Gurudev Uvacha

======================================================================= Sunday, 04 June, 2023. 06:00. WORK AND ITS SECRET : (Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1900) ========================================================================= One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. He was a great man from whom I learnt it, and his own life was a practical demonstration of this great principle I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there; to pay as much attention to the means as to the end. Our great defect in life is that we are so much drawn to the ideal, the goal is so much more enchanting, so much more alluring, so much bigger in our mental horizon, that we lose sight of the details altogether. But whenever failure comes, if we analyse it critically, in ninety-nine per cent of cases we shall find that it was becaus

======================================================================== Saturday, 03 June, 2023. 05:30. A Good Leader uses mind and intellect : ======================================================================== Humans are always led by their mind,  which in turn,  needs guidance from intelligence. Intelligence is the only agency to act on the mind,  eliminating undesirable traits and imbuing emotional strength,  stability and poise. A close integration of mind and intelligence is what makes a good leader,  who should excel in leading the mind and intelligence of his team.  In public administration,  corporate management,  manufacturing,  defence, education, sports, household or any other field, sterling leadership qualities are indispensable.   Dedication,  competence and welfare of people, which determine the enrichment and growth of a nation, verily rest upon enlightened leadership.  Using intelligence as the tool, but fostering no special fondness or dislike for any in partic

Chinmaya Mission How to impart spiritual teachings to children, wife and others in the society?  ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Friday, 02 June, 2023. 05:00. Chinmaya Mission Acharya ====================================================================== The mind is full of desires — simple and complex that we constantly strive to fulfil. Our life is guided by our great stock of desires. Fulfilled desires bring happiness and the unfulfilled ones, misery. The scriptures say that we carry desires from our past lives, too, and we go through our present lives striving to fulfil them. There is no end to this game. We are restless when a desire rises and happy when it is fulfilled, but that happiness lasts only a short time and is replaced by restlessness of another desire. Desires are broadly classified into four categories: artha is the desire to be secure, so we acquire thin