Wherever you go, you carry your own imagination. Even if you go to heaven, you won’t be able to see it as heaven if there is a hell in your heart. If you have a heaven in your heart, you would even enjoy hell. Yes, it’s true. Because you would see heav…
Daily Inspirations
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Aparigraha is the fifth limb of yama (self-restraint). Parigraha is covetousness or greed, to possess and enjoy objects of the senses. Aparigraha is the opposite of parigraha. This is non-covetousness or non-acceptance of gifts; it is the absence of cr… |
Question: At times my surrender is quite intense and I feel that I am melting at the mention of God’s name. Can you offer any advice to develop pure love and the higher states of Divine Love? Swami Satchidanda: When pure love matures, it will take you… |
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There are four processes in the practice of brahmacarya (celibacy). First control the sex vasana (habit) through dama (control of senses) and pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), then practise conservation of sex energy. Shut all holes through which… |
Question: Swamiji, I have loved you for a long time. How much longer will it be till I get closer to you and to enlightenment? Swami Satchidandana: Oh, my sweetheart. If you have really loved the real Swamiji you are already closer to him. He is closer… |
Asteya is non-stealing. This is one of the five limbs of yama (self- restraint). This is also another form of self-restraint. Why does a man steal? He wants some thing. When he cannot get it by legitimate ways of earning, he begins to steal things. Des… |
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Simply take it easy, trust in God, and do what you can. Let whatever you do be for the benefit of others. If you can, do something. If you cannot, accept it. Somebody else will do it; it is not that you have to do it all yourself. Honestly try to do yo… |
God is truth. He can be realised only by speaking truth and observing truth in thought, word and deed. Truthfulness, equal vision, self-control, absence of envious emulation, forgiveness, modesty, endurance, absence of jealousy, charity, thoughtfulness… |
Question: Is it possible to develop spiritually while working in a highly competitive and hectic field such as show business? Swami Satchidananda: We call it show business. Why? Do you think that show business is to show somebody else something? No. Sh… |
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That work which gives elevation, joy and peace to the mind, is right. That which brings depression, pain and restlessness to the mind is wrong. This is an easy way to find out what is right and what is wrong. Selfishness clouds understanding. Therefore… |
Somehow my life has been continuously directed by a Higher Will. I didn’t have any interest in coming to America. I didn’t have any interest in going to Sri Lanka. Somehow, Providence put me in various places. It just pushed me here, there, here, there… |
Ahimsa (non-violence) is one of the foremost vows of good life. It is a supreme duty of man – ahimsa paramo dharmah – thus scripture declares. In the regeneration and divinisation of man, the first step is to eliminate the beastly nature. The predomina… |