Articles by Swami Veda Bharati golden_leaf

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Ways into Silence

15 March, 2019 @ 11:32 am

Bring your awareness only to the space that your body is occupying. This space is devālaya, temple of God. Be aware of being. No names, no forms, no conditions, no associations. Dwell by the self within the Self. Un-wrinkle your mind.

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Methods in Meditation

15 February, 2019 @ 11:41 am

A meditation guide needs to know these processes that go on in the minds of the students and disciples. There are certain very subtle signs by which a meditation guide knows where a student’s meditation is going at any given time.

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The Perennial in the Millennium

16 January, 2019 @ 7:09 pm

The next thousand years will be whatever you have chosen today to make of them. Uproot the thornbushes now; plant the lilies instead and the time paths of your generations will be paved with soft fragrant petals, each petal an achievement from your labour at interior purifications.

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Two Donkeys

17 December, 2018 @ 6:26 pm

Once upon a time there were two donkeys. The first one going in front was carrying a load of salt on its back. Crossing the river it lolled about in the water for a long time and would not leave despite all tail-twisting, ear-twisting and even a whack or two from the owner.

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What to Do with Your Mind

17 December, 2018 @ 6:17 pm

Meditation is a feeding of the mind, resting of the mind, washing of the mind. For 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes a day, rest your mind. Step off the whirling wheel of your problems, expectations and frustrations of the day. Step off. Step off and stop this constant, continuous stimulus and response. Something touches you. You react. Somebody looks at you. You react. Somebody in a room full of people, in a party, somebody at the other end of the hall whispers your name to somebody else and in all that noise, your ears perk up. You react.

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Diversity of Siddhis in the Yoga Sutras

15 October, 2018 @ 11:53 am

One of the possible areas of scientific investigation would be the methods suggested in the Yoga-sutras of Patanjali for the realization of various accomplishments, siddhis.

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A Child’s Insight

15 September, 2018 @ 12:10 pm

As you go from Rishikesh towards Delhi you pass many sacred, beautiful islands of peace and sanctity. One of my favourites is a place called Shuktal. This is a spot where the grandson of Arjuna, Parikshit, had seven days left of life. So he invited the sage, Śhuka, to recite to him the text of Bhāgavata-purāṇa – the stories of the incarnations of God, and left as a liberated being.

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2007 New Year Blessing

20 July, 2018 @ 8:24 pm

LIKE THE NEXT LINE OF A POEM THAT YOU ARE COMPOSING BE YOUR COMING YEAR.

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Love-mantra

20 July, 2018 @ 5:21 pm

Lady of the universe invites you to her mansion just above the heart gorge

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Hairtip Mandala

20 July, 2018 @ 5:10 pm

I saw, The sun and the moon, Slide down through the sky, And dive into a bindu. Bindu was a tip of Brahma's hair, the centre of a mandala drawn there.

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