Pujya Gurudev’s Daily Dose of Anecdotes
Swami Siddhananda Ji has been collecting, composing and publishing an anecdote a day for several years. Search the full text of every anecdote, not just the titles, by a word, a phrase or an anecdote number. Anecdotes with your exact phrase are listed first, then those with all your words, then those with some of them.
Love ~ the Greatest Force - 1/2
…d learn the true ways of enduring love. The love that leaves us with agitation in our mind is lower, and the love that leaves us with profound peace and joy is higher. Loving material objects and entertaining emotions and thoughts…
Learn to Fulfil Your Program of Seva - 2/3
As “teachers” of the people when you take classes in Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, wherever possible emphasize and illustrate how the ideas in our eternal scriptures can be lived and how we can rebuild a “Happy Home” for mankind t…
Learn to Fulfil Your Program of Seva - 1/3
…reach and teach the great thoughts of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita is to generate a reverential love and loyalty to our past. The present exists and derives its strength from the past and from our vivid consciousness of th…
You will find God's help coming to you -1/3
…oughts stream forth from an individual's bosom every moment, such an agitated disturbed man's mind soon becomes exhausted and fatigued. How can such a weak, and so sick, mind function efficiently in life? Life is spent in meeting …
Speaking Nothing but His Glories - 1/3
…ughts to the pregnant declarations of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. Ideas, thoughts, verses, and vakyas that had inspired you during your Svadhyaya may be gathered and recorded in a handy book in your own handwriting. Let …
How to Impart this Knowledge to Others? - 3/3
…ics all through your life. Daily read a bit of Upanishad and Bhagavad Gita. Thus keep your heart inspired and ever afire with enthusiasm to live the nobler life of meaningful strife. Have the larger vision ever in front of you. Hi…
Spiritual Sadhana – 1/2
…n disciplines himself to live the 26-values of life given in Bhagavad Gita, he is putting a tiger in his inner personality. With this extra mental stamina, gained from moral living, the seeker gets uplifted effortlessly into the p…
Caste System, Svadharma, Karma yoga – 4/8
… Descriptions of a true Karma-yogin are found throughout the Bhagavad Gita. After explaining the import of ‘duties’ (Svadharma), Krishna explains the first prerequisite of a Yogin thus: “Thy right is to work only, but never to cla…
Caste System, Svadharma, Karma yoga – 1/8
…and culture and self-sacrifice than a caste of dollars”. The Bhagavad Gita, which gives a clarion call to Arjuna to shed his delusory misconceptions regarding his duty and his relationship with the outer world, encompasses in its …
My Master! - 7/11
…issue for ever. Generally, Swamiji used to take a chapter of Bhagavad Gita in the evenings and an Upanishadic text in the mornings. During the course of the day, he used to take Meditation classes or Satsang and Question and Answe…
My Master! - 6/11
…nced by him. The subtle and deeper meanings enshrined in the Bhagavad Gita found expression through modem technical terminology and that impressed the youth of today and started leaving indelible impressions in them. They woke up …
My Master! - 5/11
…, as he cryptically used to put it, through the study of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. His concept of religion was not simply to Hinduism alone as the common man understood it. That was the reason why several non-Hindus al…
My Master! - 3/11
…p, intensive, and extensive knowledge on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and other Hindu Scriptures. This deep learning coupled with the austere life he had to lead at Uttarkashi for some years, gave Swami Chinmayananda a deep …
My Master! - 1/11
…he Himalayan heights, with the Upanishads as the oil and the Bhagavad Gita as the wick, lighted a small lamp called Swami Chinmayananda and sent it down into the world to illumine the ignorant hearts which were groping in the dark…
My Teacher, Swami Tapovanam – 17/17
…ing 1955-56 I ran up to Uttarkashi three or four times, in between my Gita Jnana Yagnas. All requests to come down to Delhi for a general checkup and diagnosis were angrily turned down. Each time I saw his body getting more and mo…
My Teacher, Swami Tapovanam – 16/17
…ure. 1955: Illness sets in While he was planning to take the Bhagavad Gita, he developed an attack of cough, and whenever he made efforts to talk and explain, the attack would become severe. “You study for yourself if there are do…
Bhagavad Gita is like “sutre mani-gana iva”
The Bhagavad Gita is an enchanting impossibility; it is at once a science and a philosophy, and yet, strangely enough, it is neither a scientific philosophy nor a philosophical science; it explains a philosophy of living, and, whi…
With Integrity - We Must! - 3/5
…ad on our mind. Dragging his dead-weight of worry and the consequent agitations, it is impossible for the man of integrity to maintain his poise and keep his earlier strides. We must set up a free flow of forgiveness from within u…
Children Education, A National Challenge - 7/7
…hem the Upanishads (Isa, Kena, and Katha Upanishads) and the Bhagavad Gita (Chapters. 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 13). Rest let him study by himself. Leave him alone to grow up at his own pace. This kind of a graded system. if followed fai…
Children Education, A National Challenge - 6/7
…nd enjoy the flashes of wonders and understanding life and its ways. “Gita for Children”, “I Love You Letters to Children” are typical types of literature they can enjoy and enrich upon. During the ages of 15-18, help them to sink…
Lord Shiva ~ 5/6
…tures (gunas), namely sattva (pure and noble), rajas (passionate and agitated) and tamas (dull and inactive). Combinations of these three thought-textures in various permutations determine the different individual personalities. T…
Lord Shiva ~ 2/6
…deavor to maintain purity of mind, symbolized by snow. An impure and agitated mind cannot concentrate and meditate upon the Truth. Purity of the mind is obtained by practicing a life of harmony in the face of the challenging situa…
Worship The Ideal in The Idol! ~ 3/3
When the mind has learned to stop its mad revelry among its agitations and excitements, it comes to know the tranquility divine, to rediscover its real nature, the Self. There is no religion in the world which does not point to th…
Worship The Ideal in The Idol! ~ 1/3
…ferent as light, heat, and sound. A faithful follower of the Bhagavad Gita can never be contaminated by sectarianism or intolerance. At the foot of every altar is the same Self constantly supplying more and more faith to water the…
Cause and Effect ~ 7/7
…ed upon these is the Upanishadic declarations and the entire Bhagavad Gita is given out wherein Arjuna is confused by the differences of the world outside. He is slowly trained to see the one golden cord that binds us all together…