Daily Thoughts from Prasanthi Nilayam

During this Kaliyuga (age of moral decline), two Sadhanas (spiritual disciplines) are important Namam and Danam. Namam means the name of the...

When man is not trained to live a good and godly life, teaching him various skills and tricks, only makes him a danger to himself and to oth...

People complain of grief, sorrow, distress. What exactly is grief? It is a reaction to the loss of something gained or the failure to gain s...

The ananda or bliss we get when hunger is appeased by a meal is short-lived. Hunger afflicts us again before long. However sweet and tasty t...

The Lord announced time and again that He showers grace on inner purity, not outer pomp. When one has established himself in equal-mindednes...

Prahladha, as the Bhagavata text declares, was rooted in the faith in Lord Narayana and His Universal, Absolute Reality. His father, Hiranya...

Mahabharata offers four examples of bad men called Dushta Chatushtaya. The first one is Shakuni (Duryodhana’s maternal uncle). Shakuni was a...