Value of Patience
Dear friends, Om Shanti. We can have realization of our true spiritual nature and our spiritual inheritance in a second. But to transform ourselves into those spiritually ...
Inspirations from Dadi Janki
Yoga while in action
Dear friends, Om Shanti. It’s one thing to sit in meditation, what some call yoga. But if we are going to transform our lives, we can’t only have yoga ...
Joy beyond the senses
Dear friends, Om Shanti. I’ll share a secret of how to become joyful-- beyond the joy you get from the senses. I become conscious of myself as a soul and make ...
Tension and Attention
Dear friends, Om Shanti. There is no nourishment like happiness. Happiness is nourishment. Worry is a type of illness and makes you into a patient. So, add “a” ...
A Spiritual Secret
Dear friends, Om Shanti. I’ll tell you a spiritual secret: to bring about a new golden age of truth, we need five virtues - purity, truth, patience, humility ...
Power of Concentration
Dear friends, Om Shanti. With the power of concentration, I transform my intellect. Don’t talk much; rather concentrate on remembrance. Remember who you really ...
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 ...
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 ...
…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