Speak less and only speak about what is to be spoken of. Control of the tongue is very important. The tongue does two things: tasting and talking. Have limitations in both. Speak less, speak softly and speak the truth. Occasionally stay away from talki…
Daily Inspirations
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The aspirant should separate himself also from the sad-urmis (six waves in the ocean of sarhsara (worldly life), viz, birth and death, hunger and thirst, exhilaration and grief). Birth and death, belong to the physical body; hunger and thirst belong to… |
Question: I feel a strong desire to be a mother and part of a family unit, yet I haven’t met a man to begin this family with. I sometimes become impatient and anxious, begin to lack faith and trust and feel pressured because of my age. Do you have any… |
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Viveka is discrimination between the real and the unreal, permanent and impermanent, self and the not-self. Viveka dawns in a man on account of the grace of God. The grace can come only when one has done incessant selfless service in countless births w… |
Question: I want to help bring peace to the world. How can I make an impact? Should I join a politically active group? Or can one person accomplish more through meditation, prayer and chanting? Answer: I would say prayer, chanting and meditation would… |
Time is the mode of the mind. It is a mental creation. Time is a trick of the mind. It is an illusion. Brahman is beyond time. It is eternity. Go beyond time and rest in the timeless, eternal, imperishable Brahman. ‘Up and down’, ‘within and without’,… |
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You may be regular in your practice; but if every morning you sit without any movement for one whole hour and meditate, and the next minute you go out and express all your negative feelings to others, what’s the use? That’s not spiritual practice. How… |
Brahman is satchidananda. Sat is truth – that which exists in the past, the present and the future – which has no beginning, middle or end – which is self-existent, self-created – which never changes. In truth the world abides, from the truth the world… |
Living together happily as one beautiful family with total love is God. People still ask me, “What is it that I have been doing all these years? I’ve been practicing, but I haven’t realized God, I haven’t had any experience.” I don’t know what experien… |
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There is no other duty for man except meditation on the self. Dismissing all else, one should establish oneself in the self. There remains nothing to be done or attained when the self is experienced. For that Brahman the immortal is before, behind, to… |
It is easy to sit and meditate. The most difficult part is to practice bearing insult and injury, learning to adapt, adjust and accommodate. These are the teachings of the great saint and sage of the Himalayas, Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. You can do… |
The atman (self) is most ancient, hard to perceive and abides secretly in the innermost cave of the heart or intellect. This atman or supreme soul fills all with his radiance. This atman is incorporeal, pure, invulnerable. He is untouched by evil. The… |