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Using Mind to Transcend Mind - By Hinduism - Swami Advayananda

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================================================================================================ Wednesday, 11 November 2026, 12:25. Using Mind to Transcend Mind - January 1, 2024 Swami Advayananda ==================================================================================================== Why do the Upanishads warn seekers that following the path to God is akin to walking on a razor’s edge—narrow and difficult to traverse?-Swami Advayananda God is the very self, the very core of one’s personality. However, veiled by the mind, He remains unknown. Thus, beyond the mind is Ishvara-darshanam, the vision of the Lord. But, to meet Him, the journey beyond the mind can be accomplished with the help of mind alone. This precisely is what makes the spiritual journey comparable to walking on the razor’s edge.  The mind rarely cooperates in this sacred journey, for going inward and transcending itself is anathema to it. Its natural inclination is to rush out and bask in the warmth of t...
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Statement against Caste-based Discrimination: Swami Tejomayananda, Chairman and Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission

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=============================================================================================== Monday, 09 November 2026, 16:15. Statement against Caste-based Discrimination:  Swami Tejomayananda,  Chairman and Spiritual Head, Chinmaya Mission ================================================================================================= Background: Swami Tejomayananda, a devoted disciple of Swami Chinmayananda, has served as the Chairman and spiritual head of Chinmaya Mission worldwide since Swami Chinmayananda’s mahasamadhi in1993. He is an outstanding teacher of Vedanta and an accomplished poet, author, and composer. Swami Tejomayananda joined the Vedanta course at Sandeepany Sadhnalaya, Mumbai in 1970 and was initiated into the sanyasa in 1983 by Swami Chinmayananda. Swami Chinmayananda founded Chinmaya Mission in 1953. Not satisfied with degrees in literature and law or with other worldly aspirations, Swami Chinmayananda pursued the spiritual path in the Himalayas under...
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The Sacred Bond: Understanding the Guru-Disciple Relationship: Swami Chinmayananda.

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  ================================================================================================== Saturday, 07November 2026, 18:00. The Sacred Bond: Understanding the Guru-Disciple Relationship:  Swami Chinmayananda.  (1st May 2025) ================================================================================================== Think for a moment: Is there anything that we do well today with confidence or any amount of mastery that has not been taught to us? If for every perfect act in the world, in any activity, we need the guidance of an instructor, we can very well understand the need for a Guru in the spiritual path; for there we have to deal with the subtlest forces and the enormous confusions of the vehicle called the mind, and with its moods called delusions. The Guru-disciple relationship is unavoidable. Every great master has been under the guidance of a teacher. It is not true to say that we can reach the goal just through books. A teacher is necessary, but...
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Glory of Satsang - Swami Sivananda

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  =================================================================================================== Thursday, 05 November 2026, 20:25 Glory of Satsang - Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Siva’s Doon Lectures. Speech at the Gita Mandir Dehra Dun, on 7th March, 1954 ======================================================================================================== This is a dream within a dream. They say that the world itself is a long dream. This is a dream within a dream. My health does not permit me to tour about. I like to go about; I like to work. I want to do intense work. But my present health does not permit this kind of touring work. Yet remaining in my Kutir in Rishikesh, I try to do very good work. I am very fond of selfless service. I wish to tour throughout the world. Nowadays the physical condition compels me to confine myself to my room. However, through correspondence and at heart, I am in touch with the whole world. I did not know that I ...
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Wake Up! - Swami Venkatesananda

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  ================================================================================================== Tuesday, 03November 2026, 06:00. Wake Up! - Swami Venkatesananda This article is from the book “Multiple Reflections”. ==================================================================================================== What are the scriptures or texts? What is their genesis, and for whom are they intended? The question is very simple but very interesting because the scriptures have been with us for thousands of years, but our life seems to be the same as if the truths did not exist at all, as if we had nothing to go by. What happens to the scripture? Usually it adorns our libraries and is hardly ever looked at. You might have noticed that whenever people are asked to read from the Bible or some other text, they go to their favourite passage and keep reading that. It is like wearing blinkers. We don’t see the whole truth, so the scriptures don’t seem to make much of an impact upon u...
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Man And His Mind: Swami Chidananda.

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================================================================================================= Sunday. 01 November 2026, 18:00. Man And His Mind:  Swami Chidananda. This article is from the book Ponder These Truths. ================================================================================================ Radiant Atman! Man is man because he has a mind. Thinking, reasoning, feeling, that alone makes man. If he has no mind he is an animal. But mind can make a man a beast also. Mind can make a man a demon. Because if the mind is not made sattvic, if it is not governed by an awakened, discriminating, ever alert, vigilant and keenly enquiring intellect, then mind becomes the greatest problem; it becomes the greatest trap, the greatest enemy, the greatest complication, the greatest source of all types of troubles to the aspirant, to the seeker. One can become helpless, mercilessly tormented by the mind. It takes charge of one’s life, and one is ruled by emotions, sentiments, pa...
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