Gurudev Uvacha

=============================================================================================== Friday 28, February 2025, 07:15, Possess Nothing or Own up Everything:  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha. ========================================================================================= You can grow to the position of a nishkinchana (having nothing, owning nothing) – a zero! What does it mean? "I belong to the world. I am a denizen of the earth. Nothing in this world belongs to me. On the other hand, I myself belong to the world. When I myself belong to the world, how can I say that a portion of the earth belongs to me?" How fallacious, wrong and immoral it is to say so! So, evaluate your own position, and understand your relation with the world around, and the universe as a whole. If you agree that the world or the universe belongs to God, are you also not included in the world and therefore, do you also not belong to God? You have your body and also sentience. So far as the bod...

  ================================================================================================ Thursday 27, February 2025, 08:30. Nishkama Karma Yogam:   Swami Nikhilananda Saraswati. Chinmaya Mission. ======================================================================================= Almost all actions are undertaken because we gain something from them. We gain by looking after our body and are obliged to look after it, to avoid suffering from ill health. Similarly, we are obliged to take care of our family; keep it together and integrated. Further, we have an obligation to society, in return for the many services that it provides, like schools, colleges, hospitals, roads and the like.  Under the umbrella of our country we are provided with governance and other facilities for the efficient functioning of society; therefore we have an obligation towards it. On a larger perspective we are a part of the world and hence have an obligation towards other beings, a...