It is difficult to get clarification about the spiritual world. That is if there is one in the first place. It is very interesting how in astronomy, there is speculation about what might be on the other side of a black hole, which is...

Gita discussions generally fall into three groups: Finding supportive statements Academic study Extraction of tools for self-realization Most of the Gita groups are for finding supportive statements to back up or reinforce some...

Morality as we know it in the material world as it is used as a religious and social convention, has all to do with status. This does not mean that there is something corrupt about morality or that ultimately it is useless. This...

What was her background?Was she a Nazi too?What is innocence when we consider past lives, having forgotten whatever good or bad we did before?

At a glance when one is first introduced to the idea that the intellect is a psychic organ in the head of the subtle body, one may think that this makes sense and is a simple tidbit of information which one can use to enhance meditation...

Who are they?What are their core beliefs?http://www.patheos.com/Galleries/Seventh-day-Adventist-Facts

Carson's Problems:http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/dr-ben-carson-plays-defense-biographical-questions-pile-n459411

Email Question: When we dream in our sleep the astral body moves to the astral world, what lets us retain our capacity to breathe? Answer: First let me rephrase the question to sort the bodies involved: When dreaming while the...

Religion / Spirituality: Contrasted An Email Inquiry: Is there any difference between religion and spirituality? My reply: Religion is defined at Wikipedia as: A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems,...

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Karma in this case is the consequences of a person's previous actions.Nature is the operation of change in the sequences of events which comprise this physical world.The question is of karma or nature is about the photo below:What we are...

Srila Yogeshwarananda mentioned to me about the continuum of yoga practice. His idea is that no matter what happens, the student should resume practice. This is because, he said, there are problems and interruptions with fate. For...

On October 25th, early in the morning during the meditation session, after breath infusion, I suddenly saw a flash of invisible light and then I saw someone who used an invisible body made of crystal light which was so transparent as not...

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Sometimes I am asked why I do not recommend or teach visualization as a spiritual process. The reason is that I have no confidence in it. I found it to be unreliable. My experience is that the psychic nature is both responsive and...

What money and fame just can't buy? And how they work around it?

I discussed this topic before and mentioned this in many books. It pertains to the subtle body. If understood correctly, it allows the student break away from conventional morality and sociology. If as Christianity posits, everyone will...

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Ashtanga yoga has the asana postures and the pranayama breath infusion as the third (3rd) and fourth (4th) processes in an eight tiered system of discipline called yoga. A question arises as to what should be the benefit of each of these...

For tenancy in yoga, the physical address, is irrelevant. What is important is the physical body itself and not its location. This is because if the physical system is in Moscow, then the astral body will find it there and if it is in...

Were these refugees Germans in the past life, people killed in World War 2, now going back home but unrecognized?https://www.rt.com/news/320428-german-village-house-refugees/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_ca...

Thanks for this report.Gives some insight into a first approach studying Gita.Great study of the text - non-fanatical.

When doing breath infusion, there are hard-to-reach places. These are not the concern of new students but are the very concern of those who have some proficiency. Once a student masters spinal kundalini and is consistent in getting...

When there is a slump in yoga practice, it happens primarily because of influences coming into the psyche of the student from non-yogis or from yogis who for one reason or the other are negatively competitive to the student. Those who...

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On October 20 2015, Srila Yogeshwarananda gave what he termed to be a new process for meditation. It is not new when one closely examines it because it is contained in the Yoga Sutra meditation procedures of Patanjali. However using the...

Some people say that children are innocent and are corrupted by an imposed adult environment which sponsors in these neutral infants a strong sense of identity which is destructive towards the love and oneness which infants are naturally...

In higher yoga, one needs to get down to the details of how the various adjuncts and the core-self acquires and consumes their respective fulfillments. Initially there is no clarity on this but gradually over time meditating, and being...

There is a summary description of brahma nirvana by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. Please consider it (my English translation): कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां यतचेतसाम् । अभितो ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं वर्तते विदितात्मनाम् ॥५.२६॥ kāmakrodhaviyuktān...

In the least, a yogi should reach the Swarga Angelic Paradise world which is managed by the Indra Deity (devata). Arjuna and his brothers reached that place as the first heavenly world they experienced after leading their material...

A yogi may cause the core-self to be rained upon by the chit akash energy which leaks into the psyche during meditation and also during breath infusion practice. Mostly this energy is ignored by the yogi because of failure to recognize...

Were they here?http://bigthink.com/videos/bill-nye-on-aliens-and-religion