The guideline given in Bhagavad Gita (6.7) for ensuring that one becomes his ally in his own progress is strikingly similar to a powerful and remarkable quote of A J Cronin. He notes, “The virtue of all achievements is victory over...
Good business schools are becoming aware that apart from learning how to maximize wealth, they need to also learn how to maximize happiness – their own and of those around them.
There is a difference between happiness and what we...
If WE observe ourselves closely, we will realise that goals always create worry in us. When we move toward a goal, we move only with the worry about the results. Lord Krishna says beautifully in the Bhagvad Gita, ‘The person who...
Why are we not able to progress quickly?
The reason why people do not progress quickly is that they are loaded with a pile of external opinions and thoughts.
If you go for a walk in the morning and someone asks you where you are going, you...
Worry is a deeply embedded pattern in us. It happens independently, without any valid reason to justify it. Worry is like an addiction. Any addition happens because we try to maintain our patterns. It becomes our nature.
We should understand...
Gautama Buddha is the scientist of both the inner world and of religion; a rare combination. To be religious is simple, to be a scientist is simple — but to synthesise these two polarities is incredible. There are three approaches towards...
Many people believe they need a strong ego to live a successful life and to progress in their spiritual pursuits.
This is not true. We cannot be successful in either the external or internal world while we are tossed about by a powerful...
There is a story of a little girl who was on the beach one day after the tide had rolled out. On this beach hundreds of fish washed up on the shore. The little girl was picking them up one at a time and throwing them back in, when a man...
The Supreme Being is Karta Purakh, the Creator, transcendent and All-pervasive. Creation is His manifestation. “True is He and true is His Creation, All has emanated from God Himself”, says fifth Sikh Guru...
Gautama Buddha is the scientist of both the inner world and of religion; a rare combination. To be religious is simple, to be a scientist is simple — but to synthesise these two polarities is incredible. There are three approaches towards...
Watch someone who gets angry very quickly. The more he gets angry, the more he seems addicted to being angry. Getting angry does not resolve problems. Biologists tell us that repeated behaviour actually rewires the brain. Neural networks get...
In OUR lives we claim responsibility for anything good that happens, but we don’t take responsibility for anything bad that happens. Only if we take up responsibility for everything that happens in our lives will we start growing. Swami...
Doubtless, practice of honesty attains fulfilment only when accompanied by other needed virtues of head and heart, calling for enterprise, foresight, dynamism and hard work. Rightly was it noted by a major organisation’s senior officer,...
Through analysis and synthesis of related issues concerning his own personality, the intelligent seeker would have, well and truly, commenced his progress to the ultimate, which is "victory over oneself", self knowledge (atmagnanam) or call what you...
GUILT is nothing but your past decisions and actions being reviewed with your updated intelligence. For example, if you had a fight with a friend in school. And many years later, is it right to review that incident and feel guilty? No!...
Blessing expands you. It makes you light. When we bless all the people - those whom we like and those whom we dislike - we become the perfect expression of the Almighty. His true expression is unconditional love. When we remove all hatred and fear...