Integral Yoga: Best Spiritual Quotes and Free Download
Friday 01 June 2012 at 08:13 am
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)
An illumined teacher and a yoga master
Aurobindo says, 'I have three madnesses:
- I firmly believe that the accomplishments, genius, higher education and learning and wealth that God has given me are His. I have a right to spend for my own purposes only what is needed for the maintenance of the family and if otherwise absolutely essential.
- By whatever means I must get the direct realisation of the Lord. The religion of today consists in repeating the name of God every now and then, in praying to Him in the presence of everybody and in showing people how religious one is; I do not want it. If the Divine is there, then there must be a way of experiencing His existence, of realising His presence; however hard the path, I have taken a firm resolution to follow it...
- Whereas others regard the country as an inert object, and know it as the plains, the fields, the forests, the mountains and rivers, I look upon my country as the mother, I worship her and adore her as the mother... I know I have the strength to uplift this fallen race; it is not physical strength, I am not going to fight with the sword or with the gun, but with the power of knowledge... God sent me to the earth to accomplish this great mission'
The book consists of letters, and poetry on the practice of yoga, poetry and beauty.
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The Mother Mira Alfassa prayers poems spiritual quotes
Friday 01 June 2012 at 07:49 am
The Mother Mira Alfassa
1878 –1973
Supermind and the transformation of consciousness - Prayers and Poems
We intuitively use Poetry to Heal or express Joy!
Both, Sri Aurobindo and the The Mother believe that evolution is a process of the manifestation of higher levels ofconsciousness upon earth. The highest consciousness is called: Supermind and they worked to bring it down for a transformation of the earth.
The Mother founded the 'City of Dawn' ashram and spiritual community in Viluppuram, India in 1968. People from all over the world come to Auroville to live together, seeking spirituality and bringing it into the world.
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Tibetan Book of Living and Dying spiritual quotes
Thursday 31 May 2012 at 09:35 am
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Sogyal Rinpoche
Sogyal Rinpoche
Sogyal Rinpoche is a Tibetan lama. Teaching for over 30 years and travelling through the world, he is the founder of Rigpa — an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres iin 23 countries.
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Dante Alighieriquotes, Poems by Dante
Thursday 31 May 2012 at 09:16 am
Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321)
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence around 1265. In Florence, in 1300, he became an ambassador and was appointed "prior", one of the 100 leading citizens who ran the city in rotation. He confronted the Pope Boniface who condemned him to be burnt at the stake for his political beliefs.
"It was Boniface," writes Duffy, "who declared the first Jubilee or Holy Year in 1300, when tens of thousands of pilgrims converged on Rome to gain indulgences, adding enormously to the prestige of the papacy and the spiritual centrality of Rome." All who visited were promised "full and copious pardon", and so enriched Rome's churches that the sacristans "had to scoop in the pilgrim offerings with rakes".
It was Boniface, too, who in his bull of 1302, Unam Sanctam says: "It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman pontiff."
When Boniface sent a military envoy to Florence to conquer the place for the Church, Dante agreed to go to Rome with two other ambassadors of the republic. While he was away, enemies at home cooked up charges against him, Boniface detained him in Rome and he was sentenced to death.
Dante holding a copy of the Divine Comedy in Florence Michelino fresco
In 1315 he was offered an amnesty, and friends and relatives wrote urging him him to come back. He rejected them all, and in return was once again condemned to death, this time in company with his children. He died in Ravenna in 1321.While in exhile from Florence, the great poet of the Divine Comedy visited Venice in early 1321.
Dante's visit to Venice was also the cause of his death, because on the way back, he contracted malaria which killed him in Ravenna September 14, 1321.
The Florentine poet Dante Alighieri is considered one of the greatest poets of all time
Poems by Dante
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written around 1300. This sacred poem is an allegory of our journey to enlightenment. It describes our paths through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven to understand the Divine Essence, and attain the union with the Divine Love.
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Pythagoras Spiritual Wisdom and Philosophy
Wednesday 30 May 2012 at 9:03 pm
Pythagoras (560-480 BC)
Pythagoras Endless Wisdom One of the greatest Greek philosophers, a teacher, and a sage
Pythagoras lived at the same time as Buddha and Lao Tzu and he taught his disciples that a soul goes through an endless wheel of reincarnations until we purify and return to the divine.
Pythagoras formed The Pythagorean Brotherhood, one of the first un-priestly scientific societies teaching philosophy and science. Both men and women were allowed to become members of the order.
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