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Swamini Supriyananda - Chinmaya Mission

Do you ever stop and think about why you do what you do everyday?

Australian psychologist turned Hindu Monk, Swamini Supriyananda, provides insightful answers to your contemporary questions and challenges. Her captivating anecdotes, infused with the philosophies of the ancient Hindu teachings, are guaranteed to inspire us to think about it!

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  • 345 episodes
  • Updated March 13

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  • Oct 23, 2016 · 11 min

    The Legend - Repeat Repeat Repeat

    Repeating something over and over again can seem like a child's task. However, repeating something without letting the mind slip into thinking about something else requires immense concentration. This one tool, Japa (repetition of a mantra), considered the most powerful one, is explained by Swamini Supriyananda helps create single pointedness and purifies the mind.

  • Oct 16, 2016 · 7 min

    The Legend - Aim High

    Our potential is infinite, yet we very often allow our minds to get dictated by what other people think. Our potential is undermined in so many ways, but Swamini Supriyananda empowers us through her words and will give us our inspiration-fix for the week.

  • Sep 20, 2016 · 10 min

    The Legend - Take A Stand

    The question is not whether we have the ability to stand for what we believe in, it is whether we do. How often do you take a stand?

  • Sep 6, 2016 · 10 min

    The Legend - Clear Your Vision

    Often, we find that life becomes a struggle between reason and emotion, and when the latter triumphs, we find that our vision becomes clouded by the false realities we create for ourselves. Only if we learn to detach from the things that fog our lens on life, do we start seeing life for what it truly is, in proportion. Swamini Supriyananda explains.

  • Sep 4, 2016 · 6 min

    The Legend - Price of Bravery

    We normally associate this quality of bravery with something majestic, something extraordinary, but we have to be brave in so many diverse ways and in to be brave for something as small as telling our secret. And what happens when we choose to not raise up to the occasion? Swamini Supriyananda elaborates.

  • Mar 3, 2016 · 11 min

    We Must...Stand Tall

    Life will be full of challenges and we were never guaranteed otherwise. Whilst we have no control over the problems that arise, we do have control over how we deal with them. With every challenge, there is fear - fear of failure. However rising out of that failure with perseverance is what brings beauty to our life. Swamini Supriyananda closes this series of talks with how important it is for us to stand tall and carry on.

  • Feb 16, 2016 · 8 min

    We Must...Sit on a Rocking Chair

    "Worrying is like a rocking chair" It is something we all inevitably do; we even rationally understand and know that there will be no benefit from worrying, yet it is an emotion we just can't eliminate from our lives, and takes us nowhere. It would be so much better if we conquered this counter-productive sentiment and chose to sit on the rocking chair without a care in the world. Swamini Supriyananda clarifies the two types of worry we have and humorously narrates two anecdotes which will encourage us to leave those worries behind and smile our day away.

  • Jan 30, 2016 · 9 min

    We Must...Shut Down

    Silence is a very powerful tool. In silence our mind takes a break from the the constant flow of thoughts we have when interacting with all the objects, emotions and thoughts of the world. As our mind gets quieter, our intuition gets louder. Swamini Supriyananda unfolds the various ways silence can empower us to expand ourselves from finite towards the infinite.

  • Jan 22, 2016 · 10 min

    We Must...Be a Cracked Pot

    In this world, we go around constantly thinking of what we have to do, what will make us grow, what will make us more likeable; everything is about Me, myself and I. To move away from the limited, and strive towards the limitless, we have to expand our hearts and deter from the egocentric world. How to expand our hearts? Swamini Supriyananda narrates one of Pujya Gurudev, Swami Chinmayananda's enduring stories that guide us on how to be cracked pot.