I shoot for everyday, so I wind up with 4-5 times a week.
While I do believe Swami Prabhupada was devoted and dedicated to God in his own way, he was far from a perfect master or a perfect devotee, in my...
And I didn't say you have to love it. Not the same individuals who met Jesus. May well be. So why is it that every time I try to speak from...
I think Jesus showed tremendous love for the money changers. Why else would he try to change them and bring them to a way of life that was better...
Bill, in my earlier post on Sutra two I discussed the definition of love that is being used here. I do believe this agrees with what you are...
Bill, the Bible also offers the example of the lillies of the field that toil not, neither do they spin. I think the statement of don't work don't...
Two great masters together: Ramana Maharshi and Paramahamsa Yogananda [IMG]
Well said.
Hari Om! Bill came up with the wonderful idea of starting a thread of photos of great masters, so here goes. My first posting, of my Guru, Swami...
http://www.gurusfeet.com/files/gurus_gallery_pics/ramana2.jpg
A description of the realized master from the Yoga Vashishta: antahpurno bahihpurnah purnakumbha ivarnave | antahshunyo bahihshunyah...
Thanks for the beautiful, beautiful passage. Your thoughts, Bill?
I think it's more that the content of existence itself is changing, but existence is not changing. Maybe like each wave is different form the...
Nobody said it contains existence. It is existence. Otherwise there could not be a void (nonexistence cannot exist). Both being and non-being are...
Let's not get caught in words. All the traditions that use the term void only refer to the absence (or transcendence) of all that we know through...
Bill, I am using the term life as synonymous with existence/consciousness. You are using it to mean prana or the individual experience of life.
Life is. It transcends time and space, so we cannot say life comes from somewhere. All things come from life. Indeed, all things ARE life.
Life does not come out of suffering or joy. All things come out of life...
Sutra 4: yal labdhvā pumān siddho bhavaty amṛto bhavati tṛpto bhavati Having attained which a person becomes perfect, becomes immortal and is...
Actually it does not at all. My original analogy was of the spiritual master being like the sun, in that the sun makes no special effort, but...
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