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.
Glimpses From Sri Rama Gita ~ 11
The Chariot In The Bhagavad Gita
The Essence Of The Bhagavad-Gita
Young Man! The Gita, Is Not Meant For The Old
Why Study The Gita?
The Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita Can Revolutionize Our Era!
You, Me & God ~ 5
… a pure mind, Swamiji?” “A pure mind is one which is calm, free from agitations. Agitations are caused mainly by our likes and dislikes and desires. Desires spell disaster fulfilled or frustrated. Mahatma Gandhi was very fond of t…
We Are What We Eat!
…a yat, uchchhiṣhṭam-api cha-amedhyam bhojanam tāmasa priyam (Bhagavad-Gita 17/10) Tamasic Foods: That which is stale, tasteless, putrid and rotten, refuse and impure, is the food liked by the tamasika. Food cooked three hours earl…
Guru: An Embodiment Of The Ideal!
…This is represented for us in the unforgettable scene in our Bhagavad Gita, where between the two opposing forces, in a chariot, the absolute Teacher is preaching the Gita to the eternal disciple, When a pure mind is aghast at the…
SUVARNA (SWARNA) TULABHARAM 1991
…created, on the basis of the great thoughts, in the Upanishad and the Gita. I have been giving it out for the last 40 years and this only an expression of the disciple’s devotion to the teacher as Gurudakshina. Since this Guru has…
An Interview With Pritish Nandy At Calcutta In 1980
…80 Q) Why do you give so much importance to the study of the Bhagavad Gita? Don't you think our other religious texts are of equal importance? A) Every religious textbook is of equal importance. But I have no authority to recommen…
An Interview With Pritish Nandy At Calcutta In 1980
…na. He simply teaches. He is best known for his interpretation of the Gita and almost every day of the year, somewhere or other, in Bonn or Bangkok, Bombay or Baltimore, he has a class on…
Why Don't We Progress?
…ardly any inspiration. After having gone through a few books like the Gita or the Upanishads, they become lax in their sadhana. This sense of lassitude is there because they are not being initiated into ampler field of inward expe…
Vedantic Significance In Ramayana - Part 4
…rn. Similarly, when a Jnani works in the world, a Bible or a Koran, a Gita or an Upanishad will necessarily emerge out of Him. Then he gives up the world. There is no compulsion on him to give up because it is already an illusory …
Vedantic Significance In Ramayana - Part 2
…m greatness of divinity into the present condition of guilt, sorrow, agitation, worries and suffering. Thus, you and I are Sita now in Lanka. What did she do there? We must also go through the same discipline. She refused to co-op…
Do Nothing
…educed, is called a sadhana. Reading the scriptures is one method. If Gita chanting is a method, it is also a sadhana. Any method, be it serving the poor, political activity or the domestic activity of looking after your family - …
You Can Touch Rama Right Now!
… times. In his talks, he introduced the ninth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. I had never read any of it earlier; Bhagavad Gita was introduced to me by Gurudev only. My heart sank a little because he said there were eighteen chapter…
Even Sorrows Mold Us Into Better Beings!
… streak of inner peace threading through all worries, anxieties, and agitations. Everything happening to every one of us all the time during a lifetime is to educate us - they are learning occasions. Some learn - some do not. Thos…
Where Is Happiness?
… They discovered that Happiness is a state of mind. When the mind is agitated, we feel sorrow and anxiety. When the mind is tranquil, we feel joy. Thus, Happiness is measured by the tranquility of our mind. Tranquility may be at t…
Mounam
… silence of the Deep ones and I am the wisdom of the wise. ~ Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10.v.38 “A Muni is one who is silent and contemplative. Silence the mind and listen… this is the final state of meditation.”
Police Officers interaction with Gurudev
…. It was a wonderful exposition of Indian philosophy and the Bhagavad Gita. At the end of 15 minutes, I asked the professors whether they would like to move, but they said they wanted to hear the whole speech. At the end of the ta…
Geeta was told to the uniformed officers
…ptured their minds and went on to clarify the message of the Bhagavad Gita.