Tag: Ramakrishna
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Fascinating Festival
The first Children’s Cultural Festival (CCF) that I saw in Durban was in 2007, three months after I was posted to South Africa. I had attended earlier many such functions in India and had come to the conclusion that too long hours was too much to be my treat. Imagine the severity of the sting…
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Trial and Time
There are many devotees who seek spiritual guidance through email messages. Some problems are quite tricky in the sense that they are not easily given to satisfactory solutions. Many of the doubts arise, in some cases, due to their inability to understand what their Gurus have instructed. That is why it is always better to…
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Lord’s form I love most
Children like to question. And I appreciate it as an expression of their intense thirst for knowledge. I wrote this given-below dialogue in an easy, conversational style between two children and myself. This is, of course, based partly on an actual discussion with the named children, and later written for Dipika 2009. It is an…
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That stellar Sunday…
A Report by Akshay Mootheeram Swami Shivanandaji, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once observed: “If you want to achieve anything substantial in spiritual life, visit Belur Math, stay here and do spiritual practices. It is for this purpose alone that Swamiji dedicated his life and founded this Math.” The spiritual current that flows in…
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Maha Shivaratri
Maata mey Paarvati Devi, Pitaa Devo Maheswaraha | Baandhava Shiva Bhaktaascha Svadesho Bhuvanatrayam || Paarvati devi is my Mother, father is Maheshwara – Shiva. Relatives are the devotees of Shiva and my own country is all the three worlds. -Sri Adisankaracharya ======================================== Dear Readers Many thanks for the wonderful words of best wishes! And they…
Vedanta in Practice 