By Paramtattvadas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha It is said that patience is a virtue from which much good and happiness blooms. In our digital age, where time is always at a premium, we often find that this incredibly important quality is quite rare. While people’s physical comforts have increased many-fold in modern times, our tolerance levels...
By Juliana Di Leonardo When I was in college, I took a course about drug use and addiction. One thing that I clearly remember from that class was that the professor often spoke about the fact that she was a former coffee addict. She explained that she was so dependent on caffeine it made her...
By Juliana Di Leonardo The Lotus plant is known to settle into the soil at the bottom of a pond or river. Once established, the plant will grow towards the surface through the mud and murkiness to find the sun where it will bloom one petal at a time. This plant teaches us about pushing...
By Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj As people around the world focus on the economy and in budgeting their finances to make ends meet, there is another budget that each of us can consider. Besides what we amass in this physical world, we also are given a certain number of breaths by God to use...
By Chandni Rodriguez On October 16th,2022, I had the wonderful opportunity to make new friends of the Anuvrat Movement. We were at the Gandhi Peace Garden for a meditative walk and discussed many things, especially the animals that are defenseless and the little insects that worry us so. Through joyful conversation, a new path was...
By Jnanpurushdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha A well-known saying reveals, “Coming together is a beginning; staying together is progress; and working together is success. ”Everywhere we look, we see evidence of the success that comes with “working together.” Sports teams, corporations, and organizations are more likely to succeed if they are united and every individual cooperates with...
By John Di Leonardo Last week, Mayor Eric Adams announced alongside Schools Chancellor David Banks and State Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar that New York City public schools will begin observing Diwali, the festival of lights, starting in 2023. “It is long overdue to say to our Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist students and communities that we...
By Yogvivekdas Swami BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj was the heart and soul of hundreds of thousands of young and old devotees around the world. Hundreds of leaders highly respected and honored him for his services to humanity. Yet, his life resonated with simplicity and contentment. Due to his simple and straightforward nature,...
By John Di Leonardo Today, I performed yoga and walked through the Gandhi Peace Garden at SUNY Old Westbury with new friends to commemorate the life and loss of Guarini Anjali, the founder of Long Island’s first ashram. Following a brief meditation, a pair of my fellow yogis discovered a paper wasps’ nest nearby. Fearful of...
