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		<title>Becoming the Mind of Siva Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four week Tantrik Meditation Intensive
October 14th – November 12th
Kailash Akhara Retreat Center
Phu Reua, Thailand
Below the thinking mind, below emotions and concepts exists your essential nature.  Beyond form and formless, ever-present yet ungraspable, your essential nature is uncreated and unknowable to the ordinary mind.  To become your essential nature is to become the Mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1067</link>
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		<title>Acarya Training Program Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Acarya Training Program is underway here at Kailash Akhara and we have already seen that the original format and time-line has to be changed to allow for the fruition and attainment of the teachings to occur. It has become clear that to be an Acarya &#8211; to be fully established in View &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=986</link>
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		<title>What is Classical Tantra?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought that since this is a fairly short article I would get right to the point and tell you two things that classical Tantra is NOT before we go on to a more positivistic definition.
Below are two things that Classical Tantra is not:
1. something that can be learned from books or from teachers who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=284</link>
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		<title>Tantra and Behavioral Sciences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Sri Lalita
At Dharmanidhiji&#8217;s request, I would like to share two articles with the Vac readership. Both articles describe new developments in the behavioral sciences&#8211;both human and animal. Part of our goal as tantrikas is to align ourselves closely with nature; as such, the behavioral sciences offer us insight into our own actions and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1583</link>
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		<title>Mahasamadhi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Omkarnath
My first visit to India… a place that impossibly, seemed even more grand and vast, than the mythic proportions it holds in the mind I share with all those who have found their home in it’s spiritual sciences…
And to travel with my Guru, to bask in the benefit of this privilege and honour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1534</link>
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		<title>Soul Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Manomani



This March, as part of Dharmanidhi’s month of training in Berkeley, the community was given the opportunity and benefit of learning Soul Power over the course of several evenings and a weekend training. This profound set of practices and teachings swept through the local kula like a cool breeze on a hot summer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1578</link>
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		<title>Journey into the Parampara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Dharmavrat
&#8220;Faith is not just religious belief, it is an inner conviction which comes after the total surrender of ego. When you surrender your ego in totality then faith unfolds by itself.&#8221; The Guru-Disciple Relationship

While other members of the kula prepared to receive Dharminidhi&#8217;s arrival in the United States this past March, I wandered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1528</link>
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		<title>Gratitude at a Crossroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Uma (Amy) Khan
It&#8217;s March, 2010, as I write this &#8211; the middle of the sixth year of our official &#8220;seven year program&#8221; with Dharmanidhi Sarasvati (Guruji). By the end of 2010, the group that has come to be known as TYSG &#8211; Tantric Yoga Study Group &#8211; will disband in its current loose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1539</link>
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		<title>Fine Art Auction &#8220;Revue&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Siddhartha Shaw
 

On March 21, 2010, Yoga Mandala collaborated with Siddhartha V. Shah, Sacred Art &#38; Sacred Space, to present a fine art auction benefitting Trika Institute. The event featured over 50 works of contemporary art from India and Nepal and took place in Charlie Hallowell&#8217;s popular Oakland restaurant, Pizzaiolo. For months I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1548</link>
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		<title>Ask the Ayurved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Hrimati Fauman
What is the role of exercise from an Ayurvedic perspective?
In the classic texts of Ayurveda, many benefits are attributed to exercise. Some of these benefits are lightness of the body, increased capacity to work, reduction of body fat and firming of the body parts. However, the most important benefit is probably the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jnanagnikula.org/vacmagazine/?p=1556</link>
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