Vijayadasami is one of the most auspicious and celebrated days in the Hindu calendar. This year it falls on September 28.

Mythologically, Vijayadasami is the day that Ram defeats the demon king Ravena in the epic Ramayana. Ravana is the principle of attachment itself.

Every time we let go of a limiting attachment in our lives: to situations, concepts, experiences, objects, and emotions, we are Ram defeating Ravana. (more…)

I am very happy to report that a fourteen year old reader from Florida has asked this question:

Who is Ma?

People asked Anandamayi Ma this question from the time she was a teenager. (more…)

It has to be admitted that everything happens as a result of one’s actions. As everyone acts, so he reaps the fruit. However, at a certain stage the aspirant becomes aware of God’s grace, then he declares that nothing at all happens without grace. But in actual fact, it is due to the result of his own actions that he has earned the privilege to become the recipient of Divine Grace. (more…)

“It’s so simple!” exclaimed a student the other day.

She was talking about the cosmos.

Once you begin to “get it” that the world is a continuity, you start to get that the processes that run the cosmos also are continuous. (more…)