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How to Overcome Restlessness?

5 min

Restlessness lives on the promise that, eventually, I will find rest somewhere. There is no great future waiting for you. If you are lonely right now, lonely is what you are, and no great company is waiting for you in the future. You have nothing except what you think you have right now. This is it. When you see this, you enter into rest right now!

Relax and Let the Mind Observe Naturally

5 min

When you are relaxed, then there is no need to observe. Observation is not a need. It cannot happen because you are telling yourself to observe. It cannot happen out of some purpose. When you are internally relaxed, then a subtle observation is automatically happening.

How to Make Your Parents Happy?

9 min

For you to make your parents happy, the first requirement is that you must be happy. If you are not happy, how can you give happiness to your parents? There is a basic law of existence: you can only give what you have. How can you suffer and still make others happy? Please, get rid of the notion that you can compromise your life to make others happy.

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Overcome Inferiority Complex: Path to Self-Sufficiency

11 min

Is there anybody who does not suffer from an inferiority complex? And all inferiority is psychological, mental. You feel you are inferior, the other fellow also feels he is inferior. Then are you inferior? You are inferior only if there is at least somebody who is not inferior. But what if everybody is feeling inferior? Then are you inferior? Because inferiority is relative.

Dealing with a chronic medical condition

10 min

Why Indians Address People as 'Ji'?

What Are the Four Ways to Krishna Darshan?

13 min

The first way, the topmost one, is the Sahaja way (natural way). Krishna prescribes no method there. He says, “Arjuna, just come to Me and be seated in Me, be affirmed in Me, pretty steadfastly. Just do it. Simply, obviously, instantly.” That is the Sahaja way. “Do it directly, Arjuna. If you really are sincere, and if you really have love for Me, then do it right now, right here, right away. What are you waiting for? What do you require a method for? Nothing is needed. You have the intention, you really want it, you aren’t fooling yourself. I am here, come and be settled in Me and that’s it.”

What Is Yoga According to the Bhagavad Gita?

28 min

You May Be Wrong About Death: Bhagavad Gita’s Answer

17 min

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Spirituality and Wisdom

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What is Freedom From Slavery?

8 min

If following others is slavery, the mind quickly wants to conclude that following oneself is freedom. No, following oneself is deeper slavery because what we call the 'self' is just an aggregate of internalized, pervasive influences, like a crow mistaking a cuckoo’s eggs for its own. True freedom is to be free of others and, more importantly, yourself.

Vedanta: The Bridge Between Philosophy and Spirituality

Surprise! A Delicious Dish

5 min

Acharya Prashant: In general, human beings are not cannibals. We do not eat other men and women, do we? Why don't we ask ourselves: “Why don't we eat other men and women? If flesh is what we want to eat, then why kill animals?” There are many who say, “Eating… read_more