Life today is filled with the continual challenge of having ‘enough’. Enough money, enough food, enough clothes; a good house, a good car, a good job. The struggle to provide for oneself and one’s family seems like it will never end. It is only natural that, for centuries, Maha Lakshmi has been worshipped in order to gain financial wealth. But those willing to look more deeply will find that She has much more to offer than just money and material things. The key is to develop a deeply personal relationship with Her. The question is, how? This book contains a selection of Maha Lakshmi’s mantras and prayers recommended by Paramahamsa Vishwananda to bring you closer to the heart of the Universal Mother, who is just waiting to bestow Her blessings upon you. Reading these mantras and prayers, chanting them, and meditating upon Her Divine Form are powerful ways to help you connect to Her, and the results can show up surprisingly fast. All you need is to devote some time to enjoying Her Presence with love, sincerity and faith.

Venus relates to luxury, romance, wealth, creativity, and elegance. The house where it is located in a chart defines the area where you need to express yourself socially, passionately, and aesthetically. Venus naturally brings harmony and refinement to the house it occupies. This is the area of life where your attraction falls and a study of Venus in 12 houses will help you know how should approach these areas of life. The activities that the house represents are of great importance to building better partnerships. Venus is very much at play when it comes to love, romance, interests, friendships and artistic inclination. The house it occupies also tells us what you look for in a partner or friend, what your approach towards love is, and what artistic abilities you have. The sign where Venus is posited tells you “how” you express yourself romantically and the house it occupies tells you “where”. This is the house where you need to bring harmony and relate to others. The influence of Venus house should not be studied in its purest form, without any affliction, aspect or influence of other planets and signs. Planetary position differs with each horoscope, so the interpretations may also differ accordingly. Your Venus house however pretty much defines what we have stated above

What is religion? In the pure sense of the word, religion means to reconnect to God. Yet, in today’s world it is so rarely seen as that. Religion is seen as divisive, dogmatic, sometimes even primitive. But what is the cause of this? We see that humans and their ideas are most often the cause of unnecessary conflict, unnecessary division and unnecessary tension. At the core of both Christianity and Hinduism lie God’s words, recorded in their respective scriptures. Yet so often we struggle to truly understand them. Volume 1 of the Christ & Krishna set highlights and dives deep into the thematic of who God is, the Creation of the Universe, who are we and how to come closer to (or to attain) God. By using the quotes from the Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavatam and the Bible, this book gives you the opportunity to rediscover the timeless purity and essence of Christianity and consequently drawing a comparative analysis to the world’s oldest religion, Hinduism. The reader is invited to look deeper and ‘out of the box’ of doctrines. In the depths of everyone is the same Truth, the same Love, the same Essence.

God is Love. God is Everything. God is Guru. The Guru is not of this world, even though He created it and we won’t be able to leave this world of limitation without Him. To succeed we need His Grace. We will obtain it by knowing Him intimately in the depth of our own being. And there is no greater way to achieve that than to read the Divine Sri Guru Gita and the profound wisdom imparted by the Satguru Himself. Absorb it, treasure it, and then apply it with determination and deep reverence. You will win the greatest prize: Everything. Love. God.

The interface between the individual and what constitutes his world is formed by a nexus of cosmic forces of graded subtlety. Understanding these forces and energies opens up a whole field of tangibly realizable possibilities. The book attempts to ignite a spark that illuminates the fact that the spiritual goal cannot be attained by suppression or a denial of your desires and passions. That we need to rise above violent labelling of power, desire, and money as evil and identify the real evil within as a lack of awareness of the energy field and its role as a bridge between matter and spirit. The book borrows on the quotations of ancient and modern physicists, metaphysicists, sages, philosophers, and poets and blends their words with some personal reflections based on experience. The intent at all times being to share perspectives that embrace the spiritual potential in material and the material possibilities of the spiritual journey. The book celebrates the oneness of spirit and matter through these quotes, which have been compartmentalized into chapters that inform, educate, or gently hint at this oneness and harmony, which holds the disparate cosmic components together as a seamless whole.

• Highly effective strategies that help people and businesses succeed using the five elements of water, air, earth, fire, and ether. • The five elements represent emotion, mind, body, drive, and soul. • Presents case studies from Seivert's organizational and executive clients in financial services, health care, government, academics, technology, retail, and marketing. • The unique tools in The Balancing Act can be applied equally well to businesses, families, or personal relationships. Have you ever had one of those days when everything went right? When the initiatives you started at work came together like clockwork, when a family outing seemed like fun and not labor, when you and that special someone felt your relationship taking off under its own power? Those times were not accidental. They happen when the key elements of any system--a business, a family, a relationship--come into balance, and then function in a state of synergy where the whole becomes much more than the sum of the parts. In The Balancing Act, consultant and personal coach Sharon Seivert shows how you can create this magical state of affairs in your life, love, and work on a daily basis. Starting with an extensive questionnaire that lets you evaluate the health of your business, relationships, and self, Seivert teaches you how to recognize which of the five traditional elements that make up any system are in balance and which need more of your attention. Exercises and tips for nourishing each element demonstrate how you can take a proactive role in bringing your life successfully into a state of balanced harmony.