Swami Paramananda

28/12/2025

light everywhere but darkness within....
our conditioning and the illusion of '' i know , i think and above all our social , emotional , mental conditionings and bookish knowledge is acting like a thick dark cloud preventing the light within to shine .....and illuminating our heart and mind .

21/12/2025

https://youtu.be/Q8lPFsg2smo

His Holiness Swami Paramananda, also known as Dr. (h.c.) Rajendraprasad Dassruth, invites the whole of humanity to come and meditate for a Global Mind Transf...

21/12/2025

Swami Paramananda - Meditation Master

21/12/2025

Swami Paramananda, also known as Dr. (h.c) R.Dassruth, invites the whole humanity to come and meditate for a Global Mind Transformation that will result into a Peaceful World, free from inner and outer conflicts. He extends the invitation to all world leaders.

Come Join us online at 10h00 am (Mauritius Time) on Sunday 21 December 2025 on this page. This event is free and open to everyone wishing to know about the Science of Meditation and experience the bliss of inner peace.

Extract:
*World Meditation Day*
To raise awareness about meditation and its benefits, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 December as World Meditation Day, recalling the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

Additionally, the General Assembly acknowledged the link between yoga and meditation as complementary approaches to health and well-being.

*Cultivating peace and unity through meditation*
At the United Nations, meditation holds a special place, exemplified by the Meditation Room at UN Headquarters in New York. Opened in 1952 under the guidance of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, this "room of quiet" symbolizes the essential role of silence and introspection in achieving global harmony. As Mr. Hammarskjöld put it, this house, dedicated to work and debate in the service of peace, "should have one room dedicated to silence in the outward sense and stillness in the inner sense."

In times of global challenges, such as armed conflicts, climate crises, and rapid technological advancements, meditation offers a powerful means to cultivate peace, unity, and compassion. World Meditation Day reminds us of the importance of nurturing human consciousness to address these issues and create harmony within ourselves and our communities. By fostering inner peace through meditation, individuals contribute to building a more resilient and sustainable world for current and future generations.

08/12/2025

*****Corruption, Good Governance & Meditation*****

One of the main scourges afflicting society in modern times is corruption. It is generally defined as the willingness to act dishonestly, abuse of entrusted power or fraudulent behaviour for personal gain. Man is born with the possibility of being corrupted and there is nothing evil in it so long as he is not carried away by that possibility. After all, man also comes into this world with many other possibilities. But then how does he become evil? It is good to understand that life exists because of contrast, duality and plurality. Man cannot become divine without transcending evil. It is part of life.

Here, I cannot miss the opportunity to share a great esoteric truth that has, through ignorance, been wrongly taxed as mere mythology like so many others. The confrontation between evil and good, or darkness and light, is eternal and has been depicted in various ways in scriptures, festivals and symbols. It is usually presented as a war between opposite forces. Man is already an aggressive being and this explains the fighting spirit. I do not like the notion of war because it has made man develop an aggressive attitude towards himself and things he considers as evil. This creates stress and frustration because no one can fight against himself. And if this is attempted, then life or one’s being will be divided.

Coming back to the mythological story in Hindu scriptures, there was once a fight between the gods and demons or asuras. In order to ensure their victory, the gods sought the help of Lord Vishnu, the Sustainer of the Universe, who advised, “Go and arrange with the asuras (demons) so that you can churn the ocean to acquire the pot which contains the nectar of immortality.” Note that He did not say, “Go and fight the demons.” The ocean was then churned with the joint effort of the gods and the asuras and eventually, the nectar of immortality was obtained.

The secret here is that the demons and the gods had to work together. This defies the logic of most people and baffles them: why were the gods and demons asked to come together? The truth is that both good and evil are within us. They are products of the same mind and until both are not transcended, man cannot experience immortality. To transcend them, both have to be accepted and transformed through the practice of intense meditation.

Corruption has crept in the fabric of society because we believe that happiness, peace, prosperity and power are external to us. We do not realise that by going outside, we get entangled in the mysterious web of lust, greed, anger, hatred, jealousy and violence. Today life has reached a juncture where having resort to corruption has become inevitable for many people. Take the case of a person who badly needs a permit or an approval to operate his business in order to support his family. He must spend much time and money to travel to the government offices every few days for the obtention of various official documents to obtain his permit. On top of that, he is repeatedly sent away and asked to come back with a new document each time, often done purposely. Would that person not be tempted to bribe the government officials despite being honest?

This is a very simple case; there are many more complicated ones. This does not mean that I approve of corruption. I am simply pointing towards the reality where mankind has reached. Is the situation irreversible then? Absolutely not, as both the government and the public have a crucial role to play to create a stable and prosperous society. It is difficult to resist the temptation of taking bribes, embezzling, robbing, or doing favour to relatives when those who are on the highest rungs are known to commonly indulge in such practices. Millionaires want to become billionaires. Those people who already have much money are after fame and power, regardless of the suffering that this may cause to others.

Many solutions are proposed to tackle corruption, but they all fail. Why? They miss the real thing, which is the mind. Laws, morality, treatise, and so on have never worked. Tacitus, an ancient Roman historian, wrote in The Annals of Imperial Rome, “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” True indeed. As if laws can change mentalities! The root has to be tackled – the corrupted mind. That should start right at home and at school. Till man does not acquire the inner wealth, corruption will not stop. It is only one of the thousand evils of an already corrupted and polluted mind, the root of which is very deep down in our ego. To eliminate corruption, the ego has to be known and transcended.

Extract from the Book Corruption, Good Governance & Meditation by H.H Swami Paramananda

10/11/2025

meditation.
i have always written or i should say , given hints on what meditation is . today am going to write on what it is not as there are so many so called gurus and meditation teacher out there who are misleading people .
it is not mantra and prayer reciting . it is not imagination , neither any sort of technic or therapies . it is not even concentration , nor even mind control .these can certainly be of some help but should be taught by living buddha , not by a representative of any religion .. a buddha is beyond all religion and communities .....
meditation is miracle that flowers in the mind as expansion of consciousness and flowers as supra sensual supra emotional love in the heart chakra ..... it is a miracle that is prepared for by living spontaneously, authentically but with full awareness and harmony with the laws of nature .
let intelligent people realize how many people fall in this category

03/11/2025

01/11/2025

halloween
it's strange how the sacred , and holy has degenerated so much ....halloween form the word holy and sacred .that which is whole is holy . our true nature that is pure consciousness is that holy state of life , and our being . through meditation one reconnects with life , nature and all life
halloween is related to all saints day , yet when you look a dress code and exhibition in places where they are celebrated , they are so weird spooky .
when religion degenerates human consciousness together with it human mind too degenerates and the result is actual society .

20/10/2025

My message for Deepavali:

19/10/2025

Victory of Evil over Goodness!
This is how i see contemporary society. Unfortunately to cover up their ignorance and evil most people prefer the slogan'' victory of light over darkness" . Recently during the dushera i wrote , those who repeat this slogan parrot like should first look within their mind and heart, then cast a glance in our so called modern society .
Previously deepavali was closely associated with shree Ram and the ramayan , today it has become a cultural exhibition of light which cannot remove the inner darkness but only waste a great amount of energy especially in this time of energy crisis .
A few words on the Ramayan . Ram plus ayan means the birth of Godliness within, and this cannot happen until the fire of consciousness or meditation becomes aflame in the hearts of people ....and no amount of material lights can do this ....
every year the same old stories .....

11/10/2025

Mental health day .
i know it was yesterday , but the problem is very old , or perhaps i should say it started with so called modernity .
from a spiritual perspective , the word mental health is a misnomer . in spirituality we say that mind itself is a disease . hegel said '' mind is a disease '' . if mind is a disease , and i confirm that it is , then mind itself should be eliminated . if people find it difficult to understand this language, then let us say that mind has to be totally transformed and attain its purest state.
that state is wholesome , pure , peaceful , blissful and free, fully alert and lively .such a state can be experienced by leading a life in full harmony with nature and above all by the practice of the science of meditation .however present society makes no provision for such an education , as whole society is a mind which is itself sick .
hope ?there is hope as we still have a few intelligent people who teach the way of meditation and spirituality .it is high time to adopt this science , bring it in all spheres of life; starting in schools colleges and universities .

02/10/2025

Today many people are celebrating vijaya dashmi . Vijaya is for victory and dashmi for 10 days or 10th day . A question for all those who have fasted and practiced the rituals related to the Durga Pooja . Here you go:
"How many among you have been able to conquer your inner ravan or your inner mahisasur ?"
I have asked the question but not expecting for an answer because i know the answer in advance ...
Why 10th day or why we call this day vijaya dashmi ? Before explaining the mystical significance of this great festival, let me say, for almost everyone this festival is blind following. Some even do it as a cultural exhibition .
how can one have faith when belief is deep rooted in the mind, and without faith how can one conquer inner darkness ,ego, notion of i and all manner of conditionings ?
Tremendous amount of energy is required to do this . Thus, even Shree Ram, to set an example, worshipped the Supreme energy in the form of Mother Durga and thus was able to vanquish Ravan.
Now just imagine it took Shree Ram ten days to kill Ravan. He could have done so in an instant, then why ten days? Very symbolical indeed . The ten days symbolise the fact that if a spiritual person takes to spiritual discipline under the guidance of a Guru, and here Guru does not mean a person who represents any religion or perform any rites and rituals or discourses on the scriptures but rather an individual who has and is fully identified with the absolute . Such an individual can transcend his inner darkness symbolised by Ravan and Mahisasur. Here I have to empahsise that spiritual discipline does not mean mere repetition of God's name or any bookish prayers. It means to tread the fire of truth in daily life , facing one's weakness in the form of greed, anger, jealousy, lust , impatience , fear , arrogance, attachment, and so on .
In rare cases this can happen in ten days of deep meditation on oneself, but it's an absolutely rare case.
Please do not repeat like a parrot what others say '' victory of good over evil '' . If, however, you are tempted to do so, first look within yourself and then around in our society......