“This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive”, said Swami Vivekananda (saint and philosopher from India – 1863 to 1902). An interesting incident happened in the life of Swami Vivekananda. As a young man, he was interested…
Mahatma Gandhi said: “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
According to Hinduism, all humans are born with certain duties and obligations. Hindu scriptures teach that when a person fulfills his or her duties, all will benefit and when all people submit to their individual dharma, the…
A glorious bequeathment to humanity - 125 years of the Ramakrishna Organisation
By Swami Atmeshananda
The Vedanta Centre in Springfield Lakes, Qld celebrates 125 glorious years of the establishment of its parent organisation – the Ramakrishna Mission (https://belurmath.org/). Established in India on 1st May 1897 by the illustrious Swami Vivekananda, the organisation has been a…
“God is everywhere but he is most manifest in Man. So serve Man as God. That is as good as worshipping God”- said Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th century saint from India (1836 to 1886). By the term ‘man’ he meant all humans – not just man and woman. After going through 12 long years of…
John Milton, in his classic ‘Paradise Lost’ wrote “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
Indeed, mind is the root cause of all success as well as all evils in the society. A well-cultivated, disciplined mind can create the equivalent of heaven within oneself…
Importance of Guru in Life
By Swami Atmeshananda
‘He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.’ said Bernard Shaw. His wise crack is but an echo of an old adage ‘example is better than precept’ – Guru tradition lays emphasis on this practicality on the part of Guru. – brahma vit tamah; the best among the…