“Some try to perceive the Supreme Soul within their hearts through meditation, and others try to do so through the cultivation of knowledge, while still others strive to attain that realization by the path of action.” Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13, Verse 25.
Why is the Bhagavad Gita the most widely studied Hindu scripture? It presents the profound spiritual wisdom of ancient rishis in a context we can all relate to – the battlefield of day-to-day life.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit.
How Great Performers Transcend Their Own Limits | Rupert Spira
“It’s not that you find yourself – you actually lose your sense of yourself as a person when you’re in the flow of creating your art.”
This fascinating conversation about performers who transcend the ego is the result of an artist’s question. She wants to align her meditation practice with her art practice because when she is creating art, she finds her truest sense of herself.
Rupert Spira is an English teacher of the “direct path”, a method of spiritual self-inquiry through talks and writing, and a notable English studio potter with work in public and private collections. From an early age, Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At the age of seventeen, he learned to meditate and began studying and practicing the teachings of the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition under the guidance of Dr. Francis Roles and Shantananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the north of India, which he continued for the next twenty years. During this time he immersed himself in the teachings of P. D. Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 1997. Francis introduced Rupert to the Direct Path teachings of Atmanada Krishna Menon and to Jean Klein and the Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, and, more importantly, directly indicated to him the true nature of experience.
Feel and Immerse Yourself in the Pure Spirit of Love | Mooji
Feel and immerse yourself in the pure spirit of love, truth, wisdom, playfulness and harmony. This joyful creative journal gives you more than merely a glimpse of Monte Sahaja. It captures the living heartbeat of this sacred land—being in Satsang with Moojibaba, and the spontaneous unfolding of our daily life in all its myriad expressions.
Mooji is a Jamaican spiritual teacher based in the UK and Portugal. He gives talks (Satsang) and conducts retreats. His followers describe Satsang as a “meeting in truth” where people come from all around the world, to ask questions about life, and seek peace and meaning.
Eckhart Tolle explores the importance of transcending conditioned patterns to achieve spiritual wakefulness. The awakened state of consciousness is already present within each individual — it is just hidden by layers of conditioning.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author. He is a German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Eckhart’s profound, yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
The Untold Story of Akbar, Birbal & Tansen | Sadhguru
Sadhguru narrates the story of Tansen – the finest musician in Akbar’s court – and two remarkably talented young musicians who did not give into Akbar’s request to sing in his court, but instead gave up their lives. He also speaks about how sound and music could be used to access the very source of creation.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudevis a realized yogi, visionary, and a profound mystic of our times who has dedicated himself to the physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing of all people through Yoga and meditation. He is the founder of Isha Foundation, a volunteer-based non-profit organization with over 300 centers worldwide.