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Return to Happiness

09/07/202603/21/2022 by Udaysree

How can we return to happiness? In the ancient scriptures of India we read again and again that we are eternal, blissful consciousness having a human experience on this planet Earth. The Illusion of the Ego Mind In reality this ego-mind does not exist. After leaving the physical body only consciousness remains and after only … Read more

Your life can’t change if you don’t change

09/06/202603/24/2021 by Udaysree

Your life can’t change if you don’t change. We have to break the cycle of repetitive thoughts and actions, change our inside, in order to see a different result at the outside. If we think the same old unproductive and negative thoughts, how can there be change at the outside? We attract what we continuously … Read more

7 Quick Tips for a Blissful Day

09/07/202606/09/2019 by Ma Udaysree

blissful woman with arms stretched out to the side

We all appreciate a blissful life and create it one day at a time. Happy days are good for our own health and state of mind but also for the people around us. Nothing is more contagious than a good laughter. Here are seven quick tips to make a blissful day happen for artists and … Read more

Are you in Control of your Emotions?

09/06/202610/01/2017 by Ma Udaysree

Ha, ha, you might be laughing about this question and wish you were, right? Truth is whenever our body is moved by a particular emotion, that emotion gets settled inside our system. Jiddu Krishnamurthi, an enlightened Master from India, made a wonderful statement about emotions arising in the human body. He says beautifully, ‘If you … Read more

Yogic Healing of Childhood Trauma

09/06/202609/16/2017 by Ma Udaysree

Screaming and shouting at the top of their lungs, then crying and falling to the carpeted floor pounding it with the bare fists again and again, sobbing or silently retreating to a corner of the yoga studio looked like entering a nut house to the newbie and uninitiated. In 1988 I took my first hatha … Read more

Is your Past Affecting your Future?

09/06/202609/01/2017 by Ma Udaysree

We live our past consciously or unconsciously many times over and that every day; and our future is a projection of our past. Truly, the past repeats itself. The way we grew up, how we were treated as children, loved, rejected or left alone and how we emotionally reacted to it and to circumstances and … Read more

Raise Yourself by Yourself

09/06/202603/16/2017 by Ma Udaysree

Raise yourself by yourself do not defeat yourself by yourself It is the Self that gives respect to the self and it is the self that deceives the Self BhagavadGita, Dhyana Yoga, 6.5 When you raise yourself, yourself is the greatest friend of yourself; and, when you deceive yourself, yourself is the greatest enemy of … Read more

Finding Gratitude

09/07/202602/15/2017 by Ma Udaysree

How different would life be if we approached every day with more gratitude in our hearts? I believe contentment in our lives comes from being grateful for what we have instead of focusing on what we are lacking or perceive we are lacking. The second Niyama, Santosha, asks us to find contentment, and experiencing gratitude is the … Read more

Death is a Celebration – Resource List

09/07/202601/01/2013 by Ma Udaysree

The question came up by a devotee in one of my Facebook groups about resources for facing death, dying and the afterlife process. In response many comments were made and this list of suggestions came out of it. I think it is a great resource list and thank everyone who contributed to it. According to Cosmos, death is a gift…