Introduction Post from JYP Participants Sebastopol JYP Group, California, USA Dear Jivana community, hello from the Sebastopol group! When driving down the lane to the Sadvidya Center in Sebastopol, it is a journey in. The trees hang low; the creek runs alongside the road, and nature, untouched and graceful, embraces one. Ours is a…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, November 2017 Post from Alakaa These words echo what Ācāryaji said on 15th Oct 2017 ekādaśī, when he went into a transcendental state and said: “Experience the silence” “Silence is the best teacher with an inherent capacity to transmit knowledge” “Don’t crave for logical knowledge” “Crave rather for the Truth which is…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, November 2017 Post from Jonathan and Stacey Watercolour pencil on paper There is a saying in English when noting someone’s achievements that goes – “it is a feather in your cap!” Recently, in light of Ācārya’s teachings on the Bhagavad Gītā, this idiom has taken on a whole new…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, November 2017 Post from Teresa ‘It means this literature can be sung’, Acharya explained, ‘It is in a meter, in a spontaneous flow from a Realized being, just by reading it one can be Liberated, even without understanding the meaning.’ ‘The meaning is communicated through the music itself, if properly…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, November 2017 Post from Gonçalo Stepping up to our chariots, uplifting our arrows of duty and strapping then on our backs as we roam back into our quotidian clashes, we should have conviction in the steering of the one we cherish, tending to the drivers seat. We will strive to…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, November 2017 Post from Teresa Planting a golden rain tree (cassia fistula) at the Porcupine Castle Resort on my 55th birthday ☺ Coming back home from the India Retreat journey, I am struggling not to settle back into the old routines. I feel I need to change so many things:…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, November 2017 Post from Gonçalo Within the battle of our inner self the audacious feat will be to arise out of our fear shell and realize the whole splendor of the divine just outside our conditioning, welcoming us into it’s celestial mercy. May we be so spirited to…
Bhagavad-gītā Retreat, Porcupine Castle, Coorg, Nov 2017 Post from Kusuma “Morning Meditation with Acarya.” Watercolor & Gouache on paper
Gheraṇḍa Saṁhitā Classes, Mysore Oct 2017 Post from Devon There were very few words spoken in today’s lesson…. yet so much was revealed and received. Acharya is Generosity itself… giving of Himself so fully, so graciously, so open-heartedly, so purely. Gratitude overflows.
Gheraṇḍa Saṁhitā Classes, Mysore Oct 2017 “One who knows evolution and that which is prior to evolution, when these two are known, then alone one is considered to have knowledge. A yogi who has seen these two, the process of evolution and de-evolution that is going on, will understand nothing is ever lost, only transformed.…