In the great tradition of the Bhagavad Gita and other Eastern sacred scriptures, it is often said that the gateway to the Divine is through the heart of love, the path of Bhakti, the path of intense passion and...
According to the five functional distinctions of speech, action, movement, excretion and procreation we determine the individual characteristic of the motor organs. There are functional distinctions among the sensory organs also: the ear receives sounds, the subtlest of the tanma'tras, and so it...
Introduction
In this article on kiirtan, I shall explore some of the writings of P.R. Sarkar on kiirtan and its place of origin. If one was asked how long do you think that kiirtan has been popular, most people probably...
If Patanjali had been a woman, he may have sounded a lot like Nischala Joy Devi. An internationally renowned yoga teacher, she is the author of The Secret Power of Yoga, a book in which she uncovers the “heart...
As a wholetimer I make a point of wearing my uniform wherever I go. I think it’s important. All too often we make the excuse of not being able to do so, citing local cultural, religious or legal restrictions....
Chetana, mother of Jai & Rahika. Living in Melbourne. Grew up in India in a Margii family.
YS: Chetana, you grew up in a Margii family in India, at a time when Baba was still physicality present. What sort of...
Our body is an essential dimension of our spirituality. By re-examining our understanding of the relationship between the body and spirituality, I believe that we can develop deeper and more authentic sadhana. As a community, integrating embodiment more fully...
How might we explain the actual experience of meditation when it's a practice meant to usher us from the physical, into the mystical? On the one hand, try and explain beauty in terms of dynamism of flow, spontaneity and...
Any Margii who was around even up until the 1990’s knows the shadow that fell over us when just about the only thing the world knew, or thought it knew about us, was that we were terrorists.
We are not...
P.R. Sarkar defined Neo-humanism as when the sentiment of humanism has been extended to plants, animals and the inanimate i.e. when the practice of universal love is extended to all created beings in the universe. And whilst this is...