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Music and Social Service

June 9, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Whenever I perform or give a public talk I try to connect with my audience. I see how they are reacting and accordingly get inspiration or adjust my approach to make better rapport.

For the past few years I have been giving monthly concerts at two retirement homes and at one school for severely disabled children. Most of the people in the retirement homes that I visit are suffering from various stages of dementia and it is a challenge to make contact with them. Similarly the children and the adolescents at the school for the disabled are suffering from congenital problems which have affected them physically and mentally and I am not sure if I am getting through to them with my songs. Continue reading

Letter from “Inside”

February 12, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I maintain correspondence with an inmate in a prison Illinois.  He is an interesting person because he is using his time in prison as if he were in an ashram, meditating, reading spiritual books and trying to walk on the spiritual path.  He recently read my memoir From Brooklyn to Benares and Back  and sent me this comment.

“I have received your memoir, From Brooklyn to Benares and Back, and read it straight through in two days.  Your vignettes engaged me and I especially related to your vagabond travel adventures allowing the Cosmic Magician to guide you. I could even picture you doing the “Alice’s Restaurant” act at the draft board physical. Baba Muktananda has been a guiding light for me inmy spiritual search as has Ram Das and I can’t believe you met them. Thank you for sharing your life with us and inspiring other seekers and devotees to travel the path of self-discovery”

Ocean of Grace-A new podcast

February 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I took a new year’s resolution to do a podcast every week, and so far I have been living up to it.  My podcasts appear each Monday on Dharmacast.com and now there is a page on this site with links to all the podcasts.  This week’s podcast is the Ocean of Grace.  I read from a discourse of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti and then give my take on what he said.  If you are interested in getting to the heart of meditation, finding out what it is really all about, then listen to the ocean of grace podcast.

Evolution of a Book Cover

January 19, 2015 / / 0 Comments

I recently published my memoir From Brooklyn to Benares and Back.  When I was writing the book I was pondering about the title but after a while the title just wrote itself: I was born in Brooklyn, I went to Benares to become a monk, and after a lot of traveling I am back in the USA.

Getting the right cover was a bit harder.  For the first printing I was under some time pressure because the designer at Inner World Publications was very busy and was only available for a short time. So I went to a place that offered stock photos and searched for an “iconic Brooklyn” photo. Continue reading

A Balanced Mind: One of the Secrets of Success

January 9, 2015 / / 0 Comments

7000 years ago, or so, Sadashiva, the founder of yoga, said that one of the seven secrets of spiritual success is to have a balanced mind.

What does this mean? One should not have a superiority complex, nor should one have an inferiority complex. Everyone knows that a big ego is an impediment to spiritual growth. However, just as the “umbrella of ego” can prevent you from feeling the rain of spiritual grace, an inferiority complex can cause you to stop striving for perfection. Continue reading

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