6: Human Life is Meant For Inquiry Into the A...

How can longing be ecstasy? How can absence be the deepest form of presence? This is one of the great mysteries of love — and bhakti yoga illuminates it. When Ram banished Sita, it looked like abandonment. When Krishna disappeared from the Rāsa Dance, it looked like cruelty. But ...  Show more

What looks like madness from the outside is the whole goal of yoga from the inside. Jacopone da Todi — Crazy Jim from Todi — found that every door of the senses leads straight to God. The gopīs of Vrindavan, wandering through the forest after Krishna disappears from the Rāsa Danc ...  Show more

Surya Das joins Ram Dass for a puja side chat at Ram Dass' home on Maui. Surya Das is a bhakta as well as an American Lama. They explore questions like, "What is our true sadhana (spiritual practice)?" - "Are we egos or dharma masters? Or are we simply two brothers on the path to ...  Show more

In this interaction, one being reveals to Moojibaba that he had been experiencing his life as being very difficult. After reading a quote of Ramana Maharishi, hung on a wall in Monte Sahaja, his perspective of his life changed. Moojibaba reminds us that the words of the sages are ...  Show more

Today I sit down with Swami Nityananda to talk about spiritual freedom – what that is, what it can mean, what it can look like – and a lot of the conversation is around being able to have inner peace, joy, and connection even when the world is falling down around you. Even whe ...

A student seeks clarification on what Nisargadatta Maharaj meant when he said, "I have no use for my Beingness." We are directed to an experiential discovery that cannot be grasped through the knowledge of the mind. “We want to experience our dreams. We want to experience fulfilm ...  Show more