out remembering breath and not being able to breathe. The baby struggles to free itself from the prison in the womb of the mother’s body. ..
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Acquiring Money Through Luck Here are never revealed secrets for success. Many people think all they need to make money is to be smart, wrong. While the majority of wealthy people are smart, a combination of other factors comes into play. If you take several thousand money-oriented men, one unswervingly pursues wealth! Out of these ..
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There are some who when they sit to meditate obscene, negative and disgusting thoughts stream into their minds. Why does this happen when someone would sit to do a noble thing like meditate? People on the spiritual path do not to want indulge deliberately in degenerate, filthy and sensual thinking but deeply buried within the ..
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What Is Considered The Highest Duty Of Human Service There Is To A fellow Being? When spiritual individuals, instructors or teachers inspire and motivate spiritual fugitives, runaways and escapees to come back that is considered the highest duty of human service there is to a fellow being. The Lord loves to see His children consciously ..
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For Advanced Thinkers… When the yogi retires in the spiritual eye he knows all matter, energy and gases are composed of thoughts. God could not separate himself into something else, so the only way he could make a differentiation with himself was through thoughts. Now what are thoughts? Are thoughts energy? No, thoughts are portions ..
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Astrologers take notice. There are several ways of divining the future with variable dependability. You may foretell a person’s future by astrology, by observing his character, the tarot, palm readings, or by retracing his past lives, however doing this would require the power of omniscience used mostly by prophets in telling future events. Individuals with ..
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Why is everyone enthralled when certain individuals speak and when others say the exact same things the people are not interested? Why are dictators and politicians able to wield awe-inspiring influence even with all their faults? Are you unable to change the minds of people to your way of thinking? What is this secret power ..
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When one finds himself at death’s gate, he will be reviewing in a blaze all habits and desires of his whole life. So quickly he will be overwhelmed by one desire or feeling that will be in accordance with his life’s character. He might have feelings predominantly happy for doing good deeds or guilty for ..
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Anything you take that dulls the senses or anesthetizes the brain will alter your genetic code. Your astral blueprints will then be tainted before your next birth. There is mathematical exactitude in all the genetic code people are reborn with. You may be reborn into a family where a specific chromosome is reactivated to ..
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Our senses deceive us because they tell just the most superficial properties of matter. The senses do not tell the truth and if they did you would see this planet as glaciers and rivers of electrons moving as a mass of light and these atoms can be manipulated by mind stuff. Why did Albert ..
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Your specific development will draw you to a specific teacher. The worst teachers of yoga-meditation whom we criticize today have their role. Everything sub serves a divine purpose from the lowest to the highest teacher, however hopeful aspirants’ and un-awakend souls cannot expect to have their appointed master, sage or guru guiding light to ..
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Do not think you have amnesty because you are in this world and seeking God is a vocation for monks and nuns and you don’t have to abide by the laws which the monks and nuns have to live by. Guess again. The masters have come here to tell you the truth and a ..
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There is a tremendous intensity of dedication requested to those who are taking this path. This path is for stark souls who have had enough of dragging their feet and are willing and dedicated to gradually give more and more to transform themselves. There are some misconceptions on the subject of pranayama and strategy. As ..
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Before you can attract your true soul mate there are a few things you have to know and clean up first. True soul mates do really exist but in life we get what we deserve. There is a problem in married life; you always want to be understood. You cannot; no more than you ..
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What Are the Qualifications and Requirements for Spiritual Teachers? There is a period of psychological curiosity for seeking individuals searching for spiritual answers and we are told during this stage of development God sends them just ordinary teachers and spiritual books for addressing the awakening of these souls. What is the forecast for them ..
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Too many people misinterpret the real meaning of karma. How does karma really work? The effects of good or bad actions in our present incarnation remain in our sub consciousness, and all the effects brought over from past incarnations lie in wait in our super consciousness, like seeds, ready to germinate in a karmically defined ..
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There is physical disease, mental disease, emotional disease, spiritual disease and karmic disease. Now let me reveal to you a side which the science of our days, the medical science has not acknowledged, “evil disease” an insidious disease resistant to medical treatment. Our health is not only biological but it is controlled by cosmic engineers, ..
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In ancient times where the holy ritual of Baptism originated a Hindu saint sitting by the holy waters of the Ganges said to his would be chela, “bathe in the holy waters if you must but know this; you might temporarily wash away and cleanse the mind of sin when immersing yourself in the sacred ..
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And save your soul from thousands of future incarnations.The guru knows the secret thoughts of men and is able to manipulate certain mechanical features of the laws of karma which can be skillfully adjusted by his fingers of wisdom and a true guru is the only one that is able to do this. There are ..
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Which aspect of God are you looking for? First we have the aspect of God in creation that is cosmic intelligence which created the world and the entire universe without form with His infinite intelligence. He permeated every atom of creation with this intelligence. But that intelligence which is in our brain and mind pertains ..
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When karmic disease is imposed upon some from previous incarnations, such as cancer, those who have dragged their feet long enough away from spiritual laws, finally, as a karmic accelerator cancer comes into their life so that they can destroy a karmic bill of many incarnations to come in one single lifetime; therefore, even ..
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What about particles? It is utterly impossible for inanimate particles to be able to put themselves together and create intelligent beings. Based on reason man is a logical spiritual animal and like animals early in life are generally absorbed in inherent animal cravings. This is why when restless children dig, eat, and move around for ..
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What is a uninformed progressive liberal? There are millions of uninformed people who vote and are like babies who like to follow shinny objects. These people don’t care about government, politics, spirituality or health issues; they know more about the latest sensational murder trial and who’s who in Hollywood than anything else and that’s how ..
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Some are destined to live in times of social upheaval, massive unemployment or war, victims of a painful destiny unable to find peace in the past or comfort in the current time. These are the spiritual orphans of the world. There are those who know there is more to the meaning of life than ..
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Be wary in the study of spiritual writings and the self-confidence of your intellect. Why does the spiritual master say “ordinary people are ill-equipped in their receiving to comprehend the truth of deeper wisdom?” Here is a perfect example of what could happen if there is an error in editing or the writers slip ..
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All matter seems solid and different from thoughts and only those who are developed enough can say that all matter are (thoughts) consciousness and energy. Only by realization of the self acquired by years of meditation and especially the practice of a technique called Kria Yoga and by following a masters given advice can one ..
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Do you declare to yourself: I am a Hindu, I am an American, I am a Muslimm, I am African American? If you do racial prejudice restricts you. That is the same as wearing a badge stating what you are. What if you as a Frenchman hate the Hindus, Moslems or the Pakistanis? With the ..
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Are you happy with the way you look? Do you think for one minute that your physical looks and body was designed by God alone? No my friend, you have contributed much work on it. With wrong thoughts and actions you will see faces that reflect much cruelty and bad actions. You see your appearance ..
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Your subconscious mind has within it an entire dossier where you shall be judged at the end of your life. At the end of every incarnation you will be presented with all the records of your subconscious mind, the specific dossier of every thought, word, feeling and actions which you have acted upon since your ..
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There are two ways to study karma, the Eastern and the Western way. In the West your thoughts are not considered evil unless someone commits evil actions. But Eastern ethics tell us otherwise. When our thoughts and feelings are evil, that alone is considered evil. You have freedom before you act and the results of ..
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When criminals break the laws of the land, they are condemned and sentenced accordingly to what is required by the provisions of the laws that were broken. But the president of the country or the governor of the state is empowered in mitigating circumstances to let the lawbreaker off with a lighter sentence or to ..
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In a mountain cave that has been lodged in darkness for eons, a lone lighted match can dislodge the darkness in an instant, just as the accumulated ignorance of ages can be dispersed by an enlightened yogi with the illuminated torch of wisdom. There are those who have been painfully dragging their bodies around all ..
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It is truly rare to see a “free” man or woman. Most men and women think they are free while their consciousness is completely shackled in psychological chains. These are not like ordinary chains for in their subtlety they are even harder to get rid off because of the difficulty in recognizing them let alone ..
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The Master was giving a Satsang. For those of you in `Rio Linda` a Satsang by definition means listening to spiritual discourses from learned and holy people. This is Satsang. The Master was chuckling as he gave an analogy. “In old India donkeys are used for carrying laundry. In seeing a puddle of mud the ..
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Most people believe that karmic seeds from the past remain buried in the superconsciousness and subconscious mind which consists of three brains, physical, astral and ideational. Dormant traces of bad karma and bad habits are very well implanted there and they are known as samskaras. These traces of bad karma and bad habits remain inside ..
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20 Talks of Turiyananda How To Avoid Reincarnation and Karma-Guided Multi-Stage Meditation 1. These are talks of condensed training to guide and motivate you in becoming the architect of your future in preparing for your destiny. The various principles revealed here will completely modify your subconscious influences. 2. Hear the advice of playing ..
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