Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
Holi Wishes 2012
22 March, 2024 @ 12:10 pm
I wish you a colours-lit whole year and all of the times beyond.
Draw Yourself to Yourself
15 March, 2024 @ 5:26 pm
Draw yourself to yourself. Empty your mind of all things from sources outside you and look into your mind for a force that may be entirely yours.
Atma Tattva Avalokanam – Swami Veda’s Address to the Gathering of the Sangha, February 2nd 2010
19 February, 2024 @ 10:00 am
Free your mind. Free your mind of all the parigrahas, everything that mind has grabbed onto, hold nothing. Let your mind calm. Come back home, to the divine temple that is your body, that is your being, that is your prana, that is your mind, that is your self. You the Atman.
“…Give the gift of lights to all sentient beings…”
22 December, 2023 @ 6:06 pm
Be as a tree for this Christmas. Be as a tree on which are hung many lights and around which many joyous friends dance.
Tapas in Hatha Yoga
24 October, 2023 @ 10:59 am
What the hatha yogis do is follow a very wise principle, which has been spoken of by all the schools of wisdom and philosophy in the whole world and which is one of the many secrets of a happy life.
Make Yourself Small
26 September, 2023 @ 4:23 pm
Always try to find opportunities to make yourself small. Always try to find opportunities to make yourself small before others in humility – mental humility – not always trying to assert your bigness, not always asserting your thought that “I am right!” Say, “I’m wrong,” and then you will grow. “Yes, I’m wrong, my mistake, my fault. Yes, it’s my fault.” And sometimes do it even if it is not your fault.
Six Steps to Liberation
26 August, 2023 @ 7:32 am
Six requirements for true liberation include - 1. Shama: tranquillity, 2. Dama: control, 3. Uparati: natural turning away, 4. Titiksha: fortitude, 5. Shraddha: humble faith, and 6. Vairagya: turning away from the desires and pleasures of the world
Love, Meditation, and Service
24 July, 2023 @ 5:40 am
“I have one question in mind. A person decides to go to a world-famous Meditation Centre (Ashram) in South India, for 10 days. Supposing that the person, while leaving the city finds family person seriously ill, but continues with journey to that Ashram, will it be fair? Especially if the ill person at home has no one by his/her side and needs emotional support, more than anything?
Guru Purnima 2013
20 July, 2023 @ 12:01 pm
These are sacred days in succession. Buddha-purnima, full moon celebrating Buddha’s enlightenment around June; guru-purnima, full moon celebrating and honouring the universal guru and the individual guru, around July; rishi-purnima, the full moon celebrating the rishis, the ancient sages of yore through whom the knowledge of the Vedas was revealed, around August.
Mind, Emotions, and Spiritual Progress
2 May, 2023 @ 3:44 pm
A person who is making spiritual progress has total control over the functions of the mind. This moment he may be dealing with the most profound, philosophical text and someone in need of reassurance walks in; he listens to the story, gives reassurance; the person walks out and leaves no residue behind in your mind.