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Community Events
Portland, Oregon Fall into Gratitude, October 9th, Street Yoga’s third annual, Bollywood in the Pearl, at Yoga Pearl Invest In the Human Spirit, Living Yoga’s 5th Annual Gala, October 22 at New Pure Space in the Pearl at 14th and Overton True Freedom, Inside and Out, October 24, at Bella Gioia, Cucina Italiana in the Pearl, SRV Associations’ free educational …
True Freedom Links
Silent Auction, Tickets, Donation & Service Form Download pdf here Benefit Goal: $8,000 Some Statistics for 2010: • Babaji & volunteers expect to give 54 classes at 5 prisons. • Teaching time: over 130 hours • Travel time: over 148 hours • Class size varies but each class has 8 to 15 students. • Throughout the year there …
Oh Ma!
Ma – I have felt so tucked away with You. Snuggling in and just holding You close.I feel You in my heart as a pulse, a fiery glow. Burn Ma burn. Ignite this fire within. Let the bellows of the breath feed the flame so that it burns deeper, wider, higher. Agni – swaha. Fire and ash. The fire of …
Babaji’s letter
Dear SRV Sangha helping the world, We have an opportunity to do some rare outreach at this time, and we can accomplish it as an ensemble rather than just as individuals. The forthcoming Prison Benefit event, October 24th, is a fund raiser designed to provide some income for SRV’s prison ministries so that the students in prison we teach …
Babaji’s Summer Visit is Here!
You can print out Babaji’s 2010 year schedule for mainland centers by clicking here. SRV San Francisco465 Brussels St., San Francisco, CA 94134, 415-468-4680, hcsrv@comcast.netJuly 2010, Meditation daily at 6:00am7/16 Fri — 7:00pm, Arati Satsang 7/17 Sat — 9:30am, Class: Vivekachudamani, Crest Jewel of Discrimination— 7:00pm, SRV Puja7/18 Sun — 9:30am, Class: Vivekachudamani7/19 Mon — 7:00pm, Arati/Satsang7/20 Tue — 7:00pm, …
Spring 2010
From Babaji’s classes at Retreats, Prisons, and SRV CentersSpring Visit, April & May 2010 Notes from SRV Hawai’iIn this day and age, Indian Philosophy is focused most around Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta. SRV spells “serve” and this is what we are about — via presenting a spiritual education. We have to look back at these darshanas as the touchstone of what …
Wisdom in Practice
We feature a piece from Joy Stockwell who describes how a particular teaching transformed her mind and in turn affects activities in the world. I’ve been pretty occupied with my work lately. I seem to only have time for work and spiritual life. I’m happy to report the work life resides a bit more in the spiritual life now. I …
SRV’s Prison Fundraiser in Portland
True Freedom, Inside & Out, is a unique event addressing the role of spirituality, via multi religious streams, in the transformation and reintegration of those who are, or who have been in prison. October 24, 4 – 7:30pm Bella Gioia, Exquisite Regional Italian Cuisine in the Pearl District – see map | see menu True Freedom – Inside & Out …
Guru Anushasana
The scriptures assert that a seeker of Truth should rely wholeheartedly on the combined authority of the Three Great Sources: vidya shastras, guru anushasana, and aparoksha anubhuti. In English, these are the nondual scriptures, the irrefutable testament of the guru, and one’s own direct experience. By taking recourse to these three one is led infallibly to the goal of human …