Pearls of Wise

================================================================================== Saturday 18, May 2024 05:30. Peace of mind: Swami Chinmayananda. ================================================================================= 1.The Nature of Desire: Once a desire arises, we cannot forget it. There is complete insistence that things must happen the way we want. As long as we have such desires, it is impossible to gain peace. We cannot even sleep properly because our mind is so riddled with desires, let alone poised enough to gain that great and permanent peace. Another characteristic of desire is that once we have enjoyed something, we crave for it again and again. If we feel itchy and make the mistake of scratching, we will find that the itching increases. The nature of desire is just like having an itch. Once we start enjoying something, there will be more and more craving and longing for it. We keep planning for those pleasures we have not yet experienced, and then after having e

========================================================================== Friday 12, Apr 2024. 05:30. Chapter-1, (Delivered in London) =========================================================================== Of all the forces that have worked and are still working to mould the destinies of the human race, none, certainly, is more potent than that, the manifestation of which we call religion. All social organisations have as a background, somewhere, the workings of that peculiar force, and the greatest cohesive impulse ever brought into play amongst human units has been derived from this power. It is obvious to all of us that in very many cases the bonds of religion have proved stronger than the bonds of race, or climate, or even of descent. It is a well-known fact that persons worshipping the same God, believing in the same religion, have stood by each other, with much greater strength and constancy, than people of merely the same descent, or even brothers. Various attempts have be

=========================================================================== Thursday 11, Apr 2024 05:30. To Discover Happiness – Learn from the Bhagavad Gita:  Swami Swaroopananda Global Head, Chinmaya Mission ========================================================================== Happiness is a subject dear to everyone’s heart. From womb to tomb, all our actions are in the pursuit of happiness. Yet there is no definitive answer as to why we want happiness. We deceive ourselves into believing that the joy we seek lies in the materialistic objects of the world. We forget that what we have today is taken away from us tomorrow, causing us even greater misery. Through all this, we don’t realize that what our soul actually longs for – is happiness. What is this happiness that we seek? We want everlasting happiness, but ironically, we knowingly seek it in ever-changing and impermanent prisms – changing people, changing situations and changing objects. Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, we