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Everybody wants peace, but peace does not come easily. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Peace is freedom from disturbance, riot or violence. It is harmony, silence, calmness. It is the way of love and truth. Peace should be built on right understanding between nations, mutual goodwill, striving after a common welfare and a [...] By Swami Satyananda Saraswati People start to work for a mission with enthusiasm and sincerity. In the beginning, their aims and ideals are quite outspokenly high, but mostly they end up in acquiring vanity and amassing self-deceit. Their precious time is then lost in empty boasts about their high selves and their little understood spiritualism. [...] There was a time when I greeted many situations in life with fear, believing they were obstacles to my spiritual progress. I became a specialist in running away from myself, and even from others, so I could avoid my issues being triggered. I was a Christian catholic and thought I was better than others, so [...] By Sandara Lindon “Children pour out of their mud walled classroom, each clutching a brightly coloured balloon and singing a song of celebration, voices full of joyful vibrant energy. Today is my last day at Hill Breeze Orphan Support School just outside of Oyugis, south western Kenya and although sad to be leaving, it really [...] Happiness It is interesting to note that almost all spiritual masters have their names beginning with Swami and ending with Ananda. But ananda or happiness is the birthright of all beings in both the upadhi upahitha and upadi rahitha, the embodied and the disembodied state. The Upanishads also declare that it is [...] The cracked pot An elderly woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck to the stream everyday. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the [...] |
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