by Russell Atkinson The Fog Warning by Winslow Homer “Mother! Mother! My boat is sinking here in the ocean of this world. Fiercely the hurricane of delusion rages on every side! Clumsy is my helmsman, the mind: stubborn my six oarsmen, the passions: into a pitiless...
by William Page Mountains are often a source of religious insight. Many sages and rishis have lived there. So there ought to be a mountain sutra. If there were, it might go like this: Photo by Jen Loong on Unsplash The religious quest is...
by Bill Davis Swami Vivekananda: There is no sweetness but He. Thus says Yajnavalka. When you come to that state and look upon all things with the same eye, when you see even in the drunkard’s pleasure in drink only that sweetness, then you have got...
by Sister Judith Thackray The healing principles of nondual Vedanta have guided me most of my adult life. I was an undergraduate student in philosophy and fine art—widely reading in both ancient and modern philosophy, when I first encountered these healing principles...
From the Bottomless to Limitlessness by Nilotpal Sanyal From the bottomless to limitlessnessYou and I fly togetherInside and outside timeTouching the sky, touching the airThrough ages and eons, We fly together. We are together in the shy light of the...
by Eliza Gilkyson This extraordinary song was released in 2008. It may be more relevant now than it was then. Authors Naomi Klein and Charles Eisenstein, and filmmaker Michael Moore, among others, believe we are indeed at the beginning of a major, worldwide...
by Barbara Brown Taylor When I began teaching world religions at Piedmont College twenty years ago, it did not take long to realize that the students and I would have to escape the classroom sooner instead of later. The maps and timelines in our textbook led us...
by Anna Monday “How delightful religion used to be—in the days when I wasn’t doing anything particular about it!”1 Christopher Isherwood, September 1943 Christopher Isherwood & Swami Prabhavananda, Copyright Vedanta Society of Southern California All...
by Karl Whitmarsh How our Vedanta Society came into being Swami Prabhavananda, & Sister Lalita (Carrie Mead Wyckoff) In 1929, an elderly American woman, Carrie Wyckoff, offered a young Indian swami the use of her little home and property in Hollywood for the...
by Sofia P. Webber Valeria is 13 years old and is very talented with numbers, statistics — and she has a very special skill. She can communicate with animals. Her dream is to go to the Amazon, the only place in the world where you can still see rainbows and...
