The following series of short stories are collected from lectures of Srila Prabhupada as well as Vedic wisdom texts, with our commentary.We hope you enjoy their entertaining yet educational instructions. It’s Just Two Paisa Worth Once, a man left his village. After ten years, he returned, claiming he’d mastered yoga. The villagers were curious, … Read more
I considered myself to be quite the rebel in my teens and early twenties, and I was proud of that label. I thought I was so cool – smoking cigarettes behind the art building at the strict, all-girls school I attended in the dull, conservative city of Pretoria. [Never heard of Pretoria? Don’t worry about … Read more
It may seem like a strange question, with an obvious answer (I am!). But in order to understand how mantra meditation can be effective at controlling the mind, we need to make a distinction between the mind of the meditator and the meditator him-/herself. It is a subtle distinction, but a very important one, because … Read more
There’s a Sanskrit word for the daily practices we undertake in order to advance in spiritual life – the word is sadhana. Sadhana is what we do, on a daily basis, to facilitate the purification of our consciousness. It is the regulated part of spiritual life which calls for consistency and discipline. Yes, discipline. I … Read more
Chanting Is A Journey To Higher Consciousness Chanting is a journey towards realizing your spiritual nature and achieving higher consciousness. Part of this journey is to start looking at the way we live and how it affects us. This is part of the science of yoga which leads to cleansing the heart and experiencing the … Read more