The Law of Karma has been often misunderstood as the Law of Destiny. There is indeed a lot of difference between the Law of Karma and the Law of Destiny. Had our Law of Karma been equal to the Law of Destiny, the Hindu civilization would have been long ago ended like the Roman or the Egyptian civiliRead More >>

Bhagavan briefly gives the technique of dhyana. First drop all the kamanas created by sankalpa. Then control all the senses slowly and steadily with persevering intellect withdraw the mind from names and forms and place it in the Self. Thereafter don’t think anythinRead More >>

5th Chapter begins with Arjuna’s question to Bhagavan Shri Krishna that you praise karmayoga and karmasannyas but both cannot be practiced at the same time so please tell me one thing that is good for me. Bhagavan says that both these paths lead to the same goal. First step is karmayoga and it Read More >>

Vedanta teaches us about the nature of the universe and how everything in the universe is a merely a reflection of the same unchanging, omnipotent, omnipresent, and conscious Truth. Vedanta teaches us how to live in, interact with, and find happiness in the world. This uRead More >>

Sumi Roy, a bubbling youngster from Guwahati, Assam is one of the newest sevaks of Chinmaya Mission. She was a member of the National Cadet Corps for over four years and later on joined the National Service Scheme for another six years, organising awareness and empowerment programs. She won the DistRead More >>

The two-year Vedanta course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya in Mumbai demands rigorous personal discipline, deep devotion and intense scriptural study Chinmaya Mission’s training program is no ordinary course of study. It is a 24/7 commitment of body, mind and soul to aRead More >>

To act in life "WITHOUT ANY EXPECTATION OF RESULTS" would seem to be an almost impossible method. This fundamental truth, very well known and easily com¬prehended by all, is, in the language of the Geeta, a simple statement: "If success you seek, then never strive with a mind dissipated with anxRead More >>

The fear in man about the hereafter has risen from his failure to appreciate the logical continuity and the per¬fect sequence that is ever found in life. To consider that death is the end of an existence which started with the accident of birth, is a philosophy too rudimentary to be considered compRead More >>

If I am not the body, the merciless destinies through which it is being dragged are also not mine. The endless changes that come to me—birth, growth, decay disease and death, all belong to the physical body, because ‘I’ the self am unborn. When there is no birth for Me there can be no death eiRead More >>

Religion is a privilege of man and not an instinct of the animals. To the animal, life is one round of eating, sleeping and mating. Man, even when he has food, shelter, clothing and recreation does not feel satisfied. He yearns to seek for a greater purpose in life. So long as he has not these minimRead More >>