May 17, 2023 Houston texas My experience as a devotee in ISKCON Temple. I lived over 12 years as a full time devotee in the international society for krishna consciousness. ( ISKCON ) I served as a bhramachari ( single male ) and was...

May 16 2023 11:40 am Stubbornness of the psyche Now I will be writing on the stubbornness of the psyche. Although I’m not qualified to handle such a massive subject, I was asked to write about it anyway.Just like you would ask someone...

Monday May 16 2023 9:50 am Failure to log. Why it was so difficult for me to keep a log My assignment today is to write about why it was so difficult, and why it took so long for me to keep a log. In my yoga practice I was given this...

May 17, 2023 Houston, Texas . Family attachments in my psyche My Background Today I would write about my family attachments in the psyche. From the moment I was born into this family, until the present day, my immediate family and I...

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“One may have the greatest guru and still not make advancement, while another student with even a not-so-great guru might excel because of persistent application of techniques.” Kundalinī Hatha Yoga Paradīpikā p.14 In my view, InSelf...

A very interesting and good summary of ascetic types. Not to worry too much about the nitty gritty details here and there but it is a good summary overall.     

May 15th 2023 6:05 pm It has been three days since I hadn't spoken except for emergency reasons , and it would only be a few words . Everything else we want to say to each other we would write on a paper and show it to each other....

Monday May 15, 2023 We would now look at some of the other things we did while here in Houston . We first visited the Iskcon temple, but not before we had some of the meals they had to offer { prasadam } at the Govinda restaurant ....

Pressures from fate. https://youtube.com/shorts/fYWFgKH-L9w?feature=share

I'm a bit surprised that no other Yogis on this site did not cover this historic event. LOL! I'm kidding. However, in this modern age these ceremonies have become less relevant to the general population but not for the newly crowned...

On December 14, 2022, Yogeshwarananda took control my subtle head. This was unusual because it was done in the astral existence and not while I practiced with the physical body. It is possible to get yoga instructions and to practice...

The scientific view about how lifeforms evolved. Is this consistent with religious statements?

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/07/diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-choking-on-sewage-and-waste?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=EN_TESTMay&utm_content=diseases-mosquitoes-filth-indias-urban-centres-are-c...

This is a link to the pdf on "WHY DID SCIENTIFIC RENAISSANCE TAKEPLACE IN EUROPE AND NOT IN INDIA§" https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol45_2_5_AKBiswas.pdf A good scientific article on this historical topic...

After millions, in fact billions of years, on a small planet, it came down to this.  Why this horse? Why that jocket? Why the event year after year? How is the Absolute involved in this?

This is a strong post and that was the reality too. It was quite shocking too fro me but verifies with other sources and yes, Swami Vivekenanda faced caste abuse all throughout India. He faced in Bengal, Kasi and also in Madras. Certain...

Rebirth - An Ugly Side to It How some women experience fetal expulsion. Video: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/05/04/lets-talk-about-miscarriage-this-illustrator-wants-to-break-the-taboo-and-support-women?utm_source=newsletter&...

http://bharatvidya.org/Yoga/myweb/fundamental_texts_of_yoga.htm This link contains a mind-boggling compilation list of Yogic literature over centuries and also listed the latest English publications. The person who compiled it must have...

It is an essential part of human nature. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/europe/wagner-military-group-prigozhin-ammunition-tirade-intl-hnk-ml/index.html Some more:

Is social media to blame? https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/hebrew-schools-enrollment-in-us-drops-sharply

It is important in hatha yoga which, is a part of ashtanga yoga, that the physical body be kept in tip-top shape. This may be interpreted as a cover for the desire to have a healthy human body for materialistic purposes. Like for example...

I was researching Dvaita philosophy and researching to see existent books. Many books are not in ebook format as they were written in the 1980s or before it. One of the authors (Krishnacharya Thammannacharya Pandurangi and his ancestors)...

After doing my first long retreat at the Chaiya Meditation Monastery in Las Vegas, I stumbled upon a book of Upasika Kee Nanayon's talks at a library sale; I still have it to this day, almost 10 years later. Its the type of book where...

A fellow meditator shared this on Facebook. He had looked for many years before finding this statue of the revered Acariya Mun while traveling in Thailand. Acariya Mun has been a great inspiration to many. He is credited with having...