One of the most impactful things my teacher told me when I first met him was: "You have never done anything wrong". Upon hearing these...

Of all the obstacles to knowing the Self, Avidyaa is the one at the center. Avidyaa, or forgetfulness of the Self, is the root cause of a hu

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Have you noticed how we can spend entire days or sleepless nights ruminating, thinking and trying to figure out the answer to a problem,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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