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    Ma Gurupriya

    The path to Peace and Confidence

    Bring the message of Bhagavad Gita into your lives. One should not just study Bhagavad Gita; one must live it.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    The Parting Instructions

    Expectations must become extinct. Liberation is vāsanā-tānavam—extinction of desires. Desires will not fall the way you want, but will fall. Recognize the place for extinction of desires, and allow them to settle.

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    Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    What is Dharma?

    The power that sustains your life in good and bad, in prosperity and adversity, in success and failure, is called dharma.

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    Ma Gurupriya

    The Bliss of Non-Expectation

    निष्किंञ्चना मय्यनुरक्तचेतसः शान्ता महान्तोऽखिलजीववत्सलाः। कामैरनालब्धधियो जुषन्ति यत् तन्नैरपेक्ष्यं न विदुः सुखं मम ।। niṣkiṁncanā mayyanuraktacetasaḥ śāntā mahānto'khilajīvavatsalāḥ| kāmairanālabdhadhiyo juṣanti yat tannairapekṣyaṁ na viduḥ sukhaṁ mama ||

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    Ma Gurupriya

    The Cause of Happiness and Misery

    नायं जनो मे सुखदुःखहेतु र्न देवतात्मा ग्रहकर्मकालाः। मनः परं कारणमामनन्ति संसारचक्रं परिवर्तयेद्यत्।। nāyaṁ jano me sukha-duḥkha-hetur-na devatātmā graha-karma-kālāḥ | manaḥ paraṁ kāraṇam-āmananti saṁsāra-cakraṁ parivartayed-yat ||

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    Ma Gurupriya

    Our True Nature

    आकाशवल्लेपविदूरगोहं
    आदित्यवद्भास्यविलक्षणोऽहम् ।
    अहार्यवन्नित्यविनिश्चलोऽहं
    अम्भोधिवत्पारविवर्जितोऽहम् ।।
    ākāśavallepavidūrago'haṁ
    ādityavadbhāsyavilakṣaṇo'ham |
    ahāryavannityaviniścalo'haṁ
    ambhodhivatpāravivarjito'ham ||

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    Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Watching your thoughts

    "Watching the thoughts" means witnessing them come and go without getting involved in them. Normally we are always getting involved in the current thought. When depressing or happy thoughts arise, we "become depressed or happy". Witnessing means we have to see the happy thoughts, depressing thoughts, without becoming happy or depressed.

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