Aug 23, 2017

Control of your thoughts, emotions, and your actions in order to stay objectives. It’s a way of being. It is NOT self denial. In the spiritual sense, it is being focused on one’s path. To remain on your path and not to allow anything from the external world deviate one from their spiritual pursuit. That doesn’t...

Aug 15, 2017

Just being friendly with everyone. Not a false friendliness. Swamiji states, “learn to segregate the qualities in a person from the person.”  He means, you can have a sense of you are not like me but I don’t want harm to come to you or that being. There is no reason to dislike a person because they have a...

Aug 6, 2017

Though the flight from NY to India was 15 hours and she arrived during Monsoon which is crazy weather and she endured a 2 ½ hour drive from the airport to the Academy campus late in the evening, Kisma still opted to make this the most important “thing” to do.

“The Vedanta Academy is a knowledge based ashram. They...