Yoga and Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh
Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh was a doctor by profession but eventually became a swami to settle in Rishikesh. Rishikesh is the main yoga town/center in Northern India. Every year thousands of yogis and wonna-be yogis from around the world come to Rishikesh to study yoga like with the Divine Life Society whose founding father is […]
Amazing Grace: Darshan by Enlightened Beings
It truly is amazing grace to have the darshan of an enlightened being. I just watched a short video of Mother Meera traveling from venue to venue and more venues in Germany. Seeing her travel from place to place I reflected. I thought, we are so blessed to have these enlightened beings live, sometimes under […]
Desperate for Jesus – A Virtual Women’s Conference
Desperate for Jesus is the title of a virtual women’s conference I ran into online. Did I participate? No, but I had to laugh about the title. India is historically known to produce enlightened beings. Already thousands of years ago the master-disciple relationship existed to further the spiritual growth of a true seeker for enlightenment. […]
A Living Siddha – Toppi Amma
Toppi Amma means mother who wears a hat which she used to wear all the time. While living in Tiruvannamalai, I saw Toppi Amma walking the streets, on Girivalam Road around the Arunachala Mountain, and at Yogi Ramsuratkumar Ashram. She never talks to anyone but at times mumbles something. People say its some kind of […]
Darshan with Siva Sakthi Ammayair – The Silent One
Whenever Amma is at her ashram I go and sit for 45 minutes for meditation in the morning. During this time Amma comes downstairs to the meditation hall which by then is often filled with up to 150+ meditators and devotees during the tourist season. Many line up outside the hall looking through the windows […]
Mouku Podi Swami at Arunachala
‘Hey!’ he was shouting wildly gesturing with his left arm to chase some devotees away who had gathered around him with folded hands in prayer ‘Namaskar’ position. Two of them got scared, grown men who are used to shouting and ran away. About a month ago I went to the back meditation hall at Sheshadri […]