Don’t think that because you pray, somebody gets healed. No. God is not to be fooled that way. God didn’t give someone a problem because you didn’t pray. God did it to teach that person a lesson. By praying for someone, you open your heart. You become…
Daily Inspirations
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The word ‘Yoga’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘Yuj’ which means ‘to join’. By the practice of yoga, the individual soul (jivatma) is united with the supreme soul (paramatma). Yoga means union with God. Then all samsara (cycle of birth and death) comes t… |
Sat There is always a good lesson in whatever happens to us, even in the midst of our losses. I don’t mean only in material losses; it’s that way even with losses of our near and dear. The whole world is a university, and we are all here learning. Ever… |
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Now I proceed to explain the system of yoga philosophy in brief and bring home to the readers the salient and vital points in the yogic system. Yoga teaches how to control the vrttis (thought-waves) of the mind and get freedom. Yoga teaches how to curb… |
Hatred will not eliminate hatred. You can never make someone love you by hating him or her. Don’t retaliate. Just let your nature be giving and loving. That’s God’s love, an outpouring with no expectation for anything back. Love knows no bargain, it on… |
Yoga is the state where in there is no sankalpa-vikalpa (thought or doubt). Yoga is the control of mind and its modifications. Yoga is the equal state between jivatma (soul) and paramatma (God). The word ‘Yogi’ signifies an aspirant or a student in the… |
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If you have complete trust in God, you learn to accept whatever comes to you. There is no demanding in your life because you know, “Whatever I deserve, God is the one who is giving it to me. If I don’t deserve something, God is the one who takes it awa… |
Take stock of the past year. Turn back the leaves of your spiritual diary. Mark your spiritual progress. Note how far you have advanced in cultivating virtues, like humility, courage, truthfulness, cosmic love, purity, etc., and in the control of the s… |
We all have a duty toward our children, our parents, our neighbors, our sisters, our brothers, toward everything with which we come into contact. We have a duty toward the land that brings us food, toward the rain that brings us water, toward nature. W… |
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Self-realisation is not a process. It is not a becoming. It is pure being. It is not a new thing to be attained. The aspirant knows that he is the all-pervading, immortal soul. To know that is to become that. Self-realisation is direct, intuitive perce… |
We are all searching for the happiness and peace that we once experienced. Now it seems to be missing. Certainly we want to find it the quickest way possible. Unfortunately, it doesn’t come that easily. We have to go through many kinds of resistance. W… |
Walk the Brahman way. Brahmacarya is walking with God or Brahman. Brahmacarya is the Brahman way. Regard a woman as mother or Devi (goddess). This is brahmacarya of the eye. Hear not lustful talks. This is brahmacarya of the ear. Speak not of woman. Th… |