Quarterly Newsletter
Guru Purnima, July 25, 2010
"A genuine spiritual teacher, one who is assigned to teach according to tradition, searches out good students. He looks for certain signs and symptoms; he wants to know who is prepared. No student can fool a master. The master easily perceives how well the student is prepared. If he finds that the student is not yet ready, he will gradually prepare him for the higher teachings. When the wick and oil are properly prepared, the master lights the lamp. That is his role. The resulting light is divine."
From The Essence of Spiritual Life by Swami Rama
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce a new title coming out this fall, At the Feet of a Himalayan Master: Remembering Swami Rama, volume 2.
From the back cover:
"At the Feet of a Himalayan Master unfolds the secrets of personal sadhana and direct contact with a great guru that are rare to find in any published literature, and with contemporary and western disciples facing the modern world and all of its limitations. The book helps us understand the many facets and the real nature of genuine spiritual practice in the Himalayan tradition and how it can transform the mind and heart."
Dr. David Frawley, author, Yoga and Ayurveda, Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound
"I met
Swami Rama in the early 1970's soon after he first arrived in America.
Through the years … he often reminded me that we were 'spiritual
brothers' because our respective guru-lineages originated in same region
of the Himalayas. I am pleased to recommend this edition of At the
Feet of a Himalayan Master (and other editions) in which Swamiji's
engaging personality, direct manner of teaching, and life of selfless
service is reverently described by some of his disciples."
Roy
Eugene Davis, disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and
Director of Center for Spiritual Awareness, Lakemont, Georgia
"In the three sections of this volume, Gus Gatto, Eileen Diorio and B. Maithili describe how Swami Rama impacted their lives in ways that seemed at times inscrutably rigorous and challenging, and at times immensely gentle and loving, and how they each, often on recollection, were able to assimilate and understand their experiences in ways that helped them address important obstacles in their further development."
From
the Foreword by Dr. John Clarke,
Former Chairman, Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science
and Philosophy of the USA
ISBN 978-81-88157-66-2, $18.98, paperback, 296 pages
Thank you for your support.
July 2010
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