Katinka Hesselink's blog

Who is Katinka Hesselink?

I'm a webdesigner, a Dutch citizen (that's in Europe), a theosophist, into religion and spirituality in general. That is: Christianity, Buddhism, Wicca and Paganism, Taoism, Sufism and Islam, Yoga and Hinduism and whatever else comes to mind. 

I love fantasy fiction,like Harry Potter for instance. 

Honestly - this is not my main blog. My main blog is All Considering. On here I just collect some of my favorite links - usually from my own stuff on the various places I'm active online.

This post is the easiest way I can find to show off the categories I've created on this blog:

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

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Together they built Auroville, an ashram in Southern India (south of Madras). He was the reclusive yogi, she his outward manifestation or shakti. That is: she taught, she organized, she was there for people to related to. He sat in his room and kept up a heavy correspondence on spiritual issues. On this page I've gathered all I've learned about the pair of them.

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

The Lives of Sri Aurobindo

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Reviewed in the West as the only decent biography of Sri Aurobindo Goshe, from politician, to poet and guru. This guy lived a fascinating life and Peter Heehs describes as many aspects of it as the Sri Aurobindo archives can help enlighten us on. In India this is a controversial book. It's even been banned in Orissa. The ban is due to the book not putting everything Sri Aurobindo did in a starry light. It deigns to suggest psychological motives, finding them in the plays Aurobindo wrote as well as his letters. From a Western perspective, the suggestion that the man had personal motives as well as spiritual ones, doesn't detract from his stature. However, many Indian devotees perceive them as an insult to his name. It's called 'Freudian Psychoanalys' by some - when there really isn't a word of Freudian psychology in the whole book. I'm hoping to go the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for a few months next year, and thought I'd read up on their tradition. So I ordered three books - this biography, a book featuring the teachings of The Mother and a similar book about Aurobindo's spiritual teachings. I just love biographies: they transport one back in time into the life of people who generally led interesting and admirable lives. Sri Aurobindo's life is perhaps everything in the extreme. He lived the first years of his life in India, moved to England because his father wanted a good education for him and his brothers - and then lived their with his brothers taking care of themselves. Though Aurobindo was the third of the three brothers, his scholarship money ended up taking care of the three of them when they went to college. He was a brilliant scholar. However, he avoided his father's wish of joining the Indian Civil Service (the British government controlled Indian Civil Service) by refusing to take riding lessons. Yes - this was a different time: it was considered essential that the people in charge of India's administration be able to ride a horse. Aurobindo avoided direct ...

The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Ravi Ravindra

The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Ravi Ravindra

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The Bhagavad Gita, Juan Mascaro translation: quotes

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The Bhagavad Gita has been translated into Western languages numerous times. The translation I present to you here is by Juan Mascaro, who was as much a poet as a Sanskrit scholar. It's a very poetic translation that serves as a good introduction to the text. At the end of this page I have included reviews to other translations for those who want to go deeper into the text.

Quiz: Yoga trivia and facts

Quiz: Yoga trivia and facts

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So, how much do you know about Yoga? What IS yoga? Some of these questions may surprise you even if you've been practicing yoga for the last ten years. Do you know your yoga trivia? Test it out with my popquiz...

Quiz: Hinduism facts and triva

Quiz: Hinduism facts and triva

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Hinduism is such a hard religion to describe that I postponed making this lens. I've come up with 10 questions though that are, I hope, neither too hard, nor too easy and that do Hindu spirituality, tradition and religion justice.

Yoga Sutras by Patanjali - Science of Yoga - Taimni

Yoga Sutras by Patanjali - Science of Yoga - Taimni

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A very scholarly translation and commentary on THE yoga classic: the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali. Taimni not only explains each sutra, but also puts them in the context of Indian philosophy in general. As a scientist he also uses graphs to explain his interpretation and relates his insights to the scientific insights of his day (20th century).This is not the most meditative translation you will find, but perhaps the most comprehensive.

I'm studying this book & have to say - it's really a mind stretcher.

Hinduism and Yoga Introduction

Hinduism and Yoga Introduction

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Learn about Hinduism and the history of yoga. Find out about the temples and pilgrimage sites in Bharat. Get introduced to the sacred scriptures of Hindustan.

Links to information about this strangest of all world religions. I mean - is it even ONE religion, or several?

The Upanishads

The Upanishads

After the Vedas the Upanishads are the most revered texts in Hinduism. The Upanishads are texts which contain the basis of the later philosophy of the Hindus. Vedanta especially is based on the Upanishads.

An introduction to the Hindu texts from antiquity: the Upanishads.