No, you need not identify with anything. You only need to get rid of your notions. Do not identify with any name or form which is not real. No name or form is real. Now, to reject name and form you need not make any effort or employ any kind of thinking or identification.

In this inspirational collection of stories, Swami Rama relates his experiences with the great teachers who guided his life, including Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, and Ramana Maharshi. This book documents Swami Rama’s spiritual quest, which showed him that direct experience is the source of real knowledge.

Our real nature is Liberation, but we imagine that we are bound and we make strenuous efforts to get free, although all the while we are free. This is understood only when we reach that state.

A true Yoga of nature must employ the language of nature, which resides far from our ordinary forms of human discourse. What is the language of nature?

Gheraṇḍa Samhitā is a classical yogic text. Its author is Sage Gheraṇḍa. The form of yoga he taught in Gheraṇḍa Samhitā is called Ghaṭastha Yoga.

The great secret to mastering prana itself is learning to shift the flow of breath at will with the power of attention and without the use of fingers or any other external aids. Learning to shift the nostril flow from the left to the right nostril and back is not an intellectual or analytical process.

The Upanishads tell the following story. Once all the deities that reside in the body – air, fire, water, earth, ether, speech and mind – had an argument. Each claimed that it was superior to all others, declaring, “I sustain this perishable body.”

Swatmarama says that through the practice of pranayama fear of death can be overcome, and for a spiritual aspirant this is a very important achievement. In the Yoga Sutras of Sage Patanjali, fear of death or abhinivesha is listed as one of the five basic causes of pain.

If you repeat the mantra while doing Hatha Yoga, you will be able to penetrate the deeper levels of the asanas. Try holding an asana while you chant mentally, becoming absorbed in what you are doing. Radha, Swami Sivananda. Mantras: Words of Power . Timeless Books. Kindle Edition.

Mantra can help you feel more peaceful or more energized. It can help you cope with illness and it can sometimes help effect physical healing.

Meditation requires that we give space to what is beyond name and form to reveal itself—that we set aside our opinions and come to commune with things as they are. This is only possible when we give up our belief in matter or the known and give our prime value to awareness itself.

If we replace this mental speech with mantra, we can transform the energy of our minds and hearts. This higher speech of the mind is the basis of buddhi or higher intelligence in Yoga, which allows our thoughts and actions to flow with the Divine word. Notice that you cannot see your mind or your thoughts, which have no visible form.

In Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen redefines spiritual awakening for our contemporary world―a world characterized by exponential change and an ever-expanding appreciation for the processes of evolution.

Our search for understanding has been defined for millennium as an ever expanding construction of more and more complex concepts.

Peter Gorman's Sapo In My Soul is the story of the Western world's discovery of the powerful Matses frog medicine known as Sapo or Kambo. Part memoir, adventure story, magical mystery tour, jungle jaunt and documentary…

Collecting Nisargadatta Maharaj's speeches on the Advaita Vedanta, I Am That explores the human existence and our association with the body. Believing that the body is all limits the consciousness