By Swami Chidananda While the sacred texts are not against pleasure per se, they are uncompromising when it comes to moderation. No one can excessively indulge or get enslaved to pleasure,
Author: Swami Chidananda
DO NOT NEGLECT WORKDO NOT NEGLECT WORK
ACTION BRINGS RESULTS By Swami Chidananda Geetā, echoing the wisdom of Upanishads, says1, “Success is the result of (hard, honest) work.” Unless you are convinced that we have very
What is wrong with chasing pleasure?What is wrong with chasing pleasure?
By Swami Chidananda The wisdom of the Upanishads is not against anybody seeking happiness per se. It in fact wishes to bless us with true happiness in the largest measure.
DO NOT BE COMPLACENT ABOUT YOUR WRONG WAYS OF LIVINGDO NOT BE COMPLACENT ABOUT YOUR WRONG WAYS OF LIVING
By Swami Chidananda It is an irony, if not a stark contradiction, that many Vedānta scholars (teachers and students) carry on with life, without getting serious about certain wrong ways
Vedānta is not Mere Intellectual PleasureVedānta is not Mere Intellectual Pleasure
By Swami Chidananda Spiritual wisdom is intimately related to the inmost and the deepest desire in our human life – to be free of suffering, and to clear our bosom
WHEN IS OUR LIFE TRULY FULFILLED?WHEN IS OUR LIFE TRULY FULFILLED?
By: Swami Chidananda Gain and loss, success and failure, health and sickness etc. – a million things like them – happen in our life. After all that, we die one
GOD RULES THIS UNIVERSEGOD RULES THIS UNIVERSE
Nothing moves without His will By: Swami Chidananda Advaita Vedānta no doubt speaks of Brahman, the one absolute truth in which the individual soul (jeeva), the universe (jagat) and God
THE ROAD TO GREATNESSTHE ROAD TO GREATNESS
By: Swami Chidananda “The earth seems to be meditating,” says1 an Upanishad! The steadiness of the earth appears to be born of some kind of meditation that she (bhoomi-devi) is into! People of
EXTROVERTEDNESS, OUR UNDOINGEXTROVERTEDNESS, OUR UNDOING
We must reverse this downfall By: Swami Chidananda Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit – in the Biblical parlance – and that was their undoing, their ruin. The ancient
YOU MAKE YOUR OWN DESTINYYOU MAKE YOUR OWN DESTINY
By Swami Chidananda Expressing the message of the Upanishads using different words, Swami Vivekananda said1, “You can also undo – what you have done!” Two great Vedic scholars – Ārtabhāga