Everyone says “Happy New Year.” Hopefully you are considering what improvements you would like to make in your life — New Years resolutions are all about how you can be happier.

You do things that you hope will make you feel good. This is true all year long, actually. Now is the time you can s...

Your face, your body, your spine particularly, is a road map of all the places you’ve been, and all the thoughts you’ve thought, and all of the things you hold dear, and all of the things that you reject and are afraid of. That creates certain tensions and imbalances in your spine, not just in yo...

Your mind loves to draw dotted lines. They separate you from others. They separate you from God. They separate you from you. I usually talk about the One Divine Reality by using the name of Shiva, or sometimes I use the name God – but your mind begins to install dotted lines, as though Shiva is d...

I love Christmas carols but, as a yogi, I hear different lines than when I was growing up. “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright…” — yes, we want all to be calm and all to be bright. This song and others are pointing to the inner light of a babe whose birth is remembered now. How...

It’s such an auspicious time, the night before Christmas. It’s easy to feel God’s presence, almost like a blanket wrapped around you with the corner tucked in. Before yoga, I treasured the sacred space of this holy night. It was a rare and precious time. A time that I felt close to God. But yoga ...

When I was growing up, again and again I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” No one ever suggested I could be a yoga teacher, or a meditation teacher. Or a theoretical astrophysicist, for that matter. I wanted something that wasn’t listed as an option, but I didn’t know what it ...

I love Christmas carols but, as a yogi, I hear different lines than when I was growing up. “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright…” — yes, we want all to be calm and all to be bright. This song and others are pointing to the inner light of a babe whose birth is remembered now. How...

You have a heart of gold. You have proven it so many times, by helping others, by sharing what you have, by your caring about those you cannot reach, like people in the news or suffering from the current economy. You care and you act on your caring in so many ways. My Baba said you must have a go...

Pilgrimage is a sacred journey, practiced in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and native American traditions, as well as yoga. It is one of the practices that has done me a world of good for almost 50 years, beginning with my first trip to Ganeshpuri. Yet any and every holy site is importan...

When I was growing up, again and again I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” No one ever suggested I could be a yoga teacher, or a meditation teacher. Or a theoretical astrophysicist, for that matter. I wanted something that wasn’t listed as an option, but I didn’t know what it ...

Everybody meditates, but they don’t think, “Oh I’m going to meditate now.” They fall into a natural and easy, I’ll call it a pause, in the midst of things. Maybe it’s while they are sipping their tea, or their morning coffee. They take a sip, and they just sit for a moment. And then they open the...

Primordial Consciousness takes on 3 limitations to become you. These three malas (coverings) reduce the Lord’s primal powers of omniscience, omnipotence, perfection, everlastingness and all-pervasiveness. This is the human condition. And you can do something about it.

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Succinctly — be good and good things will happen to you. In short, that is dharma and karma. Most families raise their children to follow dharmic principles, how to be an upstanding member of society and fulfill responsibilities. Doing so brings you beneficial results. This is called karmaphala ...

Pilgrimage is a sacred journey, practiced in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and native American traditions, as well as yoga. It is one of the practices that has done me a world of good for almost 50 years, beginning with my first trip to Ganeshpuri. Yet any and every holy site is importan...

Even your name, you learned your name. You think it's such an integral part of you, but it's something you learned. You learned how to brush your teeth. You learned how to walk. All these things are things you learned. Which means you acquired information from outside and you integrated it into a...

You have been having experiences since you were born, since before you were born. I will congratulate you, for you are fulfilling one of the purposes for which you were born – to have experiences. You are in the world so you can have experiences and get enlightened. Pleasurable experiences make y...

Succinctly — be good and good things will happen to you. In short, that is dharma and karma. Most families raise their children to follow dharmic principles, how to be an upstanding member of society and fulfill responsibilities. Doing so brings you beneficial results. This is called karmaphala ...

That what everybody wants. Expanding love. Oh, he said ever-expanding love, so if it’s ever-expanding, it’s more expanded than it was just a moment ago. Oh, and it’s more expanded now than it was, what I just described, and it’s more expanded, and now it’s even more expanded…
How much expanding c...

Your mind processes what you perceive. Three capacities of mind work together for this: manas, buddhi and ahamkara. Manas – sensory engagement, buddhi – analysis, ahamkara – making it personal. “It’s about me!” Meditation takes you deeper, so you see the world from an inner center. An early stage...

You have been having experiences since you were born, since before you were born. I will congratulate you, for you are fulfilling one of the purposes for which you were born – to have experiences. You are in the world so you can have experiences and get enlightened. Pleasurable experiences make y...

Thoughts happen in your mind. Dreams happen in your mind. Sleep happens in your mind. And, there is a deeper dimension to your own being that is always perceiving what is going on in your mind. Who is that? Who sees your dreams? I have had, quite wonderfully...

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The world is based on reciprocal adaptation. So if someone compliments your new haircut, you feel good. And if they say something less flattering, you feel bad. You’re like the ocean waves, always rising and falling, even crashing into the shore and flattening out. Here’s the secret, how to get f...

Your mind processes what you perceive. Three capacities of mind work together for this: manas, buddhi and ahamkara. Manas – sensory engagement, buddhi – analysis, ahamkara – making it personal. “It’s about me!” Meditation takes you deeper, so you see the world from an inner center. An early stage...

Meditation is a process of looking inward. You get deeper in there, in here, getting past your mind to what yoga calls your own Self. Thus, you might think of your own Self as your inner Self, since you look within to find you. After teaching meditation for 8 or 10 years, I realized I had a probl...