Dakshinamurti at Center for Spiritual Enlightenment

Dakshinamurti Teachings: The Essential Guide

Entering the Grace Meditation Hall at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, one’s gaze is immediately drawn to Dakshinamurti, the radiant, beautifully adorned black stone image seated on the gold marble-painted tiered platform in the far […]

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Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita: A Guidebook for Life

The setting for the Bhagavad Gita is a battlefield during the time of a great war between two families who are relatives. An ancient historical battle in Kurukshetra is recorded in the Mahabharata, India’s great […]

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Gifts of Grace

Three Gifts of Grace

In The Crest Jewel of Discrimination, the great sage Adi Shankara wrote about three gifts of grace or three things in life that are needed for spiritual awakening and are very difficult to attain.  

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advent

The Spiritual Journey of Advent

Spiritual practices imbued with symbols from the Christian tradition of Advent can be luminous tools to guide us through the dark days and nights of Winter. Through contemplation and meditation, we prepare our hearts and […]

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Four Stages of Life

Four Stages of Life

Vedic teachings offer a model for a lifetime of spiritually conscious, purposeful living by suggesting that we view our lives with four significant stages or ashramas. These four stages of life are related to age […]

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Guru Purnima

Guru Purnima: Gratitude for Teachers

Every year I look forward to the Gratitude for Teachers festival celebrated in the East for centuries. It is a holy day in the Hindu religion, called Guru Purnima, which occurs at the time of […]

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