Category: Meditation
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Meditation is just being. It is experiencing the present moment without resistance

Meditation is falling in tune with nature, with Existence. This is your natural state, your true state of bliss. This is connecting with the Ultimate Consciousness. You see, the universe or the macrocosm is made up of the five elements – earth, water, fire, air and space. In the same way, the body, the microcosm,…
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The word ‘ananda’ itself means, ‘that which cannot be reduced, which cannot be lost’

What is your ultimate aim in life? To earn more? To stay forever young, healthy, beautiful? To have better, longer-lasting relationships? To improve your personality? The list is endless. For each individual, there will be a specific goal or many goals. But every single goal, without exception, points to the same thing: a yearning to…
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How does the mind work ? What are engrams or samskaras ? How do they influence our being ?

What do I mean by the word, ‘state of the leader’? A true leader is a person who is ready to take responsibility consciously, who is ready to handle life consciously, who is not constantly dependent on the past or his memory. If you are dependent on your memory, if you are dependent on the…
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Nithyam – dhyanam – anandam

What is needed so as not to collect gathered agamya karma, is life solutions, what I call nithyam (eternal) because you practice them daily. To dissolve the karma of this birth, you need meditation or dhyanam. That is why you see that most of our meditations are based on breathing. Altering the breathing, making it…
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Constantly perform responsible intense action with no clinging to the reward of performance.

IA Participant: Dear Swamiji, in Bhagavadgita chapter 5 verse 11 and Chapter 5 verse 12, the sacred secret is – ‘Constantly perform responsible intense action with no clinging to the reward of performance.’ My question is – I typically prioritise my business tasks by revenue; the higher the revenue, the higher the priority of the…
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What is inner space? What is silence? When will I experience silence? How do I know if I am meditating rightly?

What is inner space ? Inner space means when you close your eyes and look inside, how you feel, what you feel as you, that is inner space. Second, what is silence? If that inner space—if you suddenly feel as if you have taken bath in the cold water and the whole thing inside is…
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Your body is an integrated intelligence!
When was the last time you sang with your eyes? Danced with your smile? Throw your whole body and being into anything, just anything? If you notice children, their whole body is one organic unity. Whatever they are doing, their whole body just flows into that action. They don’t create separation in the body. It…
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Don’t follow rules and tradition blindly !
In the Olden days, people in India did not stitch clothes after sunset. This is because all stitching was done by hand with a needle. In the dim candle or kerosene lamp light it w$as not possible to see properly and one could get hurt by poking the fingers with needle. Even now in India,…
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Take Responsibility!

When you take responsibility for everything that is happening inside and outside you, then many possibilities are available for you. Take Responsibility! When you take responsibility, then your very breathing will expand. Your thinking, breathing and experience of life – all this progress, when you take responsibility. When you take responsibility with integrity and authenticity,…

