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Only Love Can Break our Chains

December 27, 2024
Only Love Can Break our Chains

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Every moment is priceless as the world hurtles toward the Eschaton. The highest priority of yogis must now be such intense and one-pointed adoration of the Supreme Self that we earn the grace of liberation from our bondages to the illusory ego and its attachments. It is now or never.

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