In today’s hectic world of wireless devices, trending topics, and general economic turmoil, people find a simple balance in life very difficult to achieve. In this lecture, How to Achieve Spiritual Balance, Rama lays out a few basic guidelines for finding balance in your life. “Spiritual balance occurs largely through being yourself,” Rama states. Yet…
Sensual experiences are so intense that we tend to forget there is something beyond them. The reason that we’re occupied with the senses is that we have focused our attention upon them. Rama offers two ways to overcome the suffering created by the dream of the senses. One is to alter the dream by refocusing…
Traditionally spiritual seekers have gone into places of solitude to practice, but in today’s world it is impossible to get away from humanity. Our greatest challenge in this lifetime is learning to practice while living and working in the world. Here is Rama’s practical advice about solitude, spiritual fellowship, housing, money and career in the…
A person who practices Tibetan yoga is seeking a higher rebirth or absorption in God. While an opportunity to achieve that exists shortly after the onset of death, the principal use of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is to show you how to achieve it in your current lifetime without having to die. This…
The Caretaker Personality is a way of dealing with the world. As you meditate, you come to realize that you don’t have one personality, you have many different selves inside you. You can choose which one to use in any situation, like choosing clothing that’s appropriate to an occasion. Two in particular — The Child…
“I’d like to consider with you what the nature of samadhi is, and try and gain an understanding of not only why an individual seeks to go into samadhi, and how that occurs, but what the result of this process is.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Talk 9 of 28 in the Lakshmi Series….
“Death is a hidden country. It is a land beyond sight, beyond sound, beyond the conditions, laws, and limitations of this world… Death is not endless, nor is life. Life and death are two states of awareness.” “Really there is no life and there is no death. The idea that there is life, the idea…
“There is a way beyond time, beyond birth, beyond death and rebirth. The way is not to avoid birth, death and rebirth. The way is not to avoid pleasure and pain, hope and sorrow, sadness and frustration. The way is not to accept nor is it to reject. The way is to become without becoming,…
“There are four principal pathways that lead to self-realization. Mysticism is the hidden way…. “The path of love seeks to unite us with immortality through love of God. The path of selfless giving seeks to unite us with immortality, with nirvana, through action. Love is passive; self-giving is active. Jnana yoga, the path of discrimination,…
“The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spiritual search is the path of love. Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization, for ourselves. Love is the highest of all qualities that we can experience…” “Naturally there are different forms of love, different…
Purity: “Without purity, it’s impossible to realize God… We have a lot of different ideas about what self-realization is, what God-consciousness is, but in order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, of that which is and will always be, it’s essential to have a great deal of purity. Unless you have a great deal of…
“Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, an awareness, a way of perceiving and also a way of life…” “Your thoughts are like birds. Birds come into the sky and we see them. Then they fly by and they’re gone, but the sky, which is the element through which they travel, remains the…