Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
A Meditator pursues Eternity – New Year Message
1 January, 2026 @ 11:02 am
Every 31st of December I come and do what I call time demolishing. One of the names of the great lord of the universe is Akala, one beyond time. For example, in the Sikh religion, the primary name is Akal Purush, the timeless person. So, to me, the celebrations of transitions in time, they are for that part of that vast segment of humanity which still lives in the world of time transitions.
Silence Can Be Your Wishing Stone
4 October, 2025 @ 2:59 pm
This is 9th June [1995] morning at the ashram in Rishikesh – 5:20 am here. The sky is full of sounds – birds’ songs, so rich – of which I sent you all a cassette at one time. The intruder into the bird songs is the cawing of crows that is loud, imperialistic, uncaring . . . but the birds continue to sing. I hope that during this recording no other loud sounds will be heard. If they are heard, please ignore them. I should have done this recording an hour and a half ago, but the momentum of working the Yoga-sutra II.52 was vibrant, and I continued typing, and now I am a little late. And I do want to put this into the mail so that it gets to Minneapolis and from there gets to Calgary. Calgary, a place I’m really very, very fond of. In terms of seriousness of studies it is only second to Germany where people are really serious. On the other hand, I may be doing injustice to others who do study and don’t want to bother me with questions because they are capable of answering themselves. This is also true of Calgary, but I am happy for any reason to communicate – a teacher of silence who loves to speak. Perhaps I will close with that theme at the end.
What Is Knowledge
5 September, 2025 @ 5:21 pm
Always remember that there is a difference between information and knowledge. You have read something, that is information. You are debating about it in the mind. That is also based on information.
Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation?
3 August, 2025 @ 1:00 pm
Does a soul after death go to heaven or hell, or does it reincarnate? On the surface it would appear to be a controversial question, but it really is not, once the definition of heaven and hell is better understood.
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.