Category: Art of Living

Question:   How to concentrate (fix) the mind? Answer:    I will share with you a very easy method to concentrate (fix) the mind.  Practice constant remembrance with your mind, repeating “Ram, Ram, Ram..” Do it in this manner –  “One Ram,  Two Ram, Three Ram, Four Ram …” but within your mind.  Neither say one, two, three, […]

Lord Krishna in the Gita declares that attachment and aversion are rooted in all sense objects –  Indriyasyeindriyasyaarthe raagadveshouvyavasthitou |   (Gita 3/34)    This attachment inhabits in five places – self, intellect, mind, senses, and objects –   If you think over the problem seriously, you come to know that basically this attachment is situated in […]

People believe that a restlessness mind is the main hindrance in attaining God Realization. But actually it is not such a hindrance as is our attraction, fondness and attachment to things, pleasures, individuals, objects  and incidents. It is essential  for aspirants to know that it is  attraction, fondness and attachment that leads to the shackles of birth […]

  Likes (Attachment, Love, Passion, Raag) and Dislikes (Aversion, Hatred, Dvesh) are incoming, transient, alterations of the inner senses, they are not one’s natural tendencies (dharma).  Dharma remains firm and stable, whereas changes are temporary, i.e. they are the kind that come and go.  As attraction  (likes) and aversion (dislikes) are intermittent conditions that come and […]

Question: Until objects of enjoyment do not appear before us, our mind remains firm, that we shall not succumb to them. However we become weak when enjoyments confront us! What should we do? Swamiji:    continued…..  ‘Truth is to be spoken’  make this idea firm that from today onwards only truth is to be spoken, not a […]