Tag Archives: initiation
Are You My Guru?
Recently asked: Do I need permission to take a teacher as my Guru? In direct realization traditions, the student needs to declare that she recognizes the teacher as Guru and wants to be treated as a disciple. The teacher also … Continue reading
Initiation and Shaktipat
Initiation and shaktipat are sought after, trashed, sold in the spiritual marketplace, and misunderstood. Continue reading
Women, Anandamayi Ma and the Gayatri Mantra
In 1936 in Varanasi, Anandamayi Ma announced her desire to give the Gayatri mantra to two of her female disciples. Watch rare footage of this initiation. Continue reading
Guru Tattva
Guru Tattva is the natural, inexorable mechanism or process by which manifest life moves from a relative state of ignorance of Self to total awareness or Self Realization. Continue reading
