I’m a cynical guy, especially when it comes to the news. The media is so corruptible, so biased, that it’s a hopeless wish to pray for balanced coverage of any foreign news story. And when it comes to India, forget about it. It’s as if the British made a deal with Reuters and the AP before liberating us so that we’d forever look like a third world country in the eyes of everyone else.
Karmanyevadhikaraste
Ma phalesu kadacana
Ma karmaphalaheturbhurma
Te sango’stvakarmani
Bhagavad Gita 2:47
“…You are not entitled to any benefits resulting from your actions. At the same time you are not entitled to a state of not acting at all. Thus you should act according to your stature without any hope of enjoying the fruits of your action.”
Karma Yoga is one of the most important Dharmas that come with acquiring the Human Form. Dharma and Karma share the cause-effect relationship in which the living entity has to know and understand its Dharma. Read the rest of this entry »
The South East region held its first Yuva Sangam (Youth Retreat) over the Memorial Day weekend, from May 22nd to May 25th 2009 with a total attendance of 28 people, 26 of which were students. A total of 7 campuses were represented from the southern region, including the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, North Carolina State University (NCSU), and Duke from North Carolina, the University of Georgia and University of Athens from Georgia, and the University of Florida and University of Central Florida from Florida.
Sai Baba has dominated the world scene for half-a-century as a great Saint. Sathya Sai Baba asserts that he is an avatar of God in whom all names and forms ascribed by man to God are manifest. He also says that everybody else is God and that the difference is that he is aware of this and others have yet to realize it. He stresses humans should always be free from desires and states that desires bring mental pain (depression, anger, jealousy etc).
Kriya Yoga is fundamentally meant for householders for self realization. It is a guaranteed way of Enlightenment if correctly practiced under the guidance of a realized guru, according to Sadguru Yogiraj Sri Sri Mangeshda, founder of Sadguru Mangeshda Kriya Yoga Foundation, which organized a Kriya Yoga Mahashibir in Mumbai recently.