In the battlefield of life, we face arrows of difficult situations, spears of judgments and attacks of challenges. If one does not have a suitable armor in the battlefield, one will be wounded and defeated in the first few moments …
Healing of all beings in the Vedic tradition has existed and continues through bodies of wisdom in the form of Karma-kanda, Ayurveda, and Jyotisha. Your mother massaging your scalp with oil on a lazy Sunday morning in childhood, doing Pranayama …
You are standing on a rock watching the swirling turquoise green blue waters of Ganga ji below. You hear the soft laps as she touches the rocks and quietens downstream. You raise your head and look around. The sheer contrast …
The Bhagavad Gita encourages us to cultivate sattva guna, which represents purity, clarity and knowledge. The more understanding one has of what is sattva, rajas, and tamas, the more subtlety one has in our appreciation of karma. One becomes more …
Happiness or Sukha is the pleasure or joy that is experienced. Bhagavan Krishna teaches us that even our happiness can be three-fold depending on how one gets it, how long it lasts, and the degree and nature of the sukha. …
When you have been angry, has anyone asked you to count to 10 or take a few deep breaths? I don’t know about you but I would get even more angry when someone would tell me to do this. The …
There are 3 faulty assumptions about our understanding of love in modern society – Assumption 1 – Love is a feeling. If I don’t feel love, there is no love in my life. As long as we take this position …
As I sat with the 65 year old woman K who was a Vedanta student, her maid passed by and curtly said that she was leaving for the day. Seeing the look of disgust on her face after the door …
Recently, I was doing some reading for a talk to be given on Sri Ramana Maharishi. As most of you probably know Sri Ramana Maharishi is recognised as one of the greatest Vedanta masters, a jeevanmukta, free while living. He …
‘God let me down. He let my mother die. I decided then and there that I will never depend on God for anything again’ – exclaimed a 30 year old student who had just started attending my Vedanta class. Earlier …