Take a back seat
By Sadhu Vishwamurtidas Some people are compulsive exhibitionists. You find them almost anywhere; they do anything to get noticed. At a wedding, they want to be the bride and at a funeral, the corpse....
View ArticleStonewalling as strategy
By Janina Gomes When people push us into a corner and psychological pressures begin to build up within us, it is best to stonewall the antagonists or allow them to gently go by. We can...
View ArticleLet go of the future
By Andrew Cohen While most of us want to be free, there is a part of us that is terrified at the prospect. Is there anything that we can do to make the part of...
View ArticleSelf-effacing Sufism
By Kamlesh Dixit Having grown up in Uttar Pradesh, I am fully conversant with the healing attributes of the Sufi order. Religion did not come in the way of forging friendships between Hindus and...
View ArticleBe creative in life
By Swami Sukhabodhananda A young boy left his home in search of truth. He met many people; he became richer in awareness of his ignorance. Since people went to forests to meditate, he too went...
View ArticleA city of melancholy
By Orhan Pamuk Conrad, Nabokov, Naipaul — these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilisations. Their imaginations were fed by...
View ArticleTrue value of action
By A Parthasarathy To survive in the struggle for existence, mere acquisition of knowledge would not suffice. Knowledge comes from the past. It has to be translated currently into action. Thoughts and...
View ArticleThe way we are
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Whichever way you have ‘become’, you have only created and cultivated a small part of it consciously. A large part of you is unconscious because most of what you perceive is...
View ArticleThe need to understand
By Radhey Shyam Kaushal About 250 years ago, German philosopher Immanuel Kant advocated a fine description of objective component of ultimate reality in nature in terms of its space-time structure and...
View ArticleHappiness from within
By Harsh Kabra The driving force behind every individual’s worldly pursuit is acraving for mental peace and material pleasure. The yearning is for happiness that is selfsustaining and that cannot be...
View ArticleNo more misery
By Swami Swaroopananda Anxiety, as well as all the other emotions, can actually be turned around to our advantage. When we use the right amount, in the right place, at the right time, for the...
View ArticleA spiritual gymnasium
By Asha Praver An apple seed contains within it the potential to become a fruit-bearing tree. It doesn’t happen all at once though. It may be tiresome for the seed first to sprout, then a...
View ArticleLord of love and life
By MN Chatterjee Krishna devotees ardently look upon him as the godhead, more emotively evocative than most of the other Vishnu avatars. His birthday continues to be celebrated with great joy and...
View ArticleRevisiting Vedic management
By Devdutt Pattanaik Were the Vedas concerned with management? Or were they concerned with some esoteric exotic doctrine that cannot be contaminated by mundane concerns like management? It depends on...
View ArticleOn faith and reason
By Jonathan Sacks Abraham himself, the man revered by 2.4 billion Christians, 1.6 billion Muslims and 13 million Jews, ruled no empire, commanded no army, conquered no territory, performed no miracles...
View ArticleThe Seven deadly sins
By MN Kundu MK Gandhi cautioned against seven deadly sins identified by him that are injurious to our lives. First, wealth without work —as in bribery, black marketing, ill-gotten wealth — creates...
View ArticleRemove all masks
By Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai The seeker must first look within and recognise his Self. He who is ready to give up wearing masks alone can go within and realise what he is. One may visit a...
View ArticleEvery breath you take
By Sensei Sandeep Desai Great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela often relied on mind-cleansing meditation combined with deep breathing. Since our breathing becomes shallow...
View ArticleBe good, be free
By A Srinivas Who is a good human being? A good human being is honest to himself and sensitive to the needs of others. An emotionally honest person is a product of an upbringing that...
View ArticleWhat is told and what is actually heard and the gap in between
By Devdutt Pattanaik Vedas are called shurti, that which needs to be heard. It is distinguished from later literature, which is called smriti, that which is remembered. Vedas are considered pure while...
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