Category Archives: Personal Development

Can pujas and karma yoga coexist?

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I subscribe to the ideal in karma yoga of being detached from the fruits of one’s actions. This is wonderful, as it lets us live a scientific life — after all, the principle of detachment in karma yoga is precisely the method that any good scientist follows. Scientists paralyzed by a fear of having their [...]

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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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