The Whole World Is Your Own by Sri Sarada Devi
I tell you one thing – If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one…
Category: India
One Person Can Change Everything for Us
In his presence I felt a new capability and power in myself rather than a consciousness of his power. I felt equal, good for anything— an assurance I had never known before as if some…
Seeing
1. Since coming to Sri Ramakrishna, M. had lost all relish for lectures and for books written by English scholars. The only thing that appealed to him now was to see the Master day and…
Bhakti
Guruji, My eyes are thirsty for your image, to take in your beautiful smile and your graceful walk, to hear the voice that is music to my ears.
In the Margins of My Book on Sri Anandamayi Ma…
I had written this on page 30: (date: 5.23.2007) “Nima hoped I would look at her,
Basic Instruction for First-Year Residents
Wherever you are Immerse yourself totally In one-pointed sādhanā. –last words of Srī Ānandamayī Mā
Ekāgratā*
No sipping Northeast Coffee latte supreme with whipped cream No texting someone I’ll see in ten minutes No zoning out to Diane Rehm No penciling out the evening workout on a crumpled scratch pad No…
Cheer Up
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a woman is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion…. To the yogini everything is bliss; every…
Embodiment
The philosophers and scholars said to Sri Anandamayi Ma: “We have studied dry scriptures. But, we now see before us, a living embodiment of all that is contained in our holy books of wisdom.”
An Exemplar of Gramsci’s “Optimism of the Will”
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop non-violence. The more you develop it in your own being, the more infectious it becomes till it overwhelms your surroundings…