Weekly Spiritual Links

"The Mongolian steppes stretch as far as the eye can see – right to the edge of the sky: hard-packed dirt and shale punctuated by small shrubs and feathergrass. Here and there, a lone ger – the round nomadic tent – with dung smoke rising through its roof hole toward a pale sun!"

• A Spiritual Odyssey Through Mongolia : Chidananda Burke, of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, recounts a recent visit to Mongolia.

"My heart-rate drops almost instantly, but jolts on hearing the dulcet tones of 50 Cent, which a kindly school boy at the back is treating his fellow travellers to. Too much of a coward to ask him to lower the volume, I realise this is the perfect test of my meditation techniques.."

• Commuting Meditation Meditation on your daily commute at Sumangali.org

"One evening, Shyama Charan Lahiri was roaming at the foot of the Himalayas while on a short visit to the area, when he heard a voice saying, “Shyama Charan, Shyama Charan.” He was surprised to see a sadhu calling him from a distance. The sadhu approached him and said, “Can’t you recognise me, my child, my son?”"

• Lahiri Mahasaya's Initiation and other stories about the Indian Spiritual Master, Lahiri Mahasaya

I have loved Thee with two loves -

a selfish love and a love that is worthy of Thee.

- Rabia al Basri

• Poetry of Rabia al Basri at Poet Seers

More Links

Spiritual Articles by Sahayak Plowman at Sri Chinmoy Books.com.

71 Things you can do - good list (I'll give the dancing a miss though)

Ramayana Bridge seen from Space

Picture by: Projjwal, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries