By Swami Chidananda Life begins with seeking food, clothes and shelter. Even in this 21st century, a good percentage of humanity cannot look beyond these basic needs. Life progresses with appreciation
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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
Moderation is a MustModeration is a Must
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,
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
ACQUIRE WEALTH LEGITIMATELYACQUIRE WEALTH LEGITIMATELY
Earn well; let it not be an end in itself! By Swami Chidananda The Upanishads spoke of a healthy and prosperous life and did not teach poverty. The Upanishadic society