Spiritual knowledge is not learned academically. It is not discovered in remote places. It actually descends from God Himself. The truth comes from the source of the truth and that is the Supreme Lord. So the religions of the world today have some beginning, “Oh, it began at this place and at this time,” and so on like this. But that is not the...
More2. Where is our real home?
There is a very clear picture that one can develop. We are spirit soul. That we have described. Whether we accept it or not, that is the truth. These bodies are very temporary. They are always sources of misery. It is said that in the material world this is one of sources of our sources of misery – the body and the mind. Don’t we continuously...
More3. A gift that we don’t appreciate
And the human form of life gives us an opportunity to achieve this. The human form of life is very, very rare. Again, we don’t see this, basically we are blind to the reality of life. Very rarely does the spirit soul get a human form. Think of it. Go into the forest one day and just stand there, and look around, observe what you see. How many trees...
More4. The secret!
The process of bhakti yoga is the system; this is the secret. There is a big movement, I don’t know how popular it is here but in America it was very big. “The secret”. It started out as a book which became a number one bestseller, then I think they had made a movie of it, “The secret”. And people were so excited about “The secret” and...
More5. Gauranga Nitai-Gaur meditation (theory and practice)
Now that you are a little more familiar with the teachings and the mantras and the technique, we are going to do them a little longer. And we are going to make an effort to enter into the meditations a little more deeply. Now we can think less about how to do it and more about the quality of how we are doing it. Remember in our Gauranga Nitai-Gaur breathing...
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