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"On these pages you can find teachings of Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa and other spiritual masters in Brahma Sampradaya tradition. Jagad Guru Chris Butler is the founder of the Identity Institute, an educational organization, and the Science of Identity Foundation. The contents are copyrighted by the Identity Institute."

Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa is a highly respected yoga guru (teacher) coming in a long line of authentic spiritual masters, known as the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya, in the ancient Vedic tradition known as Vaishnavism. He is the founder of the Science of Identity Foundation and has expertly taught students all over the world in the science of yoga. Many serious individuals inspired by Jagad Guru have now taken on the role of teachers to assist him in spreading yoga wisdom.

A famous football player in the United States who recently retired was discussing the particular event that made him decide to quit playing. He had been running with the football toward the goal, with two tacklers chasing him. As his legs started giving out, he thought, "Come on, you old legs-don't give out on me now!" This is like a race car driver who talks to his car: "Keep on going, Betsy-don't let me down now!" In other words, you use your body as a type of vehicle; but like all vehicles, it is bound to break down sooner or later. ~ Chris Butler speaks (Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa)  Science of Identity Foundation

""Who am I?" Maybe you've never even asked yourself this question. You might think you already know who you are. Unfortunately, however, it's likely that you don't know who you are at all. And if you don't know your real identity, you're in trouble. "Read More...

Anger Forgiveness Sincerity - Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Siddhaswarupananda

"The understanding comes from knowing you are not your body If a person engages in the process of bhakti yoga and yet continues to engage in activities that are detrimental to spiritual progress, his spiritual progress will be very slow. This does not mean that a person must be completely free of all bad habits before he can even begin the process of bhakti yoga. For example, in the Philippines, one teacher saved many young people who were addicted to heroin and other drugs by teaching them the process of bhakti yoga. It took some time before they could completely give up all drugs; but eventually they did. Siddhaswarupananda"

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"  Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual. Such a life necessarily sets man against man and nation against nation, because man's needs are infinite and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.*  "Read More...

Unlike religion, in which an individual may believe or not believe in something (regardless of its truth or untruth), yoga is a science; and as a science it is a quest to understand or know the truth as it is. The Science of Identity Foundation, by teaching the science of yoga , assists individuals who want to know the truth of their identity (i.e., their true essence and their relationship to the physical body, the mind, etc.) to realize the actual purpose of their life and learn where actual happiness is found.Read More.....

"ROOT CAUSE OF CRIME Criminologists and social scientists have almost completely overlooked the fact that materialism is the root cause of crime. False identification of the body as the self leads people to believe that sense enjoyment will make them happy and satisfied; and most crimes are directly or indirectly connected with the attempt to find satisfaction in sense enjoyment." Read More....

 Jagad Guru Chris Butler quotes - Impersonalism Can be Very Dangerous to Others and Society

The Science of Identity Foundation was established by Jagad Guru Chris Butler in 1977 to pass on the ancient teachings of yoga in a scientific, logical, and clear manner so that people can, with intelligence, seriously contemplate upon, consider, and apply them in their own personal lives to achieve optimum physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.Read More....

You are your body, right? You are chemical in essence ... right? At least, that's what one of America's most influential scientists claims: I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with a different collective label.*Like Sagan, most people believe that they are their body. So if you ask them who they are, they think and respond in terms of bodily labels. "I'm Susan. I'm blond, 29 years old, a mother, and still 36-24-36!" "I'm Henry. I'm a white American male and proud of it!""I'm John. I'm a lawyer. I'm 40 years old and getting older every day.""I'm Alice. I'm a female student. I'm fat and I'm a Methodist." Name, race, age, sex, religion, nationality, occupation, height, weight, and so on-all these are bodily labels. Therefore if you consider your body to be yourself, you automatically identity yourself with such labels. If your body is fat and ugly, you think, "Woe is me! I am fat and ugly." If your body is 60 years old and female, you think "I am a 60-year-old female." If your body is black and beautiful, you think, "I am black and beautiful." But is the body really the self? Are you really your body?

"We've got some pictures here of a grandfather of one of the people here. So basically this is when he was a baby, then this is when he was a young man, then this is when he was a middle-aged man. And then what do you call this? Old man already, right? See, there are very great differences, especially if, for example, you go from the baby to this one. Then here's a picture of just before his departure [death] there. It's such a radical difference there. Read more...  "

"Questions and Answers About the Science of Identity Foundation"

"Economic and spiritual well-being can and must go hand in hand. A yoga master is not against material prosperity or development, but sees it in the correct context." Read More....