Torah-Veda

An Interspiritual Journey
Find Your Inspiration and Follow It

WELCOME TO TORAH-VEDA

Torah and Veda are two ancient sources of spirituality still vibrant today. Torah is conveyed through the sacred language of Hebrew and Veda is conveyed through the sacred language of Sanskrit. The focus here is on meditation, mysticism, philosophy, psychology and the underlying spirituality that has been incorporated into religions, and not as much on the religions themselves. Your comments and posts are welcome.


Quote of the Week 419 - Listend/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance

Quote of the Week 419 - Listening/Hearing for Non-material Sustenance


Every one who is thirsty, come and drink. He who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good. Let your soul delight in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, that your soul will live…


--Isaiah 55:1-3, The Living Torah translation by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

CURRENT TEACHING SESSIONS




Interfaith/Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Groups


Please check out the following, which is an ongoing activity that may be of interest:


https://www.zgatl.org/contemplative-group.html


https://www.zgatl.org/ongoing-groups.html


http://www.interfaithci.org/contemplative.html


https://faithallianceofmetroatlanta.org/recent-events/programs-events/ongoing-programs/











Sunday, February 27, 2011

Quote of the Week 166 - I Ain't Afraid


I Ain't Afraid Lyrics

The Klezmatics


Chorus
I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your god

I ain't afraid of your churches
I ain't afraid of your temples
I ain't afraid of your praying
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your god

Verse
Rise up to your higher power
Free up from fear, it will devour you
Watch out for the ego of the hour
The ones who say they know it
Are the ones who will impose it on you

Chorus

Verse
Rise up, and see a higher story
Free up from the gods of war and glory
Watch out for the threats of purgatory
The spirit of the wind wont make a killing off of sin and satan

I aint afraid of your Bible
I aint afraid of your Torah
I aint afraid of your Koran
Dont let the letter of the law
Obscure the spirit of your love it's killing us

I aint afraid of your money
I aint afraid of your borders
I aint afraid of your choices

I aint afraid of your Sunday
I aint afraid of your Sabbath
I aint afraid of your teachers

I aint afraid of your dances
I aint afraid of your music
I aint afraid of your children
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your god

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Quote of the Week 165 - Two Kinds of Power

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.


--Mahatma Gandhi

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Quote of the Week 164 - The Approach to the Divine Mother

Much has been written about the Mother of the Universe, but it boils down to this. You need her more than she needs you. In fact, your life is totally dependent upon her, and in some sense, she could care less about you. But at the same time, she loves you as deeply and purely as love is possible, so deeply and purely that she will dissolve all of your self-limitations. She is as devoted to your liberation as much as she is devoted to nurturing you, because she yearns for your return to the Father as much as she yearns for her return. And in some sense, she can’t complete her return until you complete your return, one way or another. The approach to the Divine Mother should be in an attitude of giving and tenderness, nothing more. No attempts at establishing relationships, fulfilling needs, or fitting in pieces of a puzzle. That is all wrong. The proper approach is beyond all that. Just give with tenderness and don’t look for anything. That is all.

--Steven J. Gold

(The above is from a new book I hope to publish within the next 6 weeks called Basic Spiritual Principles. Be on the lookout for the announcement of its official publication!)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Quote of theWeek 163 - Reincarnation

I wonder: is reincarnation real or just some goofy idea I picked up in a former lifetime?


--Sy Safransky, from The Sun magazine, August, 2010