Thought of the Month Archive

The root cause of all difficulties experienced by man is forgetting his spiritual reality and identifying himself with his body. The body is only the vesture of the indwelling Spirit. By immersing himself in

Today we bid farewell to the year gone by and welcome the new year. We pray that the new spring should confer on all beings longevity, health, and goodness. Pleasant experiences and unpleasant memories

The devotee is inseparable from God. When he is filled with the love of God and is totally forgetful of himself, he experiences oneness with God.  Prahlada was such a supreme devotee…. His form

The mind wills, yearns, prompts and insists on effort and action. This process is named sankalpa. These are like shasanas (commands). Everyone has to be aware of the variety and validity of the actions

Be he a student, a celibate, a householder, or a renunciant, the goal is one and same for all. Contemplate on the principle of so-ham [that I am] that your inner voice teaches. Say

The mind is like a clean mirror. It has no intrinsic power of its own to directly experience the sense objects, except through the concerned sense organs. For instance, it can see only through

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. When

The human body is the most wondrous machine in the world. It has a bewildering multiplicity of limbs, organs, veins, nerves, and cells that co-operate to maintain it under varied conditions. If any one

People speak about moksha [liberation]. What is it from which they have to be liberated? Is it from family, wealth or position? No. Liberation from these is an easy affair. Liberation is from the sense

God is the echo of the hills, the flutter of the leaves, the whisper of men, the babble of children, the Om (primordial sound) that is wafted everywhere. God is present at all places, but

The Isaavaasyopanishad [Hindu scriptures] declares that whatever bhoga (pleasure) one wants to enjoy, he should do so in a spirit of renunciation. In daily life, enjoyment and renunciation do not go together. The tyagi

When Jesus was a child, during a visit to Jerusalem, he was lost in the crowd. After a frantic search Mary found him in a temple listening intently to the speech of a priest.