THE URGENCY
By Ma Anand Bhagawati

The good news is, we are no longer facing a time of crisis. The bad news is, we’re right in the middle of it. 12 noon has chimed in with hollow sounds... 

"MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL?"
By Swami Anand Kul Bhushan

The problem today is that
nine out of ten times,
you want the mirror to respond, “You.” Yes, you...

AMAZING
By Swami Deva Rashid

Amazing! Would you look at that? A day
of greens and autumn ochres, yellows, reds,
shuffling into dim autumnal grey...

SHAHIDO'S INDIA TRAVEL LOG: PART 3

The next day we took a flight to Pune. Domestic flights in India are cheap and the planes the latest models... none of the old decrepit ones that we experienced in Pune 1 days! Pune airport (a 15 minute taxi ride from the Resort) is now an international airport and has been upgraded to compare equally with anywhere in the world. I had booked a flat with Ekanta and she sent a taxi to the airport to pick us up...

MYSTERIES OF THE PINEAL GLAND
By Ma Anand Bhagawati

The pineal gland is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It produces the serotonin derivative melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and seasonal functions. Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located near the centre of the brain, between the two hemispheres...

GORAKH NATH

Gorakh is the first link of a chain. Through him a new type of religion was born. Without Gorakh, there could be no Kabir, no Nanak, no Dadu, no Vajid, no Farid, no Meera  --  without Gorakh none of these are possible. The basic root of all of them is in Gorakh. Since then the temple has been built high. On this temple many golden spires have been raised... 

ANCIENT WISDOM…A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR MODERN MANAGEMENT
By Dr. Vasant Joshi
(Swami Satya Vedant)
Presented on "Spiritual Paradigm for surmounting Global Management Crisis" at the International Conference, Varanasi, February 2012

Selected postings on Internet

A CELEBRATION UNDER THE RAIN

It rains dogs, frogs & squirrels here in Goa, and everything is finally quiet and peaceful. The monsoon has arrived, bringing with him an incredible silence and even more incredible greenery. Goa becomes particularly beautiful in this season, and it is a pity that everybody leaves, because this is certainly the most intense period of the year, and slowly slowly some audacious pioneer is discovering this simple fact...

PATHS ARE MADE BY WALKING

2012's Baccalaureate speaker at the University of Pennsylvania was an unconventional choice for an Ivy League school. To address their newly-minted graduates, aspiring to dazzling careers, they picked a man who has never in his adult life, applied for a job. A man who hasn't worked for pay in nearly a decade, and whose self-stated mission is simply "to bring smiles to the world and stillness to my heart." This off-the-radar speaker launched his address with a startling piece...

EARTHEN LAMPS
59 PARABLES AND STORIES

About our mortal body of clay and the immortal flame of consciousness

“What is the first truth in the search for ultimate truth? This first truth is for an individual to know himself for what he is, as he is. This is the first step of the ladder.” OSHO

LIFE IS A SOAP BUBBLE
100 WAYS TO LOOK AT LIFE

These 100 passages were written by Osho, and mailed to a disciple, Ma Yoga Sohan.
Sohan was crying as Osho left at the end of a meditation camp in Matheran and he promised her that, as he had nothing else to give her in return for her tears, he would send her a letter every day...and that she should keep them so they could be published one day...

GURU PURNIMA CELEBRATION, OSHODHAM, NEW DELHI

Guru Purnima was celebrated at Oshodham with a 5-day meditation camp, facilitated by Ma Dharm Jyoti and Swami Chaitanya Keerti.

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"THE OSHO KILIM"
TRADITION MEETS ENLIGHTENED ART

The flat weaved kilims are the most ancient form of carpet invented by man. Some ancient pieces have been found in the archeological site near Khotan in Turkestan that goes back 1.500 years ago. They are easy to clean and to move around...

MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER
By Ma Prem Ritambhara

I teach you to be authentic, integrated individuals with immense self-respect. The word self-respect may create doubts in your mind because self-respect seems to mean again the ego. It is not so. Self is that which you are born with...

CHAKRAS: THE TANTRA MAP FOR A FULFILLING RELATIONSHIP
By Ma Ananda Sarita

Chakras are energy vortexes in the subtle body, which channel refined cosmic energy through the physical body. The chakra system also has a physical aspect, linked to bundles of nerves, called plexi, located at specific junctures all along the spine. These bundles of nerves send information...

H IS FOR HOLY THE NATURAL WAY
By Ma Prem Geet

This month let us Honor the arcHitecturally dazzling letter H, sometimes HusHed, sometimes an exHalation,and always the first letter of Holy, Human, Heart, Hero, Horizon, and Home.
As children, most of us were good at following ourselves...

LOVE IS ENOUGH

[A sannyasin about his responsibilities as a father as he would be separating from his wife. His wife and he had arranged that the three boys would live with him, while the girl would live with her mother.] 

Much will have to be done, because when the mother is not there, your responsibilities become greater, bigger...

LAUGH YOUR WAY TO GOD

If you watch life it is ridiculous, and if you can laugh at yourself, that is the last boundary line. Beyond that begins the wordless experience of silence. But the laughter of a man of observation also has a different...