Art of Living

Human is a collection of thoughts.  We become what we think.  If you think that you do not have self-confidence, then you will never develop self-confidence.  If you think that you have self-confidence, then you will become as such. In order to become self-confident, one should stay with a good and mentally strong person and…

You are not bad even though you might have bad thoughts. As our scriptures say – “Ishwar anś jīv avināśi”, meaning, you are a part of God.  Your goodness is hidden.  The fact that you asked such a question means you want to do good. That is of utmost importance. There was once a Muslim…

Ahankār or ego is a state where a person’s focus is always directed towards oneself.  In this state, a person feels that ‘I am responsible’ for ‘this’ and ‘that’ and there is a feeling that ‘All this belongs to me’.  ‘Aham’ means ‘I’ or ‘mine’; ‘Kār’ means ‘consciousness’.  Ahankār is therefore a state where the…

God is always with us.  But we are not always with Him.  We forget that He is always with us. When we forget that He is with us and is watching us, then we commit sins.  For example, as soon as we spot a policeman or speed camera and we are over-speeding, we slow down.…

Without an aim/ goal we would not go to school.  The aim of going to school is to study and get an education. Just like that the goal of life is to love everyone, hate none and serve everyone.  We are blessed by this beautiful human body so we can serve all mankind.  Bhajan is…

There are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings about the caste system in our society. There are two words that are mistakenly interchangeably used. These words are Jaati or Caste and Varna or Nature. People unfortunately and mistakenly use the word caste to describe Varna. I do not feel jaati or caste is an appropriate…

Every care must be taken that before the two people marry, they should ensure that their natures and actions or varna are compatible.  It is most likely that this will occur when people marry within their own society and faith. This is not to say that inter-racial or inter-faith marriages will not succeed but it…

The mother’s lap is the world’s best university.  A mother is the child’s first and best teacher. Amongst Indians living abroad, parents who have maintained Indian values and infused their household with Indian culture raise their children with Indian sanskaars (values). These sanskaars imbibed in childhood pay rich rewards throughout life.  They lend stability and…

Where there is love and enjoyment, interest automatically develops because our attention is constantly there.  When you are interested in something, you will not need to make any special effort to concentrate on it.  You can concentrate because you enjoy it.  We look for enjoyment and wherever and in whatever we find it we want…

Firstly, understand that electricity exists both within a mic and within a bulb.  Within a mic it manifests as sound energy and within a bulb, as light energy. So, too, does God exist within everyone.  From somewhere, faults are emerging and from elsewhere, good deeds are emerging. That God is within everyone’s hearts and the…