Yoga and Science
The word ‘science’ is derived from Latin verb root ‘scire’, to know. So, all knowledge is ‘science’ and God the Omniscient, from the same verb root, can be translated into mod...
Unity in Names
There are so many ways humanity expresses an inner unity even with differences of history, language, country and culture. Here I point out just one area of such unity of thoug...
The Last Statement of Swami Veda Bhar...
The Last Statement of Swami Veda Bharati before Taking the Five-Year Vow of Silence at the Gathering of the Sangha 9th March 2013 [During Swami Veda’s talk on 9th March 2013 ...
Two Paths in Yoga
There are many misunderstandings about yoga. There are many paths in yoga and different yogis choose different paths. Here we shall speak only of two paths to clear up some mi...
How to Bring Spirituality into Family...
This is a transcription of a talk given by Swami Veda Bharati on 22nd February 2013 at the Nurturing Spirituality in the Family Conference. Bring your mind to your asana wher...
A Special Message from Swami Veda, Fe...
Swami Veda Bharati Some time back I wrote a blog/article in which I briefly described the NYEPI day, the annual silence day of Bali island in Indonesia. I did not mention, did n...
Brain Damage in Modernity
A recent issue of Scientific American Mind, November/December 2012 (pp.30ff.) gives a random list of geniuses in history. All names are western except one Arab (Ibn Khaldun) a...
Kashmir 2012 by Swami Veda Bharati
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] I started writing this at the time of the event but was not able to complete it. Here is an edited and updated version. Please enjoy....
Dakshinamurti Stotra
Dakshinamurti Stotra (transcribed, edited, and amended from a lecture celebrating Guru-purnima at The Meditation Center Minneapolis, USA) by Swami Veda Bharati There is a...
JAPAN and other DISASTERS by Swami V...
It is said repeatedly in the Puranas (the great cosmological epics of India in Sanskrit) that when the earth can bear no more the burden of human sins, she, our mother, turns on...
The Two-Minute Meditation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] The Two-Minute Meditation Something profoundly significant to incorporate into your busy daily life. "Start your inward journey, mo...
The Yoga Youth and Children’s Retreat...
There is a river. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don’t. The long line of Gurus is that river, the Light that ties us all to one another. Swami Nityamuktananda spoke of thi...