Graduating in the university of adversity
Graduating in the University of Adversity. The universe is a university, and in this, the subject that we learn is adversity. The Bhagavad Gita states [...]
What is emotional maturity?
Sometimes when a person starts crying or lamenting or wallowing in self-pity when something goes wrong with them, when something they need or want doesn't [...]
Gita 20-23 explained
10-32: From practice to perfection in yoga 10-32 defines how one will achieve perfection when one is practicing yoga. 16-23: Realization of Paramatma Now Sri [...]
How are material achievement and spiritual achievement different?
We all want to achieve something special. Does this drive to achieve need to be renounced if we want to grow spiritually? Not really; we [...]
There is more to us than what faces us
Suppose an unarmed civilian is facing an armed aggressor. The odds may seem hopeless. But if they discover that they have a weapon more powerful [...]
What is our greatest treasure is often not what we treasure the greatest
Suppose a child is asked to choose between a toy and a million-dollar-check. The child may grab the toy, not knowing that the check can [...]
Spirituality reveals that our destiny is bigger than the biggest adversity
We all wish to have a better future. Using whatever talents we have, we often dream of achieving something wonderful, thereby fulfilling our destiny. But [...]
Purification means to change our emotional center
Whenever a ball is hit anywhere, it moves. But when it is hit in the center, it moves the furthest. Similarly, when worldly upheavals hit [...]
When no gain relieves pain, seek the gain beyond pain
Some people believe that money is the ultimate gain – if they just gain enough money, that can protect them from any pain. However, a [...]
Infuse charity with compassion, not calculation
Some pious people give charity, seeing it as an investment in a bank that lasts beyond death – the good karma will benefit them in [...]
Spirituality enables us to stand tall without standing on others
To ascend to success in material life, winners often have to stand atop their competitors, causing the death of their dreams. For example, in a [...]
Devotion helps us discover the richness of life
We often go through our lives with a feeling of chronic impoverishment. The culture around us specializes in showing us all the things we don’t [...]
Material progress centers on having what we want; spiritual progress, on wanting what we have
Some people feel that taking to spiritual life means abandoning all efforts to progress in life. But their feeling stems from an unexamined assumption: progress [...]
The available becomes valuable when it becomes accessible
Suppose we come to know of a powerful feature in our phone. That feature was always available, but to us it was just an icon [...]
Do not ensure heart breaks; insure against heart breaks
Where our heart is, that’s where we are. Usually, our heart is in material things; we long for them fervently. As all material things are [...]
We may be broke but we don’t have to be broken
Becoming broke is usually among our worst nightmares. Something that we try our best to avoid. Yet the inscrutable ways of life sometimes make our [...]
Stability and maturity that takes us beyond adversity
Life can bring adversity upon us at any moment. To protect ourselves, we often take insurances like life insurance, health insurance, car insurance. Such insurances [...]
Live beyond life’s tornadoes and torpedoes
Life confronts us with challenges both externally and internally. External upheavals – financial and political, for example – are like tornadoes that twist and topple [...]
Krishna-thoughts are soothing, satisfying, strengthening, sublimating
Materialists often challenge spiritualists: “Why do you spend so much time thinking about Krishna when all that thinking doesn’t give any tangible return?” The key [...]
Attaining an unalienable wealth
We often presume that to become happy, we need lots of wealth. However, the pursuit of wealth as a source of happiness inevitably frustrates us [...]
Seek the one achievement that misery cannot reach
All of us want to achieve something glorious in life. Unfortunately, even if we achieve something special materially, whatever we achieve still leaves us prone [...]