A Reflection on the Power of Words There is a story Gurudev loved to tell. He would often smile before speaking, as though he already knew what everyone was about to discover. “Our tongue,” he would say, “lives in a cage.” It is protected by thirty-two teeth and guarded by two lips. Nature has given…
A Reflection on Becoming There is an old story my teacher often told. A sculptor walked through a quarry searching for the perfect stone. After much searching, he finally found one and began chiseling. As the hammer struck, the stone cried out. “Please stop. It hurts.” The sculptor gently set it aside and continued looking….
A story from Sri Swami Satchidananda Years ago, before there was an ashram in Virginia, Gurudev—Sri Swami Satchidananda—was sitting beside a small brook with several students on a quiet property in Connecticut. As they watched the water flow over the rocks, a single leaf drifted downstream. For a while it moved effortlessly with the current….