Pearls of Wise

Swami Swaroopananda.  ==================================================================================== Tuesday 28, January 2025, 05:30.  Stand up, perform to your maximum potential:  Swami Swaroopananda.  Global Head Chinmaya Mission Published by  chinmaya-admin on 8th September 2020. =============================================================================== On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna, a mighty warrior, great achiever and celebrated hero, suffers a psychological breakdown. At the crucial moment, when weapons were about to be raised, he was assailed by a temporary state of confusion about his duty and the very purpose of the war. In the grip of despondency, he crumbled, sat down and refused to fight. Arjuna was overwhelmed by his emotions, by his attachment to his grandsire, Bhishma, and teacher, Dronacharya. Viewing the war from the pinhole of a limited, egocentric and narrow standpoint created anxieties, fear and intense emotions in his ...

  ========================================================================================================= Monday 27, January 2025, 05:30. WHAT IS RELIGION: S WAMI VIVEKANANDA. This article is a chapter from the book Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 1. ================================================================================ A huge locomotive has rushed on over the line and a small worm that was creeping upon one of the rails saved its life by crawling out of the path of the locomotive. Yet this little worm, so insignificant that it can be crushed in a moment, is a living something, while this locomotive, so huge, so immense, is only an engine, a machine. You say the one has life and the other is only dead matter and all its powers and strength and speed are only those of a dead machine, a mechanical contrivance. Yet the poor little worm which moved upon the rail and which the least touch of the engine would have deprived of its life is a majestic being compared ...