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.
Abhinava Parthasarathy – 1/7
…cist, journalist, screenwriter, and actor. He has written hundreds of devotional songs too. This was translated and published in Tapovan Prasad in Oct 1991) -------------------------------------------------------------------------…
The Ultimate State of Evolution ~ 6/7
…ve to learn to reintegrate them in order to reach the source. Through devotion (bhakti), you may renounce and surrender your equipment, or you may lovingly expand your mind through karma yoga, or you may search for the single sour…
True Change ~ 5/5
… to the Higher In the lower stages, all religions expound the path of devotion. Lifting your lower nature in communion with the higher is called devotion. Communication with the Lord is communion. Tune yourself up to Him. Learn to…
True Change ~ 3/5
…know how to forgive yourself, sit before the symbol of the Lord, with devotion, with tears in your eyes, and regret in your heart, and express it to Him. He will forgive you. Once you confess it to the Lord, the burden is off your…
Devotion – Love for God ~ 6/6
…rtality in the core of all mortality. This is the destination of true devotion, the experience of Godhood.
Devotion – Love for God ~ 5/6
This Awareness or Consciousness by which we become continuously conscious of all the changes that are taking place around us is itself ever the changeless. This changeless Awareness that illumines all the changes around is the ult…
Devotion – Love for God ~ 4/6
Let us try to understand what exactly the saints and scholars talk of when they speak of a God who is changeless in this world of ever-changing phenomena. No doubt, we all realize that the world around us is constantly changing — …
Devotion – Love for God ~ 3/6
…ifying ourselves with the higher Reality - God - is the expression of devotion. To surrender ourselves at His altar and come to experience and recognize more of us in Him than in ourselves is the rewarding sign of a deep devotion.…
Devotion – Love for God ~ 2/6
…e expression of its futility, and the incompetence of its techniques. Devotion, as already mentioned, has been defined as 'Love for the Lord'. But the difficulty is that the word 'love' has come to gather a spectrum of variegated …
Devotion – Love for God ~ 1/6
…aths repeatedly advocated by almost all the prophets of the world is ‘devotion’. This devotion is generally explained as ‘love for God’. Love and Devotion Communities have been striving to practice devotion for centuries. Although…
The Journey of Balan to Chinmaya ~ 10/12
…adhak in Menon vainly chewed his bit. His erstwhile subdued faith and devotion found their voices, and they roared and thundered in their demand for freedom and self-expression.” “Jai Sat-Chit-Anand Sad-Guru Maharaj.” Simple these…
The Journey of Balan to Chinmaya ~ 3/12
… day at dusk — these gave him a great push in the illustrious path of devotion. Balan's prayers would probably end in half an hour; but the elaborate daily puja would lengthen to some two hours. The child is not allowed to move ou…
The Journey of the Balan to Chinmaya ~ 2/12
…rameshwara-arpanam sarvam”. The Swami for a moment closed his eyes in devotion and prayer. (Cont’d)
The Sacred - The Secular – 3/4
…any inspiring ideology, without any moral goal, without any softening devotion, spanner in hand and machine gun on its shoulders, onward marches the Western civilization ready to start a war at any moment for raw material or for t…
What is Vishu Kani?
…he Reaching (of the kani) or the passage in the spiritual pilgrimage. Devotion is the noblest of paths and upasana (kirtan, japa, dhyana, svadhyaya etc.) can lead us to the next stage of progress, the darshan (of the kani) or the …
Tapas: The Inner Work - 3/5
…ivid experiences for a person who is doing it with faith, dedication, devotion, and sincerity, especially when it is undertaken on foot, as it used to be done in the past. But without knowledge of the Infinite Reality, Sri Shankar…
Tuning Up – 6/7
…ater our surrender unto His will, the greater is the intensity of our devotion for Him. The more constant our mental remembrance of Him, the surer we shall be acting parallel to His will. And His will ever works itself out to a su…
Tuning Up – 5/7
…dorn yourself with the ornaments of sagacity, sincerity and faith and devotion. Live in the inner temple of Godliness. Sweep your home clean every moment day after day, of all its rubbish and misunderstandings. Meditate and live i…
Tuning Up – 4/7
…e Inner Temple. Empty His home, clean it, purify it, sanctify it with devotion, invoke Him, He shall enter in, and then glory to the God-Man-Bhakta. This is what Draupadi gained, Radha accomplished, Meera experienced. Even today m…
What am I to do to turn toward God?
… Tomorrow may be a day too late. Take to his lips at once the milk of devotion. With the spoon of Om Namah Shivaya, carefully wet his pale lips. The spiritual man in you is not yet dead; he can yet be saved if you hurry up. There …
On Vasanas - Their Purgation – 6/7
…give and return a larger love to us. This is called the Path of Love, Devotion - Bhakti yoga. Naturally, then, when you are working in the world outside, you work no longer for yourself but for your Beloved. Thus, all your activit…
Personality Unfoldment – 6/7
…ementary to the other in accommodating everyone. They are the path of devotion, the path of knowledge, the path of action, and the path of mysticism. When analyzing a person’s motivations, we find that each person is influenced by …
Breaking the Shackles! – 3/3
…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 are…
Breaking the Shackles! – 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…
Nature Reflects Man ~ 5/10
…tire Earth. The purely material outlook and values that have replaced devotion and faith have made man extremely selfish, propagating the philosophy of survival of the fittest, ignoring the needs of the rest. This has brought abou…