Dama* or self-control is a fundamental discipline that ensures your spiritual growth. It is to be practiced at the level of your senses as well as your responses to life. Your senses—the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin give you the ability to see, hear, smell,...
If you had to complete a task, how easily and efficiently are you able to organise your thoughts, focus your mind and get it done? Do you put off what you need to do until later? Does your mind wander when you start working? In the language of spirituality, a lack of...
Oneness of all creation is the fundamental truth of spirituality. What this means is that there is one divine essence in all things and beings in creation. This essence has many names such as the Self, Higher Self, Spirit, Pure Consciousness, the Supreme Reality,...
Death is only one of the incidents in human existence. Tomorrow has no accidental or arbitrary beginning, but it is merely a perfect continuation of today. —Swami Chinmayananda Life does not end when the body dies. Life is eternal and at the soul level, we exist...
Spirituality is self-mastery–not mastery over the world but mastery within ourselves so that under all circumstances we try to remain as equipoised as possible. —Swami Chinmayananda Peaceful living is living with the wisdom that life and all things are impermanent. In...
