Reflections for the path.

God and Worldly Duties

By Sri Ramakrishna, shared by Muni

Sri Ramakrishna’s answer to Master Mahashay: do all your duties, live fully with family, but keep your mind on God, the way a maidservant serves a rich household while her heart stays with her own home.

हिरना समझ बूझ बन चरना

By Kabir, shared by Muni

Dear deer, graze in the forest with understanding. Kabir’s bhajan on the mind as a deer wandering through the forest of life, unaware of the hunters that watch it.

क्या मैं बार-बार एक ही पैटर्न में नहीं फंस रही?

Am I not falling into the same pattern again and again? A seeker traces a lifelong pattern back to childhood, and asks what it would take to finally see it clearly.

Are You Pretending to Be Someone You’re Not?

Maira arrives unable to feel normal despite years of therapy. Muni reframes healing as understanding pain rather than erasing it, and questions what “normal” even means, naming the same approval-seeking behind Maira’s suffering. The conversation lands on one practice: sit in silence, and let the mind be examined the way you’d trust a decorator gutting a house before it can be rebuilt.

Is Peace of Mind, Peace?

Sudhir wants his anxiety gone, fast. Muni walks him through every moment he’s called “peaceful” (a promotion, his daughter’s admission, a clear biopsy) and shows each was really relief, a pause between one craving and the next, never lasting. It closes on a harder question than the one he arrived with: if none of that was real peace, what are you, beneath the mind that is always running toward or away from something?

What to Do After Knowing?

By Tarun Pradhaan

First, become aware of your environment. How is it affecting you? A practical starting point for turning insight into a lived, everyday practice.

Building to Practise Awareness

A short, practical toolkit for building awareness as a daily habit: body scans, sensory noticing, mindful breathing, and a standing intention to stay present, starting with simple acts like walking or eating before carrying it into harder moments like difficult conversations or strong emotion.

What Is Kriya Yoga? How Is It Different From Hatha Yoga?

Traces Kriya Yoga from its Himalayan origins through Lahiri Mahasaya and Paramahansa Yogananda, and walks through its core elements (pranayama, energisation exercises, mudras, bandhas, trataka and mantra repetition) before laying out, point by point, how it differs from the more physically-oriented practice of Hatha Yoga.

Freedom From the Past

A seeker asks how to be free of a past that still feels painfully real. Muni’s answer: memory is useful for survival but has nothing to do with truth, and once you see the past as false, the hurt built on it loses its grip. The conversation extends into what makes an action “sinful,” landing on the idea that acts born from identification with memory create bondage, while the same act done from compassion does not.

Memes: Destiny or Free Will?

On the age-old question of destiny versus free will, Muni’s take is refreshingly practical: the question only matters if answering it helps you accept your situation. Otherwise it’s just intellectual gymnastics that leaves you exactly where you started. Her suggestion to seekers: drop the question and keep moving.

Memes: What Is Suffering?

A brief, visual attempt (illustrated with memes by Sanjay Atalatti) to share the essence of suffering, on the idea that truly understanding what suffering is makes it far easier to let go of.

Poem: Dancer & Dance

A short poem on non-duality, using the image of a dancer and the dance to point at how consciousness and its expression are never really two separate things, however much the mind insists on splitting them apart.

साधना की कुंजी

A short, direct teaching in Hindi and English: whatever the path, the real key to any spiritual practice is knowledge and a Guru, not money, books, miracles, mantras or deities. Practice without a Guru, driven only by one’s own likes and dislikes, wastes years or causes harm.

Poem: This Moment Is an Eternity, Stay Aware

A meditation on presence, on how a single fully-inhabited moment already contains the whole circle of life, and what opens up when attention stops leaking into past and future.

Common Questions on Spirituality

Answers the questions nearly every beginner asks: what spirituality actually is, why take a spiritual path at all, whether being worldly is wrong, whether the path demands renunciation, and what changes to expect once you’re on it (more clarity and peace, but also more sensitivity to negativity).

Tomato Upanishad

By Tarun Pradhaan

The newest addition to the Upanishads: short and sweet, with the essence of the Vedas rolled into three little paragraphs.

Guru

By Tarun Pradhaan

Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Devo Maheshwara. On the natural evolution of a seeker’s relationship to the guru.

The Role of the Guru

By Swami Sivananda

Prostrations to that Guru who, by the application of the collyrium of knowledge, opens the eyes of one blinded by ignorance.

Terrorists in the Mind

Walks through the “blind beliefs” most of us carry unexamined (about death, failure, and needing others’ approval) and for each one, offers a reality check and a steadier response. The throughline: most of what we call problems in life are really just the limits of beliefs we never tested against our own experience.

Obstacles on the Spiritual Path

A candid map of what actually gets in the way on a spiritual path: not knowing where to start, not having a Guru, losing purpose, the body’s and mind’s own limits, the pull of social life, and hardest of all, the fear of letting go. Muni draws on her own path, from Reiki to Kriya Yoga to the Path of Knowledge, to show how purpose is allowed to evolve as you go.

11 Tips to Stop Overthinking

Practical, everyday techniques for calming a mind stuck in loops of worry and negativity, from physical activity to accepting your own state of mind.

7 Spiritual Movies Worth Watching

A personal list of seven films Muni returns to again and again for inspiration, from mystical love stories set in Benares to a biopic of Zen Master Dogen.

5 Spiritual Videos that Uplift Your Spirit

Five talks and videos Muni returns to again and again, from Sadhguru on unconscious habits to Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Ashtavakra Gita.

8 Books for the Soul

Eight books Muni credits with changing the direction of her life, from Autobiography of a Yogi to the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.

Embracing Impermanence

On befriending death and change rather than fearing them, with practices for noticing impermanence in daily life and overcoming the fear it awakens.

Poem: Existence

A poem on how nothing, not even the body, the mind, or a single thought, truly belongs to you, and what opens up when you become one with existence itself.

Freedom vs Self-imposed Limitations

Most of what limits our freedom is self-imposed and unexamined. On recognising old decisions that no longer serve us, and the freedom of choosing our attitude regardless.

Poem: Hide & Seek

A short poem on the game the self plays with itself, hiding and seeking, until it remembers what it is.

Holistic Wellbeing

A simple 21-day practice framework across physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, with two items to pick and repeat in each area.

Overcoming Negativity

On how what triggers us is really an old wound resurfacing, and a two-part practice for acknowledging inner turmoil and nurturing what's already calm inside.

The Spiritual Significance of Invoking Ganesha

On why every spiritual practice begins by invoking Ganesha, the guardian of the root chakra and remover of the obstacles at the doorway of inner awakening.

Make Friends with Your Emotions

A step-by-step practice for befriending your emotions instead of suppressing or being ruled by them, with Muni's own account of a session with sadness.

Nirvana Shatakam, Adi Shankaracharya

On the origin and meaning of Adi Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatakam, the verses a young Shankara gave in answer to ‘Who are you?’

Poem: कब तक सम्भाले बैठोगे इस मैं को?

How long will you keep holding on to this ‘I’ that keeps you from yourself? A Hindi poem on letting go of the false self.

Poem: छोड़ दो अपनी मर्ज़ी से।

Let go of your own accord, before it's taken from you. A Hindi poem on releasing what we grip, willingly rather than by force.

Rishikesh: A Seeker’s Paradise

A personal account of eight days in Rishikesh, from sitting by the Gangaji to visits to the Shivananda Ashram, Vasishtha Guha, and the Kriya Yoga Ashram.

Poem: The Glass Is Always Full

A poem playing on the old half-full, half-empty question, and the way the glass is always full regardless of how much water it holds.

Poem: Universe Is a Playground

A poem on the five elements mixing and matching into infinite combinations, saint and devil alike, and what matters is who is watching the play.

We All Miss FORTUNE in Misfortune

A short animated Zen story by Sanjay Atalatti, on finding the fortune hidden inside misfortune.

What Does the Guru Teach?

On the Bhagavad Gita's teaching to act without attachment to results, and why it takes a Guru who lives that way to teach a seeker how to live like that too.

The Heart Sutra

Traditional Buddhist scripture, shared by Muni

Avalokiteshvara's teaching on the emptiness of the five aspects of human existence, and the mantra that removes all suffering.

The Science of Pranayama

By Swami Sivananda

Excerpts on the practice and power of Pranayama, and a simple, comfortable technique anyone can begin today.