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Sri Humananda

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Please don’t ask me to be your ordinary friend. It’s too painful remaining silent when I see your enlightened body poking out from beneath your sleeves.Mood: 'fine' 'fine'at 6:29 PM Feb 20 view more

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  • Sri Humananda

  • 99 / Male
  • Maine, US
  • Last Login: 7/4/2009

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About me:


Follow My South Africa Trip
Map of humananda's world travels

I'm also on Facebook here

See my personal Yoga Site here

For what is your friend that you should
seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need,
but not your emptiness.


     Kahlil Gibran



"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous,
it does not brag, and it is not proud.
Love is not rude,
is not selfish, and does not get upset with others.
Love does not count up wrongs that have been done.
Love takes no pleasure in evil
but rejoices over the truth.
Love patiently accepts all things. ..
It always trusts, always hopes,
and always endures.
Love never ends.


     Saint Paul to the Corinthians



"You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness
there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
All that you have to do
is to give up being aware
of other things,
that is of the not-Self.
If one gives up being aware of them
then
pure awareness alone remains,
and that is the Self."

     Ramana Maharshi



"... this self alone is the friend of oneself, and this self alone is the enemy of oneself."

     Bhagavad Gita



"Who Looks Outside, Dreams.
Who Looks Inside, Awakens."

     Carl Jung



"...only when one realizes the unity in all diversity can the feeling of love for every created being be developed, transcending all apparent differences. Love for God implies love for all. Each and every individual should be looked upon as the manifestation of the Cosmic Entity."

     Shrii Shrii Anandamurti



"We know... in an Intuitive way... the Truth is not found "out there". You cannot get to This Truth from "out there". It's the other way around. The Truth is Inside. .. And because it is Inside, and we live mostly outside, for us to realize this inner Truth, we need to "turn"..."

     Sri Humananda



"We are aware, by analysis, experiment and observation, that broadly speaking, we have three avenues of knowledge, two of which are in direct relation to our normal world-experience, and one is unknown to most of us. These channels of perception are sense, reason and intuition."

     Swami Krishnananda



"Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
Ten thousand things rise and fall
while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness,
which is the way of nature..."

     Lau Tzu


In Yoga tradition, when it becomes clear to you that the quest for the knowledge of the Self, and the merging of the individual self with the Divine is truly, to you, more important than worldly life - that the space between the warp and woof of the fabric of life is more important than the cloth itself - then, as a sign of your commitment to this goal, provided that the path you are going to follow is a path of yoga, you obtain a yogic name. Your yogic name can be assigned by your Preceptor, or your Spiritual (Enlightened) Friend, or a Yoga Saint, or your Guru, or in some cases, you can "choose" your name via a Divine Intuitive sense.

Because of a number of deeply spiritual reasons, prompts and insights, I came to the name of Humananda, or it came to me. Humananda is Sanskrit and means "He who finds Bliss in (the sound of the) "Hum" (of the Universe)." For me it is one of the easiest ways to "tune in" to the Oneness. If you listen, right now, you yourself can hear the "hum" all around you. And if you listen more closely, you can hear it even inside of you. For me it then becomes Me, and then I am That That I am. Hence, Humananda.

My primary Yoga Teacher is the Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger, founder of the Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda, (ISHTA) - a Sanskrit word meaning personalized, or individualized, Life president of the Yoga Teachers Fellowship of Africa and Patron of the International Yoga Teachers Association, and the founder of the Southern African Yoga Teachers Fellowship, and also father and Teacher to his son, Yogiraj Alan Finger

Nowadays I teach Yoga publicly and free of charge from a studio in Maine to many who are curious and have never heard of yoga in any serious way, and I teach privately to the few who adore it and want to live it, whether it be Tantra (from the root Sanskrit words tanoti, meaning expansion, and trayati, meaning liberation), or Yoga in general. Send a message for more info.

I generally add friends here who have ..Yoga as their primary preoccupation in life.. and those who are seekers of Self or are otherwise known to me as significant in either their Being or their Work.


Yoga Influences

Mahavatar Babaji
Lahiri Mahasaya
Sri Swami Sivananda
Swami Sri Chidananda
Vivekananada
Swami Kriyananda
Krishnananda
Swami Sri Venkatesananda
Sri Adi Shankara
B.K.S. Iyengar
Patanjali
Ramana Maharshi
Shudananda Bharati
Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger
Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahansa Yogananda
Swami Satchidananda
Buddha
Deepak Chopra
Joseph Campbell

...and many more.

......

Who I'd like to meet:


Sri Yukteswar on a warm day, Leonardo da Vinci in his studio, People who have mastered the appropriateness of caring, People who try to keep the balance of thought and feeling, Seekers of Self, and open, emotionally courageous people.

Interests

  • General

    I am interested in what exists inside of me depending upon where my consciousness is steered. So that makes me very interested in who is doing the steering and why some things appear interesting to me and others not at all. The old Raga-Dvesha (likes and dislikes) thingy. So I guess my interest is in the driver-in-me, but also in others - to see how they steer, and to what, and why. And if they can change direction, and how that works for them and in them, and in me. So, not so much the "what" as the "why" and "how". Then there is the stuff below as well...

  • Music

    Soft, slow stuff of any kind mostly. Music that touches me "in here". Stories, layers, like ..Leonard Cohen.. and others sometimes, or just great lyrics, and emotional stuff, even if loud. Oh, and some gentle Chopin is really cool. And finally, from time to time, something so movingly appropriate comes along, like the honest, sweet and grace-filled farewell prayer to a friend you are now listening to on this page.

  • Movies

    For entering into a level of illusion deeper than the one we are usually in, fast moving action can be effective, but mostly the more coherent foreign films, you know, those with a story. And layers of meaning. Movies where you sort of have to partake and ..give a little of yourself.. to get the full effect. Other times, just pure escape from myself and when the world takes on a quality so real that it is almost impossible to get from there to Here... and when I start scaring myself sometimes a good movie helps.

  • Television

    Some at times. The news and documentaries, Nature, History, Discovery, Nova... involved programs, rather than the spoon-fed "here's what you must think" stuff. And like movies, some that serve as effective distraction when I seem to need it. Stuff like "24" and "House", or comedy... some anyway. No "reality TV"... it is not real anyway...

  • Books

    Any religious writing really, specially the East - Vedas, Upanishads, the Gita, and that entire field. Sivananda writes well, as does Sri Yukteswar and Yogananda. Then, any alternative yet sophisticated life-argumentative stuff. Zen, the Western philosophy and psychology branches - the older guys like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and even older like Confucius and King Wen and the Duke of Chow, Lau Tsu, then also Camus, Hegel, Kant, Hume, Husserl, Moore, Spinoza, Buber, Freud, Rogers, Maslow, Adler, and yes, Skinner too, then, some of the Classics, and oh yes, good contemporary poetry.

  • Heroes

    The Great Yogis and other Enlightened ones... my Teachers and Friends and the significant women in my life without who I would most likely be completely different... and probably much worse off.

Companies

  • Humananda Tantra

    • Yes It's True, Maine US

Comments

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  • Lindsey

    Jul 5 2009 3:19 AM

    Thanks for the beautiful picture comment.  :)
  • BetsyBetsy Mullen

    May 12 2009 6:04 PM

    Thank you for adding us to your circle of friends.


    "SEEK TO DO BRAVE & LOVELY THINGS THAT ARE LEFT UNDONE BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE.

    GIVE GIFTS OF LOVE & PEACE TO THOSE WHOM OTHERS PASS BY."

    ~ Paramahansa Yogananda


    LIVE LIKE SUMER

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    BE UNIQUE

    SHOW COMPASSION

    SEEK KNOWLEDGE

    EMBRACE YOUR CREATIVITY

    SEE BEAUTY IN YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND OTHERS

    BE TRUE TO YOURSELF

    GIVE BACK

    HAVE FUN

    SEEK ADVENTURE

    BE OPEN TO NEW IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES

    SHOW YOUR INTELLIGENCE

    INDULGE YOUR CURIOSITY

    BE BRAVE

    ACT DON’T WAIT



    Sumer Nicole Alvarez -- 5/30/85 – 7/30/05



    “WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.”

    ~ Mahatma Gandhi


  • LucentShadows

    Apr 9 2009 11:32 PM

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    Beautiful Gregory Colbert photos that depict more than what mere words could ever express. The essence of connectivity.
  • LadyAngel Sch

    Mar 31 2009 1:39 PM

    Hello 'Sri Humananda' :),
    thanks for the friendship,
    i do know it to appriciate :).

    It's a honor to get to know you here on MySpace
    and i am really glad and happy now :).

    I'll look forward to you and wish you a very good time.

    May GOD bless you and your loved ones @lways and for ever.

    Take good care my dear friend until we meet again, thank you so much.

    Much blessing greetings from a friend in Germany, 'Lady'.

    PEACE - ONE LOVE - Nuff RESPECT :).

    ...
    See you then .. insha'allah.

    ..
    Bless you, bye.

    ~ Namaste ~
    Angelic :).


  • RussellRussell Satori

    Mar 17 2009 7:27 PM



    The best thing about starting over is that we can always do so, right now. No matter how far out things become, we can always begin again, from right here. The liberation and absolution within this eternal moment is always here beside us, like an old familiar friend waiting for us to take notice once again.
    Arms wide open ~R~
  • Ritzy

    Mar 6 2009 7:18 PM

    I've made the change to Facebook now. It's been nice here, specially because of people like you, but I think it will be even better on the other side. See you there. Namaste.
  • RussellRussell Satori

    Feb 14 2009 1:56 PM




    May your Valentines Day be filled with love! ~R~
  • RussellRussell Satori

    Feb 6 2009 7:20 PM





    The body is ephemeral as a bubble

    Made of water and dancing chemicals

    With the divine breath of life, Its form appears

    Reflecting the world perfectly as it passes through

    Leaving no trace behind

    The form dissolves

    The breath returns home

    Its beauty cannot be captured

    Only witnessed and appreciated


    Wishing you awareness of your own reflections

    They are beautiful art in motion





    ~R~
  • OM Carol

    Feb 4 2009 3:08 AM

  • Sarasvati

    Jan 16 2009 10:06 PM

    Hello Johann, have an amazing weekend
    Sarasvati



    Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.(ANDRE GIDE)