Month: January 2023

Content with what one has, refusing to be worried by the absence of things that one doesn’t have, trying as far as possible to reduce and eliminate desires, passions and hatreds, one should strive to cultivate truth, dharma, love, and

If Gandhi, who was an ordinary person, was able to achieve greatness and world renown, it was because of the lessons in good behaviour which he learnt from his mother. His mother used to observe a vow: she would take

As a matter of fact, there are no atheists at all, but only ignorant people. They do not know that God is their innermost core. They deny God because they do not know that their very breath is God. It

First eliminate all that is bad in you and then imbibe all that is good. It is a sin to accuse others when there is a mountain of evil within you. The same sentiment was echoed by Jesus. Man today

Neither peace nor devotion can be obtained through another; each one has to create and develop them for themselves. Still, one should also have the grace of the Lord, which is fundamental. As said in the Upanishads, “He whom He

Greatness doesn’t lie in performing acts of charity by spending crores of rupees. Your thoughts, words, and deeds should be suffused with love. Make efforts to alleviate the suffering of your fellowmen. Love all as you love yourself. This is

So long as you have a trace of ego in you, you cannot see the Lord clearly. That is the curtain which Saint Tyagaraja prayed to Lord Venkateshwara to remove from his mind. Egoism will be destroyed if you constantly

There is a story about Radha and her faith in Krishna. The elders in Brindavan who revelled in scandalising Krishna set an ordeal for Radha to test her virtue. She was given a mud pot with a hundred holes and

The Kauravas had all the instruments for victory – wealth, might of arms, allies, fanatic hatred of the enemy, kama! But, they all became dust, for they never paid heed to the higher values of Dharma; they did not equip

You must offer the Lord, not the flowers that plants grow; that will reward the plant, not you! The Lord wants you to offer the lotus that blooms in the lake of your heart, the fruit that ripens on the