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Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 7 October 2026. The greatest obstacle to meditation may not be a restless mind, but a mind constantly complaining about life.Meditation does not begin only when we sit down and close our eyes.Consider this…if throughout the day the mind is constantly saying:“I don’t want this reality.”“Why did this happen to me?”“This person should behave differently towards me.”“I …

Acharya Tadany.Morning Meditation.Pune, 7 September 2018. I was consumed by a whirlwind of travels, writings, memories, duties, teachings, meetings, and endless strategies.Then, suddenly — unexpected, intense, and full of life — Happiness arrived.In an instant, her presence drew me away from everything I once deemed essential, revealing how much of it was merely secondary, trivial, or fleeting. When happiness enters the …

By Acharya Tadany Published in Diário de Santa Maria, 24 September 2026 Photo: Fontana di Trevi. Rome. Italy. Traveling is to withdraw from the fabrics of routine, from the veils of predictability, and from the comfortable mantle of familiarity. For the pilgrim, traveling is to leave behind the nest warmed by habit and to venture into the wind that blows …

Nothing offered with sincerity is ever wasted on the spiritual path: every quiet prayer, every act of dharma, and every moment of conscious awareness serves as a sacred deposit in the bank of spiritual maturity. Sometimes, it is natural to feel that progress is slow, but discouragement is merely the anxiety of the ego attempting to measure the infinite with …

Karma Yoga is the art of doing what life asks of us with sincerity and excellence, while learning not to place our peace of mind or happiness in the hands of the results.We can choose our effort, our attitude, and the care we bring to what we do, but we cannot completely control what our actions will produce. Understanding this …

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 …