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Charging for Yoga Classes: Greed or Good Practice?

Jai Gopal — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:23:09 +0000

This was in response to a post on the kundalini yoga teacher’s forum, subject: knowledge should be free. The gist was that this person thought it was hypocritical to charge for passing on spiritual teachings. The following is a response.

Many people believe that spiritual knowledge should be free. In many ways it [...]

Transcending Karma: Just Don't React

Jai Gopal — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:44:54 +0000

Since karma is simple cause and effect or action and reaction, if something happens to you and you just don’t react, you can stop karma in its tracks. Of course, like many practices of a spiritual nature, this is easier said than done.

The key word here is practice, though. Once you become aware [...]

Victory: What it means to be a spiritual warrior

Jai Gopal — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:26:28 +0000

I have often struggled with what it means to be a warrior of a peaceful nature. Having been trained as an officer at West Point and then serving in the Army for five years, I constantly question what it means to truly be a peaceful warrior in this life. At first I rejected [...]

Kundalini Yoga: Path of the Householder

Jai Gopal — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:14:15 +0000

When people get on a spiritual path often they think that they have to renounce everything. It’s a concept that keeps many from deeply exploring their own soul. It’s a function of duality. Many people, because religion has misled them, have a belief that you can’t be spiritual and still live a material [...]

Between You & The Creator

Jai Gopal — Wed, 16 May 2007 02:07:08 +0000

I was talking with my class about this earlier today. Spirituality is between you and the creator. Any human being, even the most saintly among them is going to have imperfections. Don’t get me wrong, there are some damn good humans out there but each one of them has the same temptations [...]

Understanding Karma: The Air-Hockey Game of Life

Jai Gopal — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:12:13 +0000

I was on a yoga retreat in Tuscany Italy a few years ago and I realized that Karma is really just like a big game of air hockey. After a week of yoga, a few of us sat around talking and drinking some wine on the last night in this amazing 11th century farmhouse. [...]

Keep It Simple… Stupendous

Jai Gopal — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:16:52 +0000

The key is to open your heart and give Love as much as you can to everyone within your reach because you are everything and everything is you and God is in the details. So when giving to others selflessly, you are actually giving it to yourself because, “Thou Art That.” This [...]

In The World, Yet Above

Jai Gopal — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:54:56 +0000

I was re-reading swami Rama’s “Living With The Himalayan Masters.” In it is a chapter entitled “In the world and yet above. ” He talks about being a Swami in India and how everyone in their enthusiasm wants to chant and celebrate you when you come around to a new place. Often he [...]

Wahe Guru, a little meaning behind the yoga of sound

Jai Gopal — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:38:32 +0000

*Wahe (Wha-hay) means “Wow” or “Ecstacy.” It’s sort of an exclamation of the joy of existence. Guru (goo-roo) means that force which brings one from darkness into light.

‘Gu’ means darkness and ‘Ru’ means light. So Gu-Ru is basically the transformation from dark to light, which is why we have associated the word with ‘enlightened’ or [...]

Teacher Profile: Tej Kaur Khalsa

Jai Gopal — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:28:28 +0000

By Nelly Coneway (Dayaal Kaur) Reprinted from LA YOGA magazine September 2006 Vol. 5/ Num. 6

Her spiritual name, Tej, means radiance and perfectly fits the warm heart and soul of one of the great teachers of Kundalini Yoga. Her smile is an open door to infinity and her warm eyes penetrate deeply, reading all like [...]