2-Day Weekend Retreat Mantra Tapas Teachings on Mantra with Group Japa Practice January 3 – 5, 2014 <> SRV Hawaii Ashram “The mantra is of key importance. When karma comes, when trouble comes, it isn’t “I am Brahman” that helps us as much as the mantra. Knowledge of Brahman is going to help you only if you can transport yourself …
Weekend Seminar 2013
3-Day Weekend Seminar Mantra Tapas Teachings on Mantra with Group Japa Practice August 2 – 4, 2013 <> SRV Oregon Ashram “The mantra is of key importance. When karma comes, when trouble comes, it isn’t “I am Brahman” that helps us as much as the mantra. Knowledge of Brahman is going to help you only if you can transport yourself …
Summer Retreat 2013
SRV American River Retreat over Gurupurnima July 17 – 23, 2013 <> Foresthill, CA SRV’s annual summer retreat near the pristine American River is joyfully anticipated each year by all ages of our sangha. This is the perfect retreat to get one’s spiritual feet wet for newcomers, and a profound opportunity for all members to live in holy company …
White Crane, White Swan (2)
White Crane, White Swan — Zen Buddhism & Advaita Vedanta A Weekend Retreat with Babaji Bob Kindler, SRV Spiritual DirectorJune 27 – 30th <> Honokaa, Hawaii In SRV Associations, Babaji presents Lord Buddha’s teachings as part of a comprehensive understanding of the Advaitic, non-dual Wisdom and Yogic pathways to Freedom that Mother India supplies in abundance. Buddhist philosophy is known to …
White Crane, White Swan
White Crane, White Swan — Zen Buddhism & Advaita Vedanta A Memorial Day Weekend Retreat with Babaji Bob Kindler, SRV Spiritual DirectorMay 23 – 27th <> Wind River region, WA In SRV Associations, Babaji presents Lord Buddha’s teachings as part of a comprehensive understanding of the Advaitic, non-dual Wisdom and Yogic pathways to Freedom that Mother India supplies in abundance. Buddhist …
Spiritual Director’s Message
Dear Students, friends, devotees, and disciples: We are presently standing on the brink of an entryway into the human heart and mind that is both potentially effective in its dynamic, and in keeping with the dissemination of Divine Mother Wisdom that is concurrent with our highest ideals. I am speaking of the inroads that SRV is making …
Retreat 2012: Vivekananda & True Freedom
Notes & Reflections, July 2012The 2012 summer retreat at the American River focused on the teachings of Moksha, True Freedom. The English language and the way we use it will never be the same for those of us who study Vedanta and the divine vocabulary of Sanskrit – a language by which, as Babaji often tells us, a substantial …
Teach Your Children Well
The most important thing we can give our children is the knowledge pertaining to the true Self — that It is birthless and deathless — along with the methods that clear the veils that conceal this inherent knowledge from our minds. As Swami Vivekananda declares in his lecture, “Freedom of the Soul”, nothing makes us so moral as this knowledge that the Self and God are one, and that we, ourselves, are responsible for our destiny and never bound by matter, Nature [paraphrased].
SRV’s mission – setting the feet of humanity on the path of universal Truth – takes two intrinsically related approaches. First, the householder, the working person, the family person, the grandparent, aunts and uncles, must be taught the Vedanta and other darshanas for the removal of ignorance* so they cannot only free themselves, but be examples for the younger generation. Second, children and youth must be given deep and comprehensive teachings so that those who are to raise families will be natural teachers of their children from birth; so that those who remain single will serve a high ideal in all their activities; so that those who are called to a dedicated spiritual life will have the opportunity to recognize this and find support for it.
Winter Retreat 2014
Transmuting Poison into Nectar Shivaratri Retreat with Babaji February 27 – March 2nd, 2014 <> Seattle, Washington Gathering in February over the auspicious time of Sivaratri, the SRV Associations and its members, students, and initiates will meet to worship the Lord of Wisdom, and to sing and study the “Sivanam Sankirtanam” together. Through recitation, chanting, study, and memorization — i.e., …
Winter Retreat 2013
Swami Vivekananda’s 150th Birth Anniversary RetreatFebruary 14 – 18, 2013 <> Seattle, Washington “My ideal can be put into a few words and that is to show mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.” – Swami Vivekananda “Swami Vivekananda, the epitome of spiritual authenticity, was the incarnation of Lord Shiva in this age …