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 …
Hawaii Summer Retreat
Return to Wood Valley Back in 1994, Babaji led the second-ever SRV Retreat (and first Hawaii Retreat) at the Wood Valley Tibetan Buddhist Center. Located in the forest on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Wood Valley has a wonderful sacred atmosphere, complete with a Temple visited by His Holiness Dalai Lama. The retreat building has its own temple/meditation room which …
Hawaii Winter Retreat 2012
Jnana & Dhyana The Power of Integrating Scripture and Meditation A meditation retreat with Babaji Bob Kindler at Wood Valley Temple, Big Island, Hawai’i January 6 – 9, 2012 “At the height of all levels of the Wisdom-Word, and infused with the Divine Mother’s own power of penetration and dissolution, the great sayings of Sanatana Dharma – the eternal …
Jai Ma Music
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.
Nectar News
- 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.
At A Glance: Babaji’s Teaching Schedule in May
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 …
Get With The Plan
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 …
Spiritual Director’s Message
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.
Reclaiming Kundalini Yoga
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 …