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Fundraiser Report
Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to all the people and businesses that made our first True Freedom prison fundraiser a success. Scroll down for some snapshots and story from True Freedom Sunday, October 24, 2010. We raised approximately 38% of our $8,000 goal for 2011. If you can help us raise that percentage, please see our donation page. An online …
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, …
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 …
Message from the Spiritual Director
Dear SRV students and interested readers: My Spiritual Director’s message for this issue of the Mundamala is brief and in step with the present times – that is, all that is taking place in SRV at this time in our lives. What I see of late is the Divine Mother/Holy Mother working through us in a way that is defining …