Category Archives: George Harrison

The Hamburg Beatles and a Meditation on Karma

Posted on March 20, 2014 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda I find inspiration in the strangest places. I think all of us must at one point or another. I think I’ve mentioned a time or 15 that I am a fan of the Beatles. At work, along with … Continue reading →

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The “I” and the “Me”

Posted on February 24, 2014 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda Every so often just a sliver of a memory pops into my head and if I think about it long enough it brings something back that is of value. Yesterday I remembered that when I was early in … Continue reading →

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Update On My List of “5 Ideas” As Suggested By Swami Vivekananda

Posted on February 17, 2013 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda Back in January after attending the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s birth at my temple, I came home and wrote on this blog about Swami Vivekananda’s assertion that we all should have 5 ideas by … Continue reading →

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Krishnacore

Posted on January 27, 2013 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda For this post I want to link to a website called Krishnacore. When I first started out on this path of yoga, I was under the impression I had to remove many worldly influences from my life. I … Continue reading →

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Elvis and Yogananda

Posted on January 9, 2013 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda Today being Elvis Presley’s birthday, I wanted to visit a part of his life that is not very well-known by fans of his. Though he was raised Christian and in fact recorded many Gospel records, Elvis was a … Continue reading →

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Ode To Ravi

Posted on December 14, 2012 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda I have to take this opportunity to reiterate (I think I’ve discussed it before) how eternally grateful I am to the recently departed sitar master Ravi Shankar. When I first began to meditate, I could not figure out … Continue reading →

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Higher Ground

Posted on November 17, 2012 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda Something a friend recently said got me thinking about songs that aid me in maintaining a bhakti state of mind. Often these are songs which lead us to a state of emotional awareness. I suppose for me it … Continue reading →

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Hinduism and Hippies. What’s the Deal?

Posted on June 14, 2012 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda Though Americans have been interested in Hinduism ever since the time of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was published in 1854, and took well to the message of Swami Vivekananda in the 1890s and Paramahansa Yogananda in the first … Continue reading →

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On Becoming the Perfect Entity

Posted on June 13, 2012 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda I used to think that the meaning of life was to become the perfect entity. And so I used to take life a little too seriously. I think I got that notion from a line in a song … Continue reading →

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The Bhagavad-Gita: A Scripture Whose Influence Has Guided Generations of Change

Posted on March 1, 2012 by treadmarkz

by Aranyakananda I read somewhere, probably on the sleeve of a copy of one of the translations of the Bhagavad-Gita itself, how this scripture greatly influenced the work of Henry David Thoreau. Having been immersed in the Gita myself at … Continue reading →

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