Babaji on teaching: “What are the most important elements of being a good teacher?”“Teach to learn. Don’t become a teacher to show your power.” “Are there specific skills that are important in teaching?”.“Compassion, self-less service, love and kindness.” For Part 1…
Q-How should we show love to others?A-If you have love inside, it will spread everywhere. Love can’t be made and shown if there is no love inside our heart. If there is love inside us we don’t need to show…
Babaji teaches that surrender means letting go of our identification of being the doer – Thy will, not mine. This is what is meant by Ishwarapranidhana, the last of the yamas and niyamas. It’s the final letting go. While we…
by Mahāvīr I spent many weeks this winter marvelling at the beauty of the land in its quieter season. The grasses, flattened by cold and snow, and the trees, barren of leaves, leave the contours of the land to plain…
The Decision or How I Got Here I met Babaji in Ontario at a retreat in 2001. At the retreat I practiced karma yoga, learned about Sri Ram ashram, attended a fire yajna and got woken up by the angelic…
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “grow, grow.” ~ the Talmud Dear friends, It is officially spring! The frogs in the pond are singing again and the daffodils are in full bloom, as…
Lingams and puja Another first for the Centre and Satsang, Shivaratri online.Without the possibility of gathering together at the Centre we wanted to come together with zoom to support the tradition and each other through the night long vigil. We…
Babaji has written, “Accepting the present is happiness.” Although we may understand this on some level, some of the time, very often we want things to be different from how they are right now. If it’s unpleasant, we want it…
While we’re still in the midst of Covid restrictions, we continue to sing, study and practice online by zoom. There are weekly Yoga Sutra and Bhagavad Gita study opportunities as well as morning meditation offered by the Salt Spring Centre…
Work honestly, meditate every day, meet people without fear, and PLAY. ~ Baba Hari Dass Penny and Laurel and their snowperson with a chocolate heart Dear friends, Last month I wrote that the robins were spreading the word that spring…