Chasing Cars
Another question from a youth in Hyderabad: Hello sir. I have been following your posts since I joined this group. The ‘hear and say’ way has been the mode of propagation for Vedas and Upanishads. One...
View ArticleWhy Can’t All People Think This Way?
Another question from a Hyderabad youth: Why should I choose to find enlightenment? In religion or God? Or anything for that matter. If I choose to believe/follow some religion or god, nothing changes....
View ArticleEnlightenment
Another question: What is your understanding about so-called ‘enlightenment’? How you will translate that word in Telugu or Hindi or Sanskrit or Tamil? In post-independence India, our life has become...
View ArticleDiscerning the Truth
“How can we know we are on the right path”? This is a relevant question and issue. What is right or wrong is very relativistic and we cannot give any absolute uniform answer to this. What looks right...
View ArticleSelf-Interest
Now to your other question: Do you agree with me that anything done for promoting survival chances is good (with long-term prospects considered)? My response is a big NO. Your question comes in the...
View ArticleThe Best Religion
What are the qualities, aims of a good religion? There are many religions; what makes sanatana dharma stand out of the rest and be the best? I don’t mean any disrespect to other religions by this, but...
View ArticleMy Experience With Muktinath
Would you please tell me about your experience of getting enlightened by Yeshu. I set my own creeds and tried to live up to them since I was a teenager. As I grew and become a young man, I realized...
View ArticleKarma and Simplified Religion
Dear Swamiji, While reading through your answers, some instances from Mahabharata flashed in my mind. Krishna’s biological mother asks why he couldn’t save his siblings born before him. To this Krishna...
View ArticleSong 80 – The Seeking Grace
Whatever might be my struggle, when I meditated upon the Grace of God which sought me every day, I wrote this song. என் போராட்டங்கள் எவ்வளவாக இருந்தாலும் நாளும் என்னை நாடிவரும் இறைவனின் கிருபையை...
View ArticleScripture and Bhakti
Without a foundational scripture, most Hindus don’t have the habit of reading any particular (sectarian) scripture as part of their (everyday) sadhana. Of course many will recite songs (bhajans) from...
View ArticleOn Deathbed
At our year-end meeting, someone asked, “Imagine you were on your deathbed. What are the three things that you wish you could have done better? How would you like to be remembered?” When my turn came I...
View ArticleAdjusting
Again at our year-end meeting, I made the comment after a round of questions that I have only one word for all problems in life and that is: ADJUST. What else can one do? If others cannot adjust with...
View ArticleBhatki Song 84 – What Else Do I Require?
On 17-02-1996 in the evening as usual I went for my evening walk. I was staying with Shashikant Dube in his village at Mahari (Rewa, M.P). After half an hour walk at the out skirt of the village there...
View ArticleBhakti Song 85 – Fill Me With Faith
நிறைத்திடு நம்பிக்கை நம்பிக்கை எனக்கு உண்டு ஆயினும் ஐயனே என்னுளே போராடும் இம் மனதிலே அவ நம்பிக்கையும் உண்டு! என்னதான் செய்வேன் நானே? நீக்கிட அதனையும் தானே? முயன்றேனே நானும் பலமுறை ஆனால் தோற்றேனே இதுவரை...
View ArticleBhakti Song 86 – Over Lord Me!
ஆட்கொள்வாயே! உன்பெலன் மட்டும் இல்லாவிட்டால் ஓயாத இவ்வுலக வாழ்க்கையிலே! உள்ளான மனதில் அமைதியே இல்லை உருண்டோடும் இம்மனித வாழ்வினிலே நாள்தோறும் என்னை நாடிவருகின்ற நன்மை-தீமை எண்ணப் போனால் எண்ண முடியுமோ...
View ArticleBhakti Song 100 – My Freedom
உன் சுதந்திரம் ஒருநாள்போனது மறுநாள் வந்தது உன்னருளாலே எல்லாம் கிடைத்தது இந்நாளும்மே நன்நாளாயிருக்க ஐயா அருள்வாய் உன்தயவிருக்க வாழ்வின் நோக்கம் இதுதானென்று வகையாய்க் கூறினோர் எவரும் இல்லை நோக்கம் இன்றி...
View ArticleBhakti Song 101 – Andadi
It is better for me to skip this song 101, as it remains incomplete. When I was reading Tiruvasagam by Manikkavasagar, at Mahari (Rewa, M.P. at Shashikant’s house), I began to write these stanzas in...
View ArticleBhakti Song 102 – Hail Him
This a Tamil version of the Hindi bhajan ‘Namuliyore Namuliyore’. It’s not a verbatim copy, but it follows the same tune. துதியுங்கள் போற்றித் துதியுங்கள் புகழ்ந்து பாடுங்கள் புனிதவன் நாமத்தையே...
View ArticleBhakti Song 103 – Light the Deepam
“தீபு ஜலே” என்ற ஹிந்தி பாடலைத் தழுவி எழுதியது: This song is based on the Hindi bhajan ‘Deepu jala’. தீபமேற்று உள்ளம் என்னும் கோயிலிலே அன்புஎன்னும் தீபமேற்றி புகழ்ந்து கூறு அவனை நினைந்துபாடு...
View ArticleBhakti Song 104 – What I Require
எது வேண்டும் அருள் வேண்டும் அதுவன்றி உலகினிலே அமைதியாய் வாழ ஒரு வழிவேண்டும் தொழவேண்டும் தொண்டர் குழாமொடு தெய்வமே நின்பாதமதில் பக்தியோடு மதிவேண்டும் மாயையான இவ்வாழ்வினிலே மனம்போன போக்கில் போகாமல்...
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