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.
Save Me, Help Me, please!
…feeling of total surrender, generated in this mental mood, is called 'devotion'- true devotion of the heart. Relieving the mind from all its preoccupations with the endless worldly excitements, learn to contemplate upon the nature…
Caste System, Svadharma, Karma yoga – 5/8
…ion; let him engage them in all actions, himself fulfilling them with devotion.” A society is not built up overnight through any magic incantations. Time and tradition alone can build up the strength and beauty of man's society. I…
My Master! - 4/11
…alcutta And lo! the youth Chinmaya, reinforced with his burning zeal, devotion to tie cause and the blessings of the masters of that time, came down from Himalayan heights to the plains below to spread the sacred, eternal message …
With Integrity - We Must! - 4/5
… bosom if our efforts are dedicated to the Lord-of-our-heart. In this devotion for the Lord, we shall discover our integrity growing, and the rest of the traits — essential in the make-up of a successful man-of-action who wears hi…
Lord Shiva ~ 4/6
…with perfect integration of the mind and the intellect, that is, when devotion for the Lord blends with subtle contemplation upon the transcendental Truth. Devotion and contemplation are the two limbs which take one to the abode o…
Worship The Ideal in The Idol! ~ 1/3
…d world of change. Even when they worship different deities, if their devotion is sufficiently reinforced with faith, they too invoke nothing, but the one eternal Truth expressed through their particular altar of adoration. Whethe…
Spiritual Success ~ 2/3
…he vehicle lighter. Warm up the engines of meditation through kirtan (devotional chants) and japa (repetition of the Lord's name). Know the route from the study of the scriptures and take off. The early obstacles in meditation una…
Spiritual Success ~ 1/3
…s upon that assures success. It is the quality, intensity, sincerity, devotion, understanding, and enthusiasm of the heart, with which one does the sadhana, that will determine the true heights to which the student can rise in his…
Lord of the Heart ~ 3/3
…artist did on the canvas to attract the dog with such a mad frenzy of devotion and evident love. The artist said: “Dogs can never understand art. Therefore, I smeared the face of the painted picture with a piece of fish”. The grea…
The Necessity of Faith – 3/5
…es forward conquering new possibilities, while the heart endowed with devotion follows at its heels to consolidate the conquest through its identification. This combined action of both the head and the heart is meditation, the mos…
The Necessity of Faith – 2/5
…e cultivated by the student for himself, by means of faith (sraddha), devotion (bhakti) and meditation (dhyana). Faith is described as a faculty of human intellect by which it can reflect and understand the deeper imports of the s…
The Necessity of Faith – 1/5
…a: To him the grandsire (Brahma), said, “Know this by means of faith, devotion, and meditation.” In our ordinary life, that which cannot be experienced by the heart can often be comprehended by the intellect. Scientific theories o…
A System of National Education - 11/11
…round development of any institution, is the efficiency combined with devotion and dedication of the human elements. The National System of Education should be defined and formulated by our thinkers and educationists under the gui…
Chinmayananda: A Journey of the Spirit - 3/7
…as of discontent and discord. A faith that would not be denied, and a devotion that could not be verbalized, strained for self-expression. At this turbulent stage, Balan chanced upon books by Swami Vivekananda, Rama Tirtha, Aurobi…
The Dignity of India - 3/4
…life immersed in this joy of spirituality.” Finding how much love and devotion had been evoked by the great culture of the Rishis leading to the realization of the human goal, in the mind of this man born and brought up in the mid…
The Majic of Right Resolve - 2/3
…h an individual decides to turn his entire attention inwards, in deep devotion to the voiceless peace and silence of the Soul, his motives get changed, his thought-patterns get transformed, even the texture and quality of his acti…
The Majic of Right Resolve - 1/3
…unders: In case even a very wicked person worships Me, with undivided devotion, he should be regarded as good and noble, for he has rightly resolved. Even if an individual, in his wrong judgment, thinks of the world as a field to …
Youth: Are Tomorrow’s Leaders ~ 1/5
…writer, or scientist - his achievements are invoked by his own total “devotion” to his ideas and ideals, his “sacrifice” and his total dedication - his “salutations” to his field of achievement. Youth preparing to enter life’s fie…
How I met my Guru ~ 2/6
…not the physical heart but a mind full of positive qualities of love, devotion, sympathy, charity, etc. that alone can appreciate the Lord's Divine presence. Everything revolves around Him like the unseen hand that manipulates the…
“Uttarkashi” ~ by Swami Tapovanam – 22/22
…ahatmas possessed. They now vied with one another in exhibiting their devotion to us. However, I must acknowledge here that we owed our safety and the happy termination of our excursion into the world of the gods, mainly to our ch…
“Uttarkashi” ~ by Swami Tapovanam – 16/22
…dly as he does in adversity, how easily would he realize Brahman! The devotion of the mountain folk to their village gods is firm. These uneducated people do not in the least understand the nature of nishkama-bhakti. It is not unc…
Question & Answer Session – 2/3
…is a mind that is fit for meditation. A mind at meditation knows pure devotion and the higher love. Q: You have said that the head (intellect) and the heart (feelings) should go together. Yet in your commentary on the second chapt…
Question & Answer Session – 1/3
… Narada bhakti sutra, you pointed out the difference between love and devotion. You said that 'devotion' is love towards the higher, and 'love' is love towards the lower. The love a mother has in sacrificing her own life to save h…
The Unseen Hand of God – 4/6
So, in all devotion he ran thither and falling at his feet said, “Maharaj, I am ever indebted to you for all that you have done to me. Whenever I think of you, my cheeks are bedewed with tears of thoughtful gratitude. I don’t know…
The Secret of Management – 8/10
…inefficient in any field. The stability of the mind, the firmness and devotion to an ideal is unavoidable. Many of you may be thinking that all this is unnecessary; it is because of religion, all the quarrels are there and therefo…