Modern yogis want to look outward and uplift the world as much as they want to look inward and uplift themselves. Bhakti-yoga offers a powerful prescription for connecting the inward turn that’s required for our contemplative practices with the outward turn that’s required for our social action. In this talk, Hari-kirtana das will discuss the ways in which bhakti-yoga is the yoga of relationships, how bhakti offers a unifying vision of all creation, and how our engagement with the world expands as our sense of spiritual identity evolves. Learn how bhakti-yoga gives new meaning to ‘spiritual activism’ and provides a ‘ladder of motives’ that integrates a vertical transcendence of the world with a horizontal commitment to the world.
Join Lorin Roche has he discusses the experiences in his spiritual practice that have been enriched by a lifetime relationship with the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. Lorin explores key translations from his work and offers the profound teaching from Shaivism that reveals all things as doorways to the ...
In this talk, Mary shares from her personal encounters with Shiva, as she has come to know him over the past 40 years. A sampling of the myths, the poet-saints and the scriptural doctrines of Shaivism are woven within the fabric of these mystical experiences which have helped her understanding of...
In this interview, Swami Khecaranathawill discusses the nondual understanding of kundalini as both the individuated expression of the Divine and the means to liberation. This will include a careful articulation of the dynamic relationship between Consciousness and energy, because the power inhere...
