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.
The Real Guru is the Pure Intellect Within
…represented for us in the unforgettable scene in our Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, where between the two opposing forces, in a chariot, the Absolute Teacher is preaching the Gita to the Eternal Disciple, Arjuna. When a pure mind is aghas…
A Call for Unity Amongst Hindu Americans - 1/5
…r unity amongst Hindu Americans which he made during his last talk on Gita chapter 16, in 1993 in Washington, D.C. He drew attention to the Bhagavad-Gita verse: आढ्योऽभिजनवानस्मि कोऽन्योऽस्ति सदृशो मया । यक्ष्ये दास्यामि मोदिष्य इ…
The Law of Seva, Universal Law of Sacrifice - 1/4
…t within. The word “unattached” asaktah is often used in the Bhagavad Gita, but unless we understand its full import, we are apt to misunderstand the entire philosophy behind it. We all have attachments. (Cont’d)
Sankara - The Spiritual General – 3/4
… of the Brahma-sutra expositions, in the amphitheater 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. B…
Acting in the Yajna Spirit – 5/7
…t within. The word “unattached” asaktah is often used in the Bhagavad Gita, but unless we understand its full import, we are apt to misunderstand the entire philosophy behind it. We all have attachments. We are attached to our par…
Acting in the Yajna Spirit – 3/7
… Kunti, you perform actions for yajna alone, without any attachment. (Gita 3:9) Every action can become a sacred yajna if we act without ego or egocentric desires. Even the dreary, dull, daily routines from all walks of life can b…
Acting in the Yajna Spirit – 2/7
… spring from selfishness leave vasanas behind creating more and more agitations; but selfless actions lead to their exhaustion. We must, therefore, learn to act renouncing the ego and egocentric desires. This is more easily said t…
Acting in the Yajna Spirit – 1/7
…of actions and from the ego-sense, is lauded not only by the Bhagavad Gita but also by the Upanishads. Such actions are necessary to prepare a student for the higher flights of meditation. To a seeker, dedicated work is a means fo…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 7/8
…s of my mind, which is becoming hopelessly exhausted through its own agitations and restlessness. Recognizing this fact of life and slowly withdrawing my mind from its endless quest for happiness in the world outside, I must train…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 5/8
…er, his intellect will have desires which unavoidably bring unending agitations to the mind. A pure mind is gained only when the vasanas have been exhausted through dedicated, selfless actions. O Lord, I have not achieved this yet…
Sankara's Appeal for Forgiveness – 1/8
…eliminated. The student of Vedanta who has studied the Upanishads and Gita, no longer asks the Lord's help in achieving worldly gains. Striving to become established in spiritual practices, he seeks the Lord's grace only for endin…