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Reflections on Shirdi Sai Baba

Thursday 15 October 2020 was Shirdi Sai Baba maha-samadhi. On this day we celebrate the long and loving life of the great saint. Throughout his life, Shirdi Sai Baba was a friend to all and taught that God was a friend to all.

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Lifestyle

Removing the Border Between Spiritual and Material Life

Love is the key to dissolving the border between what we perceive to be spiritual and non-spiritual. True love does not selectively choose or judge, it is a force that can stand behind anything we do in life and propel us to do it even better.

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Yoga & Meditation

Japa is Service

Love is universal and it touches people in many miraculous ways. This is what life is worth living for.

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Lifestyle

Be Like Sunflowers: The Secret of Seva, Community, and the Spiritual Master

With the spiritual master, seva, and the community there is no storm we cannot ride out, there is no storm too heavy or violent or dark, that we cannot manage our way through.

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Lifestyle

Facing Doubt On the Spiritual Path

People can tell you a hundred things about spirituality, but until you have your own spiritual experiences, it doesn’t fully make sense. Once you have had those experiences, no matter what anyone says, they can’t shake you from it.

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Knowledge

King Puranjana's Infatuation & the Four Wives story

Gurudev tells two cautionary tales about how our worldly desires trap us and time inevitably changes everything. He illustrates in these tales how our true self is always with us, even though it is often ignored or forgotten completely.

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Yoga & Meditation

Love is the Centre of Your Atma Kriya Yoga Practice

Bhakti is the secret. It is what takes your yoga to another level, on the fast highway to God, enabling you to finish your spiritual journey and the purpose of incarnating on earth.

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Lifestyle

Overcoming Laziness on the Spiritual Path

A very important question that one should truthfully ask and analyze every single day is – HAVE I BEEN LAZY TODAY?

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Lifestyle

How to Love With the Innocence of a Child

This is what we need to develop in our spiritual practices and our life. To love with the innocence of a child, to live with the innocence of a child, we need the same presence of heart and mind as a child at play.

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Yoga & Meditation

Chronic Illness, Finding Acceptance, and Stengthening My Meditation Practice

When you take a step back and look at a situation as an observer it allows you to see things from a different perspective and naturally, insights to the cause begin to awaken.

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Knowledge

The Mind, How It Functions, and Why It's Important

To understand why the mind is important, we must first understand its purpose. We live on Earth, have material bodies, a mind and our intellect. We use all these things to progress and to rise in love and realise the Divine.

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