Doing 'seva' (dedicated ervice) to the country or the community in the cultural field is a subtle art and everyone is not fit for it. By paying wages, you can get any number of workers, but the number of available men ...
The goal which we aspire to reach and accomplish is to bring about an ardent Hindu awareness in the Hindus and to integrate their attitudes and efforts. To preach and teach the great thoughts of the Upanishads and the Gita is ...
At a bhiksha in Boston, a Christian minister asked Gurudev, Swami Chinmayananda:"OK, we realize the infinite, supreme Essence. Thereafter, no individuality, and so no universe. So your personal responsibility to serve the world ends. Is this the state ...
Some time ago, Swami used to serve food to all the poor people. This is called Narayana Seva. It seems one time when Swami had started serving food; He stopped at one spot, noticing a lady who was carrying a little, small child in her arms. ...
One of the popular biographies of Swami Vivekananda (The Life of Swami Vivekananda by His Eastern and Western Disciples) opens with this note: "To the task of writing his life, we fervently set ourselves, conscious of unworthiness; for who can know the inner self of even ...
The blemishes of the heart have to be washed by the moral life and the doing of one"s duty. A time may come when man becomes tired and weak but he should then pray thus: Lord, things have gone beyond my capacity. ...