Articles by Swami Veda Bharati 
How the Guru taught
20 July, 2018 @ 4:56 pm
I was an old papyrus, a birch bark, a palm leaf, Half crumpled, unwritten upon.
Vasudeva Principle, Toronto, 2004
20 June, 2018 @ 2:45 pm
In the Bhagavad Gita, we read “vasudeva sarvam”. That indwelling One is All. There is no other in relation-to, or conditioned-by. What do we mean by the indweller, the indwelling force? One of the many ways, the word “vasudeva” is translated in Bhagavad Gita is the “indwelling deity”. This is closely related to the word “vasu”, meaning, “all places”, for all places are dwelling places of divinity. Vasu is also the “hamsa”, that swan of the universal prana dwelling every-where in every-thing. Vasu-mana is also one of the thousand names of Shiva in the Mahabharata. Vasu-mana means beautiful mind, a mind that dwells as light in Being, and therefore, Vasu is the beautiful, light-filled, indwelling force.
A Song of Compassion
16 June, 2018 @ 11:19 am
The contents of one of the songs I recorded often comes to my mind whenever I see or think of non-humans being killed. Here is a paraphrase of the song.
The Spiritual Festival of 1992
23 May, 2018 @ 3:26 pm
Friends, I am making this recording at the ashram in Rishikesh at the bank of the Holy Mother, Ganga. Just across the river I often hear the sounds of wild peacocks. And just two nights ago I heard the great trumpeting of a tusker, an elephant we had seen walking around and eating the vegetation. At this time, 4:00 a.m., this place is magic. And I think of all of you who are deprived of such peace that comes to me when I spend some time here. Solitude to me becomes a tangible, palpable force - a force that keeps me company. When I am here, I do not want to move; I do not want to go anywhere. And then my thoughts run to you - and a certain call comes forth from within my heart and mind. Perhaps it is the Guru Spirit that is reminding me that I should do my duty towards you, as my Gurudeva has so generously done towards me within the tradition.
Significance of Yajna
16 April, 2018 @ 11:31 am
The Vedic religion was primarily that of worshipping divinities through the medium of fire. Very complex fire altars with geometric precision were built.
Gulliverian Silence
16 March, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
Gulliver arrives in a country where he sees innumerable little fires burning. People are standing by the fires, mourning. Others are mourning by the holes they are digging or those holes that they have filled.
Psychology of Silence
16 February, 2018 @ 12:13 pm
When we contemplate silence and begin to talk about it, would we find ourselves at a loss for words? We want to reach the point of silence where words would be fully lost and the silence of mind that ensues alone would be our communication.
PEACE IS …..
10 February, 2018 @ 10:02 pm
Peace is the cool waters that flow between riparian states, Peace is the continents touching under the mantleof the depth of the oceans
Friend
6 February, 2018 @ 8:14 pm
A friend, thus, is one who starts off out of a sentiment of affection; grants benevolence without seeking a return or an acknowledgment; slowly shares the same space of awareness, awakening of same level of consciousness and the realization of the Transcendent; at each step encouraging the friend to keep on the path, not to slip into apathy and darkness and confusion; serves as a solar beacon to light up the friend’s path and helps to stabilize him permanently into a clarity and pleasantness of the mind. Su-hrd, mitra, sa-khaa.
Saumya Practice 2001 – 2002
15 January, 2018 @ 8:22 pm
This particular observance that I am requesting our Gurudeva's discipleship to undertake this year has the purpose of bringing about peacefulness within each mind, radiating first into the personal family, then into the entire Guru family AND then into the larger global family. The normal rule is that while such an observance is going on there should be no controversial or confrontational thought. Not even one thought, leave along a word or action on the part of those who are undertaking such an observance.