Author: Giridhari Das

“Hare Krishna” is the beginning of a famous mantra, a popular term for a person who practices bhakti-yoga in the Krishna devotional tradition, and a popular name for ISKCON and other like-minded religious institutions grouped under the term “The Hare Krishna Movement”.

Finding your vocation is crucial to attaining wellbeing. The biggest chunk of your energy and time is spent at work, and if you’re not doing what’s true to your nature at work, you’ll naturally be miserable. Work will be nothing but a burden. So here are three steps that will help you find your true calling, your vocation.

Some years back I was inspired by the challenge of writing inspirational quotes on self-improvement and self-realization on the 3T Path – the challenge of transmitting a useful nugget of wisdom in as few words as possible.

Mindfulness is a modern term for one aspect of yoga practice. In short, it means to be aware, to be conscious of your consciousness, and to be able to experience a thought, sensation, or external action with your full attention. This requires a lot of practice, because most people just get lost in thought.

Research shows that we have about seventy thousand thoughts a day! Just sitting down for breakfast, you play out different imagined scenarios, engage in a non-stop mental conversation, weigh the pros and cons of this or that, replay and review the movie you saw last night, . . . In a matter of seconds your thoughts can stray from an encounter you had the other day to plans of what to do tonight to being anxious about an upcoming meeting at work. This has been going on for much of your life, and it will continue if you don’t start doing something about it.

In this video you can see a simple exercise you can practice to develop mindfulness:

One of the key components to a better life is meditating daily. Meditation will improve your overall wellbeing and, depending on the type of meditation you practice, advance you in the path of self-realization.