Pearls of Wise

  ================================================================================================== 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...

  =================================================================================================== 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 ...

  ================================================================================================== 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...

================================================================================================= 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...