https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThis was a question and answer session with Gurudev , Swami Chinmayanandaji, on the 16/05/1984, in Siddhabari as he sat informally outside the old Satsang hall in the evenings. We all gathered around him to ask him for guidance on how to calm the ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingShrimad Devi Purana has this interesting story to illustrate how actions attract reactions. Aditi and Diti were two beautiful daughters of Dakshaprajapati, and both became the wives of Rishi Kashyap. Aditi had a son, the very powerful, brilliant a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingCheerfulness, peace or bliss , is the most natural condition of any mind. Watch a child, his mind does not project violence ,fear or any negative thought, see how gleefully he gurgles, shouts and screams in play as he runs around with his arms str...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAll humans are born equal is a sweet sounding fallacy. It’s near impossible to find two human beings who look alike, (twins , may be) or even think alike ,or have similar ideologies, or similar desires and capabilities! Yes we all have one head fo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA householder is one who holds the house until the house starts holding him! Sanyaas never allows the giving up of activities; it only allows the giving up of attachment to activities and their fruits. A householder can only feel bound if he feels...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually Speaking1981 saw me in Siddhabari propelled by an intense desire to visit this spiritual retreat in the lone serenity of the Himalayas. This retreat of the Chinmaya Mission was a small hamlet of a few humble cottages perched on a hillock with a dense pine...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-colours-of-love/March 21, 2022, 3:15 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Holi.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe spirit of Holi brings the joyous sunshine of inward peace and poise as the radiant colours colour your life with a vibrancy of resplendent love.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA little child that had just learned to crawl saw his shadow. The shadow moved and crawled very near him, and the child thought it to be something strange and fascinating. So, just as all children do, he wanted to catch it. To clutch and then put ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSwami Chinmayananda Ji was not just one of the greatest saints of the 20th century, but a towering spiritual giant, a social reformer, a missionary, a freedom fighter, and a Vedantic teacher of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Geeta par excellence....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually Speaking1981 saw me in Siddhabari propelled by an intense desire to visit this spiritual retreat in the lone serenity of the Himalayas. This retreat of the Chinmaya Mission was a small hamlet of a few humble cottages perched on a hillock with a dense pine...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingToday’s adults will not remain tomorrow. But today’s adults will, through their contribution in moulding the new world and their children’s values, attitudes, ideas and ideals, survive in the future. Today’s children are tomorrow’s adults. TV anch...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere are a lot of misconceptions about these two words—dharma and religion. They are used very carelessly and therefore can, and do, invoke wrong meanings and even dangerous ideas. A misinterpretation of these words can completely change percepti...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind/August 20, 2024, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2-Gurudev-enlightens-on-calming-the-mind-300x170.jpgSpiritually SpeakingYears seem to have fled by before I could sit in my own company. I am by myself and have declutched  from the world of all relationships, even with my own usual self. The quiet calm  of the evening is unburdening my soul as the soft warm...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/analysing-shivangi-the-ardhanareeshwara-shiva/March 15, 2021, 10:16 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/95b12e20_1969_P_4_mr-1-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIn a Puranic legend about the Ardhanareeshwara form of Lord Shiva, Parvati presented the logic underlying the dynamic of Prakriti and Purusha: ‘It is only through my grace that you, the formless, can appear with form.’https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/prarabdha-and-purushartha-destiny-depends-on-self-effort/November 23, 2020, 8:00 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Destiny.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe results of one’s past actions have to be experienced by them, whether they are good or bad. Thus, instead of being idle and complaining about destiny, one should make sincere efforts and handle his ‘prarabdha’ wisely.