Awareness/Yog Philosophy

For a long time we have been saying that we don’t have enough time. The busyness of our lives was the pretext to run and to keep running. Because of it we we...

When we think of "me", or "my identity" as a human being, we think of our body. In most people, the sense of I is consisting of the physical form we see in t...

For a meditator, Vivek, the power to discriminate between the Unchanging and the ever-changing, is an absolute necessity. Without it s/he is eternally caught...

Is it an exaggeration to say that the mind has the power to torture us? In a moment of stress, take 1 minute to sit and watch the content of your thoughts as...

Many books have been written on the subject of Saadhana, a Sanskrit word that loosely translates as spiritual exercise. The term Saadhana is used to describe...

Every time we sit down and close our eyes to meditate, we engage in a powerful process of transformation.

Santosh is the Superpower of Meditators. It gives one the ability to remain content under all circumstances, be they pleasant or unpleasant, challenging or n...

Satsang is a Sanskrit word. It means to gather in the presence (sang) of the Truth (Sat). Satsang is a gift to yourself. It is the opportunity to consciously...

Have you noticed how we can spend entire days or sleepless nights ruminating, thinking and trying to figure out the answer to a problem, without ever finding...

One of the many obstacles to Meditation concocted by our mind is the idea that we can’t meditate if we are in a noisy environment. We think of noise as a dis...

Meditation develops an extraordinary power: the ability to know, in our own being, that we truly are Divine Beings having a human experience. In Meditation w...

What if everything we have been told and believed about ourselves were inaccurate or, at the very the least, incomplete? Many seekers have an innate sense th...

As our friends in the United States are about to celebrate Thanksgiving this coming Thursday, these reflections on gratitude, written a while ago, seem appro...

As human beings we have an interesting relationship with the concept of truth. To our waking-state mind the idea of truth seems straightforward and relativel...

As a Meditation teacher and lifelong meditator, I can say with absolute certainty that Meditation works. Success is inevitable and guaranteed. How can anyone...

Two very talented friends and meditators have recently created a YouTube Channel called Yog Tales, where they share deep and inspiring animated stories depic...

The human condition is to forget that our originality or True Nature is Pure Free and Forever. We are born of that Divine Purity and Freedom, but as soon as ...

Urvashee is a dear friend and the gifted creator of countless exceptional Malas. She has dedicated her life to Meditation and to helping others find their wa...

Today’s quote is from Yog Vashishth, one of my favorite scriptures that Swami Shyam has brilliantly revived for those who want to know the Essence or Truth o...

Just as a caterpillar doesn’t know it can fly until it experiences its own metamorphosis, most human beings are not sure of their Divinity. They doubt it, un...