A call-and-response chanting performed in India's devotional traditions.A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankar.The roots of kirtan go back over 500 years to Renaissance IndiaThere are two classifications of kirtan: . Nama Kirtan and Lila kirtanNama Kirtan refers to singing the divine names of one's personal worshipful Deity.The understanding is that the name of God is non-different from God, because spiritual nature is absolute. In this way the devotee can associate with God through
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Some thoughts about the Divine, God, eternal truth, or the many names by which it is called. Why think about God? Thinking about something gives us an opportunity to use our own intelligence, to arrive at more clarity about any given topic, isn’t it. Intelligence is the greatest gift of God. To use it instead of believing something blindly is not a sin. Do not let others mislead ourselves into believing that.Thinking about something need not necessarily mean coming up with the right answer. It c
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Om MaWelcome to the Newsletter from www.SriAnandamayiMa.org!March, 2009Mother AnandamayiBy Mahamahopadhyaya Gopinath Karviraj(Note: Sri Gopinath Kaviraj was considered the greatest living Pandit and philosopher of his generation. For many years the Principal of the prestigious Sanskrit College of Varanasi, he was also a disciple of the great Swami Vishudhananda and had attained an exalted state of sainthood and yogic accomplishment himself. He first came to Ma in 1928 and found in Ma all the man
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Posted by Neil Anthony on April 18, 2009 at 8:13pm
What an amazing contemporary book to read. In some ways it blows apart every pre-conception I had about yoga, the different styles, traditions, and practices. In other ways it now all makes perfect sense, pieces of the jig-saw all coming together in the one defining purpose.The author Yogi Manmoyanand takes the reader through his personal journey, first as a rebel irreverently questioning everything about postures and styles, the difference between "gymnastic asanas" and "spiritual Asana." Then,
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Someone commented to Master Sivananda that the people in a certain place in North India weren't very spiritual. Master Sivananda said, " I don't know about that, when I was there, I had them all dancing ... ( 35,000 people estimated !!!)Why play with voice when you can have Kirtan ?Gopal/Gregg HillRead more…
Hola a todos, os dejo la dirección del blog en español, por si os apetece visitarlo UniversoyogaTambién estoy muy interesada en la ayuda que el Yoga y sus prácticas pueden aportar para minimizar el estrés de la vida actual, y por ello he creado un blog dedicado al tema del estrés y las técnicas para prevenirlo y minimizarlo, aportando todo el conocimiento propio sobre el tema así como artículos de estudios médicos que pueden aportar luz a las preguntas cotidianas.Blog DestresRead more…
The wise man sitting on the cushion made of hay stroked his white beard and smiled. The youngster had asked the same question, however could not have any answer some months ago. Wrestling with the question on his mind for days and nights, the young disciple had attempted once more to have the answer he had been seeking after, at last:"Master, will you not show even a tiniest example about the secrets of transcendence and perfection?"Sensing his disciples decisiveness, the wise man said to himsel
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Listen carefully.If you have held a child in your lap,tenderly, warmly, feeling yourself flowinto your child, feeling yourself meltinto your child,that is how you, too, are being held, always.Your child also holds another child,a future child who is eternally present,in his or her lap.And that child holds a being,living, evolving, eternally present,in his or her lap.And what holds you in its lapis being held by something greater,warmly, tenderly, and that toois being held by something greater stRead more…
Getting out of SamsaraCHENNAI: Every human birth is an opportunity to strive for salvation and this truth is reinforced emphatically in the lives of saints. It is important that each individual becomes self introspective and tries to understand the purpose of life. We have to get rid of the consequences of our actions if one has to transcend the cycle of Samsara.Saiva Siddhanta points out that every act (good or bad) of an individual is recorded and the consequences (joy or sorrow) have to be fa
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Posted by Paul Ricken on March 21, 2009 at 12:35pm
Dear sanjuguru!Thank you for welcoming me!Quote:“Achintya Meditation” consists Pranayam (breathing exercise) , Meditation and yogicnidra ( yogic sleep)Is yogic sleep a dream that you are sharing with others or having the awareness of "day-consciousness"OM Shanti,Paul
Posted by Neil Anthony on March 13, 2009 at 2:32am
I'm just reading a 'sampler' book from this publisher which has extracts from what's classed by some people as Neo-Advaita authors:Awakening to the Dream and From Self to Self by Leo HartongPerfect Brilliant Stillness by David CarseOneness by John GrevanAlready Awake and Being: the bottom line by Nathan GillThis is Unimaginable and Unavoidable by Guy SmithAwake in the Heartland by Joan TollifsonI hope You Die Soon by Richard SylvesterAwakening to the Natural State, Shinning in Plain View, Right Read more…
Today is Holi and tomorrow Dhulate. Holi is a festival of colours and love.May God gift you all the colors of life, colors of joy, colors of happiness, colors of friendship, colors of love and all other colors you want to paint in your life. Happy Holi!Mahendra
सर्व भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्व सन्तु निरामयाः।Let Every Body Be Happy And Free From Diseases .सर्व भदाणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद् दुःखभाग्भवेत्॥Let Every Body Enjoy Welfare and Let None be Distressed .
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My guru, Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Sri Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, is currently in New York on his 2009 World Peace Tour. There will be live webcasting starting today. Go to www.swamiji.tv for more information.During times that there is no live webcasting there are recorded webcasts of previous satsangs playing.
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Viareggio, Italy: April 13, 1999Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja[This is the first publication of the transcription below. Although it is five years old, it is timely. As Srila Narayana Maharaja told the story herein, he was unsuccessfully trying to hold back his tears. In order to wipe his eyes as he was reaching the story’s end, he opened his arms to take hold of his upper sannyasa cloth and slip it under his eyeglasses. He was wearing a very thin garland of tiny lavend
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Show me the way, Lord.I am always your student.I am always in love with you.I am always willing to change myselfto follow the deepest promptingsthat you have planted in my heart.Show me not the answer,show me the right questionsto ask. Show me what is rightand I will try as best I canto do it. I will fail, often.If I ask for something that does not help me,show me the error, and lead me to thatwhich helps me.Show me how to love, Lord.Many things pose as love;how do I sort my way through all the
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