Thinking about It
Do you ever stop and think about why you do what you do everyday?
Australian psychologist turned Hindu Monk, Swamini Supriyananda, provides insightful answers to your contemporary questions and challenges. Her captivating anecdotes, infused with the philosophies of the ancient Hindu teachings, are guaranteed to inspire us to think about it!
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 337
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Keep it Real - Stress to Confidence
The bhaja govindam in verse 27 gives us a to-do list. Chanting the Bhagavad Gita is the start to create interest in us trying to understand the Gita and the path to happiness.
It helps us resolve al…
Keep it Real - Caught in Hell
Hell is typically described as the terrible place where we are punished. In bhaja govindam, it says that we are in hell when we experience anger, desire, greed, and delusion. Renounce desire, anger, …
Keep it Real - Why we struggle to see the infinite
Desire is quite a force. It makes us have a tunnel vision and make us overbearing. It transforms into anger, greed and delusion.
When desire is obstructed, it becomes anger. In anger we can lose our …
Keep it Real - It's not me, it's you
We spend so much time making up and breaking up. We exhaust ourselves and we lose our peace. We get angry at one action and write off the whole person and relationship, often over something small and…
Keep it Real - It's all the same
We're all very similar to each other. Today's verse is about seeing oneness in all beings and things. The emotions we feel are the same. When we watch a movie or read a book, we identify with the cha…
Keep it Real - Let's Wake Up
A line questions many of us ask ourselves are where do we come from and why are we here. All of these questions lead us to the infinite truth. Sometimes, the answers to questions aren't directly visi…
Keep it Real - Crazy Happy
Do you think God talks to you? It's one of the symptoms of someone diagnosed with psychosis is that they hear someone speaking to them and telling them what to do. The similarities between a man of e…
Keep it Real - The Importance of Prayer
We come into this world with all the right tools to get moksha but we lose our way. Our determination dwindles and things become hopeless.
In this state, we prey. It's extremely powerful, it opens ou…
Keep it Real - Map to Moksha
In verse 20 of Bhaja Govindam, we learn that we need to study the Bhagavad Gita and to workship Lord Krishnaso that we can gracefully accept death when it comes - we could possibly go beyond death.
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Keep it Real - Just a little bit
Swamini Supriyananda talks about the importance of studying the Bhagawad Gita. Many of us may not have the dispassion to stay in the Himalayas the way swamis do. We don’t need to anymore, technology …
Keep it Real - Feel the Bliss
True bliss is experienced on the inside. The story of Lord Ram is a great example of how it didn't matter whether he was in his grand palace or during exile in the forest.
We judge sages by their ext…
Keep it Real - The Happiness Equation
We all have desires; desires we seek to fulfill. The ratio between the number of desires we fulfill to the total number of desires we have can be a measurement of our happiness. Swamini Supriyananda …
Keep it Real - The Why and the How
We can make spiritual progress only by preparing and training our mind so that its ready to gain the knowledge. There are many techniques to prepare the mind. Swaminiji shares many examples of the sa…
Keep it Real - Overcoming our Desires
As a follow up from the previous episode, now that we know that desires can really harm us and that we should get over them, we learn methods to get over our desires. One such method is to delay grat…
Keep it Real - Working with our desires
Have we ever felt as if we have outgrown certain desires? What do we do about desires we have that are extremely bad for us? Swamini Supriyananda talks about the importance of acknowledging the desir…
Keep it Real - To be, or to pretend to be
It’s not what’s outside, but what’s inside that counts. Our superficial desires sometimes make us false pretenders to seek glory; without necessarily working towards actually experiencing that glory.…
Keep it Real - Old Monks don’t Lie
Swamini Supriyananda narrates a story about seeking happiness from motives of desire and how this will lead to nothing. If we learn to release our cravings in the search for contentment, we will find…
Keep it Real - Getting over Misery
We as humans tend to be dissatisfied with what we have and want things that we don't have. We often chase things we don't need, because we tell ourselves that its the next thing we get will give us h…
Keep it Real - Why are we stressed?
Swamini Supriyananda talks about our love-hate relationship with stress. We think we thrive under stress and we are more productive, we also associate our work's importance based on how stressed we a…
Keep it Real - Time for the Timeless
Swamini Supriyananda talks about how time can play tricks on us. Sometimes we think we have plenty of time, so we go about planning to use that time - and before we know it, the time runs out. Other …