Category Archives: ADVAITA & YOGA

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Heart Opening Pose: By Christine Wushke

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This pose naturally opens and expands the chest, making this pose an excellent opportunity to practice an open heart meditation. If at anytime during the practice of this meditation you are no longer comfortable in the pose, bend your knees, and roll onto your side and rest for a while.

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1. Take 2 folded blankets, and stagger them, so one is on top of the other, and the top blanket is pulled about 2 inches back. Fold the top blanket under at the other end, to make a pillow.

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2. Lay on your back with the base of the spine touching the bottom blanket. Let your shoulders roll under and open the front of the chest.

3. Let your body sink into the pose, let your chest open a little more, and soften your breathing. Focus for a few moments on feeling the nourishment in your breath. Continue reading →

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Bhagavan Ramana’s Blessing to Sri Muruganar

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Place your burden
at the feet of the Lord of the universe
who accomplishes everything. Continue reading →

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The Red Dakini and Enlightenment: By Satya Chaitanya

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Paulo Coelho’s The Manual of the Warrior of Light begins with the following story:

‘Just off the beach to the west of the village lies an island, and on it is a vast temple with many bells,’ said the woman. The boy noticed that she was dressed strangely and had a veil covering her head. He had never seen her before. Continue reading →

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No One Left To Be Enlightened! By Divyaa Kumar

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“Don’t worry, be happy.”

Suddenly everybody’s singing this song, and there is much talk about a change in world wide consciousness ushering in a new dimension. And perhaps you look around and wonder, or even scoff, but by understanding what is really meant, you can instead add to this happiness quotient rather than to the doubts and worry. Continue reading →

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Enlightenment Happens! By Divyaa Kumar

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When I began my so-called spiritual journey, enlightenment was far from my mind! What I was looking for was a better life and at the most some abstract notion called peace of mind. And oh yes, most certainly a quick fix method to jump start me out of my current problems! But enlightenment? That sounds an impossible concept and one usually leaves it for another life time …or for those we perceive as holier than thou! Continue reading →

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Ramana On Two Ways to Self-Realization: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar

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Bhagavan Ramana

Sri Ramana used to say that there are two ways to Self-Realization. Continue reading →

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Our DNA: The Source and Goal We Call God: By Divyaa Kumar

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We often think in terms of Gods creating us; but in truth it is we who create our gods! As humans, we sense our purest qualities, but unable to accept them as ‘self’, we view them outside us initially…and call these our Gods and Masters. It is actually vision of Self – our highest ideas of Self encoded in our very Dna- but unable to claim these within us, we project them onto a ‘god’ outside. Continue reading →

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Make Beauty The Path Home: By Divyaa Kumar

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MAKE BEAUTY THE PATH HOME!

All of us are attracted to beauty- be it beautiful things, people or places! And today I want to show you how to make beauty one of the easiest, simplest and most direct paths back ‘home’ to God or Divine Self! Continue reading →

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Ramana on Psychic Powers: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar

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Today, we see that the New Age spiritual business is literally a circus. There are so many gurus and many different types of “spiritual masters” offering a variety of services and products including enlightenment, super natural miracles, healing, and so forth. This is nothing new and in every age there are such people.

The path of Yoga has many branches, and not all of them are the straight path to Self-Realization.

Bhagavan Ramana

I find amusing that many of the so called “spiritual masters” who claim affinity with Bhagavan Ramana (to  bolster their own status) actually teach things which are completely opposite of what the Sage of Arunachala taught. Continue reading →

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Bhagavan Sri Ramana: By Swami Viswanatha

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Note: Swami Viswanatha’s father was Bhagavan Ramana’s elder cousin. Swami Viswanatha came to Bhagavan Ramana at a young age and shortly after decided to dedicate his life to spiritual practices.

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MY FIRST darshan of Bhagavan Sri Ramana was in January, 1921 at Skandashram, which is on the eastern slope of Arunachala and looks like the very heart of the majestic hill. It is a beautiful quiet spot with a few coconut and other trees and a perennial crystal-clear spring. Bhagavan was there as the very core of such natural beauty.

Bhagavan Ramana as a youth

Bhagavan Ramana as a young person

I saw in him something quite arresting which clearly distinguished him from all others I had seen. Continue reading →