Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
Getting Rid of Negative Influences
2 May, 2025 @ 7:25 pm
What I have observed, and I’ve come to observe this well because my own family lives in two worlds, is the influence of modern society on our ability to be defenceless. My children live at home in a world which is my world of philosophy, scholarship, thinking gentle thoughts, meditation, and peaceful feelings. Then my children go to school and in response to peer group pressure, they have to build defences and cultivate aggressiveness to stay alive and survive, because gentleness and quietness does not work.
Guided Meditation on Christ-Spirit
1 May, 2025 @ 4:48 pm
Gather the most beautiful flowers of this earth, filling your hands with white, red, yellow, and blue flowers and place them at the Lord's feet with both hands cupped.
Two Blood Cells
7 April, 2025 @ 5:05 pm
“Fellow cells, harken! I must share with you a great vision I have been granted. We are not all apart, each cell having a separate life of its own. There is a great omnipresent being whose life force we share, from whom we are born, in whom we dwell, and into whom we each finally dissolve."
Mantra – What and Why
3 February, 2025 @ 11:11 am
Mantra is a word or a series of words; it is a thought; it is a prayer, but not in the sense in which the word “prayer” is used ordinarily, but rather a linkage of our lower consciousness with the higher consciousness, which we call the Divine Consciousness, or the Divine Life-Force. A mantra is a sound-unit, a thought-unit. It is a sound or a series of sounds given to a Yoga student or disciple to remember constantly for a specific spiritual purpose. In our interior map of the web of consciousness, the energy of consciousness takes two forms: sound and light. At a certain stage the sound and the light energy are entwined or unified. At the present stage of our development, they are experienced differently from each other, so we begin with the sound of a mantra. The initiation into light comes a little later.
Kalyana Mitra
18 August, 2024 @ 2:47 pm
A kalyana mitra is who? I have intentionally not used the word TEACHER. Some people say: I am not interested in being a teacher. Others say, oh, I have already done my teacher training!! A brother is a kalyana mitra, a neighbor, parents, children, school teacher.
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.