Swamiji’s New Year Messsage
Swamiji’s gave a special talk on the new years day and the topic for this year was “Power of Prayer”. Please click on the link below to listen to this special class: Swamiji Talk on Power of Prayer (more…)
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Ten Commandments – Yamas, Niyamas and ways to Incorporate them in daily life
Continuing the discussion from last week on the topic of how to put in practice the teachings of Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi and the Bhagawad Gita, Dr. Katta presented an excerpt of an audio recording of Swamiji delivered on New Year 2,000. After searching I found the text of this lecture that I have copied for […]
Three Gunas
In Chapters 14, 17 and 18 of Bagawat Geeta, Bagawan Krishna discusses the three gunas – Satvic, Rajasic and Tomasic. Swamiji has presented many aspects of these gunas in a chart form in his book on Bagawat Geeta. I prepared a chart based on Swamiji’s chart and added other aspects of the gunas based on […]
Ten Commandments of Hinduism
This is a special talk given by Swamiji on the new year day of 2000. This one hour special talk discusses the following: Ten commandments that should be followed by all seekers of moksha The practical ways of following these ten commandments While many of us study vedanta, and are in the process of assimilating […]
Gurupurnima Lecture
The discussion was about Advaitham (Ad), Vasishtadwaitham (Va) and Dwaitham (Dw)–majority of Hindus follow one of these Darsans. The three Darsans do not have the same goal. Jiva is atom according to Va and Dw. But Ad says it is Sarvagathaha. Iswara Swarupam is Saguna according to Va and Dw. But Ad says it is […]
Is Life Predetermined?
Many events of our life are out of our control and most of our life appears to be predetermined. It appears that we may be able to influence only a small portion of our life. Our birth is destined. Our death is destined. And most of our life appears destined. Then, is it correct to […]
Karanam and Karyam
Portion of Swamiji’s lecture on Shivarthri: In the first stage of Ishwara Aradhanam we defined Ishwara as shrithi-shruthi-laya kartha. We use the word jagat kartha but in the second stage, Ishwara jnanam, the language is slightly changed. Instead of the word “kartha” we use the word “karanam”. Now we define God as the cause of […]
2016 Sivaratri Message from Swamiji: Five Features of Bakthi
This is the recording of the special talk given by Swamiji for the Sivatri festival in 2016. 2016 Sivaratri Talk (more…)
Tolerance: Swamiji Talk for New Year 2016
Namaste: This are my notes from New Year talk given by Swamiji on January 1, 2016: You can listen to this talk here. The topic of this talk was six principles of tolerance. Swamiji started the talk by pointing out that the topic of tolerance is in the news now a days and that both Tatva […]
Our Meeting With Swamiji
Swami Paramarthananda: September 17, 2015 @ 6pm Chennai, India Narayanan took an appointment to meet Swamiji at his residence in Abhiramapuram. It was about 20 minutes visit. Being Ganesh/Pilayar Chaturthi day took some fruits, modak/kozakatai made in the morning and some from abhisekam done at Ganapathi agraharam on August 27. After offering our namaskaramas, we […]