Mahans
The second Sunday in May has come to be celebrated as Mother’s Day the world over. This is a perfect occasion to acknowledge and appreciate a mother’s inherent characteristics of Love and Sacrifice – the two pillars that ‘motherhood’ is …
All Mahans – great yogis, jnanis and bhaktas who renounced the whole world for spiritual prowess, for Self-Knowledge, for the sake of their Lord – have nevertheless had a soft corner for their mothers. Sri Adi Shankara, the great Jnani …
Akshaya Trithiyai is a very auspicious day in the Indian calendar. It is said anything started or performed on this day will grow; that charitable acts and spiritual practices performed on this day will bring infinite merits. This day also …
Prayers are extremely powerful. They have an innate spiritual power. Sincere, deep and constant prayer lightens and clears the mind of worries and in fact, bestows the great fruits of strength of mind, peace and purity on the person who …
Panguni Uthiram (celebrated on March 26 2013) is said to be the auspicious day when Gowri married Lord Shiva, Sita married Lord Rama, Andal married Lord Ranganatha and became one with him. In contemporary times, it was on this auspicious …
Q. I have read in one of your messages that we should not be susceptible to emotional injuries that others might inflict upon us or emotional influence that others might try to wield on us. How to grow into such …
“Drink the sweet nectar of the Name of God,” urges every one of the great devotee composers of India. The significance of the Name is beyond the conceivable limits of a human mind. Likewise, these saints also point to us …
All the scriptures of Sanatana Dharma strongly proclaim that in this Age of Kali, chanting the Divine Names of God (Nama Sankirtan) is the easiest way to attain God. kalau kalmasHa chittAnAm pApa dravyOpa jIvinAm | vidhikriyA vihInAnAm gatir gOvinda …
