Each month at Spiritual Growth Monthly, we bring you a new meditation and spiritual growth perspective, teaching, book, or training program to inspire your conscious evolution and the unfolding of “your best you”
“The devotees of karma yoga act for self-purification with body, mind, intellect and also senses, abandoning all attachment..”
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.
Moojibaba shares a simple 10 minute exercise to awaken to our true Self. The exercise involves sitting down and emptying one’s mind, staying present and aware of oneself and observing thoughts and feelings without identifying with them. With practice, we become established in presence and experience a transformation in our being, realizing that the true self is not the mind-created identity, but consciousness itself.
“If you can follow this, you will find real happiness, real joy, and realize how precious your life is. Not your life lived to satisfy your egoic and personal identity, but the life that is eternal, unending and beautiful.”
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.
Complaining seems reasonable, but it leads to unbelief. Bill Johnson teaches from Exodus and the moments when the Israelites complained – each complaint had a legitimate reason, but came from a place of fear and led to unbelief and the hardening of their hearts. Complaining reveals places in our lives where we don’t yet fully trust the Lord and His goodness. It’s not a reason for shame, but an invitation to deeper trust.
Bill Johnson is the Senior Leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California. He serves a growing number of churches that have partnered for revival. This apostolic network has crossed denominational lines in building relationships that enable church leaders to walk in both purity and power.
In this week’s Movie Workshop with David Hoffmesieter, we explore how to how to focus your mind on God every second of the day! But can you guess what movie we are watching this week?
David Hoffmeister began his journey to spiritual Enlightenment in 1986 when he encountered A Course in Miracles and recognized it as the tool he had been seeking for a radical transformation of his mind and perceptions. Highly inspired by Christian mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, and the desire of many to live a life of devotion, communities have sprung up around the world that follow Hoffmeister’s very practical Awakening Mind teachings. His teachings are for everyone, and he spans all traditions by utilizing common ground like movies as modern-day parables and the shift in scientific theory from the Newtonian to quantum world view.
How can we deal with negative and toxic family members and not feel drained? Compassion and forgiveness, explains Eckhart, help us to remember that the behavior of others is not who they are in essence.
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.