This is the third time I’ve presented The Teja Challenge. As the old saying goes, “The third time is the charm!” And so it is.

All addictions stem from a lack of self-love. Once you really, truly begin to love yourself, you then experience your whole being, including your physical body, as a temple for your soul. When you really love yourself, you will no longer choose to engage in addictions that are harmful to your body, mind, heart, and soul, such as: tobacco, alcohol, ganja (also called pot/weed/marijuana) and other drugs, as well as any other addictive substance or activity like spending too much time on the television or computer, overeating, obsessive worrying, futuristic fantasizing, and so on.

Regular, daily spiritual practices help develop self-love. It is my intention to assist many people in making a commitment to healing themselves from the inside-out. Once inner healing begins, the essential Radiant Light rises within, and the heart catches on fire with a desire to love self and others more and more deeply. This Radiance rising spontaneously creates Peace within the system, and then that Peace ripples out to benefit others.

Self-Love is about healing yourself so that you can be a Light for others. To commit to this healing journey, please consider taking The Teja Challenge: For Healing, Light, Peace & Love. Here are the terms of this challenge ~

~ You will agree to give up tobacco, alcohol, ganja, and other drugs (and any other addictive substances and/or behaviors), for 3 months, during which time you will read my pocket book, Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living (copy included in this challenge), and you will commit to doing daily spiritual practices, with the minimum requirement being a twenty-minute silent meditation each day.

~ You will agree that after you complete the 3-month challenge, you will post a comment, sharing your experience, here at the end of this blog article. Once you post the comment, you will be gifted with one book of your choice – either The Rita Lila: A Western Yogini’s Journey to Bliss or Love Soups: A Vegetarian Soup Cookbook Inspired by the Soup Devas.

~ I will agree to send you Reiki healing energies by distance each day, and I will be available for guidance on spiritual practices, by email, as needed. (For people who need an intensive amount of email support, an extra financial donation may be necessary.)

~ For this healing process, a sliding scale love-money donation is requested: between $44-88 per month, so for the 3 months, between $132-$264 total. To take The Teja Challenge: For Healing, Light, Peace, & Love, please go to the Store on this website, and pay by using the “Donate” button. (10% of every sale and donation on this website goes to Amma’s charitable organizations. www.amma.org)

~ After you make the donation, please send me a message through the Contact page on this site, letting me know that you are agreeing to take The Teja Challenge. Please include your email address and whether you would like your copy of Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living in the print or e-book version. (If you’d like the print version, please also include your mailing address.) I will then reply with an email containing the Terms of Agreement and a request for you to email me a recent photo of yourself.

If you have addictions that are blocking your experience of self-love, consider taking The Teja Challenge: For Healing, Light, Peace, & Love.

May all beings know Peace and Happiness.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of candle lights by Teja Shankara. Photo of Teja by her son Gabe.