Spirituality in Daily Life

Reflections on Inner Strength
– Part Three

by Jagadish

Reflections on Inner Strength – Part Three The aversion to pain seems hardwired in all living beings.  Even something as primitive as a worm, observed Swami Kriyananda, when pricked with a sharp object, will wiggle away.  If suffering is so universally loathed, why, then, is a hedonistic life often such a ruinous one?  Why did the enormously affluent Howard Hughes, … Read More

Celebrations

Shiva and Resurrection

by Tyagi Jayadev

Shiva and Resurrection Truth is one. It is never of one culture, one tradition, one religion. If Shiva is a truth, as yogis say, it must be found also in Christianity. Where, then, can we discover the parallelism? Shiva is the great destroyer. But to concentrate on that aspect alone would be like concentrating on the cold dark night without … Read More

Stories of Devotees

Gratitude – The engine that moved everything

by Aditi Tommasini

The gratitude in me has been the engine that has moved everything. Even in complex situations, from an early age, I could sense a glimmer of light and felt inwardly grateful, at peace, in the face of situations such as those that the mind poses, deluding us that there are obstacles and not opportunities. I smiled inwardly at that sense … Read More

Spiritual Growth

The Devoted Heart

by Darshan Lotichius

The Devoted Heart Long ago my youngest son, age five at that time, asked me, out of the blue: “Dad, do you exist?” “Yes,” I responded, without thinking. The answer, I now think, was just as interesting as the question, coming out of the mouth of a little child. What made it interesting was its immediacy. Of course I exist! A … Read More

Discipleship

Gratitude

by Priya Alessandra Gorgeri

Since childhood I had been taught by my parents to say “thank you” whenever someone gave me a gift or had a kind word towards me. I had always felt that word resonating inside me as a light, humble sound, as if it was supposed to tiptoe in… By pronouncing it, it was as if something changed in me, I … Read More