“Can you show me God? Have you seen God?” These are the questions we commonly come across. So the answer is here. Yes, you can see God. Everyone can see God. But there must be the qualification. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita: naham prakashau sarvasya yoga-maya-samavatau: [Bhagavad-gita. 7.25] “I am not exposed to everyone. […]
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Your Future Lies with God
Your future is not determined by who YOU know and who YOU don’t know, who likes YOU and who doesn’t like YOU? The power to fulfill YOUR destiny is within YOU! Almighty GOD put it in there… YOU should make every effort to discover it… harness it… master it and exhibit it to HIS glory. […]
Be a Yes Man, Quote on Karma Yoga
Anything that is going on in this world, is under the supreme supervision of the Lord. There is a philosopher’s saying, “Not a blade of grass moves without the will of God.” It is actually the fact. Now, we have to dovetail ourselves with that plan of the Supreme Lord. That is called karma-yoga. So […]
Life From Your Own View
Life, as we have heard, is how we make it. If we took time reflecting on this statement we might discover it is actually true. People often say life is not fair, actually that’s true. Life doesn’t choose who will be rich or poor, who will be successful or not. Who does then? Actually it’s […]
Important to remember…
Here is a 7-poniter list which everyone has to remember. Never think or speak negatively about yourself. Meditate on your God-given strengths and learn to encourage yourself, for much of the time nobody else will. Don’t compare yourself to anybody else. So don’t settle for being a copy. Focus on your potential, not on your […]
Recognize patterns of behavior
Take an honest look at your own patterns of behavior. Perhaps you’re the one who starts some of the arguments, or you are a willing participant once they get going. This type of reflective wisdom allows you to better choose what to say and what not to say; who to spend time with and who […]
Discovering the Self, Who are You??
Who are you? Are you your body? Or your mind? Or are you something higher? Do you know who you are, or do you merely think you know? And does it really matter? Our materialistic society, with its unenlightened leadership, has made it virtually taboo to inquire into our real, higher self. Instead we use […]
The Perfect Theistic Science
Bhagavad-gita is the widely read theistic science summarized in the Gita-mahatmya (Glorification of the Gita). There it says that one should read Bhagavad-gita very scrutinizingly with the help of a person who is a devotee of Sri Krishna and try to understand it without personally motivated interpretations. The example of clear understanding is there in […]
Do not react wrongly to “problems”
A study of three hundred highly successful people, people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Einstein, reveals that one-fourth had handicaps, such as blindness, deafness, or crippled limbs. Three-fourths had either been born in poverty, came from broken homes, or at least came from exceedingly tense or […]
Different people have different perceptions
A couple bought a donkey from the market. On the way home, a boy commented, “Very stupid. Why neither of them rides on the donkey?” Upon hearing that, the husband let the wife ride on the donkey. He walked besides them. Later, an old man saw it and commented, “The husband is the head of […]
Ease off your thinking
It’s tempting, when you don’t know what to do, when you don’t have an immediate answer, to try to force the issue. You try harder, think faster, attempt to figure things out, and struggle to come up with something. The most powerful and productive thing to do when you don’t have an immediate answer to […]
God is great
Many people claim, “God is great,” but this is a hackneyed phrase. One must know how He is great, and that can be known from authorized scripture. In the Bhagavad-gita God describes Himself. He says, “My appearance of taking birth just like an ordinary human being is actually transcendental.” God is so kind that He […]
Relationships are hard to handle & might even seem impossible at times
Relationships are hard to handle and might even seem impossible at times. There will be many fights and many quarrels, many disagreements and many tears….. The easiest thing would be to give up. But if we instead spend half the energy we use in fighting with each other, to keep the relationship strong, then that […]
Special reasoning power of the human being
The Bhagavad-gita says that out of many thousands of human beings, one may try to make perfection of his life. Man is an animal, but he has one special prerogative, rational thought. What is that rational thought? Reasoning power, argument. Now, reasoning power is there in dogs and cats as well. Suppose a dog comes […]
Eliminate worry from your life
There are many reasons to eliminate worry from your life. First and foremost, it’s highly stressful. Think about how you feel when you’re worried. It’s all-consuming and energy draining. It encourages you to focus on problems and on how difficult your life has become. When you worry, you are on edge and tense. Therefore you […]
Avoid multi-tasking
Avoid multi-tasking – You’re on the phone with a supplier, while quietly typing up notes about your previous phone call. As soon as you hang up, a colleague sends you an instant message, which you read over while dialing your manager’s extension number. During your phone conversation, you start updating your week’s to-do list. To boost […]
Remember to appreciate and make everyone’s day a little brighter
One of the most consistent complaints of working people in virtually all industries is that either feel completely unappreciated, or at the very least under-appreciated. There seems to be unspoken assumption that workers are lucky to have jobs – and the fact that they have jobs is appreciation enough. The problem is, people need and […]
Who is the Supreme Controller?
Who is the Supreme Controller? It is natural that a philosophical mind wants to know about the origin of the creation. At night he sees the stars in the sky, and he naturally speculates about their inhabitants. Such inquiries are natural for man because man has a developed consciousness which is higher than that of […]
Forgive yourself if you commit a mistake
Do not be unforgiving of yourself if you commit a mistake or make an error. Life didn’t come with a fool-proof manual. Most of us are doing the best that we can. We’re not perfect. We learn from our mistakes and from stumbling. Like almost everyone else, I have a great number of responsibilities. In […]
Confidently walk into anything God brings our way
Two men went fishing. One man was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn’t. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman caught a big fish, he threw it back. The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and […]