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Shree Maa- Trip to India- Travels in Banaras

~~OM~~ >Double Click the Video to Play< Listen to Shree Maa and Swamijis’ travels in the holy city of Banaras.

Shree Maa – Trip to India – Train to Banaras

We were on the train to Banaras. It was dusk and the sun’s light was gentle and soft. Shree Maa and Swamiji were sitting besides the window in our train […]

Shree Maa- Trip to India- Banares by day and night- March 27-29, 2008

Shree Maa and Swamiji are in Banares! Picture taken March 27-29, 2008- Banares.   Picture taken March 27-29, 2008- Banares.   Picture taken March 27-29, 2008- Banares.   Picture taken […]

Recite one scripture or many?

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Dissolving Sivalinga!

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Photo of the week – Mar 14 – Mar 20, 2008
(Picture taken March 2008 at Devi Mandir, Napa, CA)

After Sivaratri, we dissolve all 1008 clay Siva Lingas in the creek

Should one chant from Devanagari or from transliteration?

Conflict in Worship

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Unhappy Endings

How to keep Balance in Giving

What is Taking Refuge?

Swamiji at the Monroe Institute

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In 1987, while on one of their several tours throughout the United States visiting devotees, spiritual communities, and seekers; Shree Maa and Swami Satyananda met Robert Monroe at his institute in Virginia Beach.

Throughout the years, Mr. Monroe has written several books documenting his, originally, spontaneous out of body experiences. Over time he discovered a relatively simple process for inducing various levels of meditation and even out of body experiences in virtually anyone. He called this process Hemi-sync, and established an institute devoted to researching the ever increasing therapeutic uses of his discovery.

Briefly, Mr. Monroe discovered that by synchronizing brain waves of the two hemispheres of the brain, by means of playing separate pulses through earphones into each ear of a subject; one could be brought to ever deeper levels of meditation and finally to a full out of body experience.

This tape is a record of Swami Satyananda’s experience with Hemi-sync. And, it should be said that though Mr. Monroe has, over the years, guided hundreds of explorers to the farthest reaches of the Universe and to many levels of subtlety, the Swami’s experience was unique.

What Mr. Monroe heard was as follows. For devotees of the Mother Goddess, it speaks for itself.

Listen to Swami Satyananda at the Monroe Institute:

“I exist everywhere, in every time, in every object, in every form. But especially in those who know me in love and delight. Those who come to peace can come to love; those who are devoid of their own selves. Open your hearts and share with one another. Know that each and every form that you see is merely my reflection. Take joy in life. Be at peace. Be happy and share.. ” Download transcript: DOC

What is the Great Delusion of the Heart?

Story of Horse Sacrifice

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Ashwamedh means the use of wisdom for the benefit of society. It’s the horse sacrifice. The use of the wisdom of uccishrava, the horse of wisdom, which symbolized the dominion of the kingdom.

In the old Ashwamedha Yagya, a horse was set free, well adorned and decorated, followed by a great army. And wherever the horse roamed into the neighboring kingdoms, those kings would come out and they would either challenge and stop the horse which meant that they would do battle with the army; or they would accept the horse as an emblem of wisdom and they would surrender and unify the kingdoms into an empire.

And that way they reduced the amount of conflict in all the neighboring states by creating a unity in wisdom.

Yantra, Mantra, and Tantra

How to cultivate Vairagya

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