For millennia, believers have unquestioningly called God “He.” But if the Divine is formless and beyond gender, why does society stubbornly masculinise the sacred?
SENIOR JOURNALIST & BESTSELLING AUTHOR
For millennia, believers have unquestioningly called God “He.” But if the Divine is formless and beyond gender, why does society stubbornly masculinise the sacred?
The first step to freedom and growth is taking responsibility for your own actions. Because until you take the blame, you can never truly take control of your life and help yourself and others.
By reviving Kriya Yoga and presenting meditation as both a science and a sacred art, Paramhansa Yogananda made accessible the eternal truths of yoga to all, irrespective of caste, class or creed. Yogananda’s teachings on meditation indicate that the bliss experienced in meditation is not the prerogative of one exclusive group, but a path open to all.
Analysis of an interesting phenomenon: ‘export and import of our spiritual gurus’ — a strange paradox of our sages being better known in the West than in India, and the people in the country honouring them by virtue of their foreign-returned ‘glory.’
God gives the rich and the poor, the king and the subject, the president and the common man equal opportunities to commune with Him in blissful meditation and find their seats on His sovereign throne,
Every one of us is a messenger of God. You don’t have to be rich or powerful, but just put God first before your selfish interests to be His messenger.