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  1. When Things Fall Apart

    Why is it that despite being on this path sincerely, an area of my life is not moving forward? I feel very unlucky. People who are around me, who are not on a spiritual path seem to be progressing well. Please advice, why is it so and how can I fix it? Sr ...
  2. Summary of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7- Part 3

    (Below is a continuation of the post Summary of Bhagavad Gita at Bali - Day 2) Yesterday we discussed the 4 kinds of people who come on the path:1. People who are miserable and who want to get rid of their misery, they come onto the spiritual path2. Those ...
  3. Summary of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7- Part 2

    (Below is a continuation of the post Summary of Bhagavad Gita at Bali - Day 1) I am going to tell you that knowledge, knowing which, there is nothing else to be known. That is, the quest completes its journey. Longing should never end. If longing ends the ...
  4. Summary of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7- Part 1

    Yoga is like an ocean. So first doing yoga gets you ready (to know of the higher truth). If you are miserable, you do yoga to get out of your misery and this is first step.The second is, if you are very restless or very unhappy, yoga brings you that equan ...
  5. Patience And Perseverance

    Om shanti shanti shanti. Wow, what excitement! Everyone is so excited! I thought you only become calm. But this is a very strange combination of peace and excitement. We are all excited to see that there is new hope in the world. When you see the youngste ...
  6. A Sense Of Humor

    (Below is a continuation of the post Accept & Move On!) My boss ridicules me in a sarcastic and a condescending manner in front of my colleagues. I can understand because of the tone and the words he uses, hence I feel stupid. How can I handle this si ...
  7. Accept & Move On!

    (Below is a continuation of the post Who Are You?) Every event that you experience in your life here and now has some meaning and is a result or an effect of something that has happened in the past. So, when you see the link between the cause and the effe ...
  8. Who Are You?

    When you go to a new place what do you do? You give an introduction about yourself. You talk about who you are, where you are from, isn't it?Now let us look at this from a wider perspective. Do we know who we are and where have we come from and where we w ...
  9. Love Is Most Powerful

    Gurudev, if love is our very nature, then why do we make one person as the object of our love? Why do we think that we love that one person the most? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: From birth we have known love to be directed from a person. Love gets personalized ...
  10. The World Of Gods

    Time and again we should lift our eyes away from the mundane. The nature of the mundane is that it just occupies you and swallows you completely. Small things can occupy your mind and your time. Simple things such as cooking, shopping, washing clothes, ir ...