I Love Your Silence!
Bhagavan Ramana
This world is full of words
spewed out in excitement
creating noise and confusion.
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The Mother of all Chai: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
The Mother of All Chai
This morning I skipped breakfast and made instead the “Mother of all Chai”, my special Vegan Chai recipe.
I grated fresh ginger root, grated fresh turmeric root, added five cinnamon sticks (maybe more) and a lot of whole black peppers as well as lot of Fennel seeds, Anise seeds, and Ajwain seeds. Not stopping there, I added many whole Cloves and Cardamom seeds.
The I put the mix in a large pot of water and brought the pot to a boil.
After letting it simmer on low for ten minutes, I added loose black Darjeeling tea to the mix and let it simmer for 5 more minutes.
Using a strainer to pour the liquid in my Chai mug, I added Soy milk and then sweetened the mixture with stevia.
Finally, I sat down and sipped the Chai slowly and watched as this magical potion gently energized me and made me…
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Nirvikalpa Samadhi – Two Different Perspectives: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
The Sahasarara and the Spiritual Heart
Harsh K. Luthar
Question On 01/20/2000 From Gausima
I accidentally found this on the internet while searching for something else, and was wondering what type of Nirvikalpa Samadhi it was referring to and if anyone had any knowledge of this.
“once an ordinary person achieves Nirvikalpa Samadhi, he leaves the body in 21 days.” In the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, on page 245, it says, “Trailanga Swami once said that because a man reasons he is conscious of multiplicity, of variety. Attaining samadhi, one gives up the body in twenty-one days. . . ” (Ramakrishna was talking to his devotees.)
Namaste,
Gasusima
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Speaking of Robes, Broken Vows and Imperfection…
Insights on the human condition from yogini mystic writer Mira Prabhu
When I moved to Dharamsala (seat of the Tibetan Government- in-Exile located in the foothills of the Himalayas) on the eve of the new millennium, my life changed overnight. You see, I had just left the world’s craziest city (Manhattan) for a small mountain town in northern India and was almost totally unprepared for what I was to encounter.
As my eyes opened to a new world of seeing, my views began to transform. For instance, I had long harbored a multitude of unchallenged assumptions about those who consciously enter the spiritual path; one such assumption was that all those who wore monastic robes were blessed creatures emanating love and light. After all, I subconsciously reasoned, most had taken the Boddhisattva Vow in one form or the other—which is to become enlightened for the sake of all beings—and which therefore meant they had to be perfect, right? RIGHT?
So I was both…
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My Trip to the NY Arunachala Ashram for Guru Purnima 2016
I selected a few pictures from my stay (July 21 to July 25) at the NY Arunachala Ashram for Guru Purnima. Continue reading “My Trip to the NY Arunachala Ashram for Guru Purnima 2016”
Can an animal attain Self-Realization?
Bhagavan Ramana generally went along with the Hindu orthodox traditions and rarely contradicted them. But there were several notable exceptions.
One exception involved his own mother who lived with him despite the fact that Bhagavan was a Sadhu, a renunciate.
The second exception involved animals around him whom Bhagavan gave equality with human beings.
Once Bhagavan said, “It is not true that birth as a man is necessarily the highest, and that one must attain realisation only from being a man. Even an animal can attain Self-realisation”. (‘Day by Day with Bhagavan’ 2-9-46)
Day 2: KRISHNA’S COUNSEL – PLEASE NOMINATE ME ON KINDLE SCOUT!!!
Mira Prabhu’s book KRISHNA’S COUNSEL. This is Mira Prabu’s second novel. Please nominate!
Analysis Of The Mind Or Transcendence? By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
Analysis Of The Mind Or Transcendence?
Bhagavan Ramana’s teaching of self-inquiry is fundamentally different than the schools of thought which focus on self-improvement through a variety of motivational approaches. Sri Ramana used to say that when you are going to throw out the trash, you need not spend time analyzing its contents. He was referring to the mind.
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ARUNACHALA, NOT ABRACADABRA
Mira Prabhu sharing and sending her greetings from Arunachala. ❤
“Why don’t you teach an analytical meditation at my learning center?” a woman asked me. It was a bright morning in Rishikesh, and while I loved my new apartment with its spectacular view of the Himalayas, my heart was heavy with confusion about the future. I did not like the commercialization of this ancient city, nor the sharks I encountered, mostly wealthy urban businessmen who had bought up all the apartments in my enclave for ‘investment’ purposes and appeared to have few ethics.
“All right,” I agreed, albeit reluctantly; perhaps it would do me good to teach the Seven Flavors of Samsara, an analytical meditation on the nature of relative reality that I had learned from a powerful guru, and which I occasionally shared with those perplexed about the nature of reality—particularly those who agonized over why bad things happened to good people and vice versa.
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Ahimsa Is The Highest Virtue
Ahimsa Is The Highest Virtue
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