You must have contentment, whatever be the gain or loss! This is essential. Contentment grants and increases happiness. For the contented mind, life is an endless festival, but the mind worried by desire will have no rest. With desire troubling
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 29th June 2022
The mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself. Mothers should know the secret of mental peace, inner silence, spiritual courage and contentment which is the greatest wealth, and also of
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 28th June 2022
One important thing to be remembered is that it is possible and desirable to utilise the full power of words through softness and sweetness. If one is anxious to see God in every object, the sweetness of the word will
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 27 June 2022
It is the practice of what one reads that imparts strength, like food does when digested and what exercise does to promote health! Saint Tyagaraja sang that the Lord is the inner motive force within the ant as well as
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 26 June 2022
It is the mind that makes or mars a person. If it is immersed in things of the world, it leads to bondage; if it treats the world as but temporary, then by that detachment it becomes free and light.
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 25 June 2022
The undesirable tendencies have to be uprooted completely, or at least there should be a systematic endeavour to get rid of them. Such aspirants will have to be swimming against the current. Proceeding against the current is the means to
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 24 June 2022
The period from childhood to adolescence need not be taken seriously or worried about much. With the dawn of adolescence, one enters the first hazy uncertain stage and engages in many fruitless activities. Later, one attains ripeness and strength. It
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 23 June 2022
Love directed to the Lord is called devotion, and it is the easiest of all the paths to realise the goal. Devotion can be spoken of as having several stages. There is the stage where service of the Lord alone
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 22 June 2022
I have not come to you to “lecture”, for I do not believe in the value of mere words, however scholarly or pompous or profuse. I have come only to share with you My Prema (Love) and partake in turn
Thought for the Day from Prasanthi Nilayam 21 June 2022
Training (sikshana) is a process in which the teacher and the taught cooperate. It must be a pleasant experience, a useful and heartening endeavour, for both. “Kshana” means “a second”, and I want that you must learn a good lesson