Balakhilya das spent one week in Khabarovsk, at the holiday village on the bank of the mountain river Knor. The busy everyday schedule of events included lectures, kirtans (group mantra meditations) and individual meditation practices. It is surprising, but true spiritual progress can be made even over such a small period of time. All the retreat...
More1.MEDITATION WITH MANTRA
We want to thank many people: the musicians, first of all, for a very nice musical presentation and all the theatrical activities. Very nice, very funny, very informative. Actually, this has given us something to think about. We will be talking about that a little bit. And, of course, we thank you very much for coming. Very nice to see you and know that you...
More2. WHO WE ARE BY NATURE
All the information that I will be presenting comes from the Vedic scriptures. The Vedas are very ancient scriptures that were written down 5,000 years ago. However this knowledge is eternal. So prior to being written down, this knowledge was passed down orally from one perfect master to the next. Such a line of perfect teachers is known as a disciplic...
More3. THE WORLD SEEMS UNFAIR
The material world, as we see it, seems very unfair, unjust. It does not seem like it is the way it should be because there is so much variation, it’s so wide in difference. Why is it that some people are born very rich and some people are born very poor; some people are born very beautiful, some not so beautiful; some very intelligent, some not so...
More4. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD
We learn in the Vedic scriptures many, many details about life. And also other scriptures mention these things. We learn from the Vedas: number one, we are spirit soul. We have just learnt that now. This is a Vedic revelation: we are not this material body, we are spirit soul. We also learn that we are really not from this world. There are two worlds or,...
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