Category Archives: Personal Development

Summer musings

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Greetings, Swadharma readers! Hopefully summer is treating everyone well, and that the hiatus from the stress of school has proven to be a good opportunity for examining your faith.
I wanted to write a quick note about a couple of different things.  First, on happiness: I think that happiness and spirituality are largely interconnected.  Put [...]

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A mother’s heart…

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Since today is Mother’s Day, I thought I’d share a poem I grew up reciting in Vivekananda Vidyapith, the Hindu weekend school for character-building education I attended when I was younger. It was written by Swami Vivekananda in a letter to one of his disciples in the West for her 23rd birthday.
The mother’s heart, the [...]

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Karma and Our Actions in the Cosmic World

Sunday, April 18, 2010

An interesting thing happened to me recently.  On Friday night, I was getting ready and holding a mirror up with my left hand.  Being the clumsy person I am, I dropped the mirror, which broke into pieces on the ground and gashed my right hand on the way down.  As I ran to UHS, worrying [...]

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