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Weekly Wisdom: Time, Space, and God (part 2)
Do the past and future actually exist anywhere other than our minds? And if not, then is time just a theoretical concept created by us? Events as energy do exist because energy can never be destroyed. But events as physical happenings do not. The same is ... -
Giving Thanks in the Time of COVID. Special Note by Gurudev
In the past, the United States of America has gone through a lot of turbulence and we have learned a lot from those challenges. On this Thanksgiving Day, let's remember all the virtues that we have, all the blessings we have received, and all the str ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Time, Space, and God (part 1)
Our ancient rishis have estimated the age of our present creation to be about 10 billion years, whereas in other traditions it’s just 150,000 years. But recently, European space telescopes have measured the age, from looking at the fossil radiation from t ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Enlightenment, Yogic Powers, and Celibacy
The word enlightenment has been used, misused, and misunderstood so many times. When someone who says, “I am enlightened,” know that isn’t enlightenment. “I” and “enlightenment” cannot go together. Both cannot exist. So, when one who is enlightened is a ... -
What Is Shiva? An Expansive Understanding of Consciousness
"Shiva is a state of meditation where there is nothing but the inner sky of consciousness."- Gurudev When I first came across Shiva, I was confused. Here was an ascetic figure seated on a tiger skin with a blue throat, a third eye, and a moon pe ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Secrets of Death and Beyond Revealed
Curiosity about death also brings curiosity about life. To understand life, you need to know death. To understand death, you need to know life. Death only indicates that life is eternal. It’s like changing your clothes, moving from one room to another ro ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Opposites that Coexist
Know that you’re such a positive person that if any negative emotion comes to you, it will turn into a positive thing. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared about others’ negative emotions that you don’t know. They can come to you anytime, waking, dreaming, or ... -
Find Out the Top 17 Spiritual Benefits of Meditation For You
The need to meditate is present in every human being because it is a natural tendency of human life to look for a joy that doesn’t diminish and a love that doesn’t turn into negative emotions. Meditation is a tool to reach such a state. We are made of bot ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Egos Make the World Go Round
Just imagine you’re a movie director. In a movie, there are all different characters. There’s a hero. There’s a villain. There are the assistants. There’s the heroine and whatever other roles. You don’t hate the villain. The villain is as important to yo ... -
Weekly Wisdom: Love, Sex, Drugs, and the Meaning of Life
Once you achieve a goal, you can’t keep the same goal. It’s impossible! You have to move forward. So once the exams are over, and you go on to the entrance exam, and that’s finished, then there’s another goal. The goal post should keep moving as you move ...
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