Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Chapter 3, Verse 3
Kṛṣṇa was not talking here as Mr. Kṛṣṇa, who was born on a given day at a given time, but as Īśvara, the Lord. Throughout the Gītā, Kṛṣṇa talked as the Lord, except in one or two places where he said to Arjuna, 'You...
Swami Tattvavidananda Saraswati
In the Vedic culture, worshiping of Īśvara – Īśvaropāsana – is very characteristic and unique, and probably slightly different from what we come across today in the Hindu society. Here, Īśvara is worshiped in a form, which is readily available for our perception as part of the...
Vivekachudamani 32-70Swami Pratyagbodhananda16 Classes2018
by Swami Dayananda Saraswati
As we have Father’s Day and Mothers Day, Gurus also have their own day. This day is Gurupūrṇimā and it marks the anniversary of Veda Vyāsa, who occupies an exalted place in the hierarchy of teachers. Although there were also gurus for Veda Vyāsa, we look...
Swami Dayananda Saraswati
If we take the word “meaning” to be “goal”, the meaning of life certainly cannot be death. If death is the goal of life, then I need not be born at all, the goal being my absence. If I was absent before I was born, I do...
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Satsang with Swami Viditatmananda
The non-Self is able to reveal objects only due to the presence of the Self
Vāco vibhānti nikhilā yadanugraheṇa. Yadanugraheṇa, by whose grace, nikhilā vāco vibhānti, all these words manifest, is speech also manifest. What makes speech function? Again, the Kenopaniṣad , says,
yadvācā' nabhyuditaṁ yena vāgabhyudyate,
tadeva brahma...
Swami Viditatmananda Saraswati
The word yoga means joining. When we study what yoga teaches us, we find that it is not a process of joining something with something else, but rather, a process of disjoining or disconnecting two entities that are as though united. We take the two entities to...