"यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारतअभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे"I take avatar.&nbsp;I appear.&nbsp;Whenever there is loss of religion, then I come.&nbsp;When iniquity increases, then I manifest in the form of people, I come to protect the gentlemen, I come to destroy the wicked, I come to establish Dharma and in the ages&nbsp;I take birthHappy janmashtmi🧡

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श्रीमत् भगवत् गीता (हिंदी पद्य अनुवाद) / Shrimat Bhagvat Gita (Hindi Poetic Translation)

"The love of Jesus will give you an ever-clearer vision of your call as well as of the many attempts to pull you away from that call. The more you are called to speak for God’s love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant. The enemy is there, waiting to destroy you, but you can face the enemy without fear when you know that you are held safe in the love of Jesus." -Henri Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love

Face the Enemy

This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote a spiritual imperative to himself each day that emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters. For more than eight years, Henri Nouwen felt that what he wrote was too raw and private to share with others. Instead, he published The Return of the Prodigal Son, in which he expressed some of the insights gained during his mental and spiritual crisis. But then friends asked him, "Why keep your anguish hidden from the many people who have been nurtured by your writing? Wouldn't it be of consolation for many to know about the fierce inner battle that lies underneath so many of your spiritual insights?" For the countless men and women who have to live through the pain of broken relationships, or who suffer from the loss of a loved one, this book about the inner voice of love offers new courage, new hope, even new life.

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This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was  written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem,  his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote a spiritual imperative to himself each day that emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters. For more than eight years, Henri Nouwen felt that what he wrote was too raw and private to share with others. Instead, he published The Return of the Prodigal Son, in which he expressed some of the insights gained during his mental and spiritual crisis. But then friends asked him, "Why keep your anguish hidden from the many people who have been nurtured by your writing? Wouldn't it be of consolation for many to know about the fierce inner battle that lies underneath so many of your spiritual insights?" For the countless men and women who have to live through the pain of broken relationships, or who suffer from the loss of a loved one, this book about the inner voice of love offers new courage, new hope, even new life.

Henri J. M. Nouwen

The Inner Voice of Love

<ul><li>Intensity - Going through an enlightenment experience regardless of belief makes people experience intensity through feelings of love, joy, or awe. These intense experiences is likely associated with increased activity in the limbic system which is the brain's primary emotional centre.</li><li>Unity - When we feel a profound sense of connectedness with the rest of humanity, God, or the Universe it is associated with a decrease of activity in the parietal lobe of the brain that stores sensory information.</li></ul>

The Five Elements of Enlightenment Experiences
(1-3)

<ul><li>Clarity - Our sense of clarity is related to the thalamus that is the central structure that connects various parts of the brain to each other and it is what establishes our consciousness.</li><li>A Sense of Surrender - With a decreased activity in the frontal lobes during intense enlightenment experiences we lose the sense of purposeful control.</li><li>Transformation - The feeling of transformation comes from the increased activity and thickness of the frontal lobes. This area regulates our emotional responses and our overall cognition. Therefore continuous usage of this area solidifies the aspect.</li></ul>

The Five Elements of Enlightenment Experiences
(3-5)

<ul><li>They can become more sensitised to the effects of serotonin and dopamine </li><li>The brains become more functionally connected, most especially the frontal and parietal lobes.</li></ul>

Other Benefits of Spiritual Practices or Retreats

Whether through daily meditation or on a week-long retreat, the experience of spiritual enlightenment transforms the brain

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जो असुरक्षा में जीने के लिए राज़ी है, उसके जीवन में कष्ट समाप्त हो जाते है।

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Arun Mishra on Aug 21

Say it out loud with me!I surround myself with people and situations who support my spiritual journey, this allows me to thrive and release all my worry.

Affirmation Of The Day

“Accepting and living in divine love is the basis for my happiness, when I fully realize this then I am truly blessed.”

Feel The Divine Love Showering Upon You!

Your happiness does not come from being in a specific place, or from another person, or in a certain job situation. All joy comes from aligning yourself with divine love and living a life of service and gratitude. Without that alignment all is fleeting. Don’t worry that you need to have it all to be happy. Simply focus on being in divine service and know you are always exactly where you need to be!Love and Blessings!

Happiness Is Your Natural State!

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Powerful Affirmations to start your day with!

<blockquote class="ql-align-center">Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul.</blockquote>

The mind should be a powerful machine put at the service of our heart, not the heart at the service of our mind. Let your mind show you how to achieve your heart’s desires instead of forcing your heart to love what your mind chooses by fear.

Are You Hearing Your Intuition or Your Ego? How to recognize each voice in you and live a fuller life?

Are You Hearing Your Intuition Or Your Ego?

It’s not that there is no God, it’s the thought of having to deny yourself, live righteous until the end, not surrendering to the world and be born again that leads many away from God. Many won’t admit that.

The Real Truth About Non-believers.

Melody on Aug 17

A king built a palace of mirrors and placed a rare rose in front of it whose image was reflects by hundreds of mirrors. The other day he released a pigeon in the palace. The pigeon, in a very powerful desire to attain the rose, kept finding it and kept hurting his beak into every mirror. He thought this one or that one would be real, but none happened to be. His beak was paining, tired by the mirages, he laid down in the courtyard where he noticed the actual rose. He found it when he stopped searching it at the outside.

Story

When I find my soulmate, I'll be happier. When I'll buy a Bugatti, I'll be happier. When I eat that piece of chocolate, I'll be happy. When I drink coffee, I'll be happy. This is what we keep saying to ourselves. But the thing is that Happiness lies inside, not outside. It is when you accept yourselves, you become happy. Happiness is not an external factor, it's internal.

Happiness Is Not What You Think It Is

It is how you see the world, which leads to suffering. Learn to see the world as it is. See both the sides of the coin.2 people, lost job, one observed the situation, the other just resents. The first got another job, the other just depressed.The latter chose to suffer.

You Choose To Suffer

Cigarette isn't a healthy desire. You will get irritated without it. A cup of tea maybe a healthy desire. You won't get irritated without it. The thing is to develop healthy desires. Which can be toggled when needed. If you have an unhealthy desire like sleeping in the afternoon, and you have it bad, you can't live without it, then just drop it for a month. Go for a walk or read a book.

Healthy Desires

You can only have strong ties with yourself when you have one within. Self-love. Have yoga (union) with yourself.

Relationship Starts Within.

Now get comfortable and close your eyes. Picture a tortoise withdrawing into its shell. Like that tortoise, you’re withdrawing your attention from everything around you and channeling your focus inward.  Imagine a light, warm and radiant, emanating from the center of your forehead. Take your time and visualize this comforting light in great detail. You should feel yourself growing more restful, relaxed, and self-accepting. Now you can turn your mind to your chosen thought. Dwell on it and gently return to it when you find your mind straying. "I am fearless""I use the body, I am not it

Do opposite. Opposite you emotions. Opposite your actions. Everything.Every time you change your thought or action into its opposite, you’re removing control from your lower self and redelegating it to your higher self – that is, to your sovereign self.

Other Than Meditation

Claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of yoga’s ancient spiritual texts What would it be like to have complete sovereignty within your own life? To feel confidently aligned with the power of your true Self? The beloved texts at the heart of yoga offer us timeless pathways to this experience, yet without years of formal study, accessing the depths of their wisdom can seem overwhelming. In Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya demystifies yoga’s most influential texts: the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita, making their profound teachings both accessible and immediately practical for modern seekers. The first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of Vedic spiritual teachers and the first to teach in the West, Shunya has a personal and authentic understanding of these classic scriptures. With Sovereign Self, she shares a comprehensive guide to their essential teachings, expertly adapting their wisdom and spiritual practices for Western students. Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you align with your greater Self—the Self that is always present, all-powerful, ever-joyful, and completely sovereign.

Unshackle your mind and claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of ancient yoga There’s a reason that the Vedas, a 5,000-year-old collection of celebrated verses from ancient India, have given rise to several world religions and influenced Western thinkers from Emerson to Ram Dass—they provide us with a uniquely accessible and effective path to liberation and sovereignty. With Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya shares a groundbreaking guide to the wisdom of these classic texts so that each of us may emancipate ourselves from restrictive belief systems and discover our true nature—that which is always whole, joyful, and free. As the first female lineage holder in a 2,000-year-old line of spiritual teachers, Shunya provides a rare opportunity to receive these authentic teachings from a genuine Vedic master—one with a distinctly down-to-earth, feminine flavor who never lets us forget that our humanity is to be embodied and enjoyed. Throughout Sovereign Self, Shunya adeptly guides us through the core concepts and practices of the Vedas, demystifying and contextualizing sacred concepts for modern life. In this masterful guide, you’ll explore: • Beginning the journey to radical self-acceptance—recognize your innate worth and wholeness • How we create our own prisons of shame, compulsion, blame, and obsession—and how you can begin to break free • Learning to embody personal autonomy in your life and relationships • Clear advice from a Vedic master for avoiding countless obstacles on the path to liberation—from spiritual bypassing to the true meaning of guru • Original meditations and contemplative practices taken directly from Shunya’s 2000-year-old lineage • How to wake up from being a “sleepwalker” and find authentic freedom, everlasting joy, and unshakable sovereignty Filled with hidden insights and engaging guidance, Sovereign Self will help you awaken and recognize your potential to be joyful, resourceful, abundant, limitlessly expansive, and sovereign.

Acharya Shunya

Sovereign Self

“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live. Notsatisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. Allthe harvest of the past is added to their store. Only an ingrate would fail to see that these greatarchitects of venerable thoughts were born for us and have designed a way of life for us.”—SENECA

Time for Philosophy

Some of us are stressed. Others are overworked. Perhaps you’re struggling with the new responsibilities of parenthood. Or the chaos of a new venture. Or are you already successful and grappling with the duties of power or influence? Wrestling with an addiction? Deeply in love? Or moving from one flawed relationship to another? Are you approaching your golden years? Or enjoying the spoils of youth? Busy and active? Or bored out of your mind. Wisdom from the Stoics that can help.

A Philosophical Life

“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .”—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.5.4–5

Control and Choice

“It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won’t tire and give up, if you aren’t busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed.”—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.32b

The Small Stuff

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

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"There is no subtler, surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.﻿"

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