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You are not liberated when life stops challenging you,You are liberated when challenges stop defining you. The waves may continue to rise and fall, but you no longer forget that you are the ocean. Do not judge yourself for having emotions,train yourself to meet them with awareness, patience, and choice.An emotion may arise without your permission, but what you do …

By Acharya Tadany.Published in the Diário de Santa Maria, September 10, 2026. For the poet, language can also be a mantle, it covers feelings we cannot always reveal directly. A sadness can turn into rain, a longing can become a window and a farewell can appear only as silence. There are words that seem small, yet carry entire oceans within …

You are not behind schedule, or too late, or too slow, you are exactly where your choices, conditioning, and courage have placed you, and that is the only place from which you can move forward. You don’t need to fix your whole life today. Anxiety tries to convince us that we must resolve every past mistake and future uncertainty all …

Poet TadanyPune, 21 June 2016. Today, I woke up with a fever. I woke ablaze with the fever of life, my very essence burning to exist. Like a volcano in eruption, warm lavas of living poured from every pore of this body, rushing in flames down the mountain of cognition. The fire raged so fiercely it brought delirious dreams of …

Acharya TadanyHelsinki, 21 June 2002. The High Priest incorporated the medium, and said: “Hei young man, You’ve got look up to the stars, You’ve got work on your inner self, You’ve got take care of the temporary self, You’ve got strength yourself, holistically, For the roads of life are never a straight line, There are twists and turns which will …

You didn’t fail at meditation. You succeeded at finally giving the subconscious a microphone. The goal of meditation is not to have a blank mind. The goal is to have a mind so clean that when old vāsanās (predispositions) knock on the door, there is nobody home to open it.One day you will sit, and the entire basement of the …

Acharya TadanyAfternoon MeditationPune, 4 August 2026 The comedian George Carlin captured this human habit with a brilliantly simple observation:When you are out and about on any motorway, have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? One of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves in …

Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, July 24, 2026. For those who make a home of their own presence will never know the aches of loneliness. Learn to hold yourself in acceptance,in body, in heart, in mind, in spirit. Learn to honor yourself,whether standing alone or walking among many. Learn to see yourself clearly,in the quiet details, in the small victories no one …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationsPisa, Italy. May 9, 2025 Lying is not merely a disregard for the truth.It is, above all, a refusal to accept the reality one lives in.It is the symptom of a soul that has not yet learned to face the mirror of the world. A mirror that reflects choices, consequences, mistakes, and truths.To lie is to deny oneself. …

Acharya TadanyMorning MeditationPune, July 5, 2026. offering anger for understanding, pride for humility, selfishness for compassion, attachment for wisdom, laziness for vitality, and segregation for humanity The highest offering a human being can make in life is the transformation of oneself.Typically, we imagine that sacrifice means giving up money, material possessions, comfort, or time. These offerings undoubtedly possess their value. …