Yogaville’s Lotus Center for All Faiths (LCAF) team returned this week from Toronto where they took part in the Parliament of the World’s Religions. For its 2018 theme, the Parliament drew from movements of goodwill and cross-cultural respect that are embodied in the spirit of the interfaith movement: “The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love: Pursuing Global Understanding, Reconciliation, and Change.” It featured more than 500 programs and events across six major tracks: The Dignity of Women Across the World’s Wisdom Traditions; Peace and Love: Not War, Hate & Violence; Care for Our Earth, Responsibility for Our Future; The Spiritual Evolution of Humanity & Healing Our Mother Earth; Interfaith Has No Age, Youth Voices for Change; and Advancing Concrete Change Toward a Just, Peaceful, and Sustainable World. Pictured at the LCAF booth L-R: Satyam Penn (from Toronto), Rev. Sumati Steinberg, Shankara James Jabbour (from Toronto), Swami Dayananda, Swami Jyotirmayananda, Prashanti Friedmann and her husband Sadasiva Buckley.
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For thirty-two years, I had the great good fortune to sit at the feet of Sri Swami Satchidananda (Gurudev). There were happy times and sad times, countless comings and goings, many ups and downs, but through it all, he remained the same: peaceful, patient, balanced,...
There’s no doubt that Patanjali intended brahmacarya (brahmacharya) to mean “celibacy.” He wrote for and to young men who were monks in training. Let’s break the word down just a bit. Brahma means God, specifically the God of creation. And it also is a shortened form...
Yoga is a path of liberation, and liberation has to begin in the here and now of our daily lives. We have to liberate ourselves from our own self-made prisons. These are prisons of attachments, concepts and habits, and the compelling forces of mechanical reactions and...
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