Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
SVB Birthday Blessing 2009
23 March, 2023 @ 3:01 pm
…just this tremendous amount of love everywhere from people I did not know. And I’ve found that God has made a very, very loving world, and my prayer for you is that you find your world to be the same, and my prayer for myself is that whether someone throws roses at me or throws mud at me, I should remain the same and there should be no change in the level of my love. That’s my prayer for myself, and for you, may you find the world to be as full of love as beautiful as that I have found in traveling around to strange places, new places. Everywhere may you find the same.
75th-Birthday Blessing-2008
23 March, 2023 @ 2:44 pm
It was beautiful. Someone whom I have known from the age of 7, I’d never thought in those years of 1956-57 that we will be meeting here. Such a touching occasion for me. The whole history from that country where I was serving Guyana to this day here in Rishikesh. And tonight, Hungarian song-hymn sung to the tabla rhythms in Rishikesh. What can be a better demonstration of a world culture. And here we are creating this world culture so beautifully expressed. Those things make me blush.
Swami Veda Replies to His Friends’ Birthday Wishes
23 March, 2023 @ 2:27 pm
Each day the sun is born a new, Each soul has a new dawn upon waking from sleep, Each mind is born to new realities every moment, Each turning of the atom is an infinite span in which, your consciousness has taken births as many times as, your atoms have turned in all bodies of all your incarnations – and mine.
SVB Birthday Blessing 2005
23 March, 2023 @ 2:21 pm
I have been given the good fortune in this incarnation to have three birthdays in a year. Yes, this day (24th March) identifies the birth day of this body. But when you receive yoga-diksha, the real yoga-diksha, you are led through dying and rebirthing. That body doesn’t exist anymore and then you are reborn. This is a secret among the yogis. You were body-bound, outward identified, now you have become inward. Your senses ordinarily flow outwards, from the moment of yoga-diksha, there is a "pull" and your senses develop the inclination of an inward flow. You operate in the world but you remain an "insider". So that is the real death and birth of a yogi. Death is not unconscious, death is a conscious process. And the yoga diksha is a rebirth, so this is one of my birthday celebrations.
Light
4 March, 2023 @ 11:30 am
The earth is a light. The sky is a light. The beauty of your skin, the softness of your child's cheek, the love in your eyes is a light. The light has become a leaf, a twig, a tree. Light flows as a river from a mountain of light. Whatever you do not experience is not light. All the rest is waves in a sea of light, the light that is the infinite delight, the bliss of God. The lake of Truth and mirage of falsehood is all light.
Guidelines for Spiritual Living
25 February, 2023 @ 10:13 pm
I have some spiritual advice for this group also. Would you like me to give it? I’ll give the advice only if there are enough people to follow it – or even if there is one person to follow it all the way through. There are in all disciplines little practices which help you gauge the depth of your other practices. I’ll give you some of these very simple things.
A Giant Roped
27 January, 2023 @ 7:31 pm
One astrologically auspicious morning, the guru whispered into the disciple’s ear the mantra whereby the latter may call a giant to serve him on command. The disciple was overjoyed at having gained such power as a reward for his services to the Master.“But”, said the Master, “do not rush to use the mantra yet, not until I have taught you all the controls. Do promise”.
Mantra for Freedom from Fear
13 January, 2023 @ 10:14 pm
O Divine Mother, upholder of the universe, grant me strength that I may see all beings with the eyes of a friend. May all beings look at me with the eyes of a friend. May they all, all of us living beings, look at each other with the eyes of a friend.
Story about Lala Babu
4 December, 2022 @ 5:39 pm
The story is about a scion of one such banking house in Mathura. He was known as Lala Babu. He was spiritually inclined and the Guru claimed him. Slowly, slowly, as is usual with the Gurus, he was dragged over the hot coals of purification. After his duties were done for his family he began the process of renunciation, spending his time in spiritual pursuits and meditation.
On the First Maha-samadhi Anniversary of H.H. Swami Rama
13 November, 2022 @ 3:44 pm
The days become sacred when a sacred being imparts a special grace or energy to the forces in the universe. All the annual cycles of celebration and commemorations are built around those occasions. In our present day society and thinking, the human being is no longer a unit in the universe; he views himself as something outside the universe, trying to control the universe as an outsider. This view is incorrect, we are part of the universe, the energy and life that flows through us is the same one through whose rhythms and waves, all the planets, stars, constellations, breath patterns, respond. That enlightenment is not an individual event; it is a cosmic or ultra-cosmic event. The coming into body of a sacred being, an enlightened being, also is not an individual event. It is not something over which only the immediate physical relatives rejoice; it is something of universal importance. It is a universal event. It is beyond the category of the birth of planets. It is said that when an enlightened being sits for his final enlightenment session all the saints, past Buddhas, and enlightened ones attend upon him. And thereafter, his rhythms are not the rhythms of an individual. Those of us who were fortunate to see the Master walking, who recall at times walking with him and feeling as though we paced together with the universal force, with some unseen, unknown magnet – those of us who experienced that phenomenon will never forget it, because it was not an individual but the condensation, the convergence of an unknown number of universal forces passing through that particular space, time, matter coordinate that we call an individual.