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By Darshnik Vyas The role of a newspaper, it is believed, is to inform. But that is only a part of what a modern newspaper is supposed to do. A greater part of its mandate...
View ArticleLeadership and Decisions
By Anshul Chaturvedi Whatever we are today is the direct consequence of choices we made and decisions we took. Our karma cannot be shared. It is non-transferable. Leadership, and indeed life itself, is...
View ArticleTracking ego to its source
By AR Natarajan The vision of the self and awareness of it as the abidance in the heart — where the unbroken awareness of one’s existence can be felt spontaneously as the ‘I-I’ — has...
View ArticleThe seat of power
By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar A ministership purports to serve the people. However, if it is perceived as a means to derive pleasure or prestige, it will only infest society with corruption, stymie growth...
View ArticleAtheistic roots
By Mahesh Daga The core of Hindu scriptural tradition, it is commonly thought, is all about theism or belief in God. But that is a huge misconception. Even disregarding the ‘heterodox’ streams like the...
View ArticleVedantic wisdom
By Pranav Khullar The Ramayana is the story of Rama. But more significantly, the epic provides a peephole into Vedantic wisdom on the nature of existence, reality and governance. Vasishta’s sagacious...
View ArticleThe price of leadership
By S Leelavathi Leadership is a powerful construct. A leader is envied for the position and authority he enjoys. He receives adulation and is celebrated as a champion and deliverer. Little wonder,...
View ArticleOur Political Enterprise
By Milan Vaishnav In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that anybody who stands for elected office in India must, at the time of submitting their nomination papers, also submit a judicial affidavit, in...
View ArticleEnlighten everyone
Does an enlightened individual need to remain caged in the body? Why not get liberated from the physical? For seven days, the Buddha grappled with this dilemma. In the end, he decided that there was...
View ArticleYoga can set you free
Yoga leads us to acceptance of individuals and circumstances. In yoga sadhana, the healing process is threefold: physical, mental and psychic.
View ArticleSpiritual Atheism
Depending on one’s worldly calling, or svadharma, going to war is on the same footing as going to a temple or pursuing politics. The key then is not what you do but with what intent or motivation you...
View ArticleThe spiritual type you’re
The life of a professional is not necessarily antithetical to spiritual pursuits. An academic can be a spiritualist, if he realises the limitations of the intellectual realm.
View ArticleOf all those Ramayanas
By Amrith Lal Malayalam short-story writer VP Sivakumar once said that life teaches every individual to read the Ramayana. It took me along while to understand what he meant. Now I wonder, does every...
View ArticleFreedom from exile
By K S Ram Destiny and the dynamics of living often remove us from the place we belong to, from what we refer to as our hometown. Living away, we tend to get “home sick”....
View ArticleRelax with suryayog
By Anita Madan Suryayog, or Sun-meditation, is one of the most rewarding and natural of all human activities, says Swami Surya Jowel. It produces wonderful results at all levels of our being: physical,...
View ArticleBe in sync with nature
By Sensei Sandeep Desai Most Chinese masters prefer to hold T’ai Chi classes at sunrise when fresh chi emanates from the earth, trees and heavens. T’ai Chi at sunrise prepares you for the day by...
View ArticlePositive Mysticism
By Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Restlessness is the root cause of chaos in individual minds. Most of us have forgotten the fundamental binding force: the feeling of universal brotherhood. Hence, there is...
View ArticleGita: Book of ethics
By Arup K Majumd Several western thinkers, including Albert Shweitzer, have expressed the opinion that despite having a rich and ancient spiritual and cultural heritage, India does not have a single...
View ArticleSpiritual Knowledge
By Swami Chinmayananda A devotee once donated a radio at the mission and said, “Swamiji! This is yours.” He demonstrated how to switch it on. Every morning when I would switch it on, it would...
View ArticleAyatra is trek of faith
By Anshul Chaturvedi On his return from a pilgrimage to Amarnath, Swami Vivekananda hardly spoke to anyone. A disciple asked him what the matter was. “Oh that,” said the otherwise fiery monk, “Since...
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