Food is important. Research shows that food affects your health, your mental health and your spiritual state. The light of your own Divine Essence shines through your mind and body, but if they are not doing well, then your light cannot shine so clearly. There are two problems with this: Your li...

Shakti, energy, is any kind of energy, every kind of energy, light energy. Heat energy, microwave energy, energies we are familiar with. So how about cosmic energy? Cosmic energy lies intact within you, but until it’s awakened, it’s hidden in a state of dormancy so that you can try to maximize yo...

From my earliest years, I gave my life to God. Well, I tried. For the longest time I wanted to, but my problem was that I couldn’t find God, not the way God was described to me by others. I tried looking in the sky. I looked in the past, about 2,000 years ago. I looked in my mind, in my imaginati...

From my earliest years, I gave my life to God. Well, I tried. For the longest time I wanted to, but my problem was that I couldn’t find God, not the way God was described to me by others. I tried looking in the sky. I looked in the past, about 2,000 years ago. I looked in my mind, in my imaginati...

If you spend just a little bit of time looking inward, your fulfilling becomes a fuller filling, because happiness arises from an inner source. It is of the utmost importance to look into the source of happiness if you want to be happy. Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras describes how happiness works. ...

When he was teaching in the USA, my Guru was described by journalists as looking “like a stoned-out jazz musician.” Yes, Baba was a God-intoxicated being. But his intoxication did not make him stupid or senseless. He was brilliant! He was powerful yet kind, and funny, teasing us while teaching us...

When he was teaching in the USA, my Guru was described by journalists as looking “like a stoned-out jazz musician.” Yes, Baba was a God-intoxicated being. But his intoxication did not make him stupid or senseless. He was brilliant! He was powerful yet kind, and funny, teasing us while teaching us...

A classical teaching story leads the way, about your body being a map of your life. After storytelling by Swami Satrupananda, Gurudevi explains how your body responds to both external and internal phenomena. Physical sensations are called feelings. When your body responds to your thoughts, the ph...

I used to peer at my Baba in the dark of his meditation hall, trying to keep my eyes open during meditation. I wanted to watch him! As I tried to peer through the dark of the room, I could see the outline of his body, darker against the dark of the room. I was always a little surprised that he di...

I used to peer at my Baba in the dark of his meditation hall, trying to keep my eyes open during meditation. I wanted to watch him! As I tried to peer through the dark of the room, I could see the outline of his body, darker against the dark of the room. I was always a little surprised that he di...

Shaktipat is an initiation ceremony that awakens your own Divinity to arise within you and to shine from the inside out. The basis of this ceremony is the understanding…well, no. The basis of the ceremony is, whether you understand it or not, your essence is Divine. You may not be thinking of you...

I was trained to see myself as imperfect, flawed, needing to be purified, needing to be redeemed from my innate sinful nature. As I marinated in yoga’s description of my essence as Divine, I realized that Infinite Reality cannot be contained in a tiny little part of me. Light cannot be hidden by ...

I was trained to see myself as imperfect, flawed, needing to be purified, needing to be redeemed from my innate sinful nature. As I marinated in yoga’s description of my essence as Divine, I realized that Infinite Reality cannot be contained in a tiny little part of me. Light cannot be hidden by ...

In the Ashram, if someone offers to help, the rule is you cannot say no. I know that can be hard. Some yogis prefer to be self-sufficient, or simply to do it their own way. But this Ashram rule leads to more people offering to help more of the time. And it makes it easier to ask for help. You mus...

In the Ashram, if someone offers to help, the rule is you cannot say no. I know that can be hard. Some yogis prefer to be self-sufficient, or simply to do it their own way. But this Ashram rule leads to more people offering to help more of the time. And it makes it easier to ask for help. You mus...

To live from center means you are not thrown off-balance by things that happen to you in life. That whatever comes, comes. Whatever goes, goes. And whatever happens in between, is just part of the day, part of the week, part of the year. Because you're based in a deep inner center, you're coming...

How long will it take me? When will I get enlightened? A number of factors affect your timeline, including your starting point, which spiritual path you choose and how diligent you are in the process. It’s the same with a car trip. If you’re going to Yellowstone, and you live in Gardiner MT, you ...

How long will it take me? When will I get enlightened? A number of factors affect your timeline, including your starting point, which spiritual path you choose and how diligent you are in the process. It’s the same with a car trip. If you’re going to Yellowstone, and you live in Gardiner MT, you ...

The sun has melted the ice. But of course I’m not talking just about outside, I’m talking about inside. The frozen bits of you. The places where you freeze up. Where you hold back. Where you hide from yourself. The places in your being that are...

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If you are ready, you only need to hear the teaching one time and you’re enlightened. But your ability to know God, your ability to experience yoga’s promise of Self-Knowingness is affected by how you have been conditioning your mind and body. How have you been conditioning your mind and body? So...

If you are ready, you only need to hear the teaching one time and you’re enlightened. But your ability to know God, your ability to experience yoga’s promise of Self-Knowingness is affected by how you have been conditioning your mind and body. How have you been conditioning your mind and body? So...

How many lifetimes does it take for you to really get that you are eternal? That you have always existed. That you have never not existed. That your essence, your existence, is the One existence that underlies the existence of everything in this universe. How long does it take for you to...

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You have a body and your body is alive. Your presence in your body makes it a living body. Your body is affected by your breathing – or not breathing. In life, when you breathe too little or too infrequently, your anxiety level goes up. Yet in meditation, when your breath suspends, you ease into ...

You have a body and your body is alive. Your presence in your body makes it a living body. Your body is affected by your breathing – or not breathing. In life, when you breathe too little or too infrequently, your anxiety level goes up. Yet in meditation, when your breath suspends, you ease into ...