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PRACTICAL STEPS TO INNER PEACE - 1.2. Sri Swami Chidananda.

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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June, 25, 2021. 7:42.AM. 1. PEACE IS EVER-PRESENT -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The total evaluation of our life is by trying to make ourselves fit instruments for doing maximum good to the maximum number of creatures in the maximum number of ways that we can, at all times, at all places and until the very last breath. This is the good life, and we should not postpone. Gurudev, who was a very modern saint, gave us the dictum: D.I.N. Do it Now. More than anything, the desire of modern man in this concluding decade of the 20th century is for Peace. People are tired of war, violence, hatred. All want Peace. Everyone is intensely hankering for Peace. When people are too much tormented by the environment with its pressure and all that, they want to go away somewhere. They go and spend the whole day in Dakshineswar Temple and come back. ...

What is Divine Life? - Swami Sivananda

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 18, 2021. 6:43.AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To shed the animal in man and to sublimate the human in him into the divine, to express this sublimation in his daily, hourly, life in thought, word and deed - that is truly divine life. To speak the truth at all costs, to speak sweetly with love, to practise non-violence, celibacy, to behold the Lord in all forms is Divine life. To be ever in communion with the Lord by annihilating mineness and egoism through faith, devotion and self-surrender is Divine life. If you want to be a devotee of the Lord, you must also realize the evils of undivine life. This will surely save you, Repetition of the Lord's Names will purify the mind. But along with these you must also practise vichara, When the mind entertains unholy thoughts, remember the consequences, viz. pain, disease and death. Also th...

PRACTICAL STEPS TO INNER PEACE - 1.1. Sri Swami Chidananda

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June, 04, 2021. 9:13.AM. 1. PEACE IS EVER-PRESENT -1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radiant Immortal Atman! Beloved brethren in the divine and my very dear fellow citizens of Bharatavarsha!  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This disciple and servant of beloved and worshipful Guru Maharaj Swami Sivanandaji is very happy to be amidst you all and have this golden opportunity of serving you by this three days’ sharing. Peace is essentially an inner state of mind. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whatever is being shared is not so much only for knowing but also for practising. If you want to gain acertain tangible outcome from anything, you have to work for it. Then ...