What Is Yoga?
Dear friends, Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti. God very cleverly says, “connect your mind to me”. This is what yoga is. It is easy raja yoga. What is ...
Inspirations from Dadi Janki
Our seat of self-respect
Dear friends, Om shanti. It is wonderful to say, “Om Shanti” and to be “Om Shanti”. Peace is with us in service. This is right, is it not? ...
Power of realization
Dear friends, Om shanti. The effort of this time is to finish whatever weaknesses or defects we have and to practice the power of realization, so that we can implement ...
Inner Well-being
Dear friends, Om shanti. Dadi has seen how wasteful and negative thoughts are very detrimental to your well-being. They bring great loss. Often, it isn’t necessary ...
Being in the present moment
Dear friends, Om shanti. Take the benefit of the present moment, being here in an elevated atmosphere whenever you can manage this. We are on this journey of life, ...
Create powerful thoughts
Dear friends, Om shanti. Learn how to create powerful thoughts, and don’t support the habit of waste thoughts. Waste thoughts are created when we remain in ...
Time is very powerful.
Dear friends, Om shanti. You can make your mind peaceful in a second. Just shut the door on peacelessness. If we want to make a change like this – becoming ...
Head, Heart and Vision
Dear friends, Om shanti. Even though we are far apart, I feel like I am having a personal heart-to-heart conversation with each one of you. Keep truth and love in ...
Being introverted
Dear friends, Om shanti. In the world, they value extroversion. But to experience constant happiness and to experience God’s presence, you need introversion ...
…Finally, I mention Dadi Janki, the spiritual leader of the Brahma Kumaris, based on Mount Abu in Rajasthan, who, 20 years ago, when I was in my 50s and she was in her 80s—she is now 103—began showing me, through her love and compassion, that I, like everyone else, had spirit within me. When we act from that connection, it is good for each of us and for all of us. The vision that Dadi shares has inspired values-based educational programmes around the world in schools, with young leaders, and in the Brahma Kumaris institution."
Lord Stone speaking about Dadi Janki in the UK Parliament (House of Lords), responding to the report by the Commission on Religious Education Religion and Worldviews: the way forward, published in September.
Hansard, Monday 17th December, 6.55 pm