…and I went way deep into the orient. I also was helping swami nityananda edit and translate out of Bengali the gospel of sri Ramakrishna, and I knew kumaraswami and his work and so it was a big load and it all just opened this material out into vast,…

…becoming identified with oneself as nothing at all. You are either a member of the society or you are nothing at all. Ramakrishna said there are three ways of going into the forest, three ways of release. There is gradual abandonment of the world, there…

…the talk that I've just given I said that when in the Indian System the time comes to depart to the forest, Ramakrishna had said there were three kinds of departure: gradual renunciation, sudden renunciation and monkey renunciation and all I did was talk…

…the other two. Gradual renunciation is as I described it, the preparation and the orderly going into the forest. Sudden renunciation says Ramakrishna is like this: a man and his wife are having an argument in their cottage and he walks out angry with his…

…are invisible, but it's perfectly logical to have a visible deity if you want. There was a marvelous saint in the last century, sri Ramakrishna, and a woman came to him one day, an older woman, and said: master, I do not love god. I cannot love of god…

…god. This is a way of bhakti but for it to work it must be a complete giving of oneself to the divine that is worshiped. Ramakrishna himself was in the service as a priest of the goddess kali. A friend of his said to him one day: when you go into…

…to the goddess and you and she are in very close relationship to each other, ask her for a certain favor from me. So Ramakrishna goes in with the perfect intention to ask the favor and when he gets there he is in such worship and devotion to the…

…inspiration, as a carriage to the experience of the image of the sixth chakra. Now this wonderful saint whom I mentioned yesterday, Ramakrishna, he was a virtuoso in bringing the kundalini up the spine. His devotees would say to him: how does it feel…

…cultivating in oneself the child which is one's own divinity, bringing it into fulfillment, fostering it. There's a wonderful story of the saint Ramakrishna of the last century. A woman came to him and said: oh master, I cannot say that I love god I do…

…is there nothing that you love in this world? And she said: yes I do love my little nephew, his little child. Well said Ramakrishna, there is your divinity in your service to the child you are in the service of god and therein your blessing. The fourth…

…with illicit love one loses everything the world can give and one gives up everything for this wild passion. And again to quote Ramakrishna, he says: when you have loved god this way or when you have loved the world this way, giving up everything for it…

…and in the classical tradition as well and so taking care of your child is a religious act. There's a story connected with Ramakrishna, the Great Indian Saint of the last century where a woman came to him and said: master I have to admit I don't…

…said: there he is taking care of him. You are fostering the god principle within yourself. It's interesting you bring up Ramakrishna. Perhaps if Ramakrishna were around today and emerged, say in Washington D c they'd probably lock him up very quickly. Well…

…is taking care of him. You are fostering the god principle within yourself. It's interesting you bring up Ramakrishna. Perhaps if Ramakrishna were around today and emerged, say in Washington D c they'd probably lock him up very quickly. Well he had certain…

…what he had to say was beautiful. I mean that book that swami nityananda translated into English, his gospel of sri Ramakrishna. Well it's a beautiful, beautiful experience to read that also of course in tibet prior to Padmasambhava's Arrival who is…

…I went way deep into the orient. I also was helping swami nityananda edit the and translate out of Bengali the gospel of sri Ramakrishna, and I knew kumaraswami and his work and it was a big load. And it all just opened this material out into vast,…

…put it that way to start now the best teaching from the east is this one that the Dalai Lama we had it from sri Ramakrishna, we have it all over the place from the east namely that there is a common consciousness which is our own ground, and so in…

…is so easily expressed in saguna and nirguna: brahman, brahman with qualities and brahman without qualities. And when people would go to Ramakrishna he would ask them: how do you like to talk about god with qualities or without? You see that's inherent in…

…is now professor emeritus. During the 40s and 50s he helped swami nicalananda to translate the upanishads and the gospel of sri Ramakrishna. His books include the hero with a thousand faces, myths to live by the masks of god, the mythic image. He edited…

…start. Now the best teaching from the east is this one that I've just described of the Dalai Lama. We had it from sri Ramakrishna, we have it all over the place from the east namely that there is a common consciousness which is our own ground, and so…

…life that one is to experience the spirit, communicate the spirit and live in it. There's a wonderful little story about sri Ramakrishna, the Great Indian Teacher, Hindu Teacher of the last century. A woman came to him and said: master I've had to admit…

…and in the classical tradition as well, and so taking care of your child is a religious act. There's a story connected with Ramakrishna the Great Indian Saint of the last century where a woman came to him and said: master I have to admit I don't…

…said: there he is, taking care of him. You are fostering the god principle within yourself. It's interesting you bring up Ramakrishna. Perhaps if Ramakrishna were around today and emerged say in Washington DC They'd probably lock him up very quickly. Well…

…is, taking care of him. You are fostering the god principle within yourself. It's interesting you bring up Ramakrishna. Perhaps if Ramakrishna were around today and emerged say in Washington DC They'd probably lock him up very quickly. Well he had certain…

…had to say was beautiful. I mean the that book that swami Nikola Nanda translated into English his gospel of sri Ramakrishna. Oh it's a beautiful, beautiful experience to read that. What about your own experience with swami Nikola Nanda? Well swami Nikola…

…had a sabbatical that year and I went to India first with him and spent two months with nityananda visiting the different Ramakrishna Monasteries there. Then I met a friend, an art historian in the prince of Wales Museum in Bombay and we went for…

…to whom I devoted a good deal of my own time. I helped swami nikula Nanda do the translation of the gospel of sri Ramakrishna. I worked on that for about four years and was soaking in the Ramakrishna Tradition and when I went to India with nikula…

…Nanda do the translation of the gospel of sri Ramakrishna. I worked on that for about four years and was soaking in the Ramakrishna Tradition and when I went to India with nikula Nanda, I was visiting the monasteries and the monks and listening to their…

…centered to begin with. Now in the last century there was a very important and really marvelous Indian Saint his name was Ramakrishna and he was really you might say a virtuoso in bringing this kundalini power serpent power up the spine. And his devotees,…

…let's cultivate it let's help it to grow up. Now there's a very pretty little anecdote associated with this in the gospel of sri Ramakrishna this wonderful saint I was speaking about, a woman came to him one day and said: oh master I don't love god I…

…I don't. There's no use pretending I don't understand god I don't know anything about him I can't say that I love god. And Ramakrishna said: does anyone you love? And she said: yes I love my. Little nephew. He said: there you are in your service to…

…funny people, remember there was that silence around aum. And then you're never satisfied until we've erased everything you can think about. Ramakrishna, who was a great saint of the last century said that at the sixth chakra, the soul beholds its god, but…

…personality and psychology of the individual practicing this yoga. In the last century there was a very great yogi whose name was Ramakrishna, who was a sort of virtuoso in bringing the kundalini serpent up the spine. And his devotees would say to him: o…

…our soul intends is god, and anything short of that is simply an inkling of what the experience of god would be. Now says Ramakrishna speaking of this we're only at the sixth chakra and we're in heaven now. What more do you want we might ask. This…

…much as I have made it, I am here, this is my bliss he goes right down the scale again because ego has been enforced. Ramakrishna says that the experience is as though you were to see a light through a pane of glass. It's the agony of the moth…

…mass principle, the inert, and the male is the active. Here the male is the inert one and the woman is the activator. Ramakrishna speaks of the male and female principles as water quiet and water rippled. And we have this actually in the first verse of…

…Tradition the divine power is imminent in all things you don't have to worship an imagined god. Anybody can be it. A woman came to Ramakrishna One time and said: master I'm sorry but I can't love god I don't, I can't say I do. Well he says: is there…

…madly and furiously so that everything is given up, everything's lost reputation and everything else for love, that's love. And said Ramakrishna when you love god that way and everything drops off you can say: come through. Now I've given everything for…

…and they illuminate things like that. This is of a tigress. Some of you know this story I'm sure it was a favorite of Ramakrishna. She was pregnant and starving. She came upon a little herd of goats and in her zeal she pounced too hard. The goats…

…It's the yoga of devotion you live with devotion to some being who amounts to your god. Now an old lady came in to see Ramakrishna One day and she said, master I find I don't love god. I just have to admit it to myself I don't love god. That…

…you have in society, you have sacrificed your place, you have sacrificed your virtue, you have sacrificed everything for love. And as Ramakrishna says if you love god that way, you can say: god I've given up everything for you. Now come through and show…

…begin to think of things that way, it's the process of brahman. I think I mentioned the little meditation for meals of the Ramakrishna Monks it's right out of the bhagavad Gita. Brahman is the sacrifice, is what is being killed. Brahman is the ladle of…

…in your heart. It is just born it's a tender child. It must be fostered. Now where do you find it? A woman came to Ramakrishna and said: I'd find I do not love god, the concept does not move me. And Ramakrishna asked her: is there nothing in the…

…do you find it? A woman came to Ramakrishna and said: I'd find I do not love god, the concept does not move me. And Ramakrishna asked her: is there nothing in the world that you love? And she said: yes I love my little nephew. He said: there he is.…

…I and the father are one, this realization. Well, halach, the Great Sufi Mystic describes the situation this way. Well I'll begin with Ramakrishna who says: when you behold god you are not god. There is a pane of glass between and the soul beholds its…

…and transcendent of maya is brahman, which is just energy, just the energy and consciousness, undifferentiated consciousness, uncommitted consciousness. Ramakrishna, who was a really a very important saint of the 19th century, said that when the energy is…

…five or six, perhaps more years was helping a Hindu Swami whom I was helping also to do a translation of the gospel of sri Ramakrishna, and he then became a Hindu Monk. And then one day the phone rang and it was my friend and he said: Joe I want…

…the erotic mysticism of India to the old testament song of songs, from the life of Christ and the teachings of the Ramakrishna to saint Paul and Bernard of Clairvaux, and William Blake, Thomas Mann and many others for whom love was the controlling…

…begin to think of things that way it's the process of brahman. I think I mentioned the little meditation for meals of the Ramakrishna Monks is right out of the Gita Bhagavad. Brahman is the sacrifice, is what is being killed. Brahman is the ladle of the…

…in your heart. It is just born it's a tender child. It must be fostered. Now where do you find it? A woman came to Ramakrishna and said: I find I do not love god. The concept does not move me and Ramakrishna asked her: is there nothing in the world…

…do you find it? A woman came to Ramakrishna and said: I find I do not love god. The concept does not move me and Ramakrishna asked her: is there nothing in the world that you love? And she said: yes I love my little nephew. He said: there he is.…

…realization, well halaj, the great priest of the temple and the Great Sufi Mystic describes the situation this way. Well I'll begin with Ramakrishna who says: when you behold god you are not god. There is a pane of glass between and the soul beholds its…