What is Veda?
You may think of Veda as the records of an ancient culture of the Indus valley that spread east across the Ganges plain and the rest of modern India. You may think of the Veda …
Category: History
10 Reasons Why Gandhi Became A Hero
In the first year of this blog, I posted a summary of an article called Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World. It was one of the more popular early posts here because it …
Forms of Love
I’ve written before on the power of love and the distinction between an identified emotion we call love and the deeper Love that is the flow of life itself. The Greeks classified love as having …
The Blood Line
On this site, I emphasize those two aspects of unfolding enlightenment called sattva and atman, clarity and consciousness. It was a prominent theme in my SAND talk. However, from the Ayurvedic source of this, there …
Chasing Demons
I ran into this quote online: “Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön… describes how Milarepa reacted when he came home to find his cave filled with demons. First Milarepa tried reasoning with the demons. But they ignored …
Deep Yoga
Last year, I did a series of articles on the Yoga Sutra, emphasizing how Yoga (union) was much more than postures. It’s also useful to be reminded that Yoga is much older than the commonly …
Merciful God
[Maharishi asks himself this question] “How do you know that God has been merciful in creating Man? “God has created eternal bliss in the innermost area of Man’s personality. In the innermost region of Man, …
What is Nonduality?
Recently, this article rolled out and I thought it might be suitable for the SAND web site. I’m giving the stages talk at their conference this fall. They agreed and the article goes live next …
The Means Destroy Ignorance
Recently I’ve been reading a small book called Strange Facts about a Great Saint by Dr Raj Varma. The curiously titled book was written by a student of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati. The Swami was a …
NonDuality and the Divine
A friend of mine raised a series of reasons why he felt someone who considers themselves a “nondualist” in modern thinking might object to the Guides and Awakening video done by Kristin Kirk that I …
Why Is There Pain?
This one requires a bit of an introduction. In the ’60’s and early 70’s, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi worked on translations and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita and Brahma Sutra. While he was urged to continue …
It’s A Beautiful World
When I was in grad school a few years ago, I saw a late edit of a film by Richard Beymer called It’s A Beautiful World. It was a sort of Making Of film, following …