Thinking about It

Life’s about seeing there is a greater force and that each one of us plays a part in the grand scheme of things. We don’t have to live life like limited entities who only eat, drink, make money, stru…

In Hinduism, heaven and hell exist both in this life and in the hereafter. Here, they are realms of consciousness that we experience in our own minds. We either daydream positive scenarios or replay …

Most of our thoughts centre around “me” and we become egocentric individuals as we think we are separate from everyone else. More importantly, we start thinking we are separate from the Lord, the lig…

When fear, other emotions, and attachments creep into the mind, it automatically becomes weak. A weak mind looks for reasons to blame our sorrows, difficulties, and problems on. A weak mind loses cla…

Be it at the level of body, mind or intellect, anything that gives us joy attracts us. Thus, what attracts us the most is that which would give us the greatest joy. But instant gratification of our d…

Chapter 1 lays the foundation so that when Krishna speaks, we can understand. But most front covers of published Geetas (i.e., Arjuna’s chariot) depict a great philosophy. In short, the chariot is ou…

Swami Tejomayananda ji jokes, “What does it mean when a man opens the car door for his wife? Either it’s a new car or a new wife!” Attachment to objects and people changes the way we see the world an…

Our minds are blinded by attachments, but our intellect can see. We are constantly making decisions that shape who we become and the destiny we face. Do we listen to the mind or intellect? Though Arj…

With Day 30, we come to the end of our Gratitude Challenge. But please do not let this mark the end for your gratitude practice as we must always remember: gratitude is limitless. Over the last month…

“We don’t experience the world, we experience only our minds,” has been said by numerous philosophers. Our mind is the most powerful tool. It creates our lives and our worlds. It allows us to overcom…

We have seen how we can be grateful for countless things in our lives. But we must not forget that there are times we feel ungrateful as we may feel unrealistically or inappropriately entitled to som…

There is a verse in the Bhagavad Geeta that reads “na me bhakta pranashyati”. Shri Krishna promises that each one of us will be liberated, taken care of by him, and supported. So today, let us be gra…

Music has a huge influence in our lives. It takes the role of not only the best psychologist when we feel like no one understands or the best motivational speaker when we feel like we need to get pum…

Money is a crucial part of our lives, but it is not the most important. Ironically, however, it touches many aspects of our lives in terms of quantity and quality and gives rise to more opportunities…

Gratitude is like many important but non-urgent things that we put off. However, these are usually our life’s most valuable things! So today, let us make gratitude a priority by taking gratitude paus…

In our lives, it is inevitable that we face hardships, challenges, and difficulties. It could be through our dislikes, our fears, or our negative encounters. But all these struggles have shaped us in…

A common reality is that many of us do not like our body or manage to find imperfections that we consequently use to judge ourselves. But what we can realise is that the very thing we are dissatisfie…

As we have seen earlier, we can be grateful for our incredible sense of sight. But this is not the only sense for which we should be thankful for as all of our senses play an integral part in our liv…

Gratitude knows no limits, be it duration, location or anything else! We often go through life perceiving our small moments as fleeting and separate from one another. But in reality, we are not a col…

Like how a flower needs rain and how the ocean needs a shore to break, people need people. We all need each other, not only for us to be able to connect, relate and share, but also for our desire to …