The two-year Vedanta course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya in Mumbai demands rigorous personal discipline, deep devotion and intense scriptural study Chinmaya Mission’s training program is no ordinary course of study. It is a 24/7 commitment of body, mind and soul toRead More >>

Those who are constant doubters can enjoy neither here nor there. Such men are psychologically incapable of enjoying any situation, because the doubting tendency in them will poison all their experiences. He whose teeth have become septic must constantly poison the food that he is taking; so too thoRead More >>

Chinmaya Vibhooti, the most beautiful place, Overflowing with Gurudev’s Grace, Shri Hanumanji’s ‘Ever Ready’ stance, N’ the tranquil surroundings put me in a trance. Guruji’s teachings and Beauteous smile, Make me forget the world for a while. Swamis and Brahmacharis from farRead More >>

Time moves on. That which was the future becomes the present, and itself rolls away to join the endless ocean of the past. Time never stops, under no conditions, for no person! It is ever on the march! Man, gather¬ing memories from his own 'past' barricades his 'present', sets them ablaze with his Read More >>

So long as we are looking at this world from our old levels of ego and ego-centric ideas of the physical, mental and intellectual personal/ties alone, we shall fail to see the world co-operating with us. If only we can lift up to new amplitude of consciousness in ourselves, then alone we become mighRead More >>

God alone does nothing. He is Akarta, Abhokta. Man must strive to improve the world. Man alone, also, would not be able to do anything. He needs the blessings of things which are called God—the blessings of nature. Even though spirituality and religion should not be organized they can be unfoldedRead More >>

Philosophy misunderstood can easily end in the suicide of the community. The literal translation of our texts has made the majority of Hindus incompetent idlers and our religion has been criticized as glorifying idleness as a divine ideal. A Perfect Man is one who has lifted himself from the world oRead More >>

Let us analyze a single desire and observe what exactly happens within us. "If only I have a son" is the beginn¬ing of an entire unending chain of life-long, self-tortures. The man wishing for a son feels that all the available circumstances in his life do not serve his conception of the 'full' or Read More >>

(In continuation of the talk delivered by Swamiji to a student camp organized by the Bhagawan Sri Satya Sai Seva Samithi in New Delhi.) Once you have brought your Dynamism out, you are free to progress; achieve and gain whatever you like in the field of your choice. On the basis of this funda¬mentRead More >>

The silent power inherent in man to suffer with a dignified poise all the little pin-pricks of life is called "endurance" or "forbearance"—Titeeksha. Everyone in his life manifests some amount of this endurance-power, of course, distorted into an ugly "capacity to suffer". The average man's patienRead More >>