Tweet Kali is depicted in Indian mythology as a black warrior Goddess of formidable power and fierceness as the expression of absolute compassion. She embodies a universal force that comes into everyone’s life. That meeting occurs when life holds up a mirror in which you see negative aspects of your personality, which your ego has […]
Tweet As we aim to live increasingly in the abundance of the heart, it is crucial for us to cultivate the practice of unconditional giving, giving with no strings attached. The reason for this is simple: the essence of giving is great abundance, which is the core quality of our true identity, the spiritual Heart […]
Tweet “You must want to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche All conflict is in truth a burning away of conflict itself. Pain makes us tired of pain, and although the confused mind revels in its distortions, there is a […]
Tweet Instantly the ground we think we stand on can be pulled out from under our feet. One day Rose made plans to travel to Maharaji’s ashram in Kainchi and the next day the person she most loves and relies on is diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor. That day her world turned upside down. […]
Tweet Mystical traditions use the imagery of external relationship to explain the experience of inner oneness. In India, Radha is the eternal beloved of Krishna. Krishna is the divine lover in every soul, the Source of all love. With every fiber of her being Radha yearns for union with Krishna, but at first he is […]
Tweet Student: I want to ask you to help me surrender, so I can choose a direction with faith and stop second guessing myself… Ramgiri: Surrender is the sweetest word in my language. In my world it does not mean to ‘give up.’ Rather it means to open to love – to surrender the shell of […]
Tweet Love is mysterious. No one can say they know what it is, and yet there is no one who does not know it when it comes. It is impossible to understand pure love, the love of God, our deepest love. This is because, no matter how we are experiencing love, the experience transcends the mind […]
Tweet Life is vast and profound. All power resides in life. It goes on by itself, it lives us, we are like passengers on a ship. Life inevitably takes us where we need to go due to karmic forces we have set in motion, and we have no control over that. We have choice only […]
Tweet How fast times change! It was sometime in the mid-1960’s, “in Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district,” that the Trappist monk Thomas Merton had a vision which was as revolutionary to him as it was to the Christian faith of his time. “I was suddenly […]
Tweet Love is neither a weak emotion, nor an escape! It can be as soft as a feather and as sharp as a sword. If anything has ever changed and elevated the world, it is love. All other impulses end up spinning in circles. What would love do for a soul, who is as confused […]
Tweet I am writing the following in the evening after Durga and I arrived at the home of K.K. Sah. We sit down together as if no time at all had lapsed since our last meeting, continuing our conversation of hearts. I share with you some thoughts that come to me as we sit here […]
Tweet Who is free? The one who is free to come and go, to do as she wills, or the one who has surrendered her mind to a greater cause, the cause of truth or of love? To the degree we think freedom is what the ego wants, we are blind. There is no freedom […]
Tweet What some may think to be archaic tales of a foreign religion, the great Indian epics of Gods and demons are in fact the most sublime psychology of the higher Self. With the key to their true meaning these ancient blockbusters will reveal to us the great perennial wisdom taught by the highest sages. […]
Tweet HeartSourcing Yoga is not therapy. It’s not to improve your life by increments; it’s to set you free, radically and for good. After years of sitting on therapists couches this became clear to *Linda when I asked her if she wanted to question her belief, “I was damaged.” She was just getting warmed up […]
Tweet An Excerpt taken from “HeartSourcing: Finding Our Way to Love and Liberation” by Ramgirir Braun, Ph.D. “Maharajji said, “The best way to worship God is every way.” We find devotion equally in the dance of the Sufis, the stirring psalms of the Jews, the powerful ceremonies of indigenous peoples, the sacraments of the Christians, […]
