Babaji, staff, and great writers from many perspectives are preparing for our next “best ever” issue of Nectar of Non-Dual Truth, #26, for 2011.  Thanks to readers and sangha members, our last issue (#25) is being circulated all over the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, and Seattle.  There are still copies left to distribute. Contact us and we will send …

“Our daily life is missing something.  It is missing experience of the Self.  …Ordinary people only experience something like this in deep sleep, but that is incomplete because it is covered by nescience, the lack of conscious awareness.” — Babaji during a recent class.Is it not true? Most of us find that without the chance to retreat from our daily …

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Dear and precious SRV Sangha,
In past issues of this noble newsletter I have concentrated – as I am apt to do in an age such as this – upon sadhana, what we know as spiritual practices.  This endeavor, unarguably the singular spiritual artform, demands discipline, and requires it on a day to day basis. What we see in those rare beings who exemplify realization is the result of this superlative self-effort, always ongoing.  And so, the conclusion comes, after scrutiny and rapt observance (early stages of detachment), as well as striving long and laboriously in this field myself (disciplehood), and moving to transmit the teachings to others (assuming the robe of a teacher), that sadhana is for those who are truly ready.  Ready for what?  For either Divine Life or Transcendent Life.  Please read the following teachings to gain more clarity on this statement.

You can download Babaji’s 2010 schedule for mainland centers by clicking here.SRV San Francisco465 Brussels St, San Francisco, CA 94134 <> 415-468-4680 <> hcsrv@comcast.netMeditation: daily at 6:00amMay 6    Thu    7:00pm    Arati/SatsangMay 7    Fri      7:00pm    Arati/SatsangMay 8    Sat    9:30am    Class: Vivekachudamani, The Crest Jewel of Discrimination 7:00pm    SRV PujaMay 9    Sun    9:30am    Class: Buddhism & Advaita 2:00pm   Kids Class TBA …

After  Swami Vivekananda spoke at the Parliament of Religions back in 1893 almost instantly the news of his radical teachings spread throughout the religious and intellectual circles around the U.S…..yes, even before social networking went online. How many of you who are reading this have social networking sites? Then you have the means to help awaken the sleeping and uplift …

A Look Ahead: Nectar #26

75% of Nectar Funding has been reached!
Thanks to the warm response from our last mailing, and a substantial donation from a generous sangha member, we are only 25% away from our goal of $5000 for Nectar #26. We need $1231 more.  Can you help make that happen?

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Nectar is truly coming of age. We are receiving an unprecedented number of wonderful articles from a wide range of religious and philosophical perspectives!  Nectar #26 will include the following articles and more: 

Nectar:  Religion with a capital “R”Nectar of Non-Dual Truth is SRV Associations’ gift to aspiring humanity, to all who are weary of the conventional view that religion means dogma, conflict, self-righteousness, fanaticism, one-sidedness, or superstition.  To quote Swami Vivekananda, “Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in mankind.”  Further, “The proof of one religion depends on the proof of …

And Mother Claps Her Hands… Sanatanand James Grazzini of the Big Island of Hawaii was recently initiated while traveling in India. Jami was one of the pilgrims on the recent tour of India with Babaji. He had made the decision to be initiated but it came about in a most auspicious circumstance. He and Babaji were in the Master’s room …

New Year’s Eve in Rishikeshfrom a pilgrim’s diaryRishikesh, December 31, 2009 First morning in Rishikesh! We awoke to cymbals and conchs from the temple below….you can sense the monkeys waiting in the shadows.  Our hotel overlooks the sacred Ganga river, rushing with the sound of Om, rocks and rapids faintly glowing in the predawn darkness.  We walk uphill to Babaji …