Download flyer or year schedule SF=San Francisco, PD=Portland Morning MeditationSF — 6 to 7am daily.PD — please call for times.Arati Satsangs @ 7pmSF — July 8, 11, 12 [F, M, Tu]PD— July 29 [F] Classes @ 9:30am, SvetashvataropanisadSF — July 9 & 10 [Sat, Su]PD—July 23, 24, 30 & 31 [Sat, Su]SRV Pujas on SaturdaysSF — July 9 @ 7:00pmPD …

Student:  What is relative free will?
Babaji:  Most people have a hard time with this.  They think in terms of choice.  Ramana Maharishi says there is no free will.  Relatively speaking, there is no free will.  There may be choice based upon relative free will, but the problem with choice is that it is all wound up with karma and samskaras.  Anyone who does not believe in reincarnation cannot adequately explain cause and effect.

Preparation Sarada is sweeping.Thatch to shoo the monkey mind; nonsense of the day.Split reed to break the cycles of habit; layers of boundaries; years of doubt.Golden stick to strike fear and desire; feelings alive in the darkest corner.She does her hardest work there. from Suprema

2011 Summer Retreat with Babaji 12th Annual (at least!) American River Retreat – July 15 – 21Dharma, Svadharma, & Beyond DharmaAn ongoing tradition in the SRV fold, which has seen many souls, young and old, partake of its rare gifts, the summer retreat near the American River in Forest Hill, California, will again bless us with wisdom teachings correlative to …

Kali Bol Ramakrishna!
Babaji Bob Kindler & Jai Ma Music
Expected Release Date: Summer, 2011

Dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna for the 175th anniversary of His birth, Babaji Bob Kindler’s latest offering of soul-enthralling devotional music will feature traditional Sanksrit stotrams, Bengali bhajans, and a new SRV classic in Hindi — the Ramakrishna Chalisa!  An excerpt will be posted on the SRV Facebook page sometime this summer.

• Guerilla Distribution Time!!!  Order distribution copies of Nectar #26 (available now!) and we will ship them to you in May.  Take them to Yoga Centers, Spiritual Centers, and other places where they will be appreciated.  Contact us

• Online Viewing:  Throughout 2011, we will be posting all our back issues for online viewing. Available on our website starting midsummer.

Download schedule flyer SF=San Francisco / PD=Portland Morning MeditationSF — 6 to 7am daily.PD — please call for times.Arati Satsangs @ 7pmSF — May 6, 9, 10, 11 [F, M, Tu, W]PD — May 20 & 27th [Fridays]Classes @ 9:30am, SvetashvataropanisadSF — May 7 & 8 [Sa, Su] (May 8: Mother’s Day Teachings)PD — May 14, 15, 28, & 29 …

SRV’s First Annual PlanDuring the first three months of 2011, a few intrepid sangha members came together to devise SRV’s first-ever Strategic Plan.  A major priority in this plan is to bring SRV and our website into the digital download era in order that Babaji’s books, discourses, our Nectar of Nondual Truth journal, and SRV’s founder Lex Hixon’s works, can …

Om Namo Narayanaya!

As a few of us know, and appreciate, the superlative message to give in Vedanta, and the main one worth contemplating, is the declaration of the inherent divinity in mankind.  Better than this, however, would be the outright declaration that mankind Is God in form, on earth.  But how is such a revelation possible to give out and share, given the benighted state of man’s mind in present times?  

And so, the seers take a few steps back and default to the method of acting as exemplars for this higher ideal, while authentic teachers strive to help qualify the rare few who have perceived the possibility of such a truth.  Thus, a slow version of enlightenment — a principle which should never have been reduced to a process — moves forward gradually.

by Babaji Bob KindlerISBN 978-1-891893-11-7124 pages / $12 USD / click to pre-order (Available soon!) From the Introduction Once held as a deep secret among the spiritually elite and quietly practiced among those willing to undergo specific training with adept preceptors to achieve qualification for spiritual life, this interior Yoga, much like the Eight-limbed Yoga of Patanjali, has suffered greatly …