The week-long event Seven Mindsets for Success in Life and Beyond with Swami Mukundananda was a huge success as it drew close to 400 devotees every evening to the Hindu Society of North Carolina. This was Swamiji’s seventh visit to the Raleigh-Durham area with many devotees looking forward to...
From the day the very first foundation stone was laid, everyone knew that Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas would be a manifestation of divine grace. The fact that Radha Krishna consider this Their abode manifests in the grace that was and continues to be showered daily upon everyone who visits....
The Vedic scriptures inform us that nobody works without a reason. There is a reason for all our actions. All works of every personality—a human, or a God-realized Saint, or God himself—are done with a purpose. Even we people have a purpose. What is the purpose? The main...
The Vedic scriptures inform us that we are eternal servants of God. 500 years ago Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said the same thing: jīver svaroop hay kṛiṣhṇer nitya dās meaning, we are the eternal servants of Shree Krishna. But what does it mean to be a servant and to serve Krishna? As...
Traditionally saints and devotees in India have worshipped and revered deities e.g. Meerabai worshipped Giridhar Gopal; Saint Ekanath was a devotee of Rukmini Mittal; Chaitanya Mahaprabhu loved Lord Jagannath; alvars of South India worshipped the deity of Lord Vishnu in his various temples; Jagadguru Ramanujacharya was also into deity...
Meditation, as a stress reduction or stress management technique, is increasingly becoming popular in the West. But is there all to it? It just helps to manage stress and improve our physical health? Could there be more to it than meets the eye? Actually yes, there is… lots more. Some...
Bhakti is a widely used word in Indian spirituality and religion. Most of us believe ourselves to be a ‘bhakt’, a devotee of Radha Krishna or Sita Ram or Shiv and Parvati. Yet, few of us take the time to truly understand the depth of the meaning contained in the...
guru govinda dono khaḍe, kāke lāgū pāya balihārī guru āapane, govinda diyo milāya In this verse, Saint Kabir asks “God and Guru are standing before me. Whom should I first pay my respects to?” And he answers, “I will first pay my respects to the Guru, for he is the...
As we embark or progress on the spiritual path, there is a desire to become more knowledgeable about this subject. To learn about a topic, we usually follow any combination of three avenues. First, we try to learn through self-effort by reading and researching the topic ourselves. Second, we ask...
