Spiritually Speaking

8 Steps to Higher Guidance

13 Dec 2022 09:48 AM IST

Whenever you need special guidance but find none forthcoming, try following these suggestions: 1. Ask for guidance while focusing at the Spiritual Eye (the point between the eyebrows). 2. Wait for a response in the heart center. Be completely impartial. Don’t intrude your personal desires into this process. Pray, “Thy

What is peace?

10 Dec 2022 08:35 AM IST

Peace is a state of mind that is stable, harmonious, accepting and powerful. It is experienced by others as calmness or tranquillity. Some think peace is impossible, that they are not wired for peace; that their minds are too busy to be peaceful. Some think peace means being weak or

Time management begins in the mind

10 Dec 2022 08:33 AM IST

Time management is a valuable skill. Effectively planning how to divide one’s time between different activities enables us to get things done more quickly. Failing to manage time, on the other hand, reduces our effectiveness and can cause stress. All of us have the same 24 hours in a day,

Spiritual practices bring purity, peace

10 Dec 2022 08:31 AM IST

The world is a terrifying place right now. It seems that every day, something new pops up with the potential to increase our anxiety, rendering us more burnt out, powerless, tired or sad. The weight of this may be taking a toll on us and many others are feeling exactly

Respect is key to good gender relations

10 Dec 2022 08:30 AM IST

The qualities of the human soul are expressed through actions and relationships. The soul itself has masculine and feminine qualities and according to the karmic situation occupies a male or female body. The spiritual understanding of the Brahma Kumaris is that the human being comprises a soul and a body,

Atma chittam: This Shiv sutra conveys something very important

06 Dec 2022 09:38 AM IST

Day, 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. There is a limit to everything.

Reincarnation: How can it be scientifically proved?

06 Dec 2022 09:35 AM IST

If one believes in the existence of a just God, then a belief in reincarnation can follow very readily, as the two beliefs are really dependent, one on the other. But what about the skeptics and the atheists? Can the truth of reincarnation be scientifically proven to their satisfaction? Can

CAN YOU HOLD A SINGLE THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE?

06 Dec 2022 09:29 AM IST

We become good at whatever we practise. The funny thing is, most of us are experts at practising distraction. Often, we seek new distractions to distract us from what is distracting us to distraction! We live in a society that trains us to multi-task. Our focus flits constantly and we

Does my pride hold me to ransom?

03 Dec 2022 12:10 PM IST

Since we live in a world of opposites, everything we think, say, and do is about balance. Therefore, to define ‘pride’ it is important to understand the level of awareness from which ‘pride’ is being expressed. True pride is when I come from the understanding that I am a soul

Creating our destiny

03 Dec 2022 12:04 PM IST

What would we want our final moments to be like? How do we feel when we look back on our life? Is there satisfaction that our time in this world was spent in a worthwhile way, or is there regret and remorse at all the things that could have been

Making sense of a chaotic world

03 Dec 2022 12:02 PM IST

“What’s really going on?” Things seem to be getting more and more chaotic, and it helps at times like these to try to understand what is really going on. In a nutshell, it all comes down to energy. Everything is energy. There are two types of energy – one is

How to be happy all the time

29 Nov 2022 00:02 AM IST

Excerpted from the book in The Wisdom of Yogananda series, How to Be Happy All the Time:To seek happiness outside ourselves is like trying to lasso a cloud. Happiness is not a thing: It is a state of mind. It must be lived. Neither worldly power nor moneymaking schemes can ever capture