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Negative thinking is a tragic pattern that many of us fall prey to. Sadly, we do it because we’ve been programmed to do it.One part of the problem stems from our basic culture of education and discipline, which is a system based on…
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Meditation is the best medication for all agitations. It will truly calm the mind, fill the heart with joy and bring peace to the soul; the serenity and joy that comes from meditation lasts throughout the day and throughout your life.…
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Spirituality has nothing at all to do with callousness or lethargy. A lazy fellow who daydreams and does nothing useful should not be mistaken for a saint. People have this fear; they say, “If I get absorbed in Brahmn what will happen to…
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Our individual worlds are filled with 3 things-----thoughts, emotions and actions. All through life, we rotate between these options, either individually, or in a combination. Usually, one follows the other. A thought gives rise to an…
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Fulfilment of life lies in the attainment of Self-realisation. But, how can we love the Self that is unknown, unseen, unexperienced and unfamiliar? We are not familiar with either the Self or liberation. We are completely unaware of…
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Do not try to suppress sex. With your inner wisdom, inner experience and Inner Light, sex can be transcended, and it has to be. But by fighting, struggling and suppressing it, sex cannot be ‘conquered’. The easiest way to transcend…
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Fear something that characterises us, as we are children of a sceptical age. We are afraid of the future, afraid of poverty, afraid of unemployment, afraid of dishonour and disgrace, afraid of disease and death – it seems to me that…
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There are three stages of life. First comes sanyas, renunciation, which means complete surrender through evaporation of ego. But, so long as there is life there is ego. You cannot do without it. You can only take it as His ego. Your mind…
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The dictionary meaning of an atheist is one who does not believe in a god, but Vivekananda defined an atheist as one who does not believe in the glory of one’s soul. Likewise, sin is generally regarded as the wilful breaking of religious…
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As anti- and pro-CAA riots rocked the national Capital, polarizing people and claiming dozens of lives, one began to wonder why netas were blatantly using religious beliefs to turn people against each other. This and similar questions…
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