Devotional Articles

The earth feels the effect of our good and evil actions. It is a living, breathing, conscious entity for a saint with a spiritual eye or the eye of intuition. It is Bhu Devi or Mother Earth full of life. It is Vishnu. It is Virat. It is not a dead mass of matter of […]

Bhakti is no worldly desires. The moment Bhakti dawns all desires disappear. The devotee does not expect any reward from God. He loves Him for love’s sake. Devotion to the Lord is not certainly for one’s own gain. The basis of Bhakti is self-restraint. Renunciation is the very essence of devotional love. Divine love has

Once a man in Ochre Robes stood before a house and cried out, “Bhiksham Dehi” (I beg for alms). The lady of the house came out and saw the man. She told him, “Son! Go to the backyard. There is a well there. Take your bath and do japa. In the meanwhile, I shall get

HUMAN BODY is the most priceless possession yet so many of us treat it as a thankless gift. We subject it to all sorts of excesses. Health would be ruined, spiritual poverty will arise, destruction would be certain. Pt. Seusankar Seunarine

Train the mind to follow the Lord’s plan to establish Dharma in the world. What can you plan with your paltry intelligence? There was a man who often laughed at God for making the towering banyan tree grow tiny berry-like fruit and giving the ash-gourd on the creeper a big size. God has no sense

When Sankaracharya was in Kasi (Varanasi), at the approach of an untouchable, he said: “You fellow! keep away, keep away!” The other man asked: “Whom do you want to keep away from you? Is it the body? The body is inert. What right has your inert body to ask my inert body to keep away

DEEPAVALI or Divali means “a row of lights”. It falls on the last two days of the dark half of Kartik (October-November). For some it is a three-day festival. It commences with the Dhan-Teras, on the 13th day of the dark half of Kartik, followed the next day by the Narak Chaudas, the 14th day,

Teach children not to receive anything for nothing. Let them earn by hard work the things they seek. Love has first to gladden the home. There is no love now between the elders and the young at home; children do not respect parents. This moral decline will certainly undermine unity and strength. Moral decline is

While awake man experiences a variety of experiences. He passes through joy and grief, praise and ridicule, insult and injury, honour and dishonour. But while asleep the entire tangle fades away. He withdraws from the outer world and is wholly his own designer. He plunges into fear and throws himself into despair. He creates both

The name Shiva Ratri refers to a religious celebration where Lord Shiva is worshipped throughout the night in the month of Phalgun in the Hindu calendar. Shiva Ratri falls on the 13th (or 14th) day of the dark half of Phalgun (February-March). The name Shiva Ratri has two parts, the first is Shiva and the