Tag: love

• Be like a Bee!

  Today we celebrate Gita jayanti. The Bhagavad Gita forms part of the great Indian Epic, the Mahabharata. The words of this “song celestial” have flowed from the Lord, Sri Krishna Himself. The Gita chanting is generally preceded with what is known as “Gita Dhyanam” – nine introductory verses in praise of Bhagavad Gita. Originally published…

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  28 Nov 2009

  Ashrama, Durban, Gods, Harmony, Hinduism, Mythology, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, Scriptures, worship, Yoga

  Ashrama, bee, culture, devotees, Durban, Gita, grace, heart, Hinduism, Krishna, Lotus, love, monks, nectar, prayer, Ramakrishna, satsang, South Africa, Vimokshananda

• Pat for a pet!

  In 1980, a clinical research project at Brooklyn College, New York, studied heart-disease patients after their discharge from the hospital. Dr. Erika Friedmann, Ph.D., Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at the College, tracked each survivor, studying their medical histories, lifestyles, families, relationships – every documentable detail. Co-researcher Dr. Aaron Katcher, M.D., reported: “The presence…

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  21 Nov 2009

  Ashrama, Durban, Gods, Harmony, Hinduism, Mythology, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, Scriptures, worship

  Ashrama, cats, culture, devotees, dogs, Durban, Goddesses, Hindu Gods, love, monks, Pets, Ramakrishna, Shiva, South Africa, Swami Vivekananda, vedanta, Vimokshananda, Vivekananda

• Highlights from Hinduism Conference – Part II

  Today is September 11. In 1893, on this same date Swami Vivekananda addressed the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, USA. This lecture practically catapulted him as an international figure. The last line of his famous lecture succinctly gives the gist of Hinduism: I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honour of…

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  11 Sep 2009

  Ashrama, Durban, Gods, Harmony, Hinduism, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, Scriptures, Travel, women, worship

  Ashrama, celebration, children, conference, culture, devotees, Durban, Hinduism, hospital, Ladysmith, love, mantra, monks, Natal, Ramakrishna, Sarada, Service, South Africa, Swami Vivekananda, vedanta, Vimokshananda, women, youth

• Highlights from Hinduism Conference – Part I

  The delightful dawn on the 6th September while driving from Durban, drew us close to one of the historically important town in the Northern part of KwaZulu Natal province, Ladysmith where the Conference on Hinduism was scheduled. A little more than 400 delegates started arriving in batches at the venue, Civic Centre Hall from 7.30…

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  8 Sep 2009

  Ashrama, Durban, Harmony, Hinduism, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, sannyasa, Scriptures, Travel, women, worship

  Ashrama, children, conference, culture, devotees, Durban, heart, Hinduism, Ladysmith, love, mantra, monks, Natal, prayer, Ramakrishna, Sarada, South Africa, Swami Vivekananda, vedanta, Vimokshananda, women, youth

• Prodigious Pritida

  Today is the glorious Guru Purnima! A day to venerate worshipfully the vishaala-buddhi (vast-minded) Sage Veda Vyasa! A day to pay reverence prayerfully to one’s own spiritual preceptor! And all those tireless teachers from whom we learn any training lesson…On this auspicious occasion this is my humble homage to one of our late monks who…

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  7 Jul 2009

  Hinduism, people, Ramakrishna, Religion, saints, sannyasa, worship, Yoga

  andhra, Ashrama, Belur Math, devotees, hawan, heart, Hinduism, love, Puligadda, Ramakrishna, rehabilitation, relief, Swami Vivekananda, Vimokshananda