Gangaji Silent Retreat Community

06/10/2026

Today we had a little cat emergency. We were having some sheet rock work done in our bedroom, and while the worker was out this guy jumped up in the hole and crawled into the wall! Not only that but the worker didn’t notice and actually sealed Mylo into the wall! Luckily only with screws. We heard a faint Meow and located our prisoner who was released unharmed!

06/09/2026

Take a look at what someone created with ChatGPT.

07/22/2023

02/24/2017

that not which is uttered by speech
but by which speech is uttered
know this to be Brahman
not that which others venerate here.

06/16/2016

The fearless one

To the image of shiva
"I" offer my prayer.
To shiva who does not exist
"I" offer my prayer.
To the one whose image
Points to the effulgent void
"I" offer my prayer.
To shiva
The image of one who destroys
all attachments
"I" offer my prayer.
To shiva
The image of one who commands
Complete surrender
And who is not.
"I" offer my prayer.
To shiva
Who exists only in my mind
Which does not exist,
"I" offer my prayer.
In silence
Which is The domain of Shiva
Who is beloved and not real
"I" offer my prayer.
To the fearless one
Who is only a metaphor
For the piercing of illusion
"I" offer my prayer.
Without ceasing
Ever vigilant,
And with an open heart
"I" offer my prayer.
Dissolving the "I"
Into the breath of Shiva
Who is the barest phantasm
this prayer is offered.
To Shiva,
The image of ruthless compassion
without any substance or extension
this prayer is offered.
Ever negated, ever self deconstructed,
Identical with self effulgent emptiness,
Shiva reigns supreme
Without existing, ever.

07/25/2015

When all the knots of the heart
Are severed here on earth
Then a mortal becomes immortal.
That is the complete teaching.

07/24/2015

That which is not uttered by speech
but by which speech is uttered--
that alone know to be Brahman,
not what people venerate here.

07/23/2015

The one who loves all intensely
Begins perceiving in all living beings
A part of himself.
He or she becomes a lover of all,
a part and parcel of the universal Joy.
He or she flows with the stream of happiness,
And is enriched by each soul.

07/22/2015

Meditating on the lotus of your heart,
in the center is the untainted;
the exquisitely pure, clear, and sorrowless;
the inconceivable;
the unmanifest,
of infinite form;
blissful, tranquil, immortal;
the womb of Brahma.

07/22/2015

In the city of Brahman is a secret dwelling, the lotus of the heart. Within this dwelling is a space and within that space is the fulfillment of our desires. What is within that space should be longed for and realized.

As great as the infinite space beyond is the space within the lotus of the heart. Both heaven and earth are contained in that inner space, both fire and air, sun and moon, lightning and stars. Whether we know it in this world or know it not, everything is contained in that inner space. (Chandogya, 191)