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.
Communing with Nature! - 10/13
…i. He gave us a continuous, inspiring talk for three hours on bhakti (devotion), quoting the scriptures and the classics, Bhartruhari, etc. He knows Sanskrit and Hindi well. All his education and knowledge he attributes to his gur…
The Mystery of the Snake! - 1/6
…a — secondhand information, paroksha jnana — but also cultivate great devotion and reverence towards it. Devotion and knowledge must go hand in hand. Dry knowledge does not help. It should be honeyed with devotion — not a mere liq…
The Ugliness or Beauty of The Tongue!
… listener's mind with no veiled meaning,’ overflowing with sincerity, devotion, and love, becomes the autobiography of the personality that speaks. Speech is a powerful vehicle in man, and it reflects the intellectual caliber, the…
The Essence of Bharat's Spiritual Literature – 9/9
…rated in the Ramayana where Shri Rama asks Hanuman ji, who is lost in devotion, what the nature of their relationship is. Hanuman ji replies: देहबुद्ध्या त्वद्दासोऽहं जीवबुद्ध्या त्वदंशकः। आत्मबुद्ध्या त्वमेवाहम् इति मे निश्चित…
Keep Your Mind Where the Hands Are!
…not have an integrated mind. Our inner personality is shattered. True devotion brings about a lot of changes in the personality, integrates the mind, and makes it more focused and give results in an excellent performance. Quieten …
The Real Guru is the Pure Intellect Within
…ernal Wisdom. Anyone who can elicit such a total feeling of faith and devotion continuously in us is our Guru. You should never expect that a great Guru, by his touch, would convert you and transform you to Godhood. If you wait fo…
Vedanta in Action for Householders - 9/10
…The greater our surrender unto His will, the greater our intensity of 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…
Vedanta in Action for Householders - 5/10
…n the performance of your chosen profession; all these need the basic devotion to the Lord, who has provided you with body-mind -intellect equipment and who is the sole enlivener for all their activities. You cannot perform your d…
Vedanta in Action for Householders - 1/10
…duties are to be undertaken and fulfilled with a sense of loyalty and devotion to the Lord, who in His Great Wisdom has placed you where you are in your exact circumstances. Our Present Joy Is - Someone's Past Sacrifice Duties tow…
Sankara - The Spiritual General – 3/4
…of his Bhagavad Gita discourses, or in the open flowery fields of his devotional songs, his was a pen that danced to the rhythm of his heart and to the swing of his thoughts. But pen alone would not have won the war of culture for…
POOJA VIDHI
…t, always brimful with sympathy and concern for others. In short, his devotion floods the entire emotional and intellectual character. To teach these techniques to our children from an early age will be a man making program for ou…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 8/8
… sea of life's contentions. Bless me with this steady vision and deep devotion, O all-merciful One! O Lord! All omissions in performing the good and commissions of pursuing the bad, all of them, O Lord, please forgive. Forgive me.…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 6/8
…orgive me. May I not continue living my present life without faith or devotion. In my present state of utter helplessness, I can only surrender to You, demanding that by Your grace my mind will turn toward You and become ever enga…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 3/8
…Lord, if at that time I would have had some faith in You and a little devotion toward You, no doubt I could have brought comfort to myself. But due to the power of my negative vasanas it was then impossible for me to remember you,…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 1/8
…dividual through the many stages of life. Sankara indicates that with devotion alone can our gross sensuous vasanas (innate tendencies) be eliminated. The student of Vedanta who has studied the Upanishads and Gita, no longer asks …