One of the Shiva mantrams is called pancakshara, the ‘five-lettered’ mantram, and for me the five pebbles that David was carrying were a five-lettered mantram with which he was able to defeat his own ego.

Right from the early days of marriage, or of any relationship, we must try to forget about rights and remember duties if the relationship is to last.

In meditation, even though we meditate regularly in the morning, if we do not take care to pull out the weeds that are rampant in the garden of the mind, spiritual seeds are not likely to thrive.

The word avyakta implies that our only purpose in life is to reveal the divine personality that is concealed in all of us. The

it is by extending our capacity to love and support to a widening circle of friends that we transform our life into a permanent force for good in the world.

The mystic says, “I have stopped thinking; therefore I am.”

as long as you are vulnerable to praise, you will be vulnerable to condemnation also. Most

The language of battle is often found in the scriptures, for it conveys the strenuous, long-drawn-out campaign we must wage to free ourselves from the tyranny of the ego, the cause of all our suffering and sorrow.

This despair and self-pity in a time of crisis is mean and unworthy of you, Arjuna. How have you fallen into a state so far from the path to liberation?