‘You can win the world with love’, this is not true. Only one who has won the mind can rule the world (Māyā – Great Illusion). – H. H. Dr. Jayant Athavale

Spiritual Science Research Foundation is planning to submit a documentary video to the European Spiritual Film Festival. The European Spiritual Film Festival (ESFF) showcases films and screenplays that explore the life of one’s mind. It encourages filmmakers whose films treat different aspects of spirituality and the human experience. The 5th edition of ESFF will be held from February 15th till March 15th 2012 on the festival website, and will be concluded in Paris on March 31st till April 1st 2012. Find out how you can contribute.

Through its videos, SSRF brings snippets from our library of almost 10,000 hours of video footage on various spiritual phenomena. SSRF makes efforts to reach people with its videos and spiritual research. Would you like to contribute?

In today’s times when selfishness is rampant and there is a general degradation of social unity, ethics and even family structure it sounds very unusual to hear stories of heroes who are doing unselfish acts for others. The last such incident that we have seen, when the Japanese firefighters willingly exposed themselves to high, even deadly levels of radiation in order to protect their fellow citizens is quite inspiring and admirable. We immediately wonder if we would have been able to do the same in their situation? It also makes us wonder how much these people gained spiritually with this act, because it is quite a high sacrifice to make and one would guess it is a valuable one in the scope of universal law. A similar level of sacrifice is often expected from some other professions such as the police or the army, where one has to sacrifice life for the sake of duty, nation, etc. We can look at this act from two angles…

On April 13th 2011, around twenty in-patients at the “San Juan de Dios” Rehabilitation and Mental Health Centre in La Paz, Bolivia listened very attentively to SSRF’s lecture about the spiritual causes and treatment of addictions. Many of them nodded in agreement while hearing about unsatisfied desires of our ancestors being a frequent cause of addictions, and later participated by asking practical questions.

The lecture was made possible by Dr. Ricardo Ramos Pantoja, Director of the Department for Addictions at …

When we look in the mirror, it shows dimples on the face. If the hair is not done properly, the mirror shows our imperfections… His Holiness Dr. Athavale

I am a freelance photo-journalist by profession, but in my spare time I have the good fortune of using my skills to serve the spiritual research publishing team at SSRF. Working with a spiritual research team is a unique experience and cannot be compared to working in everyday life. One of the main distinguishing factors is the incredible amount of resistance from negative energies that seekers (of SSRF) face when collating, editing and publishing information on the SSRF website and other associated spiritual journals. I would like to share one such example of a subtle attack on the editorial team of SSRF that I was privy to.