Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
Pain and Ignorance
12 May, 2015 @ 2:53 pm
We were speaking of pain. Because people say, "I love this world. I like its pleasures. Now what is this 'withdrawal' from them?" First of all, meditation is not a withdrawal. Closing the eyes is closing nothing. Silencing the speech is silencing nothing. To close, you close the outward eyes and open the inward eyes. Even when your eyes are open, they're open to what – a very tiny patch of the sky through the prison cell. How much of reality do they see? Ask the physicist if you are seeing right when you are seeing a solid. He says, "No, there's no such thing as a solid." He says, "Everything is a field of energy." Your eyes don't see it. Your eyes don't see reality. Even what you experience with the senses, of the world of senses, is nothing. Your experience is limited and full of misleading cues. Closing the eyes to this world of limitations in order to open them to a world of unlimited consciousness is something very natural to man – to look for something greater, something expansive. Man has done it all along. The scientist does it when he studies the universe. The communist does it when he worships Lenin. And, as I said yesterday, an atheist American does it when he buys a Superman comic and identifies with that Superman in his daydream.
The Silent World
11 May, 2015 @ 5:50 pm
Now, the struggle to purify one's thoughts during meditation can be a hard one. People struggle with these waves upon waves of emotions and commotions arising in the mind and become very discouraged during their meditations, or about their meditations.
Story about Kashayp Goshal
11 May, 2015 @ 5:36 pm
It is a story from long ago. On the banks of the Ganga river near the holy city of Varanasi there lived a certain person in a colony. His name was Kashyap Goshal. People used to say that anger never visits him. Truly, no one had ever seen him getting angry. In the same colony some people conspired: let us get him angry. They organized a small group. Someone from that group offered to Kashyap’s servant: If you can get Kashyap angry you will receive a big prize from us.
Variety of Dreams
11 May, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
Such dreams are extremely rare and are received by (a) very pure minds or (b) the minds that have paid off some of their karmas, burnt off their heavier samskaras (imprints from past life that constitute the ‘store house of karma’ --karmashaya) and are at a place where they can respond to the divine call.
Mother’s Day Letter, 2015
10 May, 2015 @ 2:27 pm
MA! Thine eyes smiling at your feminine consorts, thy glance, ever so compassionate towards me, Divine Mother mine!
Can I Have Samadhi
11 April, 2015 @ 8:35 pm
Since my childhood I have heard and read from the yogis that if you can sit absolutely still, without the slightest flicker, for 3 hours and 36 minutes you will enter samadhi. Gurudeva Swami Rama has also confirmed the same many times. I can imagine that some who are reading this will now start to attempt to sit still with the determination that ‘I shall not move for 3 hours and 36 minutes’. But then after 25 minutes what to do with that horrible itch in the nose and twitch in the knee and whew, I have got to scratch my mind’s itch as well. ‘Oh it didn’t work today but I am going to try tomorrow again’.
Why Heartaches?
14 March, 2015 @ 5:24 pm
I ache as a mother aches when she holds an ailing child. I ache at the suffering of those I have loved all over the world. Like children, they won’t listen!
Brain Damage in Modernity
14 March, 2015 @ 5:20 pm
Here I take a different approach. While the IQ scores are reported to be rising, the modernity also makes us lose some of the abilities of our brain. We no longer want to do mental work; we want to depend on calculators and computers. Our parents and grandparents, in the east and the west, did mental arithmetic as a matter of course. Their minds were trained to do so. Now, calculators are allowed in the examination rooms (at least in the Western countries) so that the students no longer need to depend on their memory work of the Tables (pahaRas in Hindi).
Liquified Silence
14 March, 2015 @ 5:09 pm
In some unplanned moments in human history a sudden strange surge of silences becomes enfleshed. The people call it a “saint.” The enfleshment ends but silence continues so that many pilgrims may journey to immerse themselves in the pools left in the chambers where silence was thus “born” and had a dwelling. Impelled, uninvoked, from the depths of some unknown ocean, the high tide of an irrepressible urge to silence comes welling up to sweep at the shores of some open-stretched-out minds, and leaves its overwhelming imprint of a quiet power behind.
Pain and Silence
13 March, 2015 @ 1:53 pm
A painful physical condition grants me many advantages and benefits, such as these: preservation and intensification of energy, come and sit in silent meditation, attachment to books and writing, practice to go very quickly to those intense places within which are centres beyond the reach of pain and physical discomfort