Friday Photo

"When you read scripture, try to understand it without comments. Use your intelligence. When you have some discrimination, you will be able to understand. Until then, the comments are to help you."

-Sri Dharma Mittra, 8/16/12

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Thursday Quote

"Prana is not matter, but it is in matter; Prana is not mind, but it makes the mind to think; Prana is not air, but it makes the air to blow; Prana is not breath, but it makes the breath go in and out."

~ Swami Kailashananda








BONUS QUOTE

"Prana is the inseparable power of God."

~ Chandra Om

Mid-Week Video

Janmadina Mubāraka, Hindustan!

Happy 65th Birthday, India!

Where would we be without you?

"Anything that involves 'I' or 'mine' indicates bondage."

-Sri Dharma Mittra


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"Divine imagination helps the process."

(as do faith, sharpness of mind and enthusiasm)

-Sri Dharma Mittra. 8/13/12


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Monday Music

Sri Ram Jai Ram!

Jai Sri Dharma!

"Do you know what the mind is?

"It is everything that is not the Self."

-Sri Dharma Mittra, 8/12/12

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BOLLYWOOD PRESS

The great Bollywood actor/director/producer Aamir Khan is in town, filming Dhoom 3.

Actually, he is one of the greatest actors of our time, period.

And he has a huge heart to boot.

Read about the filmy shooting here.

Friday Photo

Thursday Quote

To be childlike is good; but to be childish is not good.

To do simple tapas is good; but to spoil the health by mortification is not good.

To be devotional is good; but to be emotional is not good.

To have vairagya is good; but to expose the body to cold wind is not good.

-Swami Sivananda

MId-Week Video

(best when stopped just after music ends).

Monday Music

Friday Photo

Seven-year-olds in Pascimottanasana at a gymnastics event. *So* cute - and incredibly focused. Yet even at that young age, the bodies are already becoming stiff...

Thursday Quote

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Swamiji = Swami Vivekananda

MID-WEEK VIDEO II

Sri Dharma Mittra practicing yoga asana at age 73. He is/was the teacher of David Life, Sharon Gannon, Chandra Om, Andrei Ram, and Kali Om, among others.

Om Namah Shivay!

Mid-Week Video

Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya at age 50, in 1938. He was the teacher of Indra Devi, Sri K. Pattaabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar, TKV Desikachar and Srivatsa Ramaswami, among others.

Monday Music

Swami Vivekananda's Speeches at the 1893 World Parliament of Religion in Chicago

Read the full text here.









Click here to learn more about Swami Vivekananda.

जन्मदिन Janmadina Yatra