I remember when I was young; parents would read stories to their children as they fell asleep. The bedtime stories were very sweet, pious tales. Some excitement and adventure may be there, but there was always a lesson, a clear moral to convey higher values. The mother would reveal, that …
Life is about how we choose to use our free will at every moment. According to how we use our free will, we become conditioned to think that way, to see the world in that way, and to act in that way. We become conditioned by whatever we associate with.
What is this analogy of fog? Fog disrupts so many of the plans of humanity because it obscures us from seeing things as they are. In New Delhi, at the Indira Gandhi Airport, usually when there is fog, airplanes are delayed, sometimes for hours and hours and hours.
Edmund Burke, a British statesmen, he had said that there can be nothing that can help evil to be triumphant as when good people don’t do anything. “Activism, compassionate activism, to bring education and awareness to people is so critically important today.”- Radhanath Swami Almost all of us are aware …
“Vedanta sutra explains that the nature of the conscious force, the soul, is to seek pleasure.” – Radhanath Swami According to the influences of nature, according to the guna we are situated in, we are trying to find pleasure in various ways: some people find pleasure in beating and …
“The miracles of nature are the miracles of God. There’s a philosophical lesson in every situation of life if we’re receptive.” – Radhanath Swami We could be thrilled when we feel mosquitoes biting us, if we meditate on what an incredible invention it is. The mosquito flies, and man has made airplanes. …
Sri Radha is the full unlimited supreme power of grace. It is only by that grace that Premabhakti can awaken in our heart. It is only by that grace that we can ultimately be free from the bondage of Maya. It is only by that grace that we can be thoroughly forgiven, thoroughly cleansed, thoroughly empowered…
“The conclusion as well as the goal of all knowledge is the complete cleansing of the mind and the heart of all material misgivings.” – Radhanath Swami The conclusion as well as the goal of all knowledge is the complete cleansing of the mind and the heart of all material …
To become humble, we have to struggle against the natural course of the way this world works and fight against our egoistic tendencies. And how do we do that? By accepting a sub ordinate position. It may be humiliating and torturous to our ego, but doesn’t a champion weight lifter torture his muscles…