https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually Speaking“Sound stretched is Music… Movement stretched is dance… Mind stretched is meditation… LIFE stretched is celebration” A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment. You d...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingDay, night, clouds and colors all appear in the sky and later disappear. Similarly, the mind imagines many things, which disappear just as they came. Just as the light fades away in the evening, anger also fades away. It is the same with envy. The...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/the-art-of-leadership-that-leads-to-the-path-of-success/August 9, 2022, 7:11 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/903b3950_4225_P_3_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPassion with peace of mind invokes the inner strength, compassion and communication through a clear conscience. That also helps enable consensus among people, tolerance to diversity and better bonding within teams.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/enlightenment-is-the-very-core-of-our-being/August 3, 2022, 7:55 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/903b3950_4225_P_3_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe all came into this world gifted with innocence, but gradually as we became more intelligent, we lost our innocence. We were born with silence and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLife is a complex interplay between the seen and the unseen, the subtle and the gross. Nature has her own laws and nothing fructifies before its time. As we invoke and celebrate the presence of the Divine Mother during Navratri, I am reminded of a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingGod is the very core of your existence. God is the very core of your existence. The Divine principle is not someone in the sky; it is inside you in the form of consciousness. You have always thought of God as a father, up in the heavens somewhere....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt is not just an empty space all around us; it is a lively big life. Head understands head and heart understands heart. The nose can only smell; eyes can only see; ears can only hear. Similarly, the heart can only feel while the head can only thi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAll around the world, countries have stormy seasons. The tropical countries have their monsoons, and non-tropical countries have their yearly winter storms. The layout of the planet, along with its various climates and weather systems, make it suc...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhy would someone tell a lie to their close ones or to their beloved? Lovers often ask this question. Love cannot stand untruth, and relationships tend to break up when untruths exist. Understanding the paradox of love and truth allows one to disc...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingTime is one of the 24 principles that govern this creation. Time is not elsewhere; it is here, right now in this very moment! Every moment, every single moment is important. Live every moment of life and make life a celebration. The silent part of...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/becoming-hollow-and-empty/January 10, 2022, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/05f5bcb2_6820_P_4_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOur mind is like a pot that is turned upside down. When we were born, the pot came first with the neck upright. The whole purpose of life is to stand up, turn the pot upside down, and empty it. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe association of a particular sense object over and over again creates a sense of craving for it. If you are used to drinking coffee every morning, then even though you are not born with a coffee fervour you have begun a habit within you that ha...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLove is so enormous. And for ages, people have tried to express their love and finally, they felt they cannot. Even the great sage Narada said, ‘Anirvachaniyam prema swarupam’. You cannot express it. The nature of true love is that it is beyond ex...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLife and the Guru are inseparable. Life itself teaches so many things. When you consciously reflect on it you can distinguish the things you have done right and those which were clearly wrong. The wisdom that allows you to differentiate is the gur...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe all have experienced the joy and peace of gratitude. Life flows smoother and your outlook is brighter when you feel grateful. Gratitude comes when you feel full. When you don’t feel any sense of lack, then you feel gratitude. You cannot be grat...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/seven-ways-to-power-inner-peace/November 15, 2021, 7:01 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Peacewithin.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPeace is not merely an absence of conflicts and violence. The essence of peace is within us, as part of our core nature. All that is needed to attain it is a change in our attitude and a little correction in our perception of life.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/celebrate-life-without-an-excuse/November 8, 2021, 3:58 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/903b3950_4225_P_3_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIf you celebrate every moment, you are the Lord of Creation. There are two types of celebration. One is as thanksgiving, an expression of gratitude for the Divine. The second comes from dropping the past and moving forward, knowing that life is et...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIn Srimad Bhagwatam there is a story of king Ajamila. He had many vices. When he was on his deathbed he called his son who was named ‘Narayan’. And when he uttered Divine’s name, he got liberated. This story builds trust in people that however the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/how-to-rise-above-negativity/October 18, 2021, 3:16 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/spiritualitylead.jpgSpiritually SpeakingNegativity is such that you get sucked into it without being conscious of it. That is why we need to develop our awareness.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/five-tips-to-get-rid-of-anger-and-its-cousins/October 11, 2021, 7:04 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Spiritualitylead.pngSpiritually SpeakingIn today’s world, there are so many things that make us angry. And then anger is followed by guilt, violence, hurt, and hatred. It becomes difficult to break the cycle. Here are some tips for you to break this cycle, and become free and happy again.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingDispassion or vairagya is one of the pillars of the highest knowledge. Dispassion is not apathy. Often, we think of dispassion as being totally unenthusiastic, depressed or not interested in anything. This is not . Dispassion is a lack of fev...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/how-to-redesign-your-inner-home/September 6, 2021, 6:00 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage-7.jpgSpiritually SpeakingMake your home Divine’s home and there will be light, love and abundance. Make your body Divine’s abode and there will be peace and bliss.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/janmashtami-special-choosing-between-krishna-and-his-army/August 30, 2021, 6:08 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/kRISHNA-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe one who takes refuge in God becomes in favour of God; and one who is egoistic moves away from God. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere is so much talk about success everywhere. Everyone wants to be successful. Have you ever thought about what success is? It’s simply ignorance of your capabilities. You have set a limitation on yourself, and whenever you cross your own bounda...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingTrue education, I believe, is that which strengthens the individual and keeps them away from sorrow. If someone criticises, one can listen to the criticism boldly, and when one has to offer criticism or a comment, one can give it with patience and...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingKnowledge will be different at different levels of consciousness. At a particular level of consciousness, you will become anasuya. Anasuya is devoid of fault-finding eyes. If a mirror is dusty, you need a duster to clean it. But if ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/take-a-deep-breath-be-calm-and-steady/July 26, 2021, 8:29 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Webp.net-resizeimage-2021-07-26T115248.868.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIf your mind is stiff, you are not mentally healthy. To attain a perfect state of health, one has to be mentally calm, steady, and emotionally strong.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingGuilt has a purpose. A little bit of guilt is good. It does not allow you to get into a cycle of actions that are not good for you and others. When such an action happens, the guilt in you acts as a brake for you not to continue the same act. Howe...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSome years ago, I went to Iraq to take stock of our relief and rehabilitation work there. We were asked to stay in the Green Zone, the safe zone. There were 12 vehicles and two tankers provided for our security. They said that the Red Zone was qui...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingEvery year when World Environment Day is celebrated, a clamour for stricter green laws and regulations is heard across the globe. While laws are important, they are not enough to ensure environmental sustainability. We need to take care of the env...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually Speaking“Gunarahitam kamanarahitam Pratikshanavardhamanam avichinnam sukshmataram anubhavarupam.” The word “gunarahitam” means to be free from the three types of love. There are 3 types of love:  1. Satvik love is unconditional love. I love you for what y...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually Speakingyada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham (4.7) “Whenever righteousness goes down or there is harm to dharma, when unlawfulness, unrighteousness or ignorance rises on the planet and knowledge goes...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingBehind every action, there is always a motivation to get a specific result. As we do every action with an eye on the end result, a specific goal, the expectation of the result affects the process of our action. Put it another way, the means of ach...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingTHE EIGHT TYPES OF WEALTH One of the greatest illusions created in the world is wealth. There is so much disparity in the world. There is no logical reasoning or explanation as to why someone is born in Africa and suffers for a piece of bread, whi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOnly a healthy bud can blossom. In the same way, only a healthy being can succeed. Health is (having) a disease-free body, a quiver-free breath, a stress-free mind, an inhibition-free intellect, an obsession-free memory, an ego that includes all a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAccording to ancient scriptures, human beings have five sheaths: the environment, the physical body, the mind or the mental sheath, the intuitive sheath and purushartha, or the blissful state. Thus, environment is our first body. Environment consc...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhat is meant by being healthy? Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady, and emotionally soft inside. You are not healthy when you feel rough inside. You feel that you are not healthy or are sick, when you feel rough in the bo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingShivaratri is taking refuge in Shiva. And Shiva is peace, infinity, beauty and the non-dual one. You take refuge in Shiva for your true nature is Shiva as he is the meditative aspect of the entire universe. Albert Einstein proved that energy can n...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingLove is so enormous. And for ages, people have tried to express their love and finally they felt they cannot. Even the great sage Narada said, “Anirvachaniyam prema swarupam (you cannot express it).” The nature of true love is that it is beyond ex...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe whole universe is spherical. It was never born, nor will it ever die. It is anadi (beginningless), and anantha (endless). Akasha (space) is described as all-permeating, all-pervading. Everything is contained in akasha, all the four elements ar...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOnce there was a congregation of fish that got together to discuss who among them had seen the ocean. None of them could say they had actually seen the ocean. Then one fish said, ‘‘I think my great grandfather had seen the ocean!’’ A second fish s...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually Speaking“Sound stretched is Music… Movement stretched is dance…  Mind stretched is meditation… Life stretched is celebration.”  A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celeb...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/love-brings-perfection/December 21, 2020, 2:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/227ea859_1043_P_4_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe fall into love and we fall out of love because we do not know what is the ultimate love, what is bhakti. Attaining bhakti alone makes you perfect.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/six-secrets-for-a-happy-and-successful-marriage/December 14, 2020, 3:51 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/b01307d5_964_P_4_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhat’s the recipe for a blissful marital life? Here are six ingredients that go into making a sweet, joyful and fulfilling relationship with your spouse.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe brave one sees that there is one consciousness present in everything, every living being and in every object. It is that which is present everywhere. One who recognises that “the consciousness which is in me is everywhere”, crosses over this w...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingPatanjali, the propounder of yoga, enunciates the purpose of yoga: “The purpose of yoga is to stop misery before it comes.” Whether it is greed, anger, jealousy, hatred, or frustration, all these negative emotions can be healed or re-oriented thro...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe festival of Navratri is celebrated with prayers and gaiety at the beginning of the Ashwin (autumn) and the beginning of Chaitra (spring). This period is a time for self-referral and getting back to the source. During this time of transformatio...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOnce there was a congregation of fish, who got together to discuss who among them had seen the ocean. None of them could say they had actually seen the ocean. Then one fish said, ‘‘I think my great grandfather had seen the ocean!’’ A second fish s...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen we realise the futility of words, then we should know that our life is going deeper and we have started living. We live in words from morning till night. In this run of searching for purpose and purposefulness, we lose all purpose. It goes to...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/let-time-celebrate-your-presence/January 3, 2023, 7:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WhatsApp-Image-2023-01-03-at-07.40.42.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOften, we mistake pride for arrogance and those who have arrogance mistake it for pride. But there is a clear distinction. Arrogance is being insensitive. When there is no humility in pride, that pride turns into arrogance. When there is no awaren...