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The Peepal Grove School requires teachers for the following disciplines: 1. Yoga Asanas 2. Sanskrit The residential school is affiliated to the ICSE Board and was founded by Sri M in June, 2006. He...
My Master said, “The first step is to understand yourself—your strengths, your weaknesses, what you actually are and not start with super-imposing the idea that I am great, I am blissful, I am this...
Amongst the Sufis, there is a saying, which they attribute to Prophet Mohammed: ‘man arafa nafsahu faqad arafa rabbahu’ which means, he who knoweth his Self, knoweth his Lord.
I am talking about what we think and how we act. If these two things can go together, then meditation begins. To not bring about this dichotomy in one’s life, one has to be eternally watchful. It m...
An old proverb says: Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths, for thou have little understanding.
When a spiritual teacher puts his disciples to the test, even the most exalted amongst them can fail. It is very difficult for a disciple to pass the master’s test. Therefore, be prepared to examin...
I am saying, deep down in our minds if we would only be ready to peel off the outer layers of dust that have gathered; if only we are ready to reframe our thinking; if only we are ready to look at ...
Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while seemingly, but it will break its dam and begin to flow again.
We like to think of something the way we prefer it to be and not as it actually is. And, what is it actually? Essentially, everything is in a flux. Everything is constantly changing and moving; the...
One of the deep-rooted illusions, which we all have, is the belief that we are going to exist forever. The Keno Upanishad says the probable reason why we think so is—deep in our subconscious, we kn...
The Walk of Hope 2015-16, currently in Kerala, will reach Kadavallur on February 17, 2015, on the day of Maha Shivaratri 2015. The following program has been put together at the Sree Rama Temple at...
According to Vedanta, the entire Cosmos is a completely seamless, continuous unity—the one that contains within itself, in not manifest but potential form, millions of actualisations of the univers...