Gurus Of Grace Wall Of Fame
Some of my favourite influences in World Dahma people raising the global vibration. A collection of people that I feel have contributed to showing something of the depth and softness of the Ocean of Gods love.
In order of input not importance, as this varies for each different individual
Yogi Bhajan well-loved international Kundalini Yoga teacher for 35 years. Creator of 3HO "Happy Healthy Holy Organisation" and the Kundalini Research Institute.
Guru Nanak Sikh Tradition.
"Every human, no matter to which religion they belong, will face a reality in the future where they will need a strong healthy nervous system. they will need clarity and the back-up of spiritual strength to face the coming world." "People will see that those who practice yoga are bright and beautiful, calm and blissful. They will recognise that the yogic community is sincere and dependable, serving and giving."
Yogi Bhajan 1999 from the Aquarian Teachers Manual
Yogi Bhajan 1969-2004
Vanda Scaravelli 1908 - 1999
Yoga Teacher Author of "Awakening The Spine", an early student and friend of BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar. A Teacher of great light and transformation and one of my early yoga influences.
Going for a walk can help balance the body and mind
The importance of finding gravity and allowing the breath as a part of the inner teacher to awaken the spine, taking time in the Asanas to find your own way.
Anandamayi Ma 1896 –1982
Anandamayi Ma, Nirmala Sundari; 1896 –1982
A Yoga saint of divine bliss, ananda well-loved in India and now all around the world, one of my favourite yogis a blessing on the world.
Mooji
Mooji a current Meditation teacher from Mt Sahaja in Portugal from the linage of Ramana Maharishi and Papa Ji he brings influences of East and West together in Satsang, deepening students understanding of awareness as a tool to transcend the mind to arrive at a deeper understanding of existance.
https://mooji.org/sahaja-express/
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Well-loved around the world, bringing people of all nations to Satsang with a humorous, friendly style within a formal philosophical, analytical tradition
Jesus
Jesus -Savour, Teacher, Healer, Profit, Masiaha, Son of Man, Master, Friend, Miracle Worker, Guide of Many
Jesus (Greek) Yeshua ( Hebrew) Isa (Arabic) as in Quran
Jesus, a man of many names, is rumoured to have travelled to many nations. Some evidence suggests as far as India and Tibet where he was well received and looked after, in the period from his childhood days till his time in ministry, recorded in the Bible.
I believe Jesus Wished for Peace and Peace between Nations but was obviously saddened by his people's inability to change and to accept the golden opportunity in front of them, and ultimately paid the greatest cost in his own crucifixion, but having a greater say, by the grace of God rose from the dead to show that yoga, connection with truth with love Gods light and power is more than this body more than this mind.
Siddhartha Gautama The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama The Buddha 6th to 5th C BC, an embodiment of spiritual success born to royalty, became an ascetic enlightened when he learnt to let go of excessive discipline but maintained the grace left in the space of non-mental striving. He has inspired so many pictures, statues and writings but was not aiming for people to worship objects but to show and inspire, to help others overcome suffering, the suffering of the mind and the body. I feel most people understand that they are not worshipping a statue but bowing to that pristine state of connection with the presence of something greater than our human nature, not real emptiness but greater; words don't adequately describe the spaciousness of the creator's presence of love and the compassion and wisdom which flows from this depth. This to me is one and the same as the grace of God.
He shows the potential outcome inherent in good intentions obtainable to all that are willing.
Krishna
Krishna, the famous hero of the Gita, where he reveals his presence to his friend Arjuna on the battlefield, where he must choose to side with virtue and the grace of God. Well-loved and respected worldwide, but especially in India, he was often pictured with Rhada or the Gopis, his cow heard friends from his Vrindavan childhood. Understood as not different from God because of his killing of demons and his unlimited powers, sidis beyond normal ability.
Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON renowned for bringing the Hare Krishna movement to the west, is a writer of many spiritual books, including his own version of the Gita.
Nanak Dev
Nanak Dev 1469-1539, was the founder of a new religion Sikhism during a time of religious revival in India; famous for walking many, many places and sharing his spiritual beliefs; the light in me is the same light in others, regardless of culture or religion. Therefore there must be one God and many cultures. He believed in the path of love, possibly an associate of Kabir. Their sacred text is Adi Granth or Granth Sahib, a collection of approx 6000 verses of the Sikh Gurus and collections from other Religions.
Amma Hugging Saint
Amma Satguru Mata born 1953 Ashram in Kerela India
She is famous worldwide for her hugging events and is well known for her charity works to help those in need. Known as the hugging saint and an early influence on my yoga path.
Brahma Baba
Brahma Baba- Prajapita Brahma- Dada Lekhraj Kripalani founder of the Brahma Kumaris 1937, a worldwide spiritual school of virtue and meditation which moved to Mt Abu in Rajasthan India in 1950. the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is the largest spiritual organisation in the world that is led by Women and encourages the role of women as spiritual leaders something that was not previously common in India.
B.K Shivani
Sister Shivani- B.k Shivani- Shivani Verma a spiritual teacher with the Brahma Kumaris, she is well known for her spiritual TV shows with her co star Suresh Oberoi which can be viewed on many social media channels.
Kabir Das
Kabir Das 15th C Saint poet and weaver, controversial but loved and claimed by many in India of different traditions. "Truth is with the person on the path of righteousness" all living and non-living as divine. Drop the I or ego to know the true self.
Osho
Osho -Bhagwan Shree Rajineesh 1931-1990, was a controversial spiritual leader with many students sannyasins worldwide, well known for his long discourses on a very wide spectrum of religious topics, a very educated man previously a university lecturer and debating champion who loved a sense of humour and some controversy and a ridiculous joke, or three often followed his discourses, which unfortunately sometimes offended many more serious religions. Known for his many Rolls Royces, I think he was trying to get 99, he loved religion and history, and Zen was one of his favourites. I feel he was often demonised and misrepresented by many, he often said to move beyond sex to superconsciousness, but many just thought he was about sexual freedom and missed the real juice.
Shakti Gawain
Shakti Gawain 1948-2018 is an excellent female Author of many New Age books, creative visualisation and living in the light being two of my favourite. Influential worldwide in bringing new positive ways of thinking to the human mind.
Lama Zopa
Lama Zopa Rinpoche From the Kopan monastery in Nepal Buddhist meditator from the Mahayana tradition. Creator of FPMT foundation for the preservation of the Mahayana tradition, which organises many charity projects. https://fpmt.org/teachers/zopa/
"Practice every day with the bodhisattva attitude, every day. People can't see your mind; what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. So pay attention to your attitude all the time... you are the guru, and your mind is the disciple." from FPMT web page.
The Dali Lama
The 14th Dali Lama - Gyalwa Rinpoche, born 1935- resides in Dharamsala, India. An excellent advocate person for human rights and world peace. Awarded the noble peace prize in 1989. Buddhist philosophy stresses the importance of reverence and responsibility for all life, both human and natural.
Bhagavan Sri Rammana Maharshi 1879- 1950, a hindu sage and liberated being, from the sacred mountain of Tiruvannamalai in Tamilnadu in India, this well loved master has become famous with his influence on many western students of meditation and spirituality. His practice of searching the mind for the I or identity and seeing its falsness one goes beyond to discover the true presence of god within.
Ramana Maharshi
Papaji 1910 to 1997 from the hindu philosophical traditions of advatia vedanta or nondualisim his guru was Sri Ramana Maharshi and was a guru of Mooji Buba.
PapaJi
A shopkeeper that transcended his limited perceptions of the self and the world through faith in his guru's advice, to seek his true nature that which is beyond form the unlimited and supreme. A Guru in the tradition of nondualism, he is famous for his book I am that.
Nisargadatta Mahanraga
Teacher of kyira yoga born1893 to 1952 a genuine yogi of great merit who brought his teachings to America and influenced many spiritual seekers through his book autobiography of a yogi.
Paramahansa Yoganunda
Bubaji, born 203 AD Parangipettai India, was known for appearing to his disciples when true of heart- therefore considered not truly dead or departed, a saint supreme and divine.
Bubaji
Shiva, meaning of word in two parts, śhī means "one in which all things are present, pervasiveness" and va means an "embodiment of grace of the purity of power".
Shiva is one that has gone beyond the three gunas rajasic tamasic and sattvic, embodying the holy transcendence of the divine creator.
worshipped as one who has attained the supreme and considered the pinnacle example of attainment in spiritual practice the cosmic dancer both strong and graceful.
Shiva
Muhammad 571AD-632AD (Abu al Qasim Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muttalib Hashim) Arabic religious leader and founder of the Islamic faith. Inspired to teach by the presence of God and visitation from the arch angel Gbriale, Islam Teaches the same stories as the Bible in the Koran, With reverence for the same God but called Allah and the same prophets, Abraham, Moses Isiah and Jesus, but from an Arabic Cultural perspective and language, Including the storeys of their cultures rise in power.
Muhammad
Abraham Hicks, consciousness co-creator new age channeler, evolutionary healer guide and friend of many. Brings forward a voice she and Jerry call the voice of Abraham, a channelling guidance, facilitating movement of individuals' consciousness and global consciousness towards a new standpoint of being towards a greater awakening of our spiritual knowing and empowerment of ourselves as creators within this beautiful world and universe- universes, a university of knowing and being.