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.
Conquering the Mind – 7/7
…on, according to Vedanta. The more the perceptions, the more are the agitations. Therefore, ‘perceptions (vedanam) supply the grit for the mill of the mind,’ say the wise. The rising of the pictures of other outer objects and memo…
Conquering the Mind – 6/7
…re thereby unwittingly exciting their mind and feeding their thought agitations. Conclusion The engine of the mind functions on the oil of perception. (Cont’d)
Conquering the Mind – 1/7
…the more grow the surge of desires, and the more devastating are the agitations of the mind. In such an individual, the sense organs cannot remain withdrawn and quiet. They must gallop on towards indulgence in sense objects that p…
Swami Chinmayananda: The Divine Integrator - 1/4
…culminated in Indian independence on August 15, 1947. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna made a standing proclamation, “I come forth age after age, to protect, preserve, and foster dharma (righteousness).” In fulfillment of this s…
The Yogic Greatness of Swami Tapovanam - 2/4
Before and after the Gita Jnana Yagnas in New Delhi, I had occasions to reach his feet since he was reported to be very ill. He was not in good health for the past three or four months. Individual appeals and even communal appeal,…
The Majic of Right Resolve - 3/3
…iṁ nigacchati kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati (Bhagavad Gita chapter 9, verse 31) Quietude of the mind is peace within. To the degree the mind's extrovert agitations are reduced, to that extent it discovers a peace, …
The Majic of Right Resolve - 2/3
…r perishes! — kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati (Bhagavad Gita chapter 9, verse 31) As a result of changing the inner motive, the entire personality changes. The essential quality and the entire direction of thoughts c…
The Majic of Right Resolve - 1/3
…as good and noble — sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ samyag vyavasito hi saḥ, (Gita 9/30), because he has taken the right decision. (Cont’d)
Maintain the Dignity of Our Nation ~ 5/5
…t culture. The Hindu culture is nowhere precisely defined as it is in Gita, and its 2nd chapter is most important. The dynamic way of life is the theme of this chapter.... The religion is trying to make you a better man. The relig…
Youth: Are Tomorrow’s Leaders ~ 5/5
… and muscles of the younger generation is in the care of the Bhagavad Gita. The Eternal Song Divine can make them stand up even against odds and come out successful in the end, thus blessing the country by inaugurating an era of d…
How I met my Guru ~ 3/6
…tion in my whole attitude to life. Though I had been reading Bhagavad Gita 10 years prior to listening to his first Yagna series, the application of the Gita in our day-to-day life and its problems had not come to my understanding…
How I met my Guru ~ 2/6
…erous sea with waves lashing from opposite directions in the form of agitations. One should establish Ishwara in his mind like a lighthouse in the stormy sea. This should bring calm and peace to the disturbed mind. Gurudev narrate…
How I met my Guru ~ 1/6
…rtain reminiscences crowd into my memory - while dwelling on Bhagavad Gita: chapter 18, verse 61. īśhvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛid-deśhe ‘rjuna tiṣhṭhati bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā The stentorian voice of our Pujya G…
Gurudev Answers…. ~ 2/7
…assurance. Try to live those values of life described in the Bhagavad Gita. Q: What is the initial step in meditation? Detachment gained through attachment is the only way, detach yourself from the Body-Mind-Intellect equipment an…
What Chinmayananda ji is for us today!
…a, as well as Mahabharata. The latter, being non-detail, the Bhagavad Gita was not explained in verse. Only mention of it was made as to why and how and at what juncture in the life of Arjuna the Gita was taught by Sri Krishna. Su…
He is with Us and Yet above Us! - 3/3
…s purpose, that is what our sacred scriptures, the Upanishads and the Gita teach us. This is what Swamiji is trying to teach us through his message every day. The very essence of God is Ananda. So is our Guru Maharaj, full of joy …
He is with Us and Yet above Us! - 2/3
… great problem, the spiritual problem. He would expound the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ in clear terms to make us understand how to overcome the illnesses of this world, by means of spiritual training of the mind. After a talk with Swamiji, o…
Question & Answer Session – 2/3
…e it is a fall, it is obviously lower. Anything that leaves you with agitations is nothing but love for the lower. On the other hand, whenever you love the higher, every action, every sacrifice you make towards the object of your …
Question & Answer Session – 1/3
… for your own selfish pleasures, this love gives rise to desires and agitations in your mind. Fulfilment of these desires only creates a demand for more of the same, whereas disappointment of such desires gives rise to sorrow, and…
The Unseen Hand of God – 6/6
…in every act that goes on here". So, saying he moved on. The Bhagavad Gita says: “bahir antash cha bhutanam acharam charam eva cha sukshmatvat tad avijneyam dura-stham chantike cha tat” “He is without and within all beings. He is …
Q. & A. Sessions - 6/7
…of right living, protecting our minds from unnecessary and avoidable agitations. Inner tranquility is the springboard for spiritual living. The Human mind in its basic behaviour is found to be the same throughout the world and thr…
The Secret of Management – 7/10
… your efficiency oozes out. Is it not the picture you see in Bhagavad Gita that you read every day? Arjuna was a very competent extremely well trained, greatest archer of his time, a man who has proved his efficiency and that is w…
No Attempt Is Being Made to Improve the Man
…in our heart. “To Him alone you go, in all conditions”, says Bhagavad Gita. Therefore, let us carry ourselves confidently; success shall be ours, and, in fact, failure can only be “success delayed” to every prompt servant of the L…
Abhinava Parthasarathy – 6/7
…een feeling, seeing, and hearing from the pulpits, platforms, and the Gita Jnana Yagna Camps, as Abhinava Parthasarathy for over the past 41 years and odd. Swamiji has never known any rest or respite for the last 41 years. Not onl…
Abhinava Parthasarathy – 2/7
…orance. He who wouldn’t recite even a single stanza from the Bhagavad Gita during his college days, and today has become an acknowledged authority on Bhagavad Gita. Still, he is delving deep into the pearl-beds of Gita Rahasya and…