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The Beauty of the Bhagavad Gita

Spiritual resolve has to be cultivated if we are to maintain our interest in staying the spiritual path.  This sankalpha shakti is cultivated through our practices.  And hopefully, a dedicated Kriya practice will purify and refine our energy and mind.  But our mind and energy is affected by everything in our environment, by everything that [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Sthira and Sukha: Finding Stillness & Joy through Asana

Sthira and Sukha: Finding Stillness & Joy in your Practice of Kriya Hatha Yoga   Science and mysticism agree that although from the outside we appear very solid, we are nothing, but waves of energy.  Mysticism explains that spiritual evolution is dependent on the proper functioning of those waves.  Kriya Hatha Yoga is a spiritual [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Deepening Your Practice – Babaji’s Kriya Hatha Yoga Teacher Training

2016  DEEPENING YOUR PRACTICE         –    A Kriya Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Durga Ahlund and M. G. Satchidananda A Hatha Yoga Intensive and Teacher Training Two week Intensive Residential Training as preparation for        a 1-year / 300-hour BKY Teaching Certification                & Yoga Alliance Registration.   SESSION  begins at 7pm on  Wednesday, June [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is a Gift and a Blessing

Babaji’s Kriya Yoga is the Yoga of Awareness Since I was a child I have been asking the questions, “who am I?… and, where in the body does my I-ness exist?”  The Siddhas of this Kriya Yoga Tradition answer this question.  They tell us the body is a vehicle, which brings Divine conscious energy to [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Nature versus Nurture

Nature versus nurture is the age-old debate over what is more important in developing man’s behavior in life?  On one side is Tabula rasa, the “blank slate” theory, that one is born without any mental content, or behavioral tendencies, and  consequently, behavior depends entirely upon one’s subsequent experience and perception.  Generally, proponents of the tabula rasa theory say [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Planting Good Seeds in Fertile Soil

 The Holiday Season brings up thoughts on the teachings and practices that have most profoundly affected my life, and me during the past year.  Anyone wishing to gain any real results from Yoga must be committed to serious and constant study of how it works. The regular practice of asana, pranayama and meditation is impactful [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Giving thanks to Shakti, my guiding force

On this Thanksgiving Day, I give thanks to that friend within, that essence, which is and always has been present for me, which is comforting, wise, challenging as it has pushed and carried me forward from year to year. Throughout my life, even as a small child, I have been in contact with something that I deemed a divine consciousness,  meet in dreams, deep meditation [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

The Universal Community and Our Place in it – Part 2

THE MINIMUM TRANSFORMATION OF ALL ? What would be the minimum transformation demanded of each of us?   What could we do individually that would be useful for the world at large… 1) Surely, there would be the demand that you as an individual develop and represent the best of your self, offering that best self to all who  [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

The Universal Community and Our Place in it – part 1

No man is an island unto himself.   Never has man lived alone.   All record of mankind shows him to be a social animal, not isolated in body and spirit.    Except for the notable exceptions, like the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Moses, Mohammed, and Socrates, etc, the law of the tribe has always overridden man’s individual [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Reflections on the Sky

The School of Ancient Wisdom just outside Bangalore is a very special place, with a strong Theosophical vibration.   We have been giving seminars there for the last ten years.   It was built aobut 20 years ago, designed and funded by a lovely architect from Singapore.  Madame is an creative spiritual dynamo and mystical visionary who [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

Face-to-face with the appearance of change

What a surprise it was to experience Delhi this year.   The gleaming glass and chrome Indira Gandhi International Airport.  Long gone are the long lines through rambling corridors, dreary arrival hall, sticky floors, smoothering smells, the rush to stand at the luggage carousel hoping that your bags will finally arrive.   Everything now works like [&hellip[ READ MORE ]

One particular day and moment in Badrinath

The ashram in Badrinath will be completed in the next few years.  All kinds of obstacles have hindered progress, but on this day I feel nothing but enthusiasm and can envision the first six apartments completed and ready for use by summer of 2012 and the Meditation Hall construction well on its way towards finishing [&hellip[ READ MORE ]