🌿यस्य देवे परा भक्तिः यथा देवे तथा गुरौ । तस्यैते कथिता ह्यर्थाः प्रकाशन्ते महात्मनः ॥ २३ ॥

He who has the highest Bhakti of Deva [God], just like his Deva, so for his Guru [teacher] - to him - who is high-minded, these [Vedic] teachings will be illuminating.

— Shvetashvatara Upanishad 6.23

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🌿Meditation Advice for Beginners🌿

These words and instructions will make any spiritual aspirant (especially beginners) meditate better and grow spiritually.

✨Explained By: Lahiri Mahasaya✨

•Duration - 2:01 mins

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🌿वेदः स्मृतिः सदाचारः स्वस्य च प्रियं आत्मनः ।
एतच्चतुर्विधं प्राहुः साक्षाद्धर्मस्य लक्षणम् ।। २.१२ ।।

The Veda, the Smṛti, the conduct of noble men, and what is agreeable to one's conscience—these directly constitute the fourfold means of knowing Dharma.

~Manu Smriti, 2.12

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✨143RD BIRTHDAY OF BHAGAVAN RAMANA✨

​​On one of my birthdays while I was in Virupaksha Cave, probably in 1912, those around me insisted on cooking food and eating it there as a celebration of the occasion.

When the cooking and eating were over, Iswaraswamy who used to be with me in those days, said, "Swamiji! this is your birthday. Please compose two verses and I too will compose two."

It was then that I composed these two verses which I find in the notebook here. They run as follows :-

🌿You who intend to celebrate the birthday, first ascertain as to whence you were born. The day that we attain a place in that everlasting life which is beyond the reach of births and deaths is our real birthday.

🌿Even on these birthdays that occur once a year, we ought to lament that we have got this body and fallen into this world. Instead we celebrate the event with a feast. To rejoice over it is like decorating a corpse. Wisdom consists in realising the Self and in getting absorbed therein.

This is the purport of those verses. It appears that it is a custom amongst a certain section of people in Malabar to weep when a child is born in the house and celebrate a death with pomp. Really one should lament having left one’s real state, and taken birth again in this world, and not celebrate it as a festive occasion.

~Sri Ramana Maharshi
•Letters from Sri Ramanasramam; 24th February, 1947

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On this auspicious occasion of Bhagavan's Birthday [30th December 1879], we pray to Bhagavan to shower His Grace and Blessings and motivate us to practice His path diligently, so that we realize our birthless and deathless nature. 🙏✨

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🌿What is Brahmacharya and its significance?🌿

What was the secret behind the great 9/11 Chicago Speech of Vivekananda? How did Swami Vivekananda develop such an incredible memory and concentration?

✨Explained By: Swami Vivekananda✨

•Duration - 3:11 mins

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⭐️HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023⭐️

Today is the New Year’s day. Make the best use of every moment of this New Year. Do not procrastinate. Abandon idle gossiping. Kill egoism, laziness and inertia. Speak the truth, practise Ahimsa and Meditation. May this bright New Year’s day and all the succeeding days of life also bring you all success, peace, prosperity and happiness. May you enjoy the eternal bliss of the Absolute, leading a divine life, singing Lord’s name, serving others with Atma Bhava and melting the mind in silent meditation on the Supreme Self.

~Swami Sivananda

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Wishing you all a very auspicious and beautiful year ahead! May the Lord continue to bless us, guide us on our spiritual path and lead us towards our highest good and welfare! 🙏😇

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🌿The Essence of Vedanta🌿

What is the Essence of Vedanta [Advaita]? This video provides the basic understanding and explains the key concepts of the Vedanta Philosophy for the Beginners.

✨Explained By: Adi Shankaracharya✨

•Duration - 10:10 mins

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⭐️160TH VIVEKANANDA JAYANTI⭐️

✨ Teach yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity will come and everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious activity. ✨

- Swami Vivekananda

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☀️SADHANA FOR GRIHASTAS☀️

— Shiva Samhita, Chapter 5, Verses 234-238

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🌿Important Message For Householders🌿

How to spiritualize one's day to day actions? Do we really need to give up our duties and home for the practice of Sadhana and Dharma?

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•Duration - 56 seconds

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🌿यदा पञ्चावतिष्ठन्ते ज्ञानानि मनसा सह । बुद्धिश्च न विचेष्टते तामाहुः परमां गतिम् ॥ १० ॥

When all the senses are stilled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not - then, say the wise, is reached the highest state.

🌿तां योगमिति मन्यन्ते स्थिरामिन्द्रियधारणाम् । अप्रमत्तस्तदा भवति योगो हि प्रभवाप्ययौ ॥ ११ ॥

This calm[ness] of the senses and the mind has been defined as yoga. He who attains it is freed from delusion.

~Katha Upanishad, 2.3.10-11

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⭐️The mind is by nature, restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit.

~Ramana Maharshi
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✨Realise with a still mind - the state between sleep and wakefulness, the interval between the recognition of one object after another or the gap between two perceptions.

✨This is the real Self, abiding in which one is no longer deluded. Unaware of this Truth, people have become inheritors of sorrow.

~Tripura Rahasya, Chapter 9, Verse 94, 95

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🌿Kriya Yoga for Beginners🌿

What is the science of Kriya Yoga? What are its benefits and how does it work? This video provides a simple introduction to Kriya Yoga and explains various aspects around this ancient science.

✨Explained By: Paramahansa Yogananda✨

•Duration - 10:00 mins

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✨HAPPY BASANT PANCHAMI✨

☀️​​My consciousness shines in your world, like a beautiful face in a soiled mirror. Seeing that reflection, I call myself you, an individual soul, as if I could be finite!

☀️ "A finite soul", "an infinite Goddess" - these are false concepts, in the minds of those unacquainted with truth [of Atman].

☀️No space, my loving devotee, exists between your Self and my Self. Know this and you are free. This is the secret wisdom.

— Devi Saraswati 🕉
•Saraswati Rhasya Upanishad 2.31–2.33

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Wishing a very Auspicious Basant Panchami to you all. May Goddess Saraswati's grace and blessings continue to guide us to wisdom, joy, clarity and our highest good. 🙏😇

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🌿Paramahansa Yogananda meets Ramana Maharshi🌿

Paramahansa Yogananda comes to meet Ramana Maharshi. He asks some questions to Ramana Maharshi and discusses mainly about suffering and why suffering exists. This video also contains the original clip of the occasion when Sri Yogananda and Sri Ramana met.

✨Dialogue between: Paramahansa Yogananda and Ramana Maharshi✨

•Duration - 1:55 mins

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