Saints, Sages, Seers, Saviors and Their Teachings with Sri Sivanam Sankirtanam ChantingPlus: Western Women Pioneers of Vedanta, with Annapurna Sarada Live in holy company for a full week — meditating, studying, serving, and growing together. Each morning begins with chanting from the Bhagavad Gita prior to meditation. Daily classes include essential teachings of Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra, and Sankhya. Afternoons include …
Spring Retreat over Memorial Day
Manasana: The Art of Mental Posture May 21 – 25th, 2015Wind River region, Washington The most beneficial usage of an asana is mental, not physical. As the scriptures of India declare, “Not by hundreds and thousands of body postures,but by control of the mind, does the soul reach Enlightenment.” In SRV’s Spring retreat at Windwood Waters near the Columbia River …
Divine Tools for Inspiration – 2014 & 2015
“Guru Parampara” means transmission of the spiritual lineage from teacher to disciple, who then becomes a teacher for others, and so on. The transmission of Sarada Ramakrishna Vivekananda flows to us through Babaji Bob Kindler and Lex Hixon from their teachers, Swami Aseshananda and Swami Nikhilananda, both of whom were disciples of Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi. The wisdom and …
Winter Weekend Seminar
How a Householder Renounces the World March 7 & 8th “The monk must renounce inwardly and outwardly. The householder must renounce only inwardly.” – Sri Ramakrishna Location: SRV Portland Ashram, Oregon Tuition & meals: $165/adult; $95/student Tuition due by February 21 Saturday, March 7: 6:00am – 5:00pm (breakfast/dinner)Sunday, March 8: 6:00am – 12:00 noon (breakfast only) …
SRV Winter Retreat 2015
Panchadasi & Panchakarana February 26 to March 2nd Seattle, Washington The age-old method of quintuplications, and their relation to spiritual life and practice, forms the subject of SRV’s Winter retreat in early 2015. Panchakarana, acting as both a record of cause and effect for the soul and its activities throughout its many lifetimes, is also as an unerring guide for …
Winter Retreat in Hawaii 2016
Making Crucial Spiritual Connections, Part 2 January 15 – 18, 2016 on the Big Island of Hawaii Last January’s retreat on making spiritual connections was such a beneficial experience for everyone that Babaji will continue this topic at the next Hawaii retreat in 2016. It is not necessary to have attended the first retreat to participate in this …
The Best Austerity
Inestimable Blessings of Advaita Puja October is the auspicious time of Divine Mother worship. It ensures that spiritual aspirants around the world can avail themselves of the privilege of adoring Her, and acquire the boon of blessings that proceed, abundantly, from such utter dedication. The ceremonies, over nine days (Navaratri), are not just rituals; they are expressions of God worshipping …
Durga Puja – Some Reminiscences
Durga Puja – Some Reminiscences by Annapurna Puja is slow, gradual beauty, distilled, God slowed down in vibration so that the senses can actually perceive Him. –Babaji Bob Kindler Durga Puja, the special autumn worship of the Divine Mother, is an important event for the SRV sangha in our annual cycle. It is a time when we “reset” our spiritual …
15th Anniversary Issue
15th Anniversary Issue of Nectar! “The proof of one religion depends on theproof of all the rest.” Swami Vivekananda❖“I have practiced and realized the goal of the different religious traditions of the world and, making a fragrant garland of them, have offered them reverently at the feet of the Divine Mother.” Sri Ramakrishna Issue #30 in 2015 represents fifteen years …
A Message from Swami Vivekananda
A Message from Swami Vivekananada Excerpts from “Freedom of the Soul” from Jnana Yoga A lecture from Swami Vivekananda in London on November 5, 1896 If you say that the soul was by its own nature pure and free, it naturally follows that there was nothing in this universe which could make it bound or limited. But if there was …