Gratitude as a Spiritual Practice | Pravrajika Vrajaprana

Pravrajika Vrajaprana has been a nun at the Sarada Convent of the Vedanta Society of Southern California since 1977, taking her final vows of monasticism or sannyasa in 1988. Vrajaprana is the author of "Vedanta: A Simple Introduction" as well as other books on Hinduism and Vedanta. Most recently, Vrajaprana co-authored with Swami Tyagananda, "Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali’s Child Revisited." Vrajaprana’s books and articles have been translated into a number of European and Indic languages.
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[@mitalibhattacharya823]

" gratitude is such a thing,no matter how much you express,there is still room for more". Pranam mataji.very nice to hear you.

[@mokshajetley9244]

Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

[@sukshmajit]

Gratitude for this beautiful talk 🙏🏼🍁

[@nancy9468]

Thank you ❤

[@prathibananjundiah368]

This is an excellent talk Pranams to you Mother I am thankful for the opportunity to listen to to this message Which enriches my life 🙏

[@mokshajetley9244]

Pranaam Mata ji

[@asamvav]

🙏pranam mataji❤

[@bhattacharya6774]

Pranam Mataji 🙏 🙏

[@TheDeepening718]

If you're happy because of what you have, will it not lead to attachment? You can appreciate what you have to destroy attachment to what you don't have but this is just like a drug addict giving up cocaine by drinking alcohol. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. You can read the Pali Canon from top to bottom, you will never find the Buddha saying anything respectful about mortal life. He is contemptuous to the core.

[@bhattacharya6774]

That contemt did not ultimately help. All are not fit to be Monks & Nuns ,but due His contemt towards worldly affairs ,he allowed all Tom Dick and Harry to be included in monastic lives & perversion too entered .

[@surjamitbhattacharjee1645]

No it will not , it's the truth . Buddha practiced gratitude meditation and happiness for other meditation. If you feel gratitude you feel god closer , it is spiritualising the mundane . It's appreciating the art of God through gratitude . It's important that we stay true to happiness and pure joy , at the end of the day it's what we need and it's what our real nature is . 😊