Ritam bhara pragya is an operating state of consciousness that is beyond critical thinking, the usual sense-organ means of acquiring knowledge. Since critical thinking operates within the boundaries of body-senses, its information gathering and analysis is limited compared with the intuitive range of the mind, which is unlimited. This book is not a theoretical thesis. It is based on the author’s over fifty years practicing a form of mantra yoga meditation to expand his ...

Ritam bhara pragya is another sense; it operates beyond the ordinary range of the body-sense organs. The term pragya as used in this context refers to an intellect that is beyond normal intellect. It is an intellect that acts as a filter, rejecting anything that is not true and only accepting the Truth about any subject. It is that highest state of the intellect (or intuitive insight) that perceives things as they really are. Only truth is reflected. In this state there ...

This is a book about my training to become a teacher of Transcendental Meditation® (TM®) under the guidance of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. My journey to become a TM teacher began even before I was initiated into the practice of Transcendental Meditation. It happened quite spontaneously while I was attending an introductory lecture by the Maharishi at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Something just clicked; a heartfelt connection had occurred during Maharis...

CHAPTER TEN: Swami Lakshmanjoo, Master of Nature ...After a few hours, Lakshmanjoo arrived by shikara to join in the lecturing. He and Maharishi lectured for two more hours, which exceeded my attention span. I do not remember what was discussed. However, I will never forget when the topic shifted to a discussion of siddhis and Maharishi said, “Lakshmanjoo is a master of nature. He has the ability to make it rain. Do you want to see it rain?” Maharishi turned to Lakshma...

I am a Western yogi from Brooklyn. In writing this book I gleaned through notes and memories of numerous experiences spanning over fifty years. I selected those that are the most interesting and important. I hope that you will enjoy reading about my extraordinary spiritual journey. Little has been written about the experiences that yogis have had on their path of spiritual awakening. By writing this book I have filled that gap. I have nothing to prove to anyone. I on...

CHAPTER 6 The Awakening …In addition to gaining intellectual knowledge, two weeks into the course I had a profound awakening. I was seated at the head of my bed. My back was cushioned by a large pillow that was between me and the headboard. About a half an hour into my meditation a heavy feeling came over me. My body felt lethargic, but my mind was alert. I felt the need to rest, so I slipped down to the center of the bed and lay on my back in a prone position. No so...

Transcendental Meditation is a coined term for an ancient teaching dating back to the earliest records of human experience. It is a sacred science which heretofore has been reverently guarded and imparted by Masters only to the most trusted, favored and zealous students. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder and the inspirational leader of the world-wide Transcendental Meditation movement, has broken the exclusive tradition and brought this ancient teaching to the mundane w...

From: Chapter 3, Positive Thinking is Not Enough . . . It is my conviction that this premise of thinking positive in order to be positive is wrong, and therefore, will produce limited results. Being positive does not result from thinking positive. Thinking positive comes from being positive. The effect comes from the cause and not vice versa. I realize that I must be stepping on a lot of toes, but follow along with me for a while as I develop this theme and you will dis...

This book is a collection of carefully selected and sequenced quotes designed to broaden your perspective on birth, death and your limited time in between. The compiler gleaned through many thousands of quotations from a wide variety of sources, added a few saying of his own, as well as some humorous quotes for spice. By contemplating upon the quotes in this book may this book serve to change your outlook about time and change your life so that you will embrace every mi...

Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn’t actually exist. All experience is happening at once. Albert Einstein I existed from all eternity and behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Kahlil Gibran Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. Criss Jani Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its...

A photo chronicle with interspersed text.

Charlie was the most advanced of Maharishi's devotees, and he became a Master in his own right. He was clairvoyant, a healer, and a lecturer, and he was also accomplished in a number of siddhi powers.

A brief personal account, as related by one of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's closest associates, of the very early days of the Transcendental Meditation movement.

Maharishi’s real destination on leaving India was the United States. An American had heard one of his talks and urged him to go to America, that his teaching would really catch on there. Maharishi felt also that if he could popularize meditation in the most progressive and creative country on earth, it would surely accelerate expansion of the practice elsewhere in the world. But getting to America — or anywhere, for that matter — was solely determined by the degree of s...

Transcendental Meditation is a coined term for an ancient teaching dating back to the earliest records of human experience. It is a sacred science which heretofore has been reverently guarded and imparted by Masters only to the most trusted, favored and zealous students. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder and the inspirational leader of the world-wide Transcendental Meditation movement, has broken the exclusive tradition and brought this ancient teaching to the mundane w...

From: Chapter 3, Positive Thinking is Not Enough . . . It is my conviction that this premise of thinking positive in order to be positive is wrong, and therefore, will produce limited results. Being positive does not result from thinking positive. Thinking positive comes from being positive. The effect comes from the cause and not vice versa. I realize that I must be stepping on a lot of toes, but follow along with me for a while as I develop this theme and you will dis...

In 1959 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded the Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation to enable everyone to experience God through the practice of Transcendental Meditation. Maharishi appointed Charles Lutes as president of this organization. Charlie was a man of God and he spoke about God. Charlie described Transcendental Meditation as the highest teaching because it is through the continued practice of this technique that one is able to infuse the Being (God) into ones ...

From Lecture No. 18, The Battlefield within the Mind" The human mind is the battlefield where untutored impulsive and conscious forces are warring against altruistic forces. Sometimes good dominates and then vice versa. We go from good to bad and bad to good in a constant and unending struggle. We constantly move from one opposite to the other, from hate to love, from truth to untruth, and so forth. When the lower forces in the mind dominate, the higher or divine force...

The author tells about how he met Tat Wale Baba in 1969; Tat Wale Baba's message to the world; the murder of Tat Wale Bab; and the author's return to the Tat Wale Baba Ashram some decades later to interview the sole remaining devotee and caretaker. Beautifully presented with twenty-five photographs.

I asked, "Can you tell me of some of the other miracles that Tat Wale Baba performed?" Swami stated, "I was sick, the sickest that I have ever been in my entire life. I thought I was to die. I had a severe headache. It felt like spikes were being driven at each side of my head," Swami explained as he pushed his closed fists, clutching invisible spikes, against his temples. "My head and body were like fire," he continued. "I was too sick to even take toilet," he said smi...