(Leonid Plotkin – Sadu Sorcerer) A sadhu strolling towards me along the burning ghats at Varanasi had his eyes lowered. His matted dreadlocks were  piled up high on the top of his head, and he wore the usual paraphernalia of…

(Almora – Anthony van Zijl) On the train to Varanasi I asked the boy to marry me. Fortunately, he agreed. We sealed the deal in a hotel called The House of The Rising Sun. The Brahman, who performed the ceremony…

    “I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.    It said that Nothing…

(Resting Buddha – https://inshaallaah.wordpress.com/) This is a brief extract from a satsang by Swami Nishchalanada Saraswati on the subject of Effort versus effortlessness. ”…We cannot create or do Meditation, for any attempt at doing will be an extension of the ego,…

(Wandering in the Forest – http://www.thaogallery.com/home/) The Ashtavakra Gita was written around the same time as the Bhagavad Gita (about 2500 years ago). They are fairly different in approach. The Ashtavakra Gita is about radical non-dualism – Advaita Vedanta – as…

(Meerabai – Open Source) “The layer that is above the sky and below the earth, which is described as being situated between the earth and the sky and which is indicated as the symbol of the past, present and future,…

(Image Source Unknown) As a woman is dear to a lustful man So most of life is lost in sense enjoyment The hairs of the head have gone grey, The eyes are becoming dim, The ears have lost their power…