Blissful Beyond Happiness
Meditation is for You Why do you want to stay in a state of suffering if through meditation you can get out of it? Why do you want to experience the ups and downs in your moods (which are merely thoughts), if you can go beyond them through meditation? Who creates our positive and negative […]
Peaceful Inner Space
Many talk about peace, world peace. Few realize that global peace can only come through our own efforts to inner peace. Inner peace where no thought waves disturb us anymore; any agitation in our mind is violence. Peaceful beings at heart are not disturbed by any outer circumstances or people. In their presence other restless […]
Take Responsibility, Stop Blaming
Who doesn’t hate that ugly index finger pointing at you followed by the words: “You! You! You…!” accompanied by a list of what you are blamed for instead of the blamer taking responsibility. It’s an easier lifestyle to blame others. Then we don’t have to do anything but to watch how everything around us falls […]
Overcome Conditioning – Step into Your True Self!
Someone asked me: Why do we not naturally embody our best, highest, and true selves without effort? What internal elements prevent us from being the people we want to be? Great question! A bird that is used to stay in a cage does not fly out even when the cage door is open. This is […]
International Day of Peace
Shanti or peace is inherent in all living beings, yet unfortunately, there are still far too many people and places in the world that act contrary to this truth due to their egos. Instead we should strive to battle our own inner demons, or our unfinished business, our incompletions, through a scientific and meditative approach; […]
How to Set Up a Hindu Altar?
Perhaps after you have visited a Hindu temple and you have chosen your ishta devata, preferred god or goddess, you feel inspired to create your own altar at home for your personal worship. Why Set Up an Altar? Place of Worship First choose a proper place for it like a corner in your living room […]
Be A Mouna Yogi Meditation
Be a mouna yogi, someone who has withdrawn from verbal communication, who has attained stillness within, no thoughts, no patterns, no conditioning, no beliefs that could possibly be of any disturbance to the peace of the mind. The more these are removed, more and more inner stillness spreads. Inner stillness, peace, shanta comes from practices […]
Competition and the 5th Chakra
Competition is comparison and jealousy which blocks the 5th chakra, the vishuddhi or throat chakra. This chakra when open is the creative energy for artists, writers, speakers, etc. When we feel not good enough, it again blocks the throat chakra. To not fall into the comparison/competition trap as taught by society related to negative emotions […]
Quick Note on Emotional Health
Emotional health is a must as it drives our every thought, behavior, and action. The good news is it can be changed with a little willingness to look at known and unknown pains of the past and gain the right understanding of how the past repeats itself in the future… unless we opt for freedom, […]
Return to Happiness
How can we return to happiness? In the ancient scriptures of India we read again and again that we are eternally blissful consciousness having a physical experience on this planet Earth. Our true nature is that of true, unconditional happiness. Inherently we know we are happy beings because with whatever we think or do we […]