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==================================================================================== Sunday 01, Sep 2024, 05:30. Transcending Desire:  Swami Nikhilananda Saraswati Chinmaya Mission. =================================================================================== 1. The mind is full of desires — simple and complex that we constantly strive to fulfil. Our life is guided by our great stock of desires. Fulfilled desires bring happiness and the unfulfilled ones, misery. The scriptures say that we carry desires from our past lives, too, and we go through our present lives striving to fulfil them. There is no end to this game. We are restless when a desire rises and happy when it is fulfilled, but that happiness lasts only a short time and is replaced by restlessness of another desire. 2. Desires are broadly classified into four categories: artha is the desire to be secure, so we acquire things that we need to protect ourselves. Simultaneously, we desire to gain pleasure through the senses

======================================================================================= Saturday 31, Aug 2024, 05:30. A Good Leader Uses mind and intellect:  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha. ======================================================================================== Humans are always led by their mind,  which in turn,  needs guidance from intelligence. Intelligence is the only agency to act on the mind,  eliminating undesirable traits and imbuing emotional strength,  stability and poise. A close integration of mind and intelligence is what makes a good leader,  who should excel in leading the mind and intelligence of his team.  In public administration,  corporate management,  manufacturing,  defence, education, sports, household or any other field, sterling leadership qualities are indispensable.     Dedication,  competence and welfare of people, which determine the enrichment and growth of a nation, verily rest upon enlightened leadership.  Using intelligence as the tool, but f

======================================================================================= Friday 30, Aug 2024, 05:30. To See Change Begin With Yourself:  Swami Tejomayananda. ======================================================================================= The fabric of society is built with the building blocks of family units. Each jiva is born into a family and the majority, grow up in the same family, surrounded by their loved ones  parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. There are of course, a few who do not have this privilege. Generally we find that despite the deep love that family members share, living together poses problems that arise from a host of negativities like anger, possessiveness, greed, and jealousy. Court rooms are full of cases, the highest percentage of which are between members of the same family. This is not new. Socrates, born before Christ, said something to the effect that children were becoming disobedient and showing disrespect to t