The Slow Option
By Gyalwang Drukpa These days, I take the slow option while travelling and try to take trains from one destination to the next as much as I can. …In the train, we can experience so...
View ArticleThe Prince of Peace
By Latha David It’s that time of the year again when we are celebrating Christmas with Christmas trees, mistletoes, gifts and Santa Claus. Though these are part of Christmas festivities, they are only...
View ArticleLife’s a Bubble
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Generally, the sky is never in your conscious perception. True existence can be likened to the vastness of the sky. The Sun, the stars, you and me are all just small...
View ArticleGod Playing Games?
By Swami Sukhabodhananda Very often people ask, “Why is God playing cruel games with us?” We can give explanations, but explanations need not be answers. What is life and what is death? You are looking...
View ArticleThe Peace Message
By Aruna Jethwani Every community that migrates, whatever the reason, contributes to its new region of settlement. In Sindhi culture and literature, the most prominent name is that of Shah Abdul Latif....
View ArticleMind as Minefield
By Mata Amritanandamayi Selfless action is the outward expression of selfless love. When the heart is filled with love, it expresses itself in the form of unselfish action. One is a deep inner feeling...
View ArticleTolerance as a Virtue
By B K Brij Mohan Road rage, neighbourhood hostilities over petty issues, parents threatening teachers, patients assaulting doctors on duty, commuters beating up toll tax employees.… Such aggressive...
View ArticleFate and Free Will
By Parmarthi Raina Which is stronger, fate or free will? The conflict between fate and free will arises if we consider them as two different things. Both are karma, or action: fate is the result...
View ArticleStart Your Life Anew
By Anup Taneja New Year is the time when you should endeavour to remould your Consciousness by driving away negative thoughts, according to Paramahansa Yogananda. You may discover that habitual...
View ArticleYogananda’s Kriya Yoga
By M N Kundu Spiritual aspiration flows from knowledge. Each lesson of Yogananda induces inspiration and motivation. So, the practices never become dull, mechanical and repetitive.The practice of Kriya...
View ArticleAll About Truth
By J Krishnamurti What is truth? Is there such a thing at all? I know what is reality , the complexity of reality in which I have to act -not just talk about it. I...
View ArticleTaking a Back Seat
By Sadhu Vishwamurtidas Some people are compulsive exhibitionists. You can find them almost anywhere. They would do anything to get noticed. At a wedding, they want to be the bride. At a funeral, the...
View ArticleSimplicity and Depth
By Arup Mitra Simplicity brings one closer to the truth. But lack of simplicity introduces deviations because the biases of a complicated mind are too many , blocking progress towards truth. Simplicity...
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...
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