Ingredients: Wet Ingredients: ½ cup applesauce 1/3 cup soy yogurt ½ cup oil 1 ¼ cup sugar Dry Ingredients: 2 cups all purpose flour ½ tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 1 ½ tsp cinnamon powder ¼ tsp nutmeg powder Additional ingredients: 2 ½ cups diced...
The True Significance of Raksha Bandhan
Raksha Bandhan is a sacred thread that binds us in God’s Love, liberates us from all the bondage's of the body and the physical world, and fills us with feelings of safety and protection. Let our feelings be pure and elevated for every soul. Let there be forgiveness and good wishes....
A Bonding That Finishes All Bondages
Is there anyone in this world that does not desire to be completely free? It is an irony that I was instead doing things that were making me captive. A story I heard few years back depicts my dilemma really well. A man once captured a beautiful parrot and put...
Coping with Negativity
By Sister Jayanti Sister Jayanti is the Director of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University in the United Kingdom. Sister Jayanti explains how to handle negativity within ourselves and when it comes from others. In this world there are so many questions about our future, the environment and population, the...
Homage to Sister Shivani
From BK Silicon Valley family Having Sister Shivani come to Bay area, spend time with the BK family and enlighten thousands of souls in the Silicon Valley was a dream for us BKs for many years. The day finally came to light on 1st June, 2018 after 5 months of...
The Healing Mind
Q&A with Dadi Janki. “I make a point of creating thoughts and feelings of happiness, peace and benevolence, which make me feel better – not worse.” How can I not worry when my body is unwell? Our response to pain can cause as much distress as the pain itself –...
Silent Conversations with God: a meditation experience
About the speaker: BK Charlie Hogg is the Regional Coordinator of Brahma Kumaris Asia Pacific, an international speaker and one of the pioneering souls who started Raja Yoga Meditation in the Asia Pacific. He has been practicing meditation for more than 40 years. Introduction. Some years ago I saw a...
Healthy relationships are a source of energy
BK SHIVANI offers a five-point plan to uplift our consciousness that can help us create harmony in relationships 1.From speaking well to thinking well: Relationships transcend words and behaviour,they depend on the energy exchange of thoughts and feelings.If our words are polite,our behaviour is courteous; when our thoughts are judgemental or...
Being a Fragrant Flower
Every time I see a flower, especially a rose, it gets me churning about the relationship between a soul and the Supreme Soul. Without the right atmosphere and setting, a rose cannot grow into its perfect form. Each flower blooms in an individual way, i.e. it does not depend on...
Silence with an Aim
There was an experience I once had in silence that I have treasured and used. Just as sometimes we go in front of elders to seek blessings, or we go in front of God to seek God's blessings, in the same way I once had a powerful idea come to...