Shri Bhagawan Nityananda Mahasamadhi Celebration. The Miracle Weekend. Free program on August 7-8, 2010. Every year we celebrate the Mahasamadhi (merging into the Absolute for the last time, upon leaving the body) of Shri Bhagawan Nityananda. This year we will experience the Miracle Weekend on the solar anniversary of Bhagawan Nityananda's Mahasamadhi. This is a time when Shri Bhagawan Nityananda's Presence and Blessings can be experienced in new and profound ways. We will be chanting a new chant composed especially for this worship. For more information and to enroll, click here.

1-Day Course in Trika Kashmir Shaivism on Saturday, 8/21, 2010. Why Do Words Have So Much Power Over You? When you are complimented or praised, you feel recognized, acknowledged and satisfied. When you are criticized or someone makes a comment about you that you percieve to be negative, your consciousness contracts, your mind becomes restless, and you feel angry, negated, put-down. Then you feel the necessity to react. In this way, your consciousness is enslaved by mere words.

One of our practices on the Supreme Meditation path is to rise above praise and blame so that you are able to attain a state of equilibrium, a state of perfect equipoise, where you are not bounced back and forth on the "roller coaster ride" of emotional pleasure and pain. To accomplish this, you need the understanding of words that will allow you to rise above praise and blame. In this 1-Day Introduction to Trika Shaivism course you will learn why words have so much power over you, and how you can begin to master the energies created by language to free yourself from the bondage of words. For more information and to enroll, click here.

Ganesh Chaturthi 2010. Mahaganaptim Yajna. We warmly invite you to attend our sacred celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi, on Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 10am to 4pm.

Ganesha Chaturthi, the great Ganesha festival, also known as Vinayak Chaturthi'or Vinayaka Chavithi is celebrated in temples and ashrams around the world as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. It is observed during the Hindu month of Bhadra (mid-August to mid-September) and the grandest and most elaborate of them, especially in the western India state of Maharashtra, lasts for 10 days, ending on the day of Ananta Chaturdashi, a celebration to Lord Ananta (Lord Vishnu).

On this day we will hear a talk given by Acharyaji on the true meaning and purpose of celebrating Lord Ganesha's arrival day. We will hear stories about Ganesh and there will be a special chant and puja done in His honor. A Bhandara (blessed food) will be served for lunch and the day will end with a very auspicious Yajna (fire ceremony) designed to help all those in attendance remove the obstacles to leading a life of spiritual and material abundance by deepening their experience of the Self. For more information and to register, click here.

Kashmir Shaivism Weekend Meditation Retreat on Saturday and Sunday, 10/23-24/10. Muktananda Paramahamsa is the Siddha Master who gave Shaktipat to Acharya Kedar and guided his early sadhana. Muktananda was the leading exponent of Trika Kashmir Shaivism here in the West. His favorite approach to our Shaivism was that illucidated in the great sacred text, the Pratyabhijnahrdayam (The Secret of Self-Recognition).

In this 2-day Supreme Meditation intensive we will honor Muktananda by examining the Sutras of the Pratyabhijnahrdayam and their application to Sadhana and daily life. For more information and to enroll, click here.

Ambrosia:The State of Liberation In Life. In Honor of Jnaneshwar Maharaj. The poet saint Jnaneshwar was one of the greatest Siddhas of our path. On December 18-19, 2010 we will hold a very special Supreme Meditation Intensive and weekend retreat to celebrate the life and works of Sri Jnaneshwar Maharaj, the great poet saint. For more information and to enroll, click here.