Thought of the Month Archive

Sneha is usually translated as friendship—but that word has been vulgarized by application to a number of transitory friendships between living beings…Friendship ought to be a spiritual bond, a heart to heart kinship, based

Good people sacrifice their personal interests and purify the atmosphere of their environment. They are like an incense stick that goes on burning and radiating fragrance to everyone who comes close to them, even

What Gita teaches is anaashakti yoga [communion through equanimity], the yoga of disinterestedness or impersonal action, in which you remain totally indifferent to any personal interest in the work that you do and in

To get at the core of God at His greatest, one must first get into the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not known himself. After

Trees bear fruits; rivers carry water; cows yield milk, not for their own sake but for the sake of others. Equally the body is given to man for helping others. We witness today humanity

Be bold. Do not grieve over the past; such grief is useless. Strange things do happen when times are not propitious and circumstances so conspire. Of what benefit is it to lay the fault

For people born with a mission, the days on which they take up the physical body should not alone be identified as their birthdays. Such days are birthdays only for the physical body. In

One of the first principles of straight living is the practice of silence. For the voice of God can be heard in the region of your heart only when the tongue is stilled and

Akbar was happy whenever Tansen, his court musician, sang. Tansen was the greatest musician of his day. When he sang the raag [melody] “Meghamala,” clouds thickened in the sky; when he sang the raag

The devotee is ever conscious that the universe is a manifestation of the Divine and is permeated by the Divine. His life is based on the recognition of the immanence of God in everything.

Since the sense organs are highly potent, the first and foremost task for man is to bring them under his control for leading an ideal life. Because young people today have lost control over

The sadhaka (spiritual aspirant) should always seek the truthful and joyful; he must avoid all thoughts of the sad and the depressing. Depression, doubt, conceit—these are harmful to the spiritual aspirant. When his devotion