Desires Don’t Come True – By Swami Chinmayananda

We are under a delusory idea that thought is an idle, impotent happening, within ourselves. In fact, thought has godly powers. As each thought sweeps across the mind, its secret potency rises up in front of us, like the mysterious genie in ‘Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp’. A willing slave to execute our thought commands!…

A Little Fear Can Do You Some Good – Swami Swaroopananda

All of our emotions are given to us for our benefit. In fact, everything in this world is there for our benefit only. It is how we use or misuse the objects of the world that will bring about positive and happy results, or negative and miserable results. Emotions like fear and anxiety are meant…

Transformation Of The Devotee

Here is a series of  blogs we will be publishing from the book, ‘The Power of Prayer’. We have taken the write-ups by Swami Chinmayananda. Prayer is a very personal thing for most of us. We all pray at different altars and with different techniques. There is no right or wrong. But if we understand the…

Swami Chinmayananda and His Mother

Sannyasa Dharma and Love for Mother Generally sannyasa is understood as renunciation of the family to undertake a nomadic life with minimal possessions. Pujya Gurudev always emphasized on the deeper import of the word – renunciation of the ego, the ‘I’ and ‘mine’. Shedding the narrow and limiting identification with the body, mind and intellect,…