"True peace is a quality of our divine nature that is great enough to contain and transform any conflict."
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian,
Living For The Sake Of The Soul, p. 104
Acharya Paula Vandana Whang-Ramos,
Blue Lotus Center Spiritual Director
Paula earned her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1984 and her Masters of Divinity Degree from CSE Meru Seminary in 2010. In 2012, Paula was ordained in the tradition of Kriya Yoga by her teacher, Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian, with whom she continues to study. Currently, Paula also serves as a Senior Kriya Yoga Meditation teacher and an Associate Minister at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose, CA.
Paula is available to teach meditation at your organization or place of work.
In 2026, join us at Blue Lotus Center and choose to reclaim your innate inner peace. Because beneath the distracted, undisciplined, too-busy mind is the peace of the soul that indwells us all right now. In 2026, imagine your life grounded in relentless inner peace, unapologetic divine love, and endlessly available intuitive wisdom, as well as the spiritual competence to inwardly access these divine qualities through all the changes yet to come. Let us live 2026 as the year of divine inner transformation and reclaim our inner peace.
Each month, we will focus on a specific practice for spiritually conscious living during our Wednesday evening meditation groups.
Gift yourself this opportunity to reclaim your inner peace. Live in the joy and peace of the soul that are with us at all times, even when we forget.
Visit the Reclaim Inner Peace page here.
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BLC Emissary For Peace Update
There is divine potential in the heart of every person that awaits our recognition and cooperation. Once we discover this innate potential, what was once a deep yearning becomes the dynamic cause that inspires us to live in the highest way. We can all know why we are here, how to fulfill our divine destiny and experience lasting happiness.
Engage in this New Online Video Course with Yogacharya O’Brian and learn how to meditate and live by spiritual principles.
For more information or to register, click here.
A Six-Week Online Video Course with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian
"I find solace in the Bhagavad Gita...When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I go back to the Bhagavad Gita. I find a verse here and a verse there, and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming tragedies - and my life has been full of external tragedies - and if they have left no visible, no indelible scar on me, I owe it all to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita."
Mahatma K. Gandhi, Young India (1925), pp. 1078-1079
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Welcome to The Blue Lotus Center
~ Return to Peace ~
Live the Eternal Way: The Art and Practice of Self-Realization
Are you ready for more peace in your life, in your family, in our community, and in our country?
Do you want to learn practical, time-tested techniques to calm your mind and live a wisdom-guided life?
Would you like to experience the community support of other sincere seekers dedicated to peace?
If so, then join us at Blue Lotus Center, an oasis of peace for sincere seekers from all backgrounds.
During these challenging times, the Blue Lotus Center is a refuge for those seeking an alternative to the isolation and fear
that arises when the reactive mind focuses on apparent differences, conflict and lack of abundance.
In the teaching tradition of Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the first Yogis to bring Yoga to the USA,
the Blue Lotus Center offers ancient, practical teachings of Kriya Yoga - the conscious use of our thoughts, words and actions (Kriya)
in the essential peace, love and wholeness that indwells us all the time, everywhere, and even when we forget (Yoga).
If you are ready for a change, then join our commitment to cultivate peace in our hearts, our lives, our families, and our world.
The Blue Lotus Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. All services are offered on a donation basis, unless otherwise specified.
Please click here for a current listing of our ongoing meditation groups.
"To draw from the well of the soul's inspired guidance requires a quiet mind
and the commitment to cultivate inner peace."
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, CSE Daily Inspiration 07/12/2022
The Blue Lotus Center is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization
dedicated to spiritual awakening by fostering an oasis of peace
in the community, in the world, and in the hearts of individuals.
~~ Gratitude to all ~~
We offer deep gratitude to Divine Grace and to all Emissaries for Peace as we accept $8,966 in donations towards our $10,000 goal. These funds will support BLC's continued commitment to freely offer time-tested spiritual practices to all beings seeking to reclaim inner peace in this lifetime. Thank you for your support and for your commitment to Self- and God-realization for all. May all beings realize eternal inner peace now.
Join us in spiritual community for a time of meditation, study, and contemplation of The Bhagavad Gita, a foundational text for yoga and meditation. Experience this practical wisdom that redirects our paths of suffering toward the freedom of our essential Wholeness. Learn how the ancient teachings of the Gita can reveal our inner peace, courage, and clarity. New and experienced students of the Gita are welcome to join anytime. All are welcome.
Our year-long study will include:
~Individual Daily Meditation and Metaphysical Scripture Study
Begins 09/01/2025 through 08/31/2026
Complement your daily meditation practice with contemplative reading of the Gita.
Download the 2025-2026 Bhagavad Gita One Year Study Schedule here.
Download the Bhagavad Gita Contemplative Notes template here.
~Tuesday 1pm Weekly Meditation and Gita Study Group
Tuesdays, beginning 09/02/2025 through 08/25/2026
Each Tuesday in spiritual community, we will meditate and contemplate inspirations and insights revealed during our daily Gita scripture study.
If you are not currently registered for our Zoom classes/groups, click here to register.
Required text: The Eternal Way: The Inner Meaning of the Bhagavad Gita, by Roy Eugene Davis.
Texts available locally at BLC or CSE, or online at csa-davis.org or Amazon.
2026: A Year to Reclaim Inner Peace
Freedom From Suffering:
Spiritual Study of The Bhagavad Gita
Blue Lotus
"The importance of a spiritual practice community cannot be overemphasized. Since life is one, we are not restored to wholeness alone.
Growing together in wisdom and compassion is supportive of realizing the teachings of divine unity."
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, CSE Daily Inspiration 12/24/2015
Blue Lotus Center is happy to announce that we have reopened for Wednesday evening onsite meditation! We invite you to join us each week where you can meditate and study in spiritual community. If you are out of the area, you can still join us on Zoom.
We appreciate your support and look forward to meditating with you.
For our meditation group schedule, click here.
CSE Monthly Online Introduction to Meditation Class
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Next class: Online - February 8, 2026
~Free class
Registration required. To register, click here.
Calm your mind, relax your body and open your heart with a simple, ancient, time-tested meditation practice that has helped millions of sincere seekers from all traditions to live from the innate peace and joy that indwells us all. Learn how to set up your own home meditation practice.