Thursday, October 9, 2025
Turn your mind toward God; dedicate yourselves to God; then you will find life one continuous stream of bliss (ananda). Have a fan in your hand and swing it toward you; then, you feel comforted. So also, use the mind as the instrument and turn it vigorously toward God; then, it will give you the bliss of liberation.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Service is the easiest path to attain divine grace. Offer service and receive the love of God. Love and service are like two wings by which one can soar to higher levels of consciousness. If you have the spirit of love and service, divine grace will follow you like a shadow wherever you may be, whether in the forest or the sky, village or city, river, or mountain cliff.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
When you travel by train, you have only to purchase the ticket, enter the proper train, and take a seat, leaving the rest to the engine. Why should you carry the bed and trunk on your head? So too, put your trust in the Lord and carry on to the best of your ability. Have faith in the Lord and His grace.
Monday, October 6, 2025
All of you are Embodiments of Divinity. Your forms are divine. You and God are one. You are not different from God. Experience this unity.
Sunday, October 5, 2025
People should understand the distinction between worldly love and spiritual love. Worldly love is based on the desire to receive. Divine love yearns to give. God’s love goes on giving. This is the true mark of divinity. It is a sign of purity.
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Virtues have to be cultivated in the home; each member sharing joy, each one seeking opportunities to help others. This attitude has to be constantly practiced.
Friday, October 3, 2025
If you inhale the pure air of truth (sathya), righteousness (dharma), peace (shanti), and love (prema), your mind will be free from evil qualities. You will be mentally sturdy and physically strong. As Vivekananda used to say, you should have nerves of steel and muscles of iron. That is to say, you should have hope, joy and elation as an unshakable resolution, not despair and dejection.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
There is no greater spiritual path than the path of love. It is through love that such noble qualities as kindness, compassion, and sympathy are fostered. You are carrying out a variety of spiritual exercises (sadhanas). God does not seek your sadhanas. Nor does He seek your devotion. God seeks only your love.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
If you shed your ego and experience divinity, you will get rid of your pain and enjoy lasting bliss. The Upanishads teach through stories the subtlest truths. You should understand their inner significance and taste the nectarine sweetness. This is possible only when there is inner purity. Purity of heart leads to Self-realization.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Love is the principle of God. Having got this love in you, why should you suffer? Why do you have problems? In fact, you have no difficulties and no anxieties. There is only bliss. But how can you experience bliss? You have to follow the path of love.
Monday, September 29, 2025
Just by repeating the names of the dishes, your hunger will not be appeased. You have to use your hands and mouth to fill your stomach. In the same way, you have to speak sweet words and do sacred actions. Through these, you will enjoy the sweetness of life and you will be blissful.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
You have actually not experienced bliss. Once you experience divine bliss, your mind will never crave for worldly pleasures. So, try to experience this bliss, which is within you. Bliss is your source, bliss is your breath and bliss is your life.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
The inauguration of the Navarathri celebrations means that you should use this occasion for offering worship to Nature and resolving to make sacred use of all natural resources.
Friday, September 26, 2025
The Navarathri celebration is an occasion for revering Nature and considering how natural resources can be used properly in the best interests of mankind. Resources like water, air, power, and minerals should be used properly and not misused or wasted.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
In order to preserve and sustain the strong spiritual foundation laid by the saints and noble souls, we have to foster human values such as Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love, and Nonviolence. If you protect these values, they will in turn protect you.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
To secure the grace of the Lord, one has to have purity of the heart, purity in speech and purity in action. This triple purity is described in Vedantic parlance as Tripurasundari.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Navarathri means nine nights. Darkness is associated with night. What is this darkness? It is the darkness of ignorance. The purpose of the Navarathri celebration is to enable man to get rid of nine types of darkness which have taken hold of him.
Monday, September 22, 2025
The observance of the Navarathri celebration is to get rid of the darkness in which man is enveloped, by cultivating the triple purity of thought, word and deed.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Aspirants and devotees must ignore and forget all the thousand troubles that have gone before and be engaged only in thoughts of the Lord. Immerse yourselves in the thoughts of the Lord and derive joy therefrom. Devotion has no other reward. It is the cause, and it is also the effect; there are no two. Devotion is itself the realization.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
The Upanishads exhort you to march on to the ultimate goal. They address you as Children of Immortality. Try to deserve that honor, to achieve that height. Learn to use all your skills, all your intelligence, all your time for attaining that victory. You are Gods in human form, for only Gods can be immortal. You are embodiments of the Divine Atma.
Friday, September 19, 2025
The Upanishads declare that human life is most valuable. It is not easy to understand the divine quality immanent in man. All forms and all powers are in man. Man thinks that gold and diamond are most valuable, but actually it is man who endows value to them. “Men are more valuable than all the wealth of the world.” So, do not waste such a precious human life.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
When man becomes aware that the cobra is a poisonous snake and that the leopard is a cruel beast, he avoids them with constant vigilance. Similarly, when we become aware of the transitoriness and triviality of worldly triumphs and possessions, we can easily detach ourselves from them and concentrate on inner wealth and inner vision. 
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Mind is like a fan. Only when you turn the fan in your direction can you enjoy the breeze. Similarly, only when you turn your mind toward God can you experience the breeze of bliss. But if you turn your mind toward the world and say that you are not able to experience bliss, only you are to be blamed. You have to turn your mind toward God, not the body.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The light of wisdom can shine bright and far, only when love is pure, unconditional and firm. He who loves, for a reward, or for being loved in return, is a laborer, with his eye glued to the wages. You are really loving only yourself; for, there is only you in everyone. Sohum, He is I.
Monday, September 15, 2025
You must develop the faith that God is your mother, father, and everything else and that He alone is your sustainer and refuge. After all, who gave you your mother? Is it not God? Everything in this world is by God's grace only. You will lose everything if you forget God and concentrate on other thoughts. If you constantly contemplate on God, all worldly thoughts will leave you. Hence, cultivate godly thoughts with love. Sing the sweet name of Rama with your heart filled with love (Prema muditha manase kaho Rama Rama Ram). Love is God; God is Love.
Monday, September 15, 2025
You must develop the faith that God is your mother, father, and everything else and that He alone is your sustainer and refuge. After all, who gave you your mother? Is it not God? Everything in this world is by God's grace only. You will lose everything if you forget God and concentrate on other thoughts. If you constantly contemplate on God, all worldly thoughts will leave you. Hence, cultivate godly thoughts with love. Sing the sweet name of Rama with your heart filled with love (Prema muditha manase kaho Rama Rama Ram). Love is God; God is Love.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Withdraw from the outer to the inner and learn to visualize the motivator, the Atma, that is the lesson which the seers and scriptures teach. To engage ourselves in the purificatory exercises, to pursue the inquiry into the reality of God, Nature and Man, and to experience the ecstatic delight of that discovery, the body is essential. It has to be kept healthy and alert and free from passion and sloth.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
God is your sole refuge wherever you may be. In a forest, in the sky, in a city or a village, on the top of a mountain or in the middle of a deep sea. (Telugu poem) God is always with you, above you, behind you. He will always protect you. Develop this firm faith in your heart. God’s grace is not transitory. It will always be with you.  
Friday, September 12, 2025
Detach yourselves from the craving for fame and comfort – that is to say, develop non-attachment, and you are free! Detachment alone can save you from entanglement and reveal the ultimate Truth.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Each and every moment should be spent in the contemplation of God. You may think, “If every moment is spent in the contemplation of God, then how is it possible to do our work?” Do not distinguish between your work and God’s work. Your work is God’s work, as God and you are one.