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What is Sukla Paksha and Krishna Paksha
Each month is divided into two “paksham”, fortnights. One is called as the “Sukla paksha”, t
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Who is Manava or Man
Who is Manava? Human Being? Good conduct, good thinking and good character. The combination of these
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Significance of Guru and Guru Poornima
What is the significance of Guru Poornima? Guru is not who is merely teacher, who teaches all the m
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Man is precious among all
Man is the embodiment of God. Man has got latent sacred qualities. In fact all the values he has inh
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Secular knowledge cannot give you eternal peace
The sage Narada, who was proficient in 64 branches of knowledge, suffered from lack of peace, so he
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Swami on five sheaths of human body
The human body is encased in five sheaths: Annamaya kosha (the sheath of food or physical sheath),
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Good and bad are not separate
All that is good or bad in us emanates from the heart. Good and bad are seldom separate from each o
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God stands for Generation, Organisation and Destruction
The whole cosmos functions on the basis of three types of activity. These are what we experience in
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Man should strive to know Eternal truth: With analogies
People should endeavor to cultivate qualities like tolerance, love, sympathy, righteousness, justic
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Human heart is like ocean of milk; An analogy
The rakshasas (demons) and the devas (gods) churned the Ocean of Milk (to get nectar from it.) The
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How to visualise truth; With analogy
Man is capable of recalling, recapitulation. Thinking faculties are natural trait. Search is wonderf
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Use your body to do sacred acts
Money that is lost can be earned again. Lost friends may be got back again. Even the loss of a wife
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Service leads to liberation
Embodiments of Love! Man adopts various means to achieve liberation (from the bondage of mundane ex
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Na tha pamsi, Na teerthana
Neither by penance nor by bathing in sacred rivers Nor by study of scriptures nor by japa Can the
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Significance behind Vishnu's insignia
Swami tells a small instance from the daily life on the occasion of Guru poornima. One is deluded ve
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What is the meaning of word Guru
What is the inner significance of the word “guru”? ““Gu”, “Ru”= “Gu”- gukaro andha