A conversation with mother
Mother was up early in the morning, waiting for me to wake up. On waking up, I took her blessings and then we finished our morning prayers. Then over tea, she said, “Your teaching is so simple, yet at the same time profound. You have the blessings of great masters. But I have a doubt, why don’t more people take advantage...
Let Go of Worry
Have you observed your mind? Did you notice that the mind is always focused on what it feels is missing? Man or woman, the human tendency is to focus on what we do not have rather than what we have. Doing this makes us miserable! A day of worrying is more tiring than a day of work. Even then, we spend...
Awakening Joy in life
All of us face difficult and challenging situations in life that leave us battling emotions like anger, hatred and jealousy. Challenging situations make us feel extreme disappointment, unhappiness, and frustration. This is usually because of an imbalance in an energy field in us. This energy field, or the Navarasa as is it called, has to be balanced. When all the...
FROM BREAKDOWN TO BREAKTHROUGH
Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe that it is possible to recover from depression not because of medication, but by listening to an enlightened spiritual master? I believe it is possible, because I was witness to one such transformation. This is the true story of an individual that took place in Hyderabad, and I share it here at...
Circle of Conscious Humanity
We are so unconscious that we create our own prisons and get used to it. Some even decorate the prison and think it is their abode. The mind has become a machine to create psychological prison and man has become mechanical machine. In such a state, it is necessary to draw support from a person who has escaped the prison...
LIFE IS A MOVEMENT OF JOY
Someone met me recently and said, “I find it difficult to listen to my wife; she speaks so much, most of the time, I don’t understand what she is saying. I him, “Listening to your wife is like reading the terms and conditions of a freeware you want to download from the internet. It is long, and you don’t understand...
CHILDLIKE APPROACH TO LIFE
Most of us are caught in the small part of life and miss seeing the whole. Without leaving our room, we want to see the vastness of the sky. We live a part of the whole and that part is our pattern, our positionality, our ego. Thus, we limit our brain to our patterns. To drop our shallow way of...
OUT OF THE BOX THINKING
The purpose of life is not simply to survive but to discover inner fulfillment. When life is full, you will not be a victim to failures. When you are comparing, you will always be in a failure track for there is always someone better than you. Hence, all records are always broken even in the field of sports. Hence, comparisons...
Coping with Covid19
A Spiritual & Psychological perspective “The commitment to care opens up the best in you, making you a stronger Being” - Swami Sukhabodhananda The student asks, “How does the wise man explain the evil which exists in the world?” “My master does not explain, but he is busy doing something about it,” replied his friend. “He does his best. He is filled with...
Bringing in Wisdom
Swamiji, what is wisdom? When the quality of our consciousness changes for the better and leads us to peace, that is wisdom. This wisdom is born out of goodness. When the ego is absent, love appears as an inclusive love. Without wisdom, love is exclusive. Please understand, exclusive love does not think of others. But when love becomes inclusive, it feels like an...