The greatest enemy as far as liberation is concerned is body- consciousness – attachment to the physical body. Diseases, insults and abuses are enemies of the physical body. Logically, the
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Nibbles
Aid en-route
The plantain leaf that is used as a plate to take a meal is cleaned and taken care of only as long as the meal is taken. Once the meal is done, the leaf-plate is discarded. Similarly the physical
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Madhura Vani: Mahans and Messengers
Mahatma’s have made messengers out of clouds, birds, oceans and mountains! In Krishna Karnamrita, Shri Leela Shuka prays to the flute of Lord krishna “Oh flute! The knower of the taste of the
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Madhura Vani: You and the world
One should be in the world but not of the world. A boat floats on water. But if water enters the boat, it may drown the boat itself. Similarly though remaining in the world, one should not carry the
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Contemporaries
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa who lived near Calcutta and saint Thyagaraja who lived in Tamil Nadu were contemporaries but have never met each
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Deity Worship
The mind can be destroyed only by upasana(worship) to a particular deity. When that is the case, how can the mind be destroyed by turning one’s vision inward putting it back in its place of origin.
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Kandar Anubhuti
Arunagirinathar sings his experience in ‘Kandar anubhooti’. It was sung while he was in the form of a parrot.He knew the art of moving from one body to another (’koodu vittu koodu payudal’).
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Why Saints descend?
Swami Gnanananda Giri lived in Tapovanam, near a place called Tirukkovilur in Tamil Nadu. Often, devotees used to come to him and share with him their problems, personal weaknesses and the sins they
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Faith heals
Christ is walking in the midst of a huge crowd. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus calls out to Jesus. Christ turns around and walks up to the man and asks, “Did you call me?” The blind man says,
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Sweet and nectarine – yet no takers!
The street hawker goes all around the town carrying his pots of good curd and milk screaming at the top of his voice, but nobody comes forward to buy his goods. Illicit liquor is sold away from the
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Speaking without speaking
Once, during the mid-eighties, Kanchipuram Mahaswamiji Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Swamiji (Maha Periyava) desired to see Bhagavan Yogiramsuratkumar and invited him through a personal attendant.
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Doubt cleared
Once, a group of musicians and scholars set out to engrave all the Kritis of Sri Thiyagaraja Swamigal in his Samadhi. Towards this goal, they were collecting and analyzing the Saint’s works. In one
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