The first mantra for a new yogi is “Who am I?” Then the answers start coming from inside. The great personal library is within.

Our object today is to lead you to turiya. It’s very simple. The only objective that you have is to stay awake. Isn’t that simple?

It is inevitable that we will remain discontented for as long as we search for the answers to life's deepest questions outside of ourselves.

Who could ever suppose, let alone believe, that humans have the capacity to know everything about this expanding cosmos. Who would not view this assertion as...

Almost like a mythical figure out of the American West, a young scholar of transcendental experience emerged on the Indian frontier and walked forth with a f...

by Manuraj I can’t say for sure when I stopped being a normal person, but it probably was around the time I made plotting my own murder a priority. I don’t m...

"Death is a habit of the soul,"

By Linda Johnsen It was one of those Spring afternoons so beautiful you could cry. The sun was shining, the temperature was perfect, there was a gentle cares...

His name is Ray. On his father’s farm in Maine, there was a cabin rented out to an American Indian. Quite elderly, he was called “Old Indian”. One day Ray’s ...

by Justin O'Brien In northeastern Pennsylvania, a small monastic community quietly prays and studies in the mountains of South Canaan. St. Tikhon Monastery, ...

By Justin O'Brien, Ph.D. (Swami Jaidev) in July 1978 Aristotle once remarked that man by nature desires to know. That human history can well attest to this o...

M: How did philosophy, wellness, theology, and the yoga tradition all come together for you? Swami Jaidev: It all started when I went to school; when I went ...

By Theresa King Women’s spirituality. Not too long ago the words would have been considered an oxymoron. Spirituality – like religion, politics, and commerce...