Yogananda: How to weaken a bad habit
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate...
For Delhi, reeling under a suffocating smog, a solution from China
Daan Roosegaarde and his team of experts have created the world’s largest smog vacuum cleaner. The 7-meter (23 feet) tall SMOG FREE TOWER uses patented positive ionisation technology to produce smog free air in...
Conversation with a leaf -Thich Nhat Hanh
I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, “No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I...
Isha Upanishad / Geeta / Nisargidatta / Yogananda / 1
Demonic verily are the worlds which are enveloped in blinding darkness. And to them go, after death, those who harm their inner selves. Isha Upanishad In the Bhagavad-Gita says Lord Krishna that the self...
Yogananda / Ramana Maharishi / 2
The Guru When one has found his guru there should be unconditional devotion to him, because he is the vehicle of God. The guru’s sole purpose is to bring the disciple to Self-realization; the...
Adi Shankaracharya / Yogananda / 3
Patience Do not look for a spiritual flower every day. Sow the seed, water it with prayer and right endeavor. When it sprouts, take care of the plant, pulling out the weeds of doubt,...
Isha Upanishad / Yogananda / 4
When tilling the ground for the cultivation of crops, one needs patience to destroy all useless weeds and to wait, even though the ground then appears barren, until the hidden good seeds sprout into...