Refugee
Partitioned, my home for generations Separated, families that lived together for lifetimes Depleted, number of neighbors I thought were friends Bloodied, the rivers and streams across town Horrid, the...
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Everyone suffering Everything wrong Life is buffering Trudging along Happiness tomorrow Remains unborn Yesterday’s sorrow Never gone Between the two Today is lost Precious moments few Everything at a...
View ArticleExamining the evidence supporting existence of God
– By Anandmurti Gurumaa The age-old question of the existence of God has perennially divided humanity into two distinct camps: believers and non-believers. This schism has given rise to an endless...
View ArticleNever lose hope and let patience thin out
By Sumit Paul George Bernard Shaw said, “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” He elsewhere wrote that all admirable human traits ensue...
View ArticleNewton, Aristotle & scientific essence of religions – Academia must not allow...
Science, Vedanta, and the essence of all religions is to seek the truth of truths – ‘Know the truth and the truth shall make you free’! During the time of Newton there was a controversy...
View ArticleChoosing to forgive is an act of self-liberation
By Dada JP Vaswani Facing negative emotions such as betrayal, hurt, anger, and disappointment is a universal experience that tests our emotional resilience and inner strength. These emotions often...
View ArticleBe the flow
“Maulvi Hargiz Na Shud Maula-e-Rum…. Taa Ghulaam e Shams Tabraizi Na Shud…” Maulvi could have never become Hazrat Maula-e-Rumi….If he had not become a student of a great teacher like Hazrat Shams...
View ArticleA roadmap to divine union and liberation
By Swami Bhaktivenkateshwara Among the 12 Hindu poet-saints of South India known as Alvars, there was only one female named Andal. She lived around the seventh century in Srivilliputhur, 80km from...
View ArticleWhy Vedic mantras have mystical powers
Authored by Alka Nigam The ancient cultures and traditional beliefs agree that our universe is resonant with vibrational frequencies inaudible to human ears. The fundamental cosmic sound is imbued with...
View ArticleShift attention to atman for instant liberation
Krishn was born in a prison. The day he was born was magical. The guards fell asleep, and the prison gates flung open. Krishn was Atman personified. Spirit cannot be limited by matter. We are...
View ArticleCoffee and the Sufi mystics
Coffee, among the most loved beverages globally, traces its origins to the Sufi orders of Southern Arabia about 800 years ago. The earliest coffee origin myth is that in Ethiopia, the sheep of a...
View ArticleThe Dargah Of Hazrat Nizamuddin: The ecstasy of faith and love
Has not the time arrived For the Believers that Their hearts in all humility Should engage in the remembrance of God. The call to the believers and lovers of God made one of the most...
View ArticleLaw of Karma is our bondage – Thru’ ethics values morals we overcome bondage
“I and I alone am responsible for what I am – good or bad”: Modern society, led by Western cultures is focused on Money & Desires’! No one today is responsible and accountable during schooling...
View ArticlePillar 5.2: Spiritual health
The human pursuit to understand the nature of things has been eternal. Approximately 2,500 years ago, this quest for knowledge split into two disciplines: philosophy and science. At that time, India...
View ArticleAspects of consciousness will remain unknown to AI
-By Pulkit Sharma We have been blessed with remarkable intelligence, visionary imagination and profound intuition. No wonder, the evolutionary history of mankind boasts of several scientific...
View ArticleWhy does India consider ‘mother as first guru’ &‘purpose of education as...
It is a scientifically accepted fact that, “existence can never go out of existence”. “And that which doesn’t exist can never come into existence”. As individuals we exist because of our respective...
View ArticleRise above biases to a higher way of thinking
By Namita Devidayal Recently, a child in Uttar Pradesh was suspended by his school principal for bringing biryani in his lunch box. Around the same time, an elderly man on a train in Maharashtra was...
View ArticleThe unknown
There are things we do not know. There are questions that went unanswered in our childhood, and as we grew up, we stopped asking them—until we have children of our own. When I questioned my...
View ArticleDid you smile today?
Research suggests that a baby smiles around 400 times a day on average. By the time this baby becomes an adolescent, he smiles only 19 times daily, and on becoming an adult stops smiling altogether!...
View ArticleMystical ecstasy of the divine
At the cherished, age-old dargahs in the Indian sub-continent, one can sit for hours soaking in qawwalis – the soul-stirring offerings of love for spiritual elevation. For centuries, the mesmerising,...
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