http://rampuri.com Storytelling from the Extraordinary World Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Aratis, bhajans, talks and speeches from Baba Rampuri. Storytelling from the Extraordinary World Baba Rampuri http://rampuri.com/wp-content/uploads/extraphotos/babaprofilepic_new.jpghttp://rampuri.com baba rampuri, yoga tradition, knowledge, esoterica, spirituality no Baba Rampuri baba@rampuri.com http://rampuri.com/the-edge-of-indian-spirituality/ http://rampuri.com/the-edge-of-indian-spirituality/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:29:37 +0000 Yogananda Puri http://rampuri.com/?p=1051 http://rampuri.com/the-edge-of-indian-spirituality/feed/ 2 Baba Rampuri’s speech at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 2008. You can read the whole speech here. The Edge of Indian Spirituality  –  The Oral Tradition of Naked Yogis Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Baba Rampuri’s speech at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 2008. You can read the whole speech here. The Edge of Indian Spirituality  –  The Oral Tradition of Naked Yogis Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on [...] http://rampuri.com/yoginis-and-the-mother-goddess/ http://rampuri.com/yoginis-and-the-mother-goddess/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:12:56 +0000 Yogananda Puri http://rampuri.com/?p=1031 http://rampuri.com/yoginis-and-the-mother-goddess/feed/ 0 Baba Rampuri discusses the Tradition of Yoga, the Mother Goddess, and other esoterica. From a satsang in Malmo, Sweden, 2008. Yoginis and the Mother Goddess Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Baba Rampuri discusses the Tradition of Yoga, the Mother Goddess, and other esoterica. From a satsang in Malmo, Sweden, 2008. Yoginis and the Mother Goddess Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share via [...] http://rampuri.com/arati-added/ http://rampuri.com/arati-added/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 21:11:43 +0000 Yogananda Puri http://rampuri.com/blog/?p=294 http://rampuri.com/arati-added/feed/ 6 This is the first step in getting more audio material out on the site. We’ll be posting some of Baba Rampuri’s many recordings, arati, bhajans and talks by Baba Rampuri. The recordings are not studio productions, but recorded at tirthas, in temples, by the dhuni and from his satsangs. So expect wind, birds and people talking. Dattatreya Arati – with Baba Rampuri, chelas and students. From a retreat Baba hosted in Sweden, 2009. Enjoy !! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend This is the first step in getting more audio material out on the site. We’ll be posting some of Baba Rampuri’s many recordings, arati, bhajans and talks by Baba Rampuri. The recordings are not studio productions, but recorded at tirthas, in [...] Baba Rampuri Dattatreya Arati clean http://rampuri.com/the-edge-of-indian-spirituality-%e2%80%93-the-oral-tradition-of-naked-yogis/ http://rampuri.com/the-edge-of-indian-spirituality-%e2%80%93-the-oral-tradition-of-naked-yogis/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 11:58:34 +0000 Yogananda Puri http://rampuri.com/blog/?p=61 http://rampuri.com/the-edge-of-indian-spirituality-%e2%80%93-the-oral-tradition-of-naked-yogis/feed/ 8 Speech at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 2008 The Edge of Indian Spirituality – The Oral Tradition of Naked Yogis Magic happens anywhere worlds meet: at a crossroads, the seashore, graveyards, airports, hospitals, mountain tops, and temples. But those places where the Ordinary World meets the Extraordinary World require pilgrimage, whether internal or external. The act of making a pilgrimage is that of suspending oneself between worlds. Those locations to which one makes a pilgrimage, are called tirthas, crossing over places. They are spaces containing the meeting of worlds, and standing on those intersections, one may be at once in both worlds. Tirthas mark hidden entrances to the Extraordinary World. They resemble a fold in the page, a hinge between the macro and the microcosms. A reflection of the inner journey onto the external world or a reflection of the heavens onto the Earth. Those who go on a pilgrimage become witnesses of mirrors.The main reason for pilgrimage is for darshan, The Beholding, and the resulting blessings. Darshan derives from drsh, ‘to see’, and is The Beholding, not ‘the looking’, as a tourist might do, but The Seeing. And, as the mirrors continue to reflect images deeper and deeper within, Analogy operates reflecting the macrocosm and the microcosm. The World must benefit from his pilgrimage, so having had darshan, the pilgrim brings something back to his village. Pilgrims return with more than memories, something auspicious, that brings magic and prosperity home. Pilgrimage is also story, each pilgrim a hero, and every hero has a quest. That quest may take the pilgrim outside the realm of society and into the extraordinary world, where the rules have all changed. And it is here that the pilgrim connects with … the stars. The pilgrim reflects a story on the surface of the Earth that is told in the night sky and connects with its great chain of resemblances and its reflections. It means achieving a body-less state, a kind of immortality – becoming a ghost, as the pilgrim’s spirit may be absorbed knowingly or unknowingly by so many other humans over time. And those humans may lend hands and tongues to that spirit. I feel extremely honoured, pleased, and humbled to be here speaking to you this evening. The presence of so many great thinkers, magi, shamans, and alchemists here in Basel, sharing their very considerable experience, knowledge, and commentary with us, makes me feel the Spirit of the Earth, Herself, Her eternal Renewal and Her blessings. And it’s exciting for me to have an audience like you, from all over the planet, here to explore our consciousness, and take this experience back into the world. The organizers of this incredible conference deserve the highest praise, and I want to thank you all, especially Lucius Werthmüller and Dieter Hagenbach… but most of all, Dr. Albert Hoffman, a truly great man, who by his dedication and work, by his mastery of his art, made it possible for many of us to acquire greater knowledge of ourselves and the world, and to have access to the extraordinary worlds many of us have spent our lives exploring. To me, he is a living deity. Dr. Hoffman is the greatest living alchemist, and perhaps the greatest for a very long time. The tradition of Agrippa, Paracelsus, and others, many of whom practised right here in Basel, regarded the alchemist as ultimately constituting the only real subject and object of his own experiment. So when Dr. Hoffman became both the subject and the object of his experiment, on that day in 1943 when he unwittingly had that first trip, he successfully invoked a spirit that has lived amongst us ever since, opening doors of perception and experience, giving us the possibility of impossible thoughts, and taking us where we never thought it was really possible to go. Many think of alchemy as the art of turning base metal into gold by use of a philosopher’s stone or magic elixir. Using this analogy, [...] Speech at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 2008 The Edge of Indian Spirituality – The Oral Tradition of Naked Yogis Magic happens anywhere worlds meet: at a crossroads, the seashore, graveyards, airports, hospitals, mountain tops, and [...]