Power of Concentration: When Sri Ramana Learned a New Language in a Few Hours!

Uplift your consciousness! Receive daily spiritual quotes from great Rishis. Subscribe on WhatsApp. Once the owner of a mango orchard requested Bhagavan and his disciple, Palani Swami to come and stay there. There was only a thatched hut made of coconut leaves. Palani Swami and Bhagavan stayed there for six months, undisturbed, because the owner […]

Prostitution & Pornography – Tremendous Social Evils

Today there is an urgent need for a spiritual upliftment of the world. As Swami Sivananda has explained in his book: Moral and Spiritual Regeneration of the World, the masses today have to be weaned from hedonistic ways of thinking and acting like beasts. Since the soul of each person is Divine, therefore the way […]

Married People Can Attain to God-Realization (Moksha) – True or False?

“Gurudev, married people do not practice Brahmacharya (celibacy). But Hindu scriptures say that Brahmacharya is essential for God-Realization and Moksha. So are married people doomed to remain trapped in endless cycles of birth and death?”

A lady asked this question to Swami Shivananda, the direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Enclosed in this video is his answer.

Can Lord Ayyappa’s Brahmacharya Shake if Women Enter the Sabarimala Temple?

In this 2 part video series we examine the Vedantic validity of the top 3 justifications that have been submitted by the Sabarimala Temple Authorities before the Supreme Court, in support of the temple’s practice of banning women in the menstruating age group of 10 and 50 years from entering the shrine. In this particular […]

Is Watching Pornography a Sin? – Hidden Realities About the Porn Industry

“We have become so unhinged and unnatural that nothing natural will satisfy us. We are always grasping after morbid things, must have unnatural excitement — unnatural food, drink, surroundings, and life.” – Swami Vivekananda Is watching pornography a sin? A young man sent me an email with this question, and his question is so pertinent […]

Why Does God Allow Rape and Other Heinous Crimes to be Committed?

If He is so powerful why does He not do something to stop them? “A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings, called the wicked, for they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, who indicate the national life-current to be flowing clear and vigorous.” – Swami Vivekananda The […]