Vedanta in Practice

A Micro-Blog from Swami Vimokshananda – earlier at Durban, Singapore and Dublin – now at Yelagiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India – "A private diary for public consumption!"

Author: svp

  • Swami Sunirmalananda is presently an Assistant Minister at our Geneva Centre in Europe. Recently I had an opportunity to read through his blog and found a Post indeed very interesting. With his permission, I re-post that article here in this blog for our reader-devotees. It actually explores a concept of ‘Gift receiving’ from Santa Claus…

  • Welcome 2013 ! Just a minute ago, 2012 was given a go-bye, sorry ‘Durga, Durga‘ in our parlance! And in comes a beaming 2013. A very happy, hearty New Year Day aka Kalpataru Day to every one of you! Brother Swami Saradaprabhanandaji Maharaj joins me too! The officials from headquarters and devotees also wish you…

  • The WordPress.com stats helpers prepared a 2012 Annual Report for this blog which I received just now. Many thanks WP for your excellent compilation! Academically, it was an interesting piece of information though! Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 36,000 views in 2012. If each…

  • Tragical Trauma December known as ‘silly season’ aptly or not, is a month of merry-making with holidayers dotting different places.  Children joyfully look forward to the prospect of school-closing followed by festival-booms. The students who pass out successfully have a whale of a time especially the high-rankers in Matric as media gives lot of attention…