Question:What is YOUR message?
Reflection:Cultivate a store of joy unending — and bring it out in perpetual smiles. The world needs, as never before, smiles. Be a lighthouse of Joy and…
Question:What do you do to stay balanced?
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Question:How would you offer tribute to your Guru?
“I shall consider myself fulfilled if my life and work become my message of adoration and…
Question:Who is Swami Chinmayananda to you?
Reflection:“We saw that even though the Being whom he loved and the One who loved him, called him back to His heavenly abode, yet he will…
Question:What is the affect of attachment on our development?
Reflection:“Some drunken men got into a boat one moonlit night and started rowing. They rowed the entire night. Early in…
Question:Who is Bhagavan?
Reflection:Bhagavan is bhagya (fortunate). One who is virtuous is fortunate. And so the infinite bhagya of Bhagavan are:
Question:What is tapa, what is titiksha and what is their relationship?
Reflection:Tapa means to burn. One engages in voluntary discipline (i.e. waking up early, speaking softly, etc.)…
Question:Why are you in the Mananam Reading Course?
Reflection:Polio shots are taken in infancy to give us immunity all through our lives. The earlier we are empowered to face life, the…
Question:What is yoga?
Reflection:“A wish expressed in mental language is a thought. If there are no wishes, no thoughts arise, nor can wishes ever germinate when thoughts have stopped…
Question:What is the benefit of observing thoughts rather than owning thoughts?
Reflection:“Thoughts in their incessant flow create the substantial fiction of the monstrous-looking…