The fully realized Master, Paramahamsa Vishwananda, who is my Guru, Tweeted this today: Sitting and observing how this world is going makes me think that all in this mundane world, together with its illusive relationships and having this body, which is prone to death and diseases, people have forgotten what is true love and true
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Author: Ritu
Ritu is an Atma Kriya Yoga and meditation teacher. A long time blogger and writer, she writes about personal development, spirituality, and meditation.
Your spiritual duty in the 2016 US presidential elections
I’ve been caught up in the storm of the US presidential elections. The high-energy speeches are motivating, inspiring and subliminally convincing on so many levels. I hope that this election is inspiring a sense of responsibility within you because it is within me and I’m not even American. I can’t vote. My favorite thing about this
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Being a Humble Student
In order to be a good student, you have to be humble enough to be willing to teach what you are learning. Yes, it’s scary to put yourself in the spotlight and give everybody a chance to see what you do and don’t know. It is important because without teaching you may not truly learn.
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Being a humble teacher
Some of us who try to teach from our hearts only, we tend to look down on someone who doesn’t “feel” the love or the teachings in the same way as us. This is not compassion or kindness at all. The better way is for us to try and change our way of teaching or
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How to say sorry and ask for forgiveness
Everyone makes mistakes. I am not immune to that. Some mistakes sting you the most though, and that’s because these are the mistakes where you hurt the ones closest to you. I made such a mistake today. I hurt the feelings of a dear friend. The worst thing is that I only realized how horrible
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What is freedom anyway?
Something happened to me recently that has got me thinking a lot about true freedom. True freedom is acceptance of life and taking it for what it is. I had no idea that acceptance is directly connected to freedom as well, but it is. I’m not talking about being free to speak your mind or
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Why You Need To Use Your Mind In Spirituality
Spiritual people tend to completely devalue the mind and the intellect when it comes to talking about spiritual concepts and when explaining themselves and their ideas to others. You often hear things like, “Can’t you just feel the love?” Or, “Don’t think about it. Just feel it.” I am guilty of this too. But today,
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The Spiritual Path Is A Lonely One
This post is not intended to scare you but it is useful insight if you are on a spiritual path. When you start walking on the spiritual path, and truly commit to it, your best friend will leave you. Your boyfriend will leave you. Your mom will show disappointment in you. Your dad will pick
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Sneaking off to London to see Guruji
Paramahamsa Vishwananda, my Guru, gave two incredible Darshans in London in April, 2016. I got such a huge blessing of being able to attend both events. As you know, I live in Toronto now. You may also know that I used to live in London. My spiritual family is in London since that’s the place
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3 Essential Tips for Meditation
You want to meditate but every time you sit down to meditate, your mind starts going a hundred miles an hour and you get more stressed out that you were before you even started! In this video, I talk about three essential meditation tips that will help you to calm your mind and get through
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