Released in 2025
Are you caught in the endless spiral of thoughts, doubts, and mental noise?
In this Book, five powerful spiritual tools—Awareness, Breath, Chants, Diary, and Energy (A.B.C.D.E)—help you quiet mental chatter, reconnect with your inner self, and reclaim your peace of mind.
Drawing from ancient Vedic wisdom, timeless scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, and personal stories from his decades of monastic life, the author gently guides readers through transformative practices such as mindful breathing, mantra meditation, gratitude, journaling, and selfless service.
Whether you’re overwhelmed by anxious thoughts or seeking a deeper spiritual anchor, this book offers practical, heart-centered guidance to help you break free—and live with clarity, purpose, and joy. It is definitely a warm, practical, and transformative guide for anyone seeking stillness in a restless world.
~ 2008
Writing & Reflection
Journals, notes and conversations took shape into articles and books.
Released in 2024
Are you constantly in a rush? Do you crave slow days? Have you tried yoga and meditation but still feel a gnawing vacuum inside you? Do you have enough reasons to be grateful, yet you wonder why your mind grumbles incessantly?
If any of these questions ever occurred to you, this book will be a lifesaver. Vraja Bihari Das, a practising monk for over twenty-five years, offers a refreshingly new paradigm to help you live comfortably in your own skin through the bhakti yoga process, popularly known as Krishna consciousness.
The Inner Journey shares strategies to quieten the mind’s incessant chatter and live in a space beyond the mind―the Heart Space. Through simple, yet potent techniques such as conscious breathing, journalling and affirmations, this book offers hope for peace in an age of chaos and love amidst distrust.
Steer away from the chaotic outside world and dive into the calm corner of your heart space where you truly belong and feel loved.
5/5
Released in 2023
Shrimad Bhagavatam is a timeless guide that helps us navigate the complexities of modern life. It shows us that the pursuit of worldly success, such as that found in Bollywood, among billionaires, politicians, and cricket heroes, is ultimately fleeting and unfulfilling.
By providing a spiritual perspective, the author invites us to transcend the limitations of our physical existence and to connect with a deeper, more meaningful way of living. Through his own experiences and those of others, the author shares profound insights from the Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam that offer solutions to our inner struggles with lust and envy.
He reminds us that true happiness and contentment come from a realization of our spiritual nature and encourages us to apply the wisdom of the scriptures to our daily lives. This book is a priceless gift that can inspire us to transform our lives and connect with a higher purpose.
Released in 2020
This book is my humble attempt to explain the three principles of mind management: Awareness, Acceptance and Aspiration.
When hassled by my mind, I remember my spiritual master, Radhanath Swami’s golden words, ‘Life is simple for the simple, complicated for the complicated.’ The mind is a simple phenomenon as well, and even if psychologists and neuroscientists disagree, I have presented the concept of the mind simply, in layman’s language.
The book is not an academic presentation; instead, through a mixture of anecdotes and experiences from my own monastic life, and also using some historical events and news from around the world, I have shared the technique of mind management to help you face your life’s daily challenges with clarity and ease. Most of the quotes from the Bhagavad Gita are from the edition by Bhaktivedanta Swami.
Released in 2017
This book is my humble attempt to explain the three principles of mind management: Awareness, Acceptance and Aspiration.
When hassled by my mind, I remember my spiritual master, Radhanath Swami’s golden words, ‘Life is simple for the simple, complicated for the complicated.’ The mind is a simple phenomenon as well, and even if psychologists and neuroscientists disagree, I have presented the concept of the mind simply, in layman’s language.
The book is not an academic presentation; instead, through a mixture of anecdotes and experiences from my own monastic life, and also using some historical events and news from around the world, I have shared the technique of mind management to help you face your life’s daily challenges with clarity and ease. Most of the quotes from the Bhagavad Gita are from the edition by Bhaktivedanta Swami.
5/5
Released in 2020
Why do some people feel lonely? How would the technique of visualization help overcome a failure mind set? Why do we need to accept our selves the way we are to achieve better success and more emotional fulfillment? And is there more to our life than eating, sleeping, sex and defending? Kishor, Venky, Aki and Shyam are monks living in a traditional monstery. Like the billions living outside, they too have their insecurities, challenges, joy, and sorrows. Yet a secret passion for cricket that they share bounds them in a special way. The combination of love for cricket and life in monastery offers them a unique vantage point to learn and grow in their own lives.
In this fictional story we learn simple, yet profound truths that could help us live in harmony with our true inner selves. Venugopal Acharya has an honours degree in Economics and a Masters in International Finance. He is a teacher, a practicing monk over two decades, and an author three highly acclaimed books. His recent best-reseller, Are you Connected -25 key to live, grow and succeed with self and others, is published by penguin India.
In this self-help book he shares practical skills that help us connect better to our own selves & improve our relationships with others.