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“The Blessed Lord said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic: not he who lights no fire and performs no work…”
Why is the Bhagavad Gita the most widely studied Hindu scripture? It presents the profound spiritual wisdom of ancient rishis in a context we can all relate to – the battlefield of day-to-day life.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit.
“The whole world is like a passing show. When you’re still, you gradually begin to feel the full power of your presence. It resonates like peace, like a solid peace, a well beingness, joy, silent, content, happy, not happy about, just happy. Happiness is your nature.”
“Before you pick up any instruction, sit with yourself. Don’t engage with the noise of the mind. Come back to the place of being. This is key. Being with it consciously and devotedly, everything comes right.”
Mooji is a Jamaican spiritual teacher based in the UK and Portugal. He gives talks (Satsang) and conducts retreats. His followers describe Satsang as a “meeting in truth” where people come from all around the world, to ask questions about life, and seek peace and meaning.
Sadhguru narrates the heartwarming story of a Shiva devotee, whose longing to take his ageing mother to Kashi was so intense that Shiva himself came in disguise to make it happen for them.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudevis a realized yogi, visionary, and a profound mystic of our times who has dedicated himself to the physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing of all people through Yoga and meditation. He is the founder of Isha Foundation, a volunteer-based non-profit organization with over 300 centers worldwide.
How to Adapt to the Present Moment | Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart reads Thomas à Kempis’ “The Imitation of Christ” and explains the notion of having an interior life, the inclination to become absorbed in external situations, and the importance of adapting to life situations and challenges.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author. He is a German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Eckhart’s profound, yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
What does ‘I am’ refer to when God tells Moses his name is ‘I am’? And how does that help us understand our true nature? Rupert says if we were to ask consciousness it’s name it would say, ‘I’ or ‘I am’.
Rupert Spira is an English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a notable English studio potter with work in public and private collections. From an early age, Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At the age of seventeen, he learned to meditate and began studying and practicing the teachings of the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition under the guidance of Dr. Francis Roles and Shantananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the north of India, which he continued for the next twenty years. During this time he immersed himself in the teachings of P. D. Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 1997. Francis introduced Rupert to the Direct Path teachings of Atmanada Krishna Menon and to Jean Klein and the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience.
