Our Ideals

Inspired by the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) In love, we dedicate ourselves to our Creator. These are our ideals and principles.

Love, tolerance and appreciation for people of all faiths.
All the main religions are from God, provided by God’s infinite love and wisdom.
When devotees of different paths embrace their path fully and experience the Lord’s nature, we believe they will become tolerant and appreciative of the other God-given religions.
Religious differences are as important as their similarities. In appreciating the views of others we will be enriched and inspired on our own path.

We recognize that this is a spiritual world being comprised essentially of Spirit (conscious energy).
All people are spiritual beings, individual expressions of the Divine.
One ideally lives from Spirit first. If you allow, the higher plane always controls the lower.
Individual spiritual experiences, thoughts and actions help all of humanity because they radiate love and energy to the whole planet. Your individual experiences and realizations benefit all other lives on this good earth.

Each person is called in his or her own way to make mind and body subtle enough to attune with the soul and with the Lord.
Mankind’s yearning for God, love and wisdom is natural, valid and divine.
Religion must be dynamic.
The purpose of spiritual practice is to become attuned enough to realize that the Kingdom of God is at hand, that God is here and now.
Yoga is helpful to balance emotions, strengthen the body and concentrate the mind for spiritual enlightenment.
Enlightenment is often gradual, a continuous, ever-new process, always developing. Spontaneous awakening is rare, but also occurs.
In order to progress on the path, the emphasis must be on the loving (redemptive) nature of God rather than on sin.
There is no end to God-realization. No matter what you have realized, there is something more.

Spiritual pride, bigotry and exclusivity limit the seeker from spiritual experience.
Suffering and confusion are the result of trying to halt the soul’s creative, loving expression.
The desire nature of the human race brings negative and destructive forces and tendencies into play. It has no power over those who daily choose to sacrifice selfish desires.
Labeling the religious views of others as wrong and harmful is destructive in itself. May God bless each of us to value and appreciate the views and beliefs of sincere devotees of all paths.
Repressed, ignored desires always cause sorrow. Desires, when faced with clarity and meditation, are transformed by God’s power and one’s character becomes stronger.

The living soul in each person actively yearns for a spiritual relationship.
The living soul in each person actively strives for a dynamic, creative expression of Truth, Beauty and Goodness.
You, the aspirant, are precious in the eyes of the Lord. Your individuality is God-given and the ego is not to be hated but appreciated and developed into a spiritual individuality.

God can be experienced in both form and formlessness.
Meditation and prayer are among the most direct ways to experience God, one’s soul and divine realities.
Through devoted meditation and prayer, the cells of the physical body become divinized, spiritually transformed, to enter a new dimension of interplay with the Creator.
A new species is thus emerging. The divinized body is developed through receiving spiritual radiance into every thought, breath and cell.
Through the divinized body, a new relationship is established between God and man. It is Nitya Lila, the eternal play of love between the devotee and the Lord.
God is Divine Mother as well as Father and Son, available to all seeking comfort, delight and refuge.

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