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In ‘Bhagwad Gita’ you can know everything - how to work, how to meditate, how to have devotion, how to lead your day-to-day life, everything’s there!
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In ‘Bhagwad Gita’ you can know everything - how to work, how to meditate, how to have devotion, how to lead your day-to-day life, everything’s there!
When the so-called ‘limited’ being recognizes and realises his inner essence, he begins to know and understand that he is not different from the Absolute Essence.
‘Mula’ which means ‘root’; ‘Adhara’ means ‘foundation’, support’. So, if you translate the word, it would mean ‘root support’ or ‘root foundation’. This means that the Energy, after doing all its w...
‘Let go’ does not mean you should throw everything away and go to the forest. It means, develop the quality of ‘letting go’. Then, there is absolute peace, rejoice!
You always think that only happiness is a blessing. Sorrow is a blessing too. It leads us to greater, deeper and more permanent happiness
When the mind becomes quiet, which is the aim of all forms of meditation, one comes face to face with one’s consciousness. This consciousness resides in all human beings, irrespective of caste, cre...
In ‘Grahastha’, when your responsibilities are wound up and the children have become self-reliant, you are free to spend time in retirement in a quiet place, free from the troubles of everyday phon...
The ‘Agni tattva’ vis-a-vis the mind is actually the fire that burns within. Physically, it is the digestive fire. It is the aspiration to transform oneself from crude to subtle. ‘Agni ye swaha’ me...
It is possible for someone to lead a life like a normal human being in a material world and, at the same time, keep the spiritual aspirations intact and work in such as a way as to attain spiritual...
You must remember, when you go into a cave, you can leave everything behind but you can’t leave your mind. And yes, the problem is indeed the mind, not anything else around you.
In ancient India, the young aspirant, the neophyte known as the ‘Brahmachari’ went to the Rishis, seeking neither wealth, nor health, nor position but pure and unconditioned freedom. This pure, unc...
[symple_box color="blue" fade_in="false" float="center" text_align="left" width=""]An edited version of this article appeared in The Economic Times' 'Poke Me' - its weekly column, on 3 September, 2...