Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
How Is Your Silence Going?
24 July, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
Many of my friends and initiates in all continents write me asking, “Swamiji, how is your silence going?” I am tempted to answer, “How is your talking going?” Majority have a not five-year but life-long vow of talking. To many, silence is something not so natural. To others, seekers after truth and serenity, silence is the nature from which we have emerged and into which we will dissolve. Through all our externalised sense operations, an inner substratum of a silent stream continues to flow. Some of us have chosen to take a dip into that stream.
Lectures at the 2013 Sangha Gathering – Lecture #4
18 July, 2013 @ 6:15 pm
Is everybody happy in spite of any discomfort? It must be a bit hard for the people who have to stay off campus and have to go back late at night and come back early in the morning with no time to rest and not enough sleep. I don’t know what kind of breakfast you are getting over there and how you are managing with the food here.
Lectures at the 2013 Sangha Gathering – Lecture #3
18 June, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
We have been discussing the stations in spiritual progress and the stations in the progress in meditation also. Because many times people inquire: “How do I know whether I am making progress?” So I have given you some readings and some recordings which will help you. And we have covered some ground in the last several days.
Yoga and Science
16 June, 2013 @ 2:47 pm
In the traditions of India we often speak of the twins Yoga and Veda. Veda, the science, is the intuitive knowledge derived through the buddhi -- whether in meditation or empirically in Nyaya-Vaisheshika-Ayurveda type of experimental procedures. In the traditions of India, the intuitive and the empirical are inseparable because one must enter the state of meditation to receive the intuitions that will then be experimentally tested and proved. Thus, without yoga, there is no Veda, no science.
How to Bring Spirituality into Family Life
31 May, 2013 @ 7:56 pm
Bring your mind to your asana where you are sitting. Turn inwards. Relax your forehead. Feel the flow and the touch of your breath in your nostrils, with your personal mantra. Breathing slowly, gently, smoothly. No break in your breathing cycle, no break in your mantra cycle.
Lectures at the 2013 Sangha Gathering – Lecture #2
18 May, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
Om. Hari Om. How is everybody’s forehead doing? Are you a little bit more free of worrying and anxieties? We would like your visit here to be a success. And what will be your definition of a success?
Lectures at the 2013 Sangha Gathering – Lecture #1
19 April, 2013 @ 10:58 am
Welcome to you all. Thank you for being here and warming mine and each other’s hearts by your presence. I hope, I pray, I suggest that you use this time both for saṅgha and sādhana.
Practice for the Next Five Years and the Rest of Your Life
17 March, 2013 @ 5:11 pm
During Swami Veda’s talk on 9th March 2013 at the 2013 Sangha Gathering, Swamiji introduced the practice for “the next five years and the rest of your life.” This is a transcript of that talk.
Shiva Sankalpa Prayer
17 March, 2013 @ 4:59 pm
That which travels far while one is awake, That which also similarly goes far while one is asleep, May that far-reaching one light of many lights, May that, my mind, be filled with beautiful and benevolent resolves.
Love in Stillness
6 March, 2013 @ 7:45 pm
Let me but once still myself. When I am still, will my senses become inoperative? Will my activity all cease? Is that a state, something, to aspire for? Only that stillness, which at present lies occluded, will be experienced and it will become known that stillness is not absence of activity, it is the only source of activity. That, silence is not an absence of speech; silence is the source of speech. It will be known that non-violence is not an absence of violent action; it is overflowing love in which there is no other.Love ceases when love exists. There shall be no more love, for another. There shall be no more love towards an alien. When I have ceased the otherness, I cannot love another. When there is no alien, there is no hate. When love is, love ceases. When love ceases, then love is. If love is between two, the ‘two’ ceases, so love ceases. God, give me that love, that by its very existence ceases and I fail to say ‘I love another’. For, I look around and I find no other. Whom shall I love? Then love becomes my own Self, filled with the Self to the brim.