This is the choice – you can make your mind into a comical place or a cosmic space. For it to become a cosmic space, you must keep all the lies down – then Truth will flourish by its own
For creating equilibrium at mental level both men and women should balance their primordial qualities. Men should imbibe the sattva quality through concentration practices, yoga and meditation to balance their rajas. The women should lead an active life that involves
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970), 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. This is a chapter from his book- THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY Although truth and falsehood
Forty years ago, the eminent Cornell University professor and child psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner famously concluded, “Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.” The benefits of a caring adult mentor on children’s well-being
There is a destiny–and we all have a destiny. A seed is destined to become a flower. It has an intrinsic potential which becomes a possibility, also a certainty, if it gets the right soil and the environment. A monkey
Have you ever failed at something and Divine Mother later gave you a second chance? An Ananda devotee told me an inspiring story of experiencing such a chance only after working very hard to go deeper into meditation. This woman
We shall come to feel all the consciousness of the physical world as one with our physical consciousness, feel all the energies of the cosmic life around as our own energies, feel all the heart-beats of the great cosmic impulse
As an integrated way of life, Yoga includes moral standards (traditionally called “virtues”) that any reasonable human being would find in principle acceptable. Some of these standards, known in Sanskrit as yamas or “disciplines,” are encoded in the first limb
Using mindfulness and concentration is not really a process of gluing together two systems. Because of various teaching lineages pulling them apart and creating the appearance of separateness, it can now seem that we are integrating two systems. It is
There are certain things in each of seven types of prakriti that we ‘tend to do’. Even in specific and provoking circumstances, we should make an effort to keep our equilibrium by evoking sattva. Prakriti refers to the natural constitution of
