Swami’s Teachings Archive

Hinduism recognizes that there are several ways open for the sadhaka [spiritual aspirant] to progress spiritually. Baba says that in the modern age, the large majority of us can progress toward salvation through bhakti

In His limitless love and compassion, Bhagavan Baba keeps on teaching us, guiding us and encouraging us all. Most of us understand His divine teachings in a correct way, because His language is a

~ Continued from February 2016 ~ The Declaration Our Lord declared, on the first day of the Navaratri [nine nights] festival in 1967, that He was God incarnate. While addressing the vast concourse of

The Bhagavad-Gita opens with the word dharma [right conduct]! In the Gita sage Yyasa gives the dialogue between the dispirited warrior, Arjuna and Lord Krishna, who is God incarnated to uphold dharma. The Bhagavad-Gita

Bhagavan Baba, in this Divine discourse, emphasizes the efficacy of moderate food, simple hygienic habits, and repetition of God’s name as the royal road to robust mental and physical health—the pre-requisites needed to witness

It is said that when Lord Krishna as a boy, with His enchanting flute, was with the gopis on the banks of the Yamuna, soon the gopis felt that each one of them had

Bhagavan Baba encourages devotees to consider the Lord as one’s own close family, and His work as one’s personal labor in this touching discourse delivered a half-a-century back on the holy Janmashtami day. It

Man has to progress every moment; a stagnant style of living does not befit him. How long could we tolerate a boy staying in the same class at school? He must proceed from one

This universe has been described in the Gita [the celestial song] as the Sanathana Vriksha [eternal tree], the infinitely spreading Ashwattha [sacred] tree, its roots being in the higher regions, its branches spread in

Meditation is generally understood as the process of fixing one’s mind on an image that gradually absorbs and lends the mind its own qualities. When you fix your inner attention on any form of

There are three basic laws that moti­vate and guide man along the evolutionary path from the individual personality to the universal spirit, from selfishness to selflessness. (1) The law of karma [action] operates on

The worship of the lotus feet of the Lord is a unique feature of Bharatiya [Indian] culture from time immemorial. Padasevanam [worship of the feet of the Lord], as Baba stresses, is the fourth