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Thank You, Swamiji
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? Tomorrow is Swamiji’s Discipleship Day. The day our link to Master took place. If Swamiji had not told Paramhansa Yogananda that he wanted to be his disciple 75 years ago today, Donald Walters never would have...
It IS Up to Me
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today?What is it that happens that brings You into my meditations? All the ingredients seem always to be the same, everything except perhaps the final result. After Kriyas, and (usually after) Jyoti mudra, my head tilts...
Continuous Love is Devotion
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “Let’s talk about devotion. When you want God to help you with something that is challenging in life, it is easy for you to pray for that help. As they say, ‘In foxholes, there are no atheists.’ But it takes much...
The Fire Burning Within
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? “Today it’s about spiritual hunger. I mean the passion with which one goes after God. Without that passion, that burning desire to know God, all the huffing and puffing in the world won’t get the job done. If you...
Manifestation of the Divine
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? I loved the experience of Lahiri Mayasaya in his book, Purana Purusha, where he perceived himself behind a being that was standing but not moving or saying anything, and that this being shone with a radiant splendor....
Column of God’s Light
Dear Divine Ma, What Do You Want Me to Learn Today? When Swamiji teaches us to meditate with lifted chest and erect head, he is merely prepping us for what deep meditation will do to our body naturally. Sometimes we hear the advice to take the position for meditation...