Excerpts from ‘7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self’ by Swami Mukundananda The Law of Incremental Growth – Personal excellence and life mastery can only be achieved by consistent small steps of incremental improvement. As you strive to improve yourself, the velocity of your self-transformation keeps speeding up. The reason is that any learned … Read more
Excerpts from ‘7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self’ by Swami Mukundananda The Law of Beliefs – The trajectory of our life is determined by the beliefs we hold in our intellect. We think we walk by sight, but factually, the course of our life gets determined by our beliefs. The way to develop … Read more
Now if one were to think that things were fantastic in heaven so far, one may be forgiven to think that they get even more fantastic on earth. One would think all the effort that Bheeshma went through to get the three princesses for Vichitravirya and in the process, preordain his own death through the … Read more
Excerpts from ‘7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self’ by Swami Mukundananda The Law of Happiness – True happiness comes by growing from within to become a better person. The way to be happier is not by accumulating possessions, but by becoming a better person. The sequence for success is that ‘being’ must precede … Read more
I recently read the acclaimed book ‘Siddhartha – by Hermann Hesse’. This is a story of the spiritual journey and growth of Siddharth who as a young man goes in search of meaning becoming a monk only to return to the worldly life of comfort and suffering Samsara to give it up again in frustration. … Read more
Excerpts from ‘7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self’ by Swami Mukundananda The Law of Sublimation – The sovereign recipe for purifying the mind and its thoughts is to dovetail it towards the Supreme through bhakti. Offer all actions and emotions to the Lord. Even desire, anger and pride should be directed to Him. … Read more
Excerpts from ‘7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self’ by Swami Mukundananda The Law of Love – Our hearts can only be satisfied by true love, which is a deep and noble affection for the others’ happiness, without seeking personal benefit in return. Where there is ample reason for love to be devastated, and … Read more
My notes from ‘Vedanta: Voice of Freedom” – a selected compilation from the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. “The Philosophy of Vedanta” – Chapter Highlights reproduced below: *** To every man this is taught: Thou art one with this Universal Being, and, as such, every soul that exists is your soul, and every body that … Read more
Excerpts from the book “7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self” by Swami Mukundananda The Law of Infinite Potential – All souls have infinite potential for growth, whatever be their present state. The biggest calamity in the world is the waste of human resources – the untapped capacity of people with the ‘fixed mindset’. … Read more