Gurudev Uvacha

========================================================================================== Saturday 17, Aug 2024, 05:30. Volume 3 San Francisco 1900 Lectures and Discourses Bhakti-Yoga Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion CHAPTER I THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION Swami Vivekananda ======================================================================================= 1.THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION: We have now finished the consideration of what may be called the preparatory Bhakti, and are entering on the study of the Parâ-Bhakti or supreme devotion. We have to speak of a preparation to the practice of this Para-Bhakti. All such preparations are intended only for the purification of the soul. The repetition of names, the rituals, the forms, and the symbols, all these various things are for the purification of the soul. The greatest purifier among all such things, a purifier without which no one can enter the regions of this higher devotion (Para-Bhakti), is renunciation. This frightens many; y...

  ====================================================================================== Friday 16, Aug 2024, 05:30. Living The Divine Life:   Sri Swami Chidamanda. (From a talk delivered at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh – 11 Sept. 1984) ========================================================================================= You are imperishable Divine Spirit, beyond body and mind. God is the source of your being and you are inseparable from Him in your inner nature. Despite wealth and oppulence there is no peace in the 20th Century mankind. Man is in a state of restlessness and insecurity and there is discord and disharmony in the world. Holy Master Swami Sivananda out of great love and compassion showed modern man the path to blessedness in and through Divine Life right here in this world. We are only passing pilgrims here. Due to the force of karma we have temporarily come into this state of physical embodiment as a rare, golden oppurtunity to once again regain our lost...

Chinmaya Mission Ahmedabad: Amazing visuals of Rudrabhishek puja at ParamDham 😍😍😍😍 ==================================================================================== Thursday 15, Aug 2024. 05:30. Article Philosophy Attaining True Freedom Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on January 24, 1976 at a conference on World Friendship.) ==================================================================================== What I propose to do now is to think loudly so that you may listen to my thoughts, and if any one of you feels that there is some meaning in what I am saying, and it is going to be of some benefit or help to you in your life, I shall really regard myself as thrice blessed. I speak my own thoughts and feelings because one cannot speak honestly what one cannot think and feel in oneself, and what is not one's honest conviction cannot carry weight and create an impression in the minds of people. I am like you; there is nothing special in me, and there is, therefore, nothing parti...