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The Abhang – Namacha Gajar
The Abhang – Namacha Gajar, by Sant Namdeo is a celebration of the power and glory of the Divine Name (Nāma). It describes a deeply devotional vision where chanting God’s name becomes the highest spiritual practice. Click here to listen...
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Journey to Perennial Happiness
Journey to Perennial Happiness – “Six Tenets” of Human Development The attainment of true perennial happiness has always been the ultimate quest and goal of all humanity in the world. Be it a saint or a rogue, both are ultimately...
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Maruti Stotra – Bhimrupi Maharudra
Maruti Stotra – Bhimrupi Maharudra, composed by Samarath Ramdas is a powerful devotional hymn dedicated to Lord Hanuman. This stotra glorifies immense strength, devotion and divine nature. Click here to listen Verse 1 भीमरूपी महारुद्रा वज्रहनुमान मारुती । वनारी अंजनीसुता...
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Sankara Bhashya–Part 10
Whether Atma is eternal or not! Verse 25: Avyakta, Achintya, Avikarya Avikriya: This Self is unmanifest as it is not an object to all senses including the mind and intellect. Therefore it is beyond thought. That which can be perceived by...
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“Destiny/Fate” or “Righteous Action/Self-Effort”
A corporate employee had an important meeting on a particular day. However, on that very particular day, he woke up later than usual, rushed to get ready, then realized that the fuel in his car was very low. He got...
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Finding Steadiness Within
In a world that rarely pauses, stress and anxiety have quietly become part of our everyday vocabulary. We wake up already thinking of what lies ahead. Messages, meetings, responsibilities, expectations. Even in moments of rest, the mind continues its chatter....
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Sankara Bhashya-Part 9
Bodies are dropped like old clothes Verse 22: Vasamsi Jirnani: Clothes become old and weak and people of the world abandon them and take up new – very new clothes. In the same way people give up their old bodies...
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Beyond Gender Roles
Just like the best commentary on the Bhagavad Gita is the Gita itself, the best way to understand Swami Chinmayananda’s outlook towards women is to look at his actions and words. Swami Chinmayananda’s contribution to women empowerment lies in how...
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A Genderless Atman
Chennai, 1958 – imagine a room full of women gathered for their first Devi Group. This was at a time when India’s women’s movement was still focussed on legislative rights (Hindu Code Bill debates, property rights, education & a lot...
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Sankara Bhashya–Part 8
Purusha is unborn and eternal The Purusha, know O Arjuna is indestructible. He is unborn and eternal. How can one kill that Purusha and how is death possible for him? Know O Arjuna, the Purusha has no modification of destruction....
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What is Sanatana Dharma?
Many of us have heard the term Sanatana Dharma, yet find it difficult to put into words what it truly means. Is it a religion we follow, a philosophy we study, or a way of living we slowly grow into?...
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Sankara Bhashya-Part 7
Neither kills nor gets killed If you think that I am killing Bhishma and the others in this battlefield and I am the killer, that thought is illusory. How? Verse 19: The one who knows himself as the killer of...
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Sanskrit – Gateway to the ‘Middle/Balanced’ Path for the Middle Aged
Sanskrit – Gateway to the ‘Middle/Balanced’ Path for the Middle Aged The ‘Middle Age’ is that peculiar time period in the life of an individual where the youth is starting to fade away and old age is starting to come...
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The ‘Youthfulness’ of Sanskrit for the Youth
The ‘Youthfulness’ of Sanskrit for the Youth Swami Vivekananda has rightly said “Youth is the best time. The way in which you utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of you.” The youth today, indeed have...
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Sanskrit – The Yogic Health Booster
Sanskrit – The Yogic Health Booster There is a famous saying “Health is Wealth.” And how rightly so in today’s times! The level of stress and anxiety especially among youth has greatly increased and their health is deteriorating. Ordinarily, a health practitioner/doctor...
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Beyond Chanting
How Sanskrit Deepens Yoga, Meditation & Inner Well-Being Yoga, meditation and mantra chanting often reach us first through sound. Yet beneath every familiar term — asana, prāṇa, dhyāna — lies Sanskrit, the language that gives these practices their philosophical and...
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Lost in Translation: Learn Sanskrit to get to the Source
Lost in Translation: Learn Sanskrit to get to the Source How many times have you read the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads in English, only to find three different translations giving you three different meanings for the same verse? Many...
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CIF Gita Jayanti
Bhagavad Gita Video Lectures, Chanting, Meditation, Mentorship, Certificate . Register Now!! Bhagavad Gita Course Master Gita Master Life Course Bhagavad Gita Album Srimad Bhagavad Gita – A Manual for Life The Mahabharata declares: “If you master the Bhagavad Gita, what...
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Sankara Bhashya–Part 6
What is Sat? What then is that Sat which is always there? It is said… Verse 17: That by which everything is covered is indestructible. None indeed can destroy that which is inexpendable. Avinashi is that which does not have...
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Sankara Bhashya – Part 5
“What is” exists; “What is not” doesn’t 16: For what does not exist, there is no existence. For what is, there is no non-existence. The people who knew the truth, know the reality of these statements clearly. For the qualities...
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