Articles, Current Events, Essays, etc.
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Written by Swami Veda Bharati
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:06 |
The path of Tantra is not the path of denial of beauty. The so-called spiritual people in other schools, say that the human body is nothing; it is ugly. It is bones and flesh and blood and all that is oozes out of all your openings. And the Southern school of Buddhists takes the disciples to the graves and shows them rotting bodies to take them away from attachment to the body, right? Same thing in the Christian tradition. Same thing in the Hindu tradition. Same thing in the Southern Buddhist tradition and so on. Very much, very, very prevalent.
But in the Tantric tradition it is the worship of beauty and taking that beauty and making it as a tool of ascendance.
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Read more... [Saundarya-lahari]
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Written by Swami Veda Bharati
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 14:03 |
It is the town of Ouidah. It is a small town, with plain dirt roads that remind us of villages in India. People are sitting under the Bunyan tree, enjoying themselves. Beautiful goat run around and we just passed the precinct of the holy forest, and we are now here to visit the Voodoon High Priest's compound.
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Read more... [Swami Veda Meets Vodoon Master]
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Written by Hari Shankar Dabral
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:19 |
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This is a series of lessons on the Bhagavad Gita given by Pandit Hari Shankar Dabral. It is advised to read one a week and contemplate it for the whole week.
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Read more... [Talks on the Bhagavad Gita]
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Written by Swami Veda Bharati
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 12:55 |
Think of each twinkle as a sun
and your tree becomes a vision galactic.
Behold each gift as that of Grace
and your celebrations is a holy meditation.
With such a celebration of delighting in light
you'll witness infinity in a point in your soul;
with streams of joy, rivers of bliss, seas of silence
will be filled your entire next year's bowl.
Wishing you the seven lit candles of the Hanukkah,
a million lights of Xmas, and
a year-bowl of delight filled to the brim.
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Written by Swami Veda Bharati
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 12:53 |
May all obstacles become your stepping stones.
May the words you speak not enslave you.
May the words you speak liberate others.
When you walk on water, may lily pads appear under your feet.
May your heart center become a honeycomb.
May GOD name you His secrets' keeper.
May Beauty of Nature envy you for your consciousness.
May light envy you for your luminosity.
May waters envy you for your resilience.
May fires envy you for your radiance.
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