Do you ever lie in bed at night, wondering what the future holds? Swami Satchidananda offers some advice for how to plan your future—excerpted from The Golden Present. Question: Would you please speak about what you foresee in the future, for the next ten or twenty...
Meditation doesn’t have to mean sitting in silence. Physical movement can also bring the mind to a place of stillness—and for some, it’s easier than hours on a cushion. After all, anything that is done with one’s full attention and awareness is meditation: walking,...
Ellen is a medical student, and thinks of herself as a rational person who doesn’t go in for mystical experiences. But one day, as she closed her eyes and relaxed in Savasana, Ellen felt a powerful, maternal energy around her and ‘saw’ the Indian goddess Durga, whose...
“Do anything and everything with the idea of serving God, serving humanity, serving the world-at-large. You can serve everything. You can serve a table; you can serve a chair. If you don’t pull the chair mercilessly from one corner to another corner, you are...
