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Speaking the Language of Love
We all know that the emotion of love is fundamental to human beings. However, the way we communicate this love makes all the difference. How to talk about the way we feel, about our emotions, to our loved ones? – … Read more →
Are You Happy or Unhappy?
Human life is like a pendulum. It is dangling and swinging between positive and negative opinions, good and bad, right and wrong, the true and the false, the highs and lows, thick and thin, and a whole heap of other … Read more →
Why Do People Change?
Why do people change? One thing is constant in the world and that is change. I care for you. Of course, I will always love you no matter what. Yes, we will definitely go for a vacation … Read more →
The Ten Vital Energies
In a couple of posts on this blog and elsewhere, I briefly mentioned the ten vital energies. Today, I am going to share with you the yogic aspect of such energy flow in your body. The ten vital energies control … Read more →
Two Types of Meditation
Primarily there are two types of meditation: One is called concentrative meditation, also referred to as fixed attentiveness, and the other one is called contemplative meditation, also known as analytical investigation. A good meditator is skilled at both types of … Read more →
Give or Take?
If you were given a choice of anything that you could take from, let us say, anybody, from someone who could give you whatever you asked for; what would you say? Of course, the conscious mind, the conditioned mind promptly … Read more →
The Value of a Gift
What is the best gift? Is there such a thing? Read on. You have a lot to offer. Some of you have money to give, some, knowledge, many, love and compassion. Charity is a divine gesture, however, not all giving … Read more →
Pain is Inevitable. Suffering is Optional
A quote usually attributed to Buddha says, “Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.” What a profound statement! There is no suffering if you can let go. Pain becomes immaterial in the absence of suffering. I am reminded of a … Read more →
Does God Get Angry?
There are two questions I have been asked tens of times about God. Recently, someone I have known for a reasonable time asked them and I replied. After doing so, I thought I should share it with others too. In … Read more →
Purity: Physical, Mental and Moral
The importance of purity cannot be overstated. Purity of your moral, mental, and physical discipline will ensure that you get to the ultimate state of bliss. The seeker who stays committed to living a pure life certainly attains peace of … Read more →
Understanding Relationships
If you know yourself, you will always understand others better. And if you can understand others, there will only be one thing left in your relationships, and that is harmony. Here is a discourse for you on understanding relationships. The … Read more →
The Untamed Mind
On the road to Self Transformation, we will begin with mental transformation. The mind is made up of thoughts and such thoughts are devoid of any essence. Thoughts take the form of conversations. The practice of observing silence forms the … Read more →
The Four Pillars of Sadhana
Goswami Tulsidasa writes in a certain legend in the Ramayana, an ascetic tells King Pratapbhanu upon the latter being amazed to see the occult powers of the adept: Jani ācaraju karu mana māhi, suta tapa tē duralabha kachu nāhi. Tapabala … Read more →
The Karmic Trail and Psychic Imprints
क्लेशमूलः कर्माशयो दृष्टादृष्टजन्मवेदनीयः । (Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 2.12) Psychic imprints, resulting from karma, accumulated over many lives condition the mind and cause one grief. Imagine a spinning wheel painted with spectral hues. Since it is spinning its face appears an … Read more →
Self Transformation – My Solemn Vow
Over the next few days, I will start posting articles on The Yoga of Self Transformation. In my writings, at times you may find information contradictory to what you have known to date from other texts or sources. At that … Read more →
