The Edge of Indian Spirituality
The Idea of India
“I see the mainstream representation of India in much the same way as I see the mainstream news media. Our understanding of India is an imperial culture’s construction of its colony.” …Watch the video…
Pilgrimage & Darshan
“The act of making a pilgrimage is that of suspending oneself between worlds. Those locations to which one makes a pilgrimage, are called tirthas, crossing over places. Tirthas mark hidden entrances to the Extraordinary World.”
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History of the Naga Babas
Juna Akhara’s collected lineages look back for their origins to the Treta Yuga, countless thousands of years ago, the age of the epic poem, The Ramayana, and to the Three Headed Guru of Yogis, Dattatreya, our ultimate founder. Guru Dattatreya is naked, his dread locks touch the earth. …Watch the video…
The Book of the World
The world is the container of all things and The Book of the World is its articulation.
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Becoming a Baba
Becoming a baba starts out as an exercise in copying and mimicking. This is to prepare the soil for a great spirit to enter. …Watch the video…
Alchemy
In 1527, the alchemist Agrippa stressed in a letter that there is a secret interpretation and understanding which cannot be conveyed through the printed word alone.
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Teachings of Dattatreya – Avadhut Gita
The three heads of Dattatreya are those of the Indian Gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; his four dogs are the most ancient and sacred texts of Hindu Culture, the Vedas; the Cow of all Desires follows him around; and the Mother Goddess, Herself, sits on his lap. …Watch the video…
Sacred Speech – VIII
For, as the stars are the witnesses and therefore the storytellers, crisscrossing all lives and all events, now and forever, Speech makes those stories known and establishes the possibilities of all knowledge …Watch the video…
Adi Shankara and the Frog – IX
Adi Shankara established his main monastery, Sringeri Math, where he witnessed a pregnant frog trying to cross the deadly hot sands in the noon day sun, trying to reach the river. …Watch the video…
The Yogi & The Mother Goddess – X
The world comes to the yogi for his blessings, that magic touch, which makes the impossible happen and charms one’s life – bringing health and prosperity.
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Hindu Scripture – XI
And then his words, or at least what are recorded as his words, are removed from his body, from his lips. This is the manuscript. It’s as if a snapshot of a day in the life of the oral tradition …Watch the video…
The Disappearance of the Yogi – XII
“The noble, rigorous, and restrictive figure of the Yogi is to be forgotten.
The signs that mark him are to be thought of as the fantasies and charms of a knowledge that had not yet attained marketability” …Watch the video…
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