Enjoy the vitality of a cosmology and mythology that stretches far back in time, in what has been called the oldest religion on earth
Feel a connection to more than 900 million adherents of the world's third largest religion (after Christianity and Islam)
Understand the context in which New Thought, hatha yoga, mantras, meditation and other elements of Hindu thought entered into western culture
Explore paths of life tailored to you individually: bhakti (devotion), jnana (intellectual development), karma (service), and raja (self-discipline) yoga
Become a practitioner of nonviolence, bringing no harm to yourself or to any living being
Create your own household shrine adorned with sacred pictures, statues, fresh flowers, incense, and other reminders of the divine Presence
Learn about colorful and entrancing rituals that transform worshippers
Encounter the Divine in a real and tangible way through darshan, "seeing and being seen by God"
Seek timeless truth, consciousness, and bliss through study of Vedanta, a philosophy based on the Principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita
Reach beyond scholarship by assimilating philosophical teachings until they permeate each breath and perception
Immerse your mind and heart in the initiatory wisdom transmitted by generations of disciplined practitioners
Strive to make the whole world your own, treating no one as a stranger
