Reading Corner – Recent Posts and Short Stories

• FOCUS, DETERMINATION, & SELFLESS WORK. SBG 2:41 and 2:47 #shorts 08
• Give it your best! Gain or loss – either way, you will win! SBG 2:37 and 2:38 #shorts 07
• Do not be a Quitter! SBG 2:31 and 2:33 #shorts 06
• The Atman cannot be destroyed. Of what are you afraid? SBG 2:23 and 2:24 #shorts 05, 
• “With love and compassion in my heart…” 
• The Atman NEVER DIES – is All-pervading and Indestructible. SBG 2:17. 2:20 #shorts 04, 
• Nothing is permanent. Not even troubles and challenges. SBG 2:12. 2:14 #shorts 03
• Tavamithram – A humble ‘Nimitta Maatram’ of KRISHNA – 189 countries
• KRISHNA! Please teach me! SBG 2:7 Shorts #02
• Shed Cowardice! SBG 2:1-3 Shorts #01
• Swami Vivekananda Jayanti. ARISE! AWAKE!
• The curse of duality
• The eve of a new Gregorian year
• What is Atma?
• A Run-Through of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita
• The FIRE of KNOWLEDGE
• Why Study VEDANTA? 
• The MOST THANKLESS PEOPLE
• What is Moksha or Salvation? 
• TVM Vegan Site
• The TWO TRUTHS of LIFE
• Beware of fake relationships
• Unpredictability, thy name is LIFE
• Veganism and Vedanta
• Such a soul is very rare…
• Nataraja described by Aldous Huxley
• Trust, Disappointment, and Pain
• When marrying…
• Tavamithram’s VEGAN Decade
• Forgive but never forget
• Bonus Video 101 – 100 SBG Shlokas – One a day – 100 of 100
• Pathetic people and their pathetic lives
• The Bird and the Ant 
• Mrs Sudha Murthy – WHAT IS GIVEN FOR FREE IS NEVER RESPECTED 
• I? Ego? Love? Hate? Envy? ‘My god’ vs. ‘your god’? Religion? 
• Man suffers due to his own stupidity
• Krishna Jayanti: the birth of Krishna IN YOU 
• 75th Indian Independence Day August 15, 2022
• Guru PraNaam 
• ‘Capture the Essence’ – a sneak peek 
• BRAHMA-JNANAVALIMALA -Moksha in under 8 minutes
• “Ithaca” – an Imaginary Destination of Life
• Tavamithram’s Udemy Learning Centre
• Learn 100 SBG Shlokas by heart
• Why do the Vedanta Crash Course? 
• Vedanta – A Crash Course
• Self-pity is a drug 
• Learn SBG Shlokas by heart
• “Light as a butterfly” 
• Capture the Essence – SBG (Available in India) 
• ‘An Introduction to Vedas and Upanishads’ by Tavamithram 
• Arise! Study VEDANTA February 25, 2022
• Either REPEAT or CHANGE your LIFE
• DEFOG your MIND
• O Agni – the Bright Being
• You only live twice 
• 6 Shlokas – KarmaYoga 
• Attaining the Divine Nature of Krishna
• Art of Working Skillfully 
• The Srimad Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit 
• Why Do You Create Negative Karma? 
• Recollecting my trip to Guruvayur 
• Does Karma ever fail? 
• Are you in a cult? 
• Responsible Soul 
• Validation or Solutions? 
• Constructive Dreaming instead of Worrying and Over-Thinking 
• The Transmigration of the Atman and the Transporting of Karma between Janmas 
• A.G.E. – A Gita Experience with Tavamithram Sarvada 
• My Peace and I 
• The HAPPINESS SWITCH – A REFRESHER Unhappy?
• Maha Mrutyunjaya Mantra 
• Durga Mantra – Meditation
• Illusion and Perception
• The Principle of (Karma) Diagnosis and Cure
• Responsible Soul
• The Four Unifying Factors for Indians 
• The Pink Elephant and the Power of FOCUS 
• Q & A in Tamil on the fundamentals of the Sanatana Dharma
• Karma and the ‘Why Me?’ Question
• Q&A about the Fundamentals of the Sanatana Dharma
• Finding Peace in Marriage
• Albeiro Vargas – The little angel of Colombia
• Firm principles, a clear goal, focus, dedication, and consistency
• “Who am I?” – Shri Ramana Maharshi’s 42 Shlokas from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita
• The Coronavirus – a social meliorist?
• At last – the END of SADÉ SATI for Vrischikans 
• The long arm of Karma
• The Sadé Sati Achievement Gauge for Scorpions
• The Divinity in All Living Beings 
• Dhanteras
• Unsolicited Advice or Free Information
• Shastra Puja – Dassault Rafale
• The Union of Knowledge with Modesty 
• Finding God Through The Aum Mantra 
• The Chequered Flag for Vrischikans
• A smooth life or one which is eventful?
• Mental Freedom and Happiness versus Mental Dependence and Heartaches
• Positive Karma Through CSR in the Bhagavad Gita
• Vegan devotees of Krishna
• A brief guide to the basics of Karma Yoga or the Yoga of Action
• The Cup of Life
• Treat Insults and Setbacks as ‘ROCKET FUEL’
• Achieving Serenity of the Mind and Experiencing Divinity
• Is Karmic Retribution True?
• The Prisoner’s Dilemma – a note for Vrischikans
• Beware of God Vendors and Traders
• Indian Elections – Making the Right Choice
• Warren Buffett’s 10 Rules for Success
• Bitter First, Sweet Later
• Defeating the defeatist tendency
• Mainly for Vrischikans – Nope, this is not a Rahu Ketu Transit report
• The Divinity in you
• ‘Time Dilation’ mentioned in Dharmic Scriptures
• Guard your Happiness Key
• Modiji writes about his life 
• Spiritual Corruption, Corruption in Spirituality and Trade Offs with Gods
• The Ultimate Divine Truth
• Nasadiya Sukta – The Hymn of Creation
• Thank yourself if you are a Sanatana Dharmi (Hindu)

• Role of Western values in Contemporary Indian Society (This post is for Indians)

• The Three Types of Happiness
• The Three Vital Truths in one’s Karmic Journey
• Understanding the Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism)
• Living in the Now
• Guru Transit 2018
• Focus and Devotion
• O Lonely Traveller of the Heavens
• Karmayoga and ‘Doership’
• Why me?
• Karmic ‘Potholes’
• The Power of Apology
• The ‘veggie-vegan’ twaddle
• Perception of comforts, success and wealth
• ‘Nepotism in Bollywood’ – Supporting and promoting one’s own children before anyone else
• Past and present Karma and their effects on a person’s Karmic evolution
• Thoughts on handling a breakup
• Why should one study Advaita Vedanta?
• Speech by Swami Vivekananda in Chicago – September 1893
• Karmayoga – explained
• The Sage and the Crow
• Is Karma like a snake and ladder game?
• Introduction and Analogies in the Bhagavad Gita
• The Atman and its ‘checked baggage’
• Thoughts, Desires, Passion and Lust
• Seeking Bhagavan Krishna’s forgiveness
• All beings are equal before Krishna
• Sharanaagati
• 4 questions from the 18th Chapter of the SBG
• Your Health First
• प्रसाद बुद्धि – Prasaada Buddhi
  The 2nd Pearl – An Attitude of Gratitude for everything
• Burn Karma through knowledge. The story of good and bad in life
• Meat Karma
• ‘Arey gaas ki roti’ – Roti made of grass – a true motivational story
• “Ahmisa Paramo Dharmaha..” The SEMI-TRUTH
• Do not R.I.P. a departed Sanatani person!
• You are what you believe you are
• Varnas in the Gita. Are Varnas inherited or can they be acquired too?
• Learning or being taught
• Life is a gift – live it
• That split second moment
• Story of Krishna and Sudama – Narayaneeyam Dashakam 87.
• Fearlessness – achieving it by understanding the God Concept
• The Power of Mantras
• Translation of the Gita and other Indian scriptures by Western ‘Indologists’ 
• The relationship equation and the philosophy of forgiveness
• Osho’s Words of Wisdom
• Sage of Kanchi
• My meeting with the Sage of Kanchi
• Hind di Chadar – Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji
• My Tour of Gurudwaras in Punjab
• Knowledge is the memory of acquired information
• The ‘noble’ thief – Gratitude and the salt metaphor
• Invite Mahalakshmi into your life
• Paramahamsa vignyana Yoga – The 7th Chapter of the Gita
• Children are never at fault
• Famous quotes on Vegetarianism
• Shlokas and Mantras – Lyrics
• The Carpenter and the Magical Cave
• No! Not on that Stone!
• Lakshmi the Cow
• The story of Bodhaayana Amavaasya