The goal of meditation is to gain inner peace. Peace does not come from any object, person or situation from the world outside but exists within us. It underlies all the thoughts of the mind. When the thoughts are quietened, we go beyond them and experience the peace...
Meditation is more than putting on a calming guided meditation or soothing music to de-stress and relax your mind. To be a successful meditator, you have to know how to systematically quiet your mind and where to focus your attention. Relaxing the mind is not the...
Nothing happens randomly in this world. The universe is a harmonious, ordered system where everything is determined by a cosmic intelligence. It’s not by chance that you and I are human. Vedanta, the spiritual science of life explains that being born as a human is a...
In case a Guru takes you under his wings to guide you and protect you–it is a rare blessing.—Swami Chinmayananda Continued from How I met my Guru—Part 1 The universe is constantly providing us with the right circumstances for our inner growth. But, we usually only...
I am never the ego, mind, intellect and body. —Swami Tejomayananda, Living Vedanta What if the actor who plays the part of the phantom in the musical, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ played his part so many times that he forgot his real identity? Imagine if he walked...
