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Who Are You? What Is Life?
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…
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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…
Written with Ted Spencer Varuna lived with his wife in a small cottage not far from the water’s edge. It was an isolated beach, small, protected from the wind and waves by a finger of land that jutted across the…
In the world today there appears to be a great rarity of real love and compassion. We experience a lack of kindness and friendship, a scarcity of honesty and simplicity. True happiness and humility are rare. But fear is not…
Written with Ted Spencer The following morning found Michael and Varuna sitting on the beach after their first surf. The sun was warmer than the previous day and they had their wetsuits peeled down to their waists. The faintest hint…
“The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture [cultivation] of [transcendental] knowledge, and that a different result is obtained from the culture [cultivation] of nescience [ignorance].” —Sri Ishopanishad, Mantra Ten For one who lives a hedonistic…
Written with Ted Spencer Michael stroked over the first of two waves and halfway up the face of the third, then sat back on his board, grabbed the left rail, reversed his board, and pulled it under him and aimed…
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,…
Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to good or innocent people? When we see or experience first hand the suffering of children, for example, we may question the very existence of God or question whether or not He…
What is the one thing that all of us really need at the core of our beings? It is love. We can exist without it but we cannot really live without it. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was the greatest scholar in India…
