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Face the Reality and See where you stand

The function of a spiritual teacher as has been taught by my Master is not to distribute lollipops —everybody sucks on the lollipops and sits happily thinking this is the world. It is to face the r...

Watch carefully the direction of the Heart

When one's mind is caught in desires, the direction that comes out of the heart is not reliable because it could be just to fulfill our desires. It is very difficult to distinguish whether it is co...

Household Duties on the Spiritual Journey

Duties are very important but our sense of duty or our concept of duty has been made so that a person lives his life depending on others and looks after those who are dependent on him. It is as far...

Consecration of Shiva Linga | Madanapalle | 2013

I always felt a need that when people come here to Madanapalle, they need some place to offer some flowers and do pooja and we didn’t have anything. There is a meditation hall but sitting in medita...

Practical steps for Peace & Interfaith Harmony

Excerpt from the Talk at the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the United Nations, August 28, 2000. Mere social reforms however, cannot do much as we have seen in ...

The secret of implementing a resolution

It’s time to take a step forward once more, for the New Year is at hand.One can move from ‘the past’ to ‘the present’ and turn over a new leaf in one’s life. Change completely if required and have ...

Finding Happiness in the Battlefield of Life – The Bhagavad Gita Way

Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a beautiful book. It means Song of the Lord.  Bhagavad Gita says that wherever there is a manifestation of goodness, energy, power, position, status, and knowledge — es...

What Yoga Can Do

Does Yoga really accelerate our perception or help us perceive this reality as it is? I am talking about Yoga in the ultimate sense of the term, not simply asanas. I practice asanas daily. It is go...

Keep your Slate Clean

  In matters of inner exploration, the most important thing is to keep your slate clean. If you have a slate, and you write on it and if you want to write anything else, you have to rub it off. Oth...

Lifelong Devotion

Krishna is depicted as dancing in Vrindavan with the gopis, going to war with Kamsa, helping Arjuna fight the battle of Kurukshetra where he assumes the role of a Guru in the Bhagavad Gita and beco...

"Fill your heart with kindness and compassion " - Sri M

One of the most important characteristics of a true spiritual teacher is that he cannot have a hard heart – it is impossible. Because as we progress in the spiritual field one of the most important...

"Keep a Positive Mind" - Sri M

Positive mind is very important to activate the cells of the body to produce positive hormones in the system.  When the positive hormones begin to course through your blood stream then the resilien...