Children's Spiritual Training
We can't blame everything on genes... People have to open their minds to the terrible possibility that...the important events in the development of a child happen not at conception but years before.by Swami Veda Bharati
Belief and Direct Experience
This question of a belief system is very important to many people, but to us here in yoga what is important is that you find out for yourself. You don't begin the practice of yoga and meditation with a belief system. That is the difference between a religion and a science. In a religion you must believe first and practice afterwards. You declare your belief, and then you start practicing your religion. In a science, on the other hand, you practice first and believe afterwards. When you go to a research lab to take a course in chemistry of physics, you don't stand there at the door and cross yourself and say, "I declare my belief that water is H-2-0." No, you walk in there, without declaring any kind of belief; and your chemistry professor or physics professor says, "Take this flask, and connect this here, and do this there, and boil it here this way, and so on and so forth;" and then you see that water is indeed H-2-0, and you believe.by Swami Veda Bharati
A Wise Man
A wise man is he who in the presence of the causes of agitation does not become agitated. A wise man is he who does not resist. Now don’t let this only remain in your notebook. I criticize you. How are you feeling inside. Check that. That was a cause for agitation. How much resistance goes in you. Check that.by Swami Veda Bharati
The Vasu-deva Principle
I would like to extend again the invitation to continue living in the Vasu-deva principle, the principle of the In-Dweller, the single In-Dwelling Deity, the In-Dwelling Force. How do we go about doing this? All these years we have prepared for this step. And what is that step? The very, very first step in yoga. This year we shall introduce yoga into our lives, the first step in yoga, consciously.by Swami Veda Bharati
The Guru-Disciple Relationship
Gurus look for disciples And they take them up to the point that the disciple wants to go at that given time. Beyond that, you have to make yourself felt. Not by pestering. Not by writing six-page letters. There are certain things that you have to do, and then slowly that knowledge will open to you. You do your end. It is for you to figure out what.by Swami Veda Bharati