Vedanta is the teaching of the reality of oneself. It is in the form of inquiry wherein one discovers the real meaning of the word 'I' the self that remains unchanged from childhood to youth to old age. It leads one to discover that the unchanged self is free from any form of limitation. To …
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Sleep is joyful because Ego is not there, and is an Illustration of what Moksha can be Like.
I entertain many notions and complexes about myself I’m a father, I'm a mother, I’m a son, I’m a daughter, I’m happy, I’m unhappy, I'm a doer, I'm an enjoyer. Each notion always contains the idea that I am limited. Whether I am a great person or a small person, a king or a beggar, …
While you meditate, become a sanyasi!
While you are meditating, become a renunciate. Who is a renunciate? Pujya Dayanandaji says that a renunciate is one who has no role to play. Normally I keep playing different roles such as that of a father, a mother, a son, a wife, an employee, and so on, because every situation demands that I should …
All religions are going beyond reason, but reason is the only guide to get there!
Perception is our only real knowledge or religion. Talking about it for ages will never make us know our soul. There is no difference between theories and atheism. In fact, the atheist is the truer man. Every step I take in the light is mine forever. When you go to a country and see it, …
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The world is not waiting for your or my help!
We must do good; the desire to do good is the highest motive power we have, if we know all the time that it is a privilege to help others. Do not stand on a high pedestal and take five cents in your hand and say, "Here, my poor man," but be grateful that the …
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What is the utility of meditation? Going beyond the little circle of human reasoning!
When I eat food, I do it consciously; when I assimilate it, I do it unconsciously. When the food is manufactured into blood, it is done unconsciously. When out of the blood all the different parts of my body are strengthened, it is done unconsciously. And yet it is I who am doing all this; …
What is meditation? Why meditate?
There are two types of sadhana — bahiranga-sadhana बहिरन्ग-साधना, or external means; and antaranga-sadhana अन्तरन्ग-साधना , or internal means. Doing karma is doing what is to be done by you with the right attitude and following proper values. In other words, karmayoga कर्मयोग is called bahiranga-sadhana. Meditation, dhyana, wherein the mind alone is involved, is …
What is a prayer – a deliberate action you undertake to address hidden variables!
Ambitions are beautiful and they are given to you. Only a human being can have such ambitions. An ambition being what it is, you can fulfil them, or you need not fulfil them. On New Year’s day, you may have certain goals that need to be accomplished. Maybe this is a good time to think …
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The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves!
Let there be action without reaction; action is pleasant, and all misery is a reaction. The child puts its hand in the flame, that is pleasure; but when its system reacts, then comes the pain of burning. When we can stop that reaction, then we have nothing to fear. Control the brain and do not …
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What Vedanta insists on is not to give up joys, but to know what joy really is!
What is heaven? It is the idea of happiness minus unhappiness. That is to say, what we want is the joys of this life minus its sorrows. That is a very good idea, no doubt; it comes naturally; but it is a mistake throughout, because there is no such thing as an absolute good, nor …
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Manifesting the Divinity within! 