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The profound yoga wisdom shared in this series of lectures from world-renowned yoga spiritual master Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda sheds light on the true nature of the self, and where deep and lasting happiness can be found. Part 1: Is Your Body You? Many scientists…
University students in the Philippines are asking the big questions. These audience questions from Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda’s lecture at the University of The Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) are on extremely interesting and meaningful topics including the yogic definition of life,…
Written with Ted Spencer It was late morning before the mid-winter sun crested the ridge and cast warm rays into the small valley where Michael lived. His gum-wood cottage had been built, lived in, and abandoned years ago by mill-hands…
One of the questions that causes the most anxiety among people is the question of identity: Who am I? Why am I on this planet? What is my purpose in life? Understanding the true meaning of life is the key…
Life: can you give a definition for the word “life”? It’s a word that is often used but usually not fully understood. While modern science has defined the symptoms of life, it has not been able to give a definition…
The Bhagavad Gita has been studied and praised for thousands of years for its clarity, insight and wealth of spiritual knowledge. It not only contains the foundation for the system of yoga, it is the guidebook for living a meaningful,…
The word yoga means union. For there to be union, there needs to be objects becoming united. The reality of that union can only be as real, true, or factual as the objects that are being united. If something that…
The secret to true happiness lies in knowing who you really are. The yoga view of the self is about you—your essential nature. But what is your essence? What are you made of? Are you made of matter—a mere collection of…
I need someone to love, if I don’t love, then I’m empty, I have no purpose in life. But why is there so much pain and suffering associated with love? What is the solution to this situation? In this enlightening…
