You may believe that your purpose in life is to be a successful, wealthy professional or the head of a company or a famous star or, some other type of person. But, is it? Is our purpose in life just the roles we play? No!...
Read MoreThe celebration of my 50th birthday on the anniversary of the day I took sanyas (monastic) initiation, the day that Mother Ganga came onto Earth, was such a beautiful blessing.It's been just a week since June 9 when, on the final day of the...
Read MoreAttachments keep everybody stuck. So what we believe that we're looking for is Vairāgya - detachment. The opposite of attachment, right? But, if that's what we're looking for, we're not looking for the right thing. Because truly enlightened masters...
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Parmarth Niketan · Hindus & The Sanatan Dharma (Pujya Sadhviji)One of the most amazing facts about Hinduism is that traditional Hindus don’t call themselves Hindus and they don’t call their religion Hinduism! The word Hindu is not found in any of the Hindu scriptures. The...
Read MoreHealthy boundaries are critical. We think that service, seva, surrender, compassion, giving (all the beautiful juicy spiritual practices of oneness and connection) mean that we dissolve completely. And spiritually, energetically, we do! We become ONE. And yet, in terms of taking care of our own...
Read MoreThe possible overturning of Roe Vs. Wade in the United States is a symptom and sign of something very very deeply wrong happening in our country (although I live in India I still consider, of course, the US as my country as well!) Taken...
Read MoreThoughts are tickets to our destiny. Our thoughts literally create our destinies. I always used to think that thoughts were just things I had no control over which happened in my brain and I always thought they were true. As though somehow sitting in my...
Read MoreHow to purify the soul. Well, the Soul is already pure, actually. It's why we're able to say that we are the embodiments of the Divine. What needs to be purified is the mind. And, it needs to be purified because it doesn't know...
Read MoreSome people think that we're all just victims of circumstance or victims of cause and effect, and that we don't have free will or ability to impact our destinies. The reality, of course, is that we ARE the cause and effect, not the victims of...
Read MoreToday is World Environment Day. It's the day we celebrate our sacred water, air, soil, mountains, trees, Mother Earth and Mother Nature. But this year we really need, in addition to celebrating our precious planet, to stop, reflect and contemplate on what are we really...
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