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================================================================================= Friday 28, June 2024, 05:30. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL THOUGHTS:  Sri Swami Sivananda This article is from the book Meditation Know-How. ==================================================================================== Worldly thoughts will trouble you a lot in the beginning of your meditation. If you are regular in meditation, these thoughts will gradually die by themselves. Meditation is a fire to burn these thoughts. Do not try to drive all the worldly thoughts. Entertain thoughts concerning the object of meditation. Watch your mind always very carefully. Be vigilant. Be on the alert. Do not allow waves of irritability, jealousy, anger, hatred and lust to arise in the mind. These dark waves are enemies of meditation, peace and wisdom. Suppress them at once by entertaining sublime and divine thoughts. Evil thoughts that have arisen may be destroyed by originating good thoughts and maintaining them, by ...

=================================================================================== Thursday 27, June 2024, 05:30. Parenting & Spirituality: Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha =================================================================================== While to some extent desire and consequent burdens are quite usual with 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 will be: be free of undue desire and the burden it fetches. Learn to live in peaceful harmony and welfare. Desire of any nature always constricts the mind. Such constriction disables the mind to express itself fully, healthily, and harmoniously.Understand this mental truth and always think of avoiding desires and the consequent torments. In reality, it is not desire but something else far higher that should verily work in the human. The truth about it will be known only through ri...

============================================================================ Wednesday 26, 2024 19:30. Be Responsible :  Swami Nikhilananda Saraswati Head of Chinmaya Mission, Delhi and NCR Region.  ============================================================================= The first step on the path of spirituality is karma yoga. The beauty of karma yoga is such that even if we don’t reach the ultimate goal, Self-realization, walking on this path itself brings rich dividends in the form of great joy and great peace. What is karmayoga? Firstly, walking the path of karma yoga means fulfilling all your responsibilities, duties. As human beings, we have responsibilities towards ourselves, our family, society, the environment, Nature, God, ancestors.  Fulfilling all these responsibilities is very important. The second important aspect of karma yoga is that these responsibilities should be discharged as worship of Ishvara. My work itself becomes an act of worship. When I sta...