Community Meditation Gardens are open Wed, Sat, and Sun 9am-5pm. Our vision is individual and planetary awakening to the One Truth known by many names.
The ministry of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment is focused on the essential truth and harmony found in the world's religions, the necessity for a global ethical and spiritual awakening to bring about world peace, and the importance of individual participation toward this goal. The Center is an oasis of peace in the community, the world, and in the hearts of individuals. It is through that peace that one may live an awakened life. The awakened life is our opportunity to live authentically and in harmony with divine plan and purpose. Through awakening, we experience true fulfillment and the soul's natural joy.
11/17/2025
Life is always giving. So can we. The practice of yajna turns daily life into sacred offering. Let your life become a flame of worship.
Explore the profound teachings of the Bhagavad Gita on yajna (spiritual offering) and how life itself becomes sacred through self-giving, discipline, and divine realization. Learn how to live in harmony with all of life by pouring yourself into every moment as worship.
11/10/2025
Karma Yoga is more than service—it is the path of clear discernment, deep renunciation, and living as an instrument of divine love. The Bhagavad Gita reveals how our actions can be fully engaged yet non-binding when we act without a selfish motive.
11/06/2025
What is action? What is inaction? Even the wise can be confused by this mystery. The Bhagavad Gita reveals how the motive behind every deed determines whether it binds or frees—and how to perceive inaction in action, the hallmark of a true yogi.
11/03/2025
What is the power of setting a spiritual intention?
Join Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian in this encore episode and learn how to bring the dynamic practice of intention into your life.
🎧 Listen now: https://apple.co/3Lz8RZO
🔗 Learn more: ellengraceobrian.com and csecenter.org
🌱 What is the power of setting a spiritual intention?
Join Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian in this encore episode and learn how to bring the dynamic practice of intention into your life.
🔗 Learn more: ellengraceobrian.com and csecenter.org
10/29/2025
What does it mean to act without being bound? Learn how desireless action reveals the joy of freedom.
The Bhagavad Gita reveals the mystery of acting without attachment—how freedom is possible in the midst of life’s duties. Discover how verses 4.14–4.15 guide us to live as non-doers, free from ego, rooted in divine remembrance, and aligned with the way of Dharma.
10/17/2025
We each carry a divine blueprint—unique gifts, tendencies, and responsibilities that guide our life's purpose, or dharma. The Bhagavad Gita reminds us that liberation is not about becoming someone else, but about awakening fully to who we truly are. ✨ Read more in the post below.
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The Bhagavad Gita teaches that each soul carries a divine blueprint, a unique svabhava that reveals our svadharma—our authentic path. Liberation arises when we live in harmony with our true nature, offering our actions in freedom and love.
10/13/2025
✨ Grace meets us where we are. No prayer is unheard, no heart is unseen. Discover how divine grace and dharma guide every seeker on the path of awakening. Full teaching below.
In verses 4.11–4.12, the Bhagavad Gita reveals the generosity of the Divine, responding to all sincere prayers, regardless of their form. Explore how dharma, devotion, and desire shape our path to freedom.
10/05/2025
In this blog post, we delve into the mystery of divine incarnation as presented in the Bhagavad Gita. Learn how verses 4.4–4.7 reveal Lord Krishna’s eternal nature, the guru-disciple relationship, and the promise of divine intervention when dharma declines.
When righteousness declines and disorder rises, the divine descends to restore dharma. Explore how incarnation, compassion, and liberation reveal the eternal promise of spiritual awakening.
09/25/2025
RETREAT (Online and In-person at CSE)
OCT 9-11, 2025 https://jo.my/fall-meditation-retreat-2025
Join Acharya Devin Kent Sodt and CSE Teachers for a contemplative Fall retreat tailored to offer you a methodology for realization by surrender, in action, and meditation.
Discover an intentional path to realize the essence of your being through meditation, action, and surrender. Realization is grounded in knowledge and experience, or contemplation and action.
MORE INFO: https://jo.my/fall-meditation-retreat-2025
09/25/2025
The eternal yoga of truth is never lost, only forgotten. Discover how divine friendship, the guru-disciple relationship, and the timeless teaching of yoga guide us back to remembrance and freedom.
09/16/2025
🔥 Desire is insatiable—it clouds wisdom and fuels sorrow. Discover how to rise above it and live free.
Discover how to overcome desire and anger—the inner enemies that cloud wisdom. Learn practical teachings from the Bhagavad Gita to master the senses, calm the mind, and live in soul freedom.
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CSE is a meditation teaching and practice center based in the teachings of Kriya Yoga, and offered in an interfaith environment.
Awaken to the One Truth known by many names.
Founded in 1981, the ministry of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (www.csecenter.org) in San Jose, California, is focused on the essential truth and harmony found in the world's religions, the necessity for a global ethical and spiritual awakening to bring about world peace, and the importance of individual participation toward this goal. Our vision is individual and planetary awakening to the One Truth known by many names.
The Center is an oasis of peace in the community, the world, and in the hearts of individuals. It is through that peace that one may live an awakened life. The awakened life is our opportunity to live authentically and in harmony with divine plan and purpose. Through awakening, we experience true fulfillment and the soul's natural joy
Below is just a sample of what we offer (see website for schedule):
- Group Meditation
- Worship Services
- Youth & Family Ministry
- Hatha Yoga Classes
- Weddings & Memorials
- Meru Institute
- Bookshop (call for hours, 408-283-0221 x 29)
- Labyrinth (open to public dawn to dusk)
- Meditation Gardens (open dawn to dusk)
- Meditation Class
