Gurudev Uvacha

  ============================================================================== Tuesday 05, Mar 2024 05:30 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 th...

================================================================================ Monday 04, Mar 2024 06:45. Guru Uvacha True Freedom and Free Will Resides in the Divine, Not in the Individual Ego-Personality =============================================================================== The individual drops of water that make up the ocean do not determine the movement or action of the ocean. They are carried along and partake of the larger forces that act upon and through the ocean. The are a small pinpoint ‘nexus’ of the ocean action but not the motive or driving force. Similarly, human individuals are not the motive or driving force of action, but are more the ‘nexus’ of action of larger universal forces that manifest themselves through all of the individual body-life-mind complex individuals that together make up our human race. The illusion of freedom that accompanies our ego-centric viewpoint quickly dissolves when we recognise that we are the plaything of these larger forces. As ...

=============================================================================== Sunday 03, Mar 2024 05:30 Parenting is more than duty: ============================================================================= Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha answers questions on parenting and duty I love my children, but there are times when I really feel that parenting is a huge burden. Finding a balance between home and work can be so exasperating How do I overcome this?While to some extent, desire and its consequent burden are part of household life, the fact remains that this plight robs away the very purpose and fruition of the householder. The question is: Do you like such a plight? If you do not, the straight answer is:.be free of undue desire and the burden it fetches. Learn to live in peaceful harmony with yourself. Desire of any nature always constricts the mind. Such constriction prevents the mind to express itself fully, healthily, and harmoniously Understand this mental truth and always think ...

  ================================================================================ Saturday 02, Mar 2024 05:30. THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MIND - Sri Swami Chidananda This article is a chapter from the book An Instrument of Thy Peace. ================================================================================ Let us consider this supreme faculty of thinking with which God has endowed us. If trained and purified, this faculty will become the means of attaining the highest experience that will bestow illumination and liberation. However, if it is untrained and impure, it binds the individual to this earth life and drags him down through endless experiences of sorrow, pain and suffering. It is at once the highest endowment and the greatest liability. It can be your greatest friend and helper, but it can also be your greatest enemy. The entire matter depends upon how you are able to relate yourself to the mind, what your understanding of its place in your life is, and what ro...