By: Adi Shankaracharya Fool! Give up thy thirst for wealth, banish all desires from thy heart, Let thy mind be satisfied with what is gained by thy Karma. Do not be proud of wealth, of friends, or of youth;...
By: Seetha ‘Priya’ Shankaracharya Hill comes into view as we approach Srinagar from the airport. The conical temple on top of the densely forested hill overlooks Dal Lake and in the mild afternoon light, it is shining like the...
By: Dr G. R. Vijayakumar The first noble truth of the Guru Dakshinamurthy, ‘All is suffering’, implies that our lived life is fraught with pain and misery. Suffering is a permanent human condition. Even what we call happy and...
By: Sai Priya “Mortification ought to culminate in non-attachment to things of sense”. “Creation is full of grace. But he who merges his will into God’s will, become fit to receive it” “Surrender, total surrender is the password to...
It was the day after Rama Navami day in 1915. Dasganu Maharaj had delivered an electrifying hari katha on Ram’s birth. When he came to the masjid, Baba complimented him on his keerthan and put a few questions to...
Spiritual head of Sai Mandir Hysodlour We Have lot of problems. As we try to find a way out of all the resulting uncertainty, the words ‘shraddha’ and ‘saburi’, faith and patience, frequently associated with Shirdi Sai Baba, come...
By: Anandmurti Gurumaa Seeing the world around you fall apart, and all endearing bonds wither away like blossoms hitting their age of senescence in the autumn’s fall, you have witnessed the brutality of death. You never knew how fragile...
By: Jayakrishna Nelamangala || ōm̐ śrī gurubhyō namaḥ hariḥ ōm̐ || Mantra # 13 Just as vidya and avidya are mentioned as the causes for the two-folded moksha, so also, sambhooti and asambhooti are mentioned as the causes for...
(Material world is a manifestation of spirit or Infinite consciousness) By: Sai Raghu “The Eternal, the Infinite, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient is a principle, not accurately a person as is accepted. Everyone is only the embodiment of the principle,...
By: Shreyas Devaraj Tapasvi Maharaj Tapasvi Maharaj’s ashram is about 70 kilometers from Bangalore. He is a crown prince of Rajasthan and renounced the pleasures of royal life and came down to South India at the young man of...