You may find this strange coming from me, but I’ve come to the realization lately that happiness alone does not necessarily make that much of a difference in your life – I’d even venture to say that happiness is overrated!
I’ve been thinking over this question for a long time. How important is happiness really? It’s a big topic in the public sphere. So many people nowadays are really coming into this question of how to find happiness. At the same time, everyone knows that happiness comes and goes. It’s a never-ending cycle. So how to break the cycle? Continue reading →
My vision: To be of the utmost usefulness to this world, while simultaneously creating the life of my dreams…
To that end I’m creating a web design, multimedia marketing and consulting business based on the concept of working for the greater good, while pursuing the highest personal vision of my clients.
It’s a different kind of company, utilizing the best talent in design and development from here in Los Angeles and around the world to get the best results possible for the greatest good, while keeping costs down. More info on the company and our work to come, but meanwhile, if you’re interested in discussing your dream project, refreshing the vision of a current site, or just finding out if I can help you achieve your personal goals in general - let me know by using the contact form. You can also reach me through your own email service through this link: Find Satya.
What we do: complete websites - redesigns - ecommerce - content management systems (letting you update content through a simple login interface) - email newsletters - social media marketing - strategy - branding - multimedia technology.
In honor and support of the victims and hostages of the terrorist siege of Mumbai, and all victims of extremist violence around the world and here at home…
Celebrated in India for thousands of years, the Dussehra burning ritual closes the ten days of Hindu Navaratri festivals. Navaratri is a time of worship of the ‘Divine Mother’ - somewhat related to the western concept of mother nature. Honoring the legendary victory of King Rama over the ten-headed demon king Ravana who had abducted his beloved wife Sita, Dussehra celebrates the epic ten-day battle between Rama’s army of gods and men - including Vishnu and monkey-god Hanuman - and Ravana’s army of evil spirits and demons. With his hard-won victory, Rama’s beloved Sita is restored to his side and the forces of Love and light reign on earth again.
Symbolic of the triumph of light over darkness…the triumph of Love. Shot in the holy town of Laxman Jhula, India - just outside Rishikesh - where the Ganges River emerges at the foothills of the Himalayas. Halleluiah!
That’s the question I’ve asked myself over and over since I met the tantric yogi master, Swami Amrit, who asked me the same question four years ago on my last visit to India. I think this last week I may have come up with the answer…
I’m writing from an internet shop in Pondicherry, India, drenched in cold sweat. The heat is syrupy and thick in the air, stifling any progress with the energetic pull of quicksand. The power is out again, it drops out intermittently day and night and everyone waits…we’re running on backup power now - any minute without warning the battery charge is finished and all systems are down. This is the tenuous nature of life here - the relentlessly stifling flow of time that forces me to reconsider the worthiness of just about every dream and goal I’ve ever considered undertaking.
I’ve been in India for a month and a half now - it’s taken me this long to just get to the point where I can begin to process this whole experience in a way that can reasonably be put into words. Here I begin to make an attempt at the endeavor: Continue reading →
In a couple hours I’ll be embarking on a journey to mother India - some say the Heart of the world.
As i venture to finish the happiness project and fulfill my long-time dream to return to India and the place where i found the greatest peace of heart and mind i’ve ever experience,
I want to know:
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? I’ll be shooting some new interviews in India on the topics of eternal bliss - true success - the future of the world - and how to secure the life of our dreams - no matter what those dreams are! I want to find out what people are really interested in right now, so my content is relevant to my audience - Please write in the comments below.
Who bring us
From the darkness to the Light
From ignorance into Bliss
From misery and suffering
into Everlasting Love
I wouldn’t be here without you all…
(I know that these few images only scratch the surface of the countless divine manifestations of the One truth that have graced this planet and the other-worlds… feel free to add your own links, images and quotes in the comments section)
From the great master Papaji:
“Approaching the Self is like walking the razors edge: Two cannot go there,
you can’t even bring your mind or a thought.
The only One who can help you is Self.
Anything that touches this Flame becomes Flame.
Touch a Sage and you become a Sage,
knowing Self you see only Self and this Self is your Teacher.
Eventually you have to get rid of the name and form of both Master and yourself,
you have to reject the finger in order to see the moon.
Where there is name and form there is falsehood,
there is an impediment to Freedom because
nothing you see will give you Freedom.
Hold on only to Self when you are drowning,
reach for anything else and you will die.
The Satguru is Within, meditate only on That!
The true Teacher is Self, all else is pointing to Self.
Don’t cling to anything made from the five elements.
The Guru has no body, visible or invisible.
Do not depend on any body, which are just fingers pointing to the Truth!
Reject the form of the Guru and only the Supreme is left.”
- Sri H.W.L. Poonja - aka PAPAJI
Happy Guru Purnima 2008 (full moon July, day of the guru)
See the Facebook application I created to share the saints, god and angels that have inspired and guided me throughout my life and my quest for eternal happiness: Saints, Gods & Angels…
“Serving the world with love and cooperation, you will find your own true Self. As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away, and without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.”
- Amma
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi - aka Amma, the ‘hugging saint’ - is currently in the US on her 2008 world tour. Since 1981 she has been giving hugs, inspiration and spiritual guidance to people around the world, and is estimated to have hugged more than 30 million to date. Tens of thousands line up for her ‘darshan’ (Sanskrit for divine sight, or blessing) wherever she travels. On her recent visit to Los Angeles, I decided to investigate this phenomenon, and figure out what it is exactly that draws so many millions to share the ‘Amma experience.’
I first met Amma in June of 2006, just two days after my sister’s death in a tragic car accident on the afternoon before her planned visit to see the hugging saint. The idea of wading through thousands of people to see the renowned saint-figure had always kept me away, but this time I felt a divine mandate to go and meet her myself, and share with her the awful news of what had happened to my sister, Ananda, who was a longtime Amma devotee. Continue reading →
Believe it or not, Mickey’s Disney-friends are off to join the cause in Iraq. An American development firm based in Los Angeles is spearheading the multi-million dollar “Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience,” a 50-acre amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theater and a museum. The park is being designed by Disney’s “Imagineering” pioneers, Ride and Show Engineering (RSE).
Llewellyn Werner, chairman of C3, the Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms that’s funding the Pentagon-backed project, admits he’s facing certain unusual obstacles - namely, insurgent attacks and looting.
The story hit the news this past April, but a new Facebook group created by Rudy Duboille out of France “Non à Disneyland en Irak - Go Home !” is bound to stir some notice on the social media network.
Nonetheless, it’s doubtful American policy-makers will take much notice, considering the 200,000 American government-sponsored skateboards already shipped to Iraq for assembly to promote the new skateboard park opening in advance of the complete “Baghdad Experience.” Continue reading →
