Swami Tejomayananda
Playing our role in life
When there is a sense of oneness and love, service comes naturally. The wish to injure does not arise. There is growth and prosperity for all.
For the love of the blue God
Today, as we celebrate Janmashtami, let us take a look at who Krishna was. The first thing to keep in mind is that Krishna was God incarnate.
Can violence be dharma?
What is the greatest dharma? It is said, “Non-violence or non-injury is the supreme dharma”. Violence is something that disturbs the entire society, and it begins at the mental level.
What is our dharma?
The word dharma has been translated variously as “righteousness”, “duty”, “inner disposition” and even as “religion”.
Krishna on dharma yudhKrishna on dharma yudh
In Gita, Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that just as we shed our old clothes in order to wear new ones, the self also gives up many bodies and takes up new ones.
Self remains immutable
We saw in earlier columns that the body, mind and intellect, the sense organs and the organs of action exist in the plane of relative reality only, as a part of the ever-changing ephemeral world.
Relinquish doership
In Gita, Sri Krishna explains to Arjuna two perspectives on his problem: the highest truth and that of relative experience.
