Soon after the opening of the temple at the end of 1989 or very early 1990, Nome expressed his intention of translating into English the Ribhu Gita. Since that time all events at SAT have been recorded. Devotees saw the importance of preserving these satsangs for devotees of Sri Ramana and Self-Inquiry. Today, August 20, 2010, marks the 21st anniversary of the Temple opening. In 1989, the temple was complete, and the SAT Temple opened its doors for the very first satsang on August 20, 1989. It was the focus then, and it continues to be the focus now in all that occurs at SAT.ĭuring the time the Temple was being built, The Avadhut Ashram changed its name to the Society of Abidance in Truth (SAT). Devotees pooled their resources and skills, their time and their energy, and thus began the creation of the SAT Temple as we know it today.Īlthough the building of the Temple was a monumental undertaking, the underlying Self was the focus all along the way. After a year or so of holding satsangs in the large basement of this new facility, devotees attending, including the cats and dogs, decided it was time to build a proper temple, dedicated to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Some devotees lived in this house taking care of organizational needs. We know it as the “main house” on the SAT Temple grounds. and seemed like a very good place to make a home for Bhagavan Ramana’s teaching. At that time, Santa Cruz was a small town. A few devotees at the time suggested finding a place in Santa Cruz. This altar resides in his home today!Īround 1984, devotees realized the need to acquire a more permanent place, a home of spiritual Truth.
This is Eric in the early 1980’s standing in front of the altar. The altar in San Bruno, built by devotees in 1978. After that, satsangs were also held in the living rooms of the homes of many different devotees and other facilities such as the waiting room of a chiropractor’s office (does anyone need an adjustment from the unreal to the real? The way to supreme alignment?) and even rented space in a karate dojo (how about a wallop into the Absolute!) They were held in Boulder Creek, several places in Santa Cruz, San Francisco and San Bruno.
Would you believe on a steep incline on a suburban street? Satsangs were solely held here in the semi-subterranean satsang hall between 19. Other robustness checks (substituting "pseudo" independent or dependent variables) do not yield spurious results.As the number of Ramana devotees coming to satsang grew, either through learning about it through a poster or by being invited by a devotee already attending, satsang was moved to the house of some devotees, located in San Bruno, high on a hill. Liu's linear transfer function approach yields similar results. Using a purely objective criterion for model selection, the Akaike Information Criterion, the optimal model yields the most significant result (t = 5, p <.0001). Also, reanalyses show that the results are robust across fourteen alternative transfer function models. It is explained how "reverse causation" cannot account for observed effects. Specification of the independent variable on the basis of political boundaries rather than geographical distance alone was shown to be consistent with both theory and forty other studies. The original study reported that participants in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program located in Jerusalem significantly reduced tension in "collective consciousness" and behavior as measured by decreased conflict in Lebanon and improvement on several social indicators in Israel. This article replies to a methodological criticism of Orme-Johnson et al., (1988).