Swami Sarvapriyananda reads and discusses the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is an English translation of the Bengali spiritual text Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita by Swami Nikhilananda. The text records conversations of Ramakrishna with his disciples, devotees and visitors, recorded by Mahendranath Gupta, who wrote the book under the pseudonym of "M."This session was recorded on Jan 24, 2023.🙏 Please Support the Vedanta Society of New

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 10Hold out your hand and imagine there is water in it. Cool, clear, ordinary water. The kind you drink without thinking. Now imagine that this water is a message.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 6 first.Source note. Labels: the water in the Ganga story is scripture, from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga forty-one and forty-four. The details of the tarpan rite, the direction, sesame, kusha and the three offerings of water, are living

What if wellness isn't a destination you reach, but a way of living in line with who you really are? This episode of Wellness Reimagined is for anyone chasing a perfect routine or a life that looks good on paper but feels out of place.Life coach Liz Coleman shares how to find your highest values, why molding yourself to others' expectations creates stress, and how asking "What would my highest self do?" helps you respond instead of react.About the GuestLiz Coleman is a New York-based

You might have heard of Dev Jaiswal '23, who went viral as "Iridocyclitis kid" on Vine after his run at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2016. Today, we hear his story of short-video fame, learn about his journey with colorblindness, and discover the ways faith helped him make it to the top of the spelling world.

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 9The river of heaven fell from the sky, and she was furious. Not with the earth. Not with the king who had called her. She fell in a rage of pride, with a single thought in her mind: I will sweep away the god who dares to stand in my way. She hit his head.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 8 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga forty-three and forty-four. The details of Ganga's pride

This is a thousand names Hymn of Mahakalabhairava from the text called Shivagama Kalpa. the full text is lost now. this was published in various stotra sangraha books. chanting this for 100 times is considered good for perfecting this hymn. This hymn grants health, wealth, offspring, wards of evil forces and negative entities. the practitioner can achieve all his desires with the blessings of mahakala Bhairavavisit authorkoushik.co.in for books, blogs and more.

Send us Fan Mail What happens when life changes and you realize you’re no longer the same woman you used to be? In this episode of the Global Desi Women Podcast, host Arti Solanki sits down with Shruti Seth for an honest and thought-provoking conversation about identity, reinvention, personal growth, and learning to embrace the different versions of ourselves throughout life. Shruti shares her perspective on navigating change, challenging expectations, finding your own voice, and creating an ...

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 8At the end of a thousand years, a voice spoke from the sky. The man standing in the fire had no idea how long he had been there. His skin was dark from the sun. His arms had stopped hurting long ago. He had stopped thinking about himself. He was, by now, only a wish, standing on two feet: let the river come.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 7 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, sarga

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 7How long would you keep trying at something if you knew you might die before it worked? A year? Ten years? A whole life? Now imagine you are not the first to try. Your grandfather tried. He failed. Your father is trying, and he too is going to fail. And you are told: this is your task too, and you may fail, and even so, you must not stop.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 2 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Valmiki

ಅನ್ನಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ|| ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮೇತಿ ವ್ಯಜಾನಾತ್ ||ಪರಮಪೂಜ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಮಜ್ಜಗದ್ಗುರು ಶಂಕರಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಶ್ರೀರಾಘವೇಶ್ವರಭಾರತೀ ಮಹಾಸ್ವಾಮಿಗಳವರು ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ ಪರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಹಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಮ ಸಾಧನವಾದ ಆಹಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಜ್ಞಾನೋದ್ದೀಪನಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಅನುಗ್ರಹಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಪ್ರವಚನ ಮಾಲಿಕೆ ~ "ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ"ಪ್ರವಚನ ಬಿಂದುಗಳು:*ಗೋವಿನಿಂದ ಹಾಲನ್ನು ಪ್ರೀತಿ, ವಾತ್ಸಲ್ಯದಿಂದ ಪಡೆಯಬೇಕೇ ಹೊರತು ಯಂತ್ರಗಳಿಂದ ಕರೆಯಬಾರದು*ತುಪ್ಪ ಮತ್ತು ಜೇನುತುಪ್ಪವನ್ನು ಸಮ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆರೆಸುವುದು ವಿಷಕಾರಿ*ಇಂದಿನ ಸಂಕರ ತಳಿಯ ಹಸುಗಳು ಪವಿತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಅಪವಿತ್ರಗಳ ಮಿಶ್ರಣ, ಅವುಗಳಿಂದ ದುಷ್ಪರಿಣಾಮವೇ

ಅನ್ನಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ|| ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮೇತಿ ವ್ಯಜಾನಾತ್ ||ಪರಮಪೂಜ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಮಜ್ಜಗದ್ಗುರು ಶಂಕರಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಶ್ರೀರಾಘವೇಶ್ವರಭಾರತೀ ಮಹಾಸ್ವಾಮಿಗಳವರು ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ ಪರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಹಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಮ ಸಾಧನವಾದ ಆಹಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಜ್ಞಾನೋದ್ದೀಪನಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಅನುಗ್ರಹಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಪ್ರವಚನ ಮಾಲಿಕೆ ~ "ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ"ಪ್ರವಚನ ಬಿಂದುಗಳು:*ದೇವತೆಗಳ ಧಾಮಕ್ಕೆ ನಾವು ಅಂತರ್ಮಾರ್ಗದ ಮೂಲಕ ಹೋಗಿ ಸೇರಬೇಕು ಅದೇ "ಸಾಧನೆ"*ಭಗವಂತ ಘೃತದ ಮೂಲಕ ನಾವು ಸಮರ್ಪಿಸಿದ್ದನ್ನು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ*ಘೃತವು ದೀರ್ಘಾಯುಷ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ*ಘೃತವು ಪಾಪನಾಶಕ; ಪಾಪ ನಾಶವೇ ಸಾಧನೆ!*ಘೃತವು ಸಾಧಕನಿಗೆ ತಂಪನ್ನು

ಅನ್ನಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ|| ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮೇತಿ ವ್ಯಜಾನಾತ್ ||ಪರಮಪೂಜ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಮಜ್ಜಗದ್ಗುರು ಶಂಕರಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಶ್ರೀರಾಘವೇಶ್ವರಭಾರತೀ ಮಹಾಸ್ವಾಮಿಗಳವರು ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ ಪರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಹಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಮ ಸಾಧನವಾದ ಆಹಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಜ್ಞಾನೋದ್ದೀಪನಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಅನುಗ್ರಹಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಪ್ರವಚನ ಮಾಲಿಕೆ ~ "ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ"ಪ್ರವಚನ ಬಿಂದುಗಳು:*ಗುಜರಾತಿನ ಕಾಮನಾಥ ಮಹಾದೇವ ಮಂದಿರದಲ್ಲಿ 650 ವರ್ಷದ ಹಳೆಯ ಘೃತವಿದೆ, ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಬೆಲೆ ಕಟ್ಟಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ!*ಪೂರ್ಣಾರೋಗ್ಯವೇ ಆತ್ಮಜಾನ!*ಜೀವನ ನಡೆಸಲು ಪಾರಂಪರಿಕವಾಗಿ ಏನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಹೇಳಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿದೆಯೋ ಅದೆಲ್ಲವೂ ಆತ್ಮಜ್ಞಾನಕ್ಕೂ ಹಿತ, ಆರೋಗ್ಯಕ್ಕೂ ಹಿತ*ತುಪ್ಪ ಸೇವನೆ

ಅನ್ನಬ್ರಹ್ಮ ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ|| ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮೇತಿ ವ್ಯಜಾನಾತ್ ||ಪರಮಪೂಜ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಮಜ್ಜಗದ್ಗುರು ಶಂಕರಾಚಾರ್ಯ ಶ್ರೀಶ್ರೀರಾಘವೇಶ್ವರಭಾರತೀ ಮಹಾಸ್ವಾಮಿಗಳವರು ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ ಪರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಹಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಕ್ಕೂ ಪರಮ ಸಾಧನವಾದ ಆಹಾರದ ಕುರಿತು ಜ್ಞಾನೋದ್ದೀಪನಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಅನುಗ್ರಹಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಪ್ರವಚನ ಮಾಲಿಕೆ ~ "ಅನ್ನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ"ಪ್ರವಚನ ಬಿಂದುಗಳು:*ಎಳ್ಳೆಣ್ಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಉತ್ತಮ ಗುಣಗಳು ಬೇರೆ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲ!*ಜಿಡ್ಡಿನ ಅಂಶ ಇರುವ ಪದಾರ್ಥಗಳಲ್ಲಿ 'ತುಪ್ಪ' ಅತ್ಯುತ್ಕೃಷ್ಟ!*ಪನ್ನೀರ್'ಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಪೂರ್ವಜರು ನೀಡಿದ ಹೆಸರು 'ಕಿಲಾಟ', ಇದು ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಪ್ರಿಯ ಆದರೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಸ್ಥಾನದಲ್ಲಿ

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 6On a rooftop in the early morning, a woman places a plate. It holds a little rice, a spoon of lentils, a piece of bread. She sets it on the parapet, steps back, and waits. She is not waiting for a guest. She is waiting for a crow.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 1 first.Source note. Label: tradition. The custom of kaak bali, the offering to the crow in Shraddha, and the belief that ancestors may come in the form of a crow, are living

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 5Here is a love story that begins in a pit full of the dead. A sage finds his ancestors hanging upside down in the dark, and he decides to marry. But he cannot find a bride worthy of him. So he makes one. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode five. In episode three we heard how the sage Jaratkaru found his ancestors hanging by a thread. Today we hear a second story with the same picture at its heart: a sage, a pit, and ancestors who

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 4A child is born. A room fills with sound. A mother laughs and cries at the same time. And, says a very old Sanskrit text, in that very moment, before the child has done a single thing, before a word or a breath of choice, the child already owes. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode four. It is a short one. In the last episode, we met a sage who discovered his ancestors hanging by a thread. Today we look at the ancient sentence that

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 3Imagine walking through a forest, alone, thin as a stick, a man who has decided that nothing in the world matters except the fire inside him. You have not slept properly in years. You eat almost nothing. You have given up home, wealth, marriage, name. You are proud of it. You think you are close to God.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Adi Parva, Astika Parva, in the sections numbered thirteen and forty-five to

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 2Sixty thousand young men rode out of a city one morning. Not one of them came home. And when their father, an old king, finally learned what had happened to them, there was no body to bury, and no funeral fire to light. There was only a heap of ash, deep under the earth, and a promise that would take three more generations to keep.Source note. Label: scripture. This episode follows the Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, chapters thirty-eight to forty-one

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 1A man stands knee-deep in a cold river, just after dawn. He faces south. In India, south is the direction of the dead. In his cupped hands he holds a little water, a few black sesame seeds, and some blades of sacred kusha grass. He says a name. His father's. Then another name. His grandfather's. Then a third. His great-grandfather's, a man he never met, known to him only as a name his own father once said.Source note. Label: scripture and living

“Everyone can understand that we drink the milk of cows and take the help of bulls in producing agricultural products. Therefore, since our real father gives us food grains and our mother gives us milk with which to live, the cow and bull are considered our father and mother. According to Vedic civilization, there are seven mothers, of which the cow is one.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi 17.154, Purport)