Thought of the Month Archive

In the Bhagavad Gita, when Arjuna refuses to fight against the Kauravas, claiming that they are his kinsmen and he would rather die than kill his own people, Krishna accuses him of suffering from

If all is God’s will, why do we need to make any effort at all and what then is the significance of karma? Here’s what Swami says: When the world is ruled by God,

The individual will, when aligned with divine will has no limitation and becomes all-powerful. How can we do this? Here ’s what Swami says. “Where there is a will, there is a way,’ is

Swami has declared the year 1999 to be the year of non-violence. What is non-violence? Here’s what Swami says. “We generally think that non-violence means not causing harm to some living being. Ahimsa is

I am not the body, not the mind and not the intellect, then who am I? Here is what Baba says, in two letters reproduced in My Baba and I by Dr. John S.

“Love is a flower; lust is a thorn. Prema (love) can be truly called prema only when it recognizes divinity and only when it realizes that we should love the divine. That kind of

“Even if you offer a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or a drop of water to God in the true spirit of devotion and surrender the results will   be infinitely good.” What does God

“The elephant-head of Ganesha is a symbol of intelligence, discrimination and wisdom. The elephant is ever alert and eminently conscious of its surroundings. Its memory is strong and deep. It treads through the thick

“Thus, it is said that man has only the authority to act and that it is God who dispenses the fruits of man’s actions.” Swami is always asking us to be detached from our

“The effort to gain equanimity is the hardest but the most beneficial of all sadhanas (spiritual efforts). It is a bastion against the ups and downs of fortune.” We all lung to have peace

For him who has been blessed by an awareness of the atma (soul), how can anything worldly bring grief or joy?             ~Gita Vahini p.39 These words, like a soothing balm, to inspire us