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
…f 'Sanatana Dharma,' engaged in enunciating the eternal truth of the 'Gita Rahasya' As a clear-headed, budding youth, with an atheistic bent and a rationalistic outlook, he used to retort and rebut any argument from the highly rep…
Integrating the Mind & Intellect ~ 5/5
…he thoughts are peaceful, it is a peaceful mind. If the thoughts are agitated, we say that the mind is agitated. When I say that I am sad, it means that there is a flow of sad thoughts in the mind. If I am happy, it means that the…
Devotion – Love for God ~ 4/6
…ve the changing world, the decaying body, the restless mind, and the agitated intellect, we cannot be the intellect, the mind, the body, or the world around, but must be something other than these realms of change — ourselves, the…
Devotion – Love for God ~ 1/6
…uman mind can be weaned away from its continuous destiny of sorrows, agitation, worries and anxieties. One of the most important paths repeatedly advocated by almost all the prophets of the world is ‘devotion’. This devotion is ge…
How Do You Develop Shraddha (Faith)?
… seeking the Knowledge. At this moment, you are studying the Bhagavad Gita, you are seeking what the Reality is, thereafter, comes your search for the Reality. The search cannot be steady if your faith is not strong.
Questions from Lesson Course Students ~ 4/6
…seeking for a total sense of fulfilment of all its disturbing desire agitations. When these rajoguna agitations are conquered by correct thinking and evaluation, the still quiet mind enters into a mood of contemplation and such a …
Questions from Lesson Course Students ~ 2/6
…his is what Sankara calls as adhyasa which in its turn causes mental agitations and restlessness, vikshepa. The Awareness in us looks out through our mind and intellect equipment when our sense organs appear to perceive the world …
The Journey of Balan to Chinmaya ~ 11/12
…, remaining in the very Palace of life, ever noisy with its gruesome agitations. They divinized ideologies to accuse their barbarous selfishness, discovered engines of cruelty to crush their fellow-beings, perfected their argument…
The Sacred - The Secular – 4/4
…in and without of man is the true ‘Shreyas’ of the world. In Bhagavad Gita we have this scheme-of-life vividly painted. This sacred Scripture of Man in its concluding stanza declares openly this truth; ‘Where the sacred Krishna an…
Tapas: The Inner Work - 5/5
Sometimes mental agitations increase due to the pressure of unfulfilled desires and also the egoistic notion of being a great ascetic is strengthened. Mental work requires greater concentration and is therefore subtler and superio…
“How I Met Swamiji” by Stanley Woodbridge - 3/4
…nce about the Mahabharata TV Serial, particularly about the “Bhagavad Gita” scenes. After a few minutes, Swamiji and Mr. Ravi Chopra came out from his room and Mr. Chopra took leave and left for Bombay, with a beaming smile on his…
“How I Met Swamiji” by Stanley Woodbridge - 2/4
…eligious body working for National Integration. His talks on Bhagavad Gita were inaugurated by the Christian Bishops, high dignitaries of Islamic States, Buddhists, Sikh leaders etc. (Cont’d)
“How I Met Swamiji” by Stanley Woodbridge - 1/4
…i during his enlightened discourses on the XV chapter of the Bhagavad Gita during the second week of May 1993 in Hyderabad. If we carefully ponder over the above message, we will discover the embodied truth in it. If we give serio…
On Vasanas - Their Purgation – 4/7
…n the mind in such a way that you exhaust the causes for your mental agitations. This quietening of the mind is called yoga. Purging the Vasanas There are as many methods as there are teachers. Have you ever gone on a Saturday to …
On Vasanas - Their Purgation – 3/7
…selves to be filled by the Lord. When vasanas are fewer, desires and agitations are fewer and so thoughts are fewer. Then the mind becomes quiet and is always in a state of meditation. The quieter the mind, the greater the meditat…
On Vasanas - Their Purgation – 1/7
…in the mind in such a way that you exhaust the causes of your mental agitations.” We have found that vasana is unmanifest. In its manifestation, it is called your “personality” as it manifests into three different levels of grossn…
Work is Worship! – 6/9
…nough to answer his questions, trembling and nervous, perspiring and agitated. (Cont’d)
Work is Worship! – 5/9
…o airtight compartments, without any connection between them. But the Gita perhaps is the only textbook that gives us a complete scheme in which we can continue our work in an attitude of adoration, in a spirit of worship, and thu…
Work is Worship! – 4/9
…nciated the philosophy of work in their sacred textbook, the Bhagavad Gita. In the Gita, we find an ordinary man, a great hero, no doubt — Arjuna — made to face a great problem in his life, a total annihilating war with his own fi…
Nature Reflects Man ~ 7/10
…eneficial and benevolent to man. In the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavan states that the Creator ordered: When you are cherished by the yajna spirit of the society or the community, you shall cherish them back. Thus, m…
The Mystery of the Snake! - 2/6
Similarly, if the mind is agitated, I am agitated; if the mind is calm, I am calm; if the mind is unhappy, I am unhappy — I am what my mind is! This BMI (Body, Mind, and Intellect) has so completely conquered our individuality tha…
The Technique for Perfect Living!
… seeker. 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 po…
How to Evaluate the Actions as Good or Bad?
…s a result of any of your actions, you feel unhappy, or your mind is agitated or disturbed then it falls under the category of bad actions. But if your action has contributed to the good of the general public though it might have …
Read Mahabharata Again and Again – 2/5
… learning or position. Krishna, in the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, illustrates the path which takes a man to his end. “Attachment gives rise to desire; from desires (unfulfilled) comes forth anger; from anger proceeds del…
Read Mahabharata Again and Again – 1/5
…isthira to glory until the convincing answer is found in the Bhagavad Gita. Each man's nature is constituted of the three gums: sattva, rajas and tamas. The tamasic man finds himself trapped by the gunas and goes to his end, while…