Paramahamsa Nithyananda translated 13th verse of Chapter 5, Sanyas yoga from the sacred scripture Bhagavad Gita as- “the soul which is the controller through the faculty of discrimination having renounced all actions remains with ease and comfort in the body, the city of nine openings, neither doing nor having it done.”(PRWEB) July 02, 2012 Madurai Aadheenam 30th June 2012: Paramahamsa ...

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Inner Awakening Should Be The Flow Of Your Very Life – says His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda

His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda inspired thousands of his followers worldwide by revealing the sacred secrets of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5, Sanyasa Yoga, verse 12 in a early morning discourse via 2 way live video conferencing and on Nithyananda TV.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 30, 2012 Madurai Aadheenam 27th June 2012: His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is one of the world’s 100 most ...

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Attain Highest Tranquility & Peace By Not Clinging To Reward For Performance – Says His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda

(Discovered by the west during the hippie era as a way to transcendence, yoga has in recent years become part of the search for the perfect physique. Thanks to new teachers, gadgets and practices, it could again become an entry point for deeper spiritual practice)

The first time I tried yogaI wont say when, but Carlos Santana was still calling himself Devadipit was in someones basement in the suburbs, with plastic mats on the floor. Some guy in sweatpants led us through the Sun Salutations and the obligatory guided relaxation in the Corpse pose. Afterward we all hung around drinking soy coffee.

A couple of months later, I was struggling to stay in the lotus posture in front of an intense, scary-looking Indian guy in orange robes. The scent of sandalwood incense hung in the air, blending with the sampaguita garlands draped around a framed portrait of the guru. After a couple of minutes he told me my mind wasnt pure enough, and that I should chant babanam kevalam some more before coming back.

I had flunked the initiation.

The first wave of interest in yoga came in the aftermath of the hippie era, but the focus was on transcendence. Their minds having been expanded with psychedelic drugs, people looking for enlightenment turned east. In the 70s, ex-hippies chanted Hare Krishna, tried Transcendental Meditation, joined Ananda Marga or devoted themselves to Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh or Satya Sai Baba.

Few people actually practiced the asanas-the yoga poses. Those who did did so perfunctorily, mainly to prepare themselves for meditation and-they hoped-eventual enlightenment.

Then toward the end of the decade, yoga took a turn for the weird. Chess grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi enlisted two monks from Ananda Marga to psych out Anatoli Karpov in their 1978 world championship match in Baguio City. Later that same year, a nun from the same sect set herself on fire in Luneta to protest the continued imprisonment of their guru in India.

Things went quiet in the 80s, but something interesting happened during the 90s. Somehow the practice of yoga merged with the cult of the perfect physique that had emerged during the Yuppie era. Western disciples had taken the teachings of their Indian gurus and democratized it, adding more than a bit of marketing spin. What in India were seen as age-old traditions emerged in the new global marketplace as brands: Iyengar, Ashtanga, Bikram, Jivamukti. The asanas became the focal point of yoga practice.

Today, yoga is a growth industry. Ten years ago, you could count the yoga teachers in Manila on the fingers of one hand (and still have a finger or two left over). Today there are literally dozens of yoga studios offering a plethora of classes in Metro Manila alone, and other metropolitan areas arent far behind.

Beyond Yoga, a studio that opened last October in the Tomas Morato area of Quezon City, exemplifies the modern, Westernized approach to yoga.

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June 30, 2012 Updated Jun 30, 2012 at 10:37 PM EDT

LILY DALE, N.Y. ( WKBW ) Have you ever visited the spiritual oasis in the Southern Tier at the Lily Dale Assembly?

Channel 7's "AM/Buffalo" took a One Tank Getaway there recently.

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We welcome you to the Lily Dale Assembly, Worlds Largest Center for the Science Philosophy and Religion of Spiritualism, now celebrating its 133rd year. Each day of the season offers a series of events and experiences to bring information, enlightenment, hope and peace to those who open their hearts to receive.

Click the image to download the 2012 Workshop Catalog There are daily lectures on the wonders of mediumistic phenomena and the basic truths of God and Man, which Spiritualists adopt as their standard for living.

Demonstrations of clairvoyance are given at services held every day for the visitors by mediums devoted to their service. The Healing Temple is available for meditation on the renewing and uplifting of spiritual and physical energies. Spiritual healers are present to work with those who desire individual healing energies.

Classes on a broad range of subjects related to the development of Mans potential as a spiritual being are offered throughout the season. Thought Exchange evenings are designed to give free exchange of information as well as to answer the many questions of the seeker.

We are dedicated to the service of God, Spirit and Mankind. This, to the members of the Lily Dale Assembly, is the foundation upon which all else is built. We open our community to you that you may experience that which is for your highest and best. We encourage you to participate in the activities and to open your minds and your hearts to receive.

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One the world's 100 most spiritually influential personalities and the pontiff of the world's oldest Hindu Organization, Paramahamsa Nithyananda revealed the sacred secrets of the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5 verse 11, to his worldwide followers. His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda is also one of the most watched Guru on the internet with the faster growing spiritual community around a young ...

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Mariana Caplan, Ph.D.: Navigating the Spiritual Jungle

It took five months and 2,200 miles, but siblings Kate and Brandon Imp and their sidekick Emily Ginger - a.k.a. the Ringleader, Monkey, and Lightning - hiked the length of the Appalachian Trail in 2010.

It's taking a similar sort of determination to make and promote Beauty Beneath the Dirt, Kate's feature film of their adventure.

"I've probably put in thousands of hours on this," says Kate, 26, a lawyer in Chicago. "And that's not counting the hike."

The executive producer/director and her brother will be back home in Burlington County this weekend for two screenings, part of a two-month series of 50 buzz-building presentations in theaters and other venues on or near "the AT" between Georgia and Maine.

They hope to find a commercial distributor for the 70-minute movie, which cost $15,000 to make.

"There were a million different stories on the hike," says Kate, who grew up with her brother in Mount Laurel and has long loved the movies and the outdoors. "But at the end of the day, this is the story I wanted to tell."

An exuberant, if occasionally self-dramatizing, mash-up of reality TV, nature documentary, and spiritual quest, the film chronicles the bug bites, intramural fights, and scenic sights the trio of twentysomethings experienced as they hiked northward.

Spoiler alert: Emily has a romance with a bearded hiker nicknamed "Prophet," she and Kate have a painful and perhaps permanent falling-out, and the siblings deepen their bond as the three stride, climb, and, occasionally, dance their way up the mountainous spine of the East Coast.

"None of us had made a long-distance hike before," Kate says. "And I had never made a film before."

That's not evident from the professional sheen of what they're calling BBtD for short; with five pounds of digital gear and a $15 tripod from Target, Kate, the director and camerawoman, captured gorgeous vistas of mountains, lakes, and streams.

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Kevin Riordan: At the end of the trail, a movie - and enlightenment

25-06-2012 23:43 Have no knowledge about how to be spiritually enlightened. Do not believe when you are spiritually illuminated. It is unexpected and not impossible..........now ! The path is not the goal in time.

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By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer

The healing force of music has long been recognized and utilized in cultures throughout the world. Drummer Hamid Drake, along with a host of others, taps into the musics regenerative and unifying powers at a number of varied events this weekend as he acts as artist-in-resident at the Ash Cultural Arts Center. The shows include Friday nights concert, when the multi-faceted percussionist is teamed with two of his long-time, like-minded, creative music associates and mentors, saxophonist Kidd Jordan and bassist William Parker. The ambitious program, which will be recorded and videotaped for an upcoming release called Our Music is the Healing Force of the Universe, also includes performances by such notables as vocalists Germaine Bazzle and Michaela Harrison, celloist Monica McIntire, gospel singer Lois Dejean, the Kora Konnection plus a number of poets. It will be hosted by Kalamu ya Salaam.

HAMID DRAKE

Kidd is really one of our national treasures, not a just a New Orleans treasure, Drake declares of the saxophonist who he met through one of his first mentors, the late Chicago saxist Fred Anderson. He is one of the last of a generation of musicians who have spanned a large scope of the music everything from R&B Aretha, Ray Charles, Fats Domino to the genre of jazz that was happening before bebop, then the whole bebop era and then the modern jazz era and then moving into the more open playing of the music.

The first time Drake, 55, encountered veteran bassist William Parker back in 1987, they both knew they were meant to play together and have enjoyed a working and personal relationship since that time. Its really nice to meet someone especially who plays the other half of your instrument the drums and bass have a big connection and that has the same views, ideals and similar spiritual philosophy as ones own, Drake says of Parker, who along with his wife produces New Yorks highly-acclaimed, forward-thinking Vision Festival. Hes like Kidd, hes one of those great treasures and hes a student of world music.

We need to have Vision festivals in many different cities, Drake offers. And Vision also has to be extended to our youth that are living on the fringes to let them know that we are available to help.

The Ashe Centers Saturday night program, Celebration of the Drum, will have percussionists representing the styles of Cuba (Bill Summers), Brazil (Curtis Pierre), India, Japan, Ireland and more plus the rhythms of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians. Each artist will perform a solo piece and during the second half of the show Drake will lead a drum jam.

The healing and call for peace and unity continues on Sunday afternoon with a Drum Circle from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Congo Square. Percussionist Luther Gray and the Congo Square Preservation Society and Hamid Drake invite all interested musicians not limited to drummers to join them.

I feel that we have to find the specialness of our unity and diversity, Drake concludes. I think New Orleans is a very good example of that. Were coming up on a very special thing {the presidential election} its important for folks to not only be musically involved but politically and socially involved. We have to vote. And we have to work together as best as we can as a community because theres a whole generation of people below us that are depending on us.

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Author Les Feast was at his darkest hour when he encountered his guardian angel.Dudley Park, Australia (PRWEB) June 26, 2012 DUDLEY PARK, Australia – Les Feast’s road to enlightenment, and the subsequent release of his new book “Messages from Heaven: Is Anyone Listening?” (published by Balboa Press), wasn’t a peril-less journey.“In 2001, after I lost my job and my partner left to be with another ...

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Art of Living ( AOL), the spiritual abode of Sri Sri Ravishankar Guruji now has its own official Art of Living tablet running on the Android platform. This Android Tablet has all the details regarding the various programmes of Sri Sri Ravishankar Guruji. The AOL bhajans, satsang, videos of Guruji's discourses and even the latest talk in AOL is available over the Tablet.

This Tablet has been developed by Chennai based EAFT Technologies India Pvt Ltd in association with the Art of Living foundation. The motive behind the launching of these tablets is to provide people Spiritual Enlightenment and to take Guruji's work to the masses.

The Tablet comes in two variants, the first of which is called Enlighten Tablet. Its features and specifications are as follows:

The content present in the Enlighten Tablet ( Guruji's works) can neither be copied nor downloaded.

The second Tablet is termed as the Enlighten Plus. Its features and specifications are as follows:

The price of the Enlighten Plus is not disclosed as of now.

So, use the Enlighten and Enlighten Plus, connect with the spiritual master Ravishankar Guruji and experience transcendental bliss.

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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda continued his morning discourses to inspire followers worldwide by revealing the sacred secrets of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5, Sanyasa Yoga, verses 6 & 7.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 26, 2012 [Life Bliss Foundation reported that, in the previous discourse on chapter 5, 5th verse, His Holiness had revealed the sacred secret of using intense contemplation to ...

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‘Intense Action Is Path To Enlightenment‘– says His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Myriad colors and cultures mixed Sunday in Columbia when more than 100 devotees of the ultimate humanitarian gathered to celebrate a gift of spiritual enlightenment and their leaders birthday.

The city was the site of a divya milan, a divine meeting, with the man known as His Divine Holiness Acharya Swaminshree Purushottampriyadasji Maharaj, or Bapa to celebrants, the leader of Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan a Hindu sect based on the preservation of moral and cultural values.

Shashi Kerai, one of the organizers of Sundays gathering at Columbias American Legion Post 19 and president of the Shree Muktajeevan Academy of Excellence in Chicago, said the visit is incredibly rare. Every year, he said, Maharaj and several saints tour the world to spread the faiths message of peace, tolerance and understanding of all religions and nations. Nearly 30 other U.S. cities had been nominated by followers to host the spiritual leader but did not make the final list of seven stops.

He visits Europe, London, the Far East, America and so forth. This countrys a really big country, so he cannot accommodate every city, Kerai said. Columbia is the most fortunate this year along with Los Angeles, Chicago to be nominated to receive him and to celebrate his arrival.

For their leaders 70th birthday, which he celebrated last month, congregants melded their cultures oldest traditions with all the trimmings of an American party.

As a traditional parade of followers circled the legion hall to bless and bring peace to the land, the crack of party poppers broke out of the cacophony of singing voices, clapping hands and clinking bangles.

Kerai, who works as a surgical neurophysiologist when he is not traveling on behalf of his faith, said much of the celebration is also to instill a sense of heritage and culture in congregants young and old. For followers, the event is as big if not bigger than a visit from the Pope of the Catholic faith, he said.

In recognition of the meetings host, American Legion Post 19 Post Commander Bob Stephenson and First Vice Commander Gary Fisher were blessed by His Divine Holiness. Fisher said the post was blessed to be chosen for the visit.

Kerai said that because of the number of devotees living and working in Tennessee, its possible that a temple could be constructed sometime in the near future, but it remains uncertain where. Until then, he said local congregants will continue to promote the morality and performance of charitable acts of their faith.

To obtain more information on His Divine Holiness and his teachings, visit http://www.swaminarayangadi.com.

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The Huston Smith Reader

Edited with an introduction by Jeffery PaineUniversity of California Press: 280 pp., $29.95

A restless curiosity about the sacred dimensions of life drove Huston Smith to seek enlightenment in a Zen monastery in Japan, join a secret Muslim fraternity, make pilgrimages to Himalayan holy sites and investigate the religious import of mind-altering plants.

These experiences also propelled Smith through six decades of scholarly analysis that has made him one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religions of the world.

Today a new aspect of life absorbs the grand old man of comparative religion. Now living in a room in an assisted-living facility, the 93-year-old Smith has found himself making new friends in a community of senior citizens "in wheelchairs or depressed or withAlzheimer's." There too he ponders this question: What happens when we die?

His 15th book, "The Huston Smith Reader," is a great summing up of Smith's work over the last half-century, from passionate lectures and essays on why religion matters to deeply personal reflections on entering his ninth decade of life.

Taken together, these works offer a portrait of the author who, to describe the world's enduring faiths as accurately as possible, immersed himself in them, participating in their rituals and practices to get, as he put it, "an insider's view."

What is missing is only Huston's classic, "The World's Religions," an introductory college textbook that has sold more than 3 million copies. With few exceptions, the selections are eloquent and filled with anecdotes, character sketches and tales of wonder involving Masai warriors who rescued him from lions, a Japanese spiritual leader who confided the true meaning of Zen Buddhism, and Smith's own parents, evangelical Christians from whom he inherited an abiding trust in God.

In the 1950s, professor S.H. Nasr in Iran provided Smith with an insight that became an inspiring beacon over his long academic career: "Don't search for a single essence that pervades the world's religions. Recognize them as multiple expressions of the Absolute, which is indescribable."

It has been a remarkable life.

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Life Bliss Foundation stated that it may become the world’s largest number of people voluntarily being without food intake for longest period without any war situation.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2012 Madurai Aadheenam, Friday 22nd June 2012: His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiated 354 disciples into niraahaara samyama (hunger free samyama), during the worldwide daily satsang ...

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New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) The tranquillity and mystical aura experienced while sauntering through monasteries across Gangtok, Leh and Ladakh have left an indelible mark on jewellery designer Sumit Sawhney. The result - a 'Monastry Collection'.

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Monastry Collection: Magical blend of style, healing

Life Bliss Foundation observed that, after a week of waiting, thousands of followers from across the world welcomed their beloved Spiritual Master, Paramahamsa Nithyananda for the daily live streaming of his inspiring Satsangs (discourses on the Vedic scriptures for modern living)Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 20, 2012 Madurai, India, 20th June 2012: In a early morning discourse from India, His ...

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I have just returned from Turkey, one of the world's most beautiful countries. What has stayed deeply in my mind, however, is not the country's picture-perfect postcard beauty, but its people, its modern take on Islam and a host of questions for my own country.

During the visit, we _ a group of media people from Thailand _ met a number of socially engaged entrepreneurs, charity groups, news media organisations and universities whose works are inspired by Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gulen.

Forgive my ignorance, but I had never heard of his name before my visit, although he was voted by the award-winning Foreign Policy magazine as one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals in 2008. The readers, however, voted him the world's No.1 thinker, thanks to a global network of millions of his supporters.

Is this a cult or what? That was the first question that sprang to my mind. But a cult operates in a closed, hierarchical organisation with a central leader who often boasts divine connections and an ultimate answer to save the world. Cults are dangerous.

The messages from the Gulen or Hizmet (service) movement, however, are compassion, humanism, tolerance through inter-faith dialogues, community service and the pursuit of modern education, particularly the study of science to discover God's laws in the natural world.

An advocate of moderate Islam, Mr Gulen condemns all forms of terrorism while believing Islam is compatible with globalisation.

His supporters are the upwardly mobile entrepreneurs and professionals who embrace the social service encouraged by Mr Gulen. They insist there is no central organisation, just a network of like-minded civil society.

"The problem now is in representation of Islam, the wrong interpretations," said one Gulen-inspired businessman, Mustafa Sasmaz.

"In Islam, you cannot kill people for religion. In today's world, the true jihad is in education, in our giving to help others. If we help one kid to have an education, we're helping society. We're only temporary caretakers of God's properties. Why hold on to it without sharing?"

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Islamic scholar gave Buddhist point to ponder

On June 15th, 2012, Life Bliss Foundation stated that the voluntary peaceful fast and prayer undertaken by Paramahamsa Nithyananda and thousands of followers worldwide, in protest against the arrest has been called off following the release.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2012 As is being revealed to the world now and even in the local print media The Times of India [http://timesofindia ...

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Legal Fraternity Questions Arrest of His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda