Nature protects her protectors By Swami Chidananda Upanishads, in their peace invocations, have the word shanti thrice – shāntih, shāntih, shāntih. One of them, known as ādhidaivika shānti, is for
Category: Tips from Upanishads
REMEMBER THE IMPERMANENCE OF THINGSREMEMBER THE IMPERMANENCE OF THINGS
Do not slip into inaction! By Swami Chidananda Upanishads may talk of self-development but their ultimate message is ‘ending of the separate self,’ and not its improvement. In order that
ALERTNESS IS SPIRITUALITYALERTNESS IS SPIRITUALITY
When we stay deluded, materialism bosses over us. By: Swami Chidananda Prashnopanishad warns us: Do not live in delusion! mā mohamāpadyata Prashna Upanishad, 2.3 (prashna 2, mantra 3) [In the context
SAY GOODBYE TO SINFUL LIVINGSAY GOODBYE TO SINFUL LIVING
Leave it like a snake discards its old skin By: Swami Chidananda Prashnopanishad supplies to us an amazing illustration. yathā pādodaras-tvachā vinirmuchyate evam ha vai sah papmanā vinirmuktah Prashna Upanishad, 5.5
WAY TO CALM YOUR MINDWAY TO CALM YOUR MIND
MERGE THE GROSS IN THE SUBTLE By Swami Chidananda Kathopanishad supplies to us an extraordinary technique to go from ‘a storm’ to ‘a calm’. In a single mantra, the
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
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
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
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
RISE ABOVE GUILT AND SHAMERISE ABOVE GUILT AND SHAME
By Swami Chidananda As we anchor ourselves in the Pure Self, the great inner transformation frees us from guilt and shame. On one hand our bosom is free from any