Live life in a moderate and balanced manner
By Geetika Jain According to Confucius, “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” Balance in various aspects of life is conducive to smoothness and happiness in life. In essence, an individual’s...
View ArticleFor bliss, disentangle and rise above negativities
By Abhimanyu Pati The dictionary meaning of consciousness is “to be aware of things happening outside”. We infer that a person is conscious as long as some or all of his sense organs are active....
View ArticleStay cool, we live in a troubled world
By Mata Amritanandamayi When we encounter problems in life, we must not allow them to overwhelm us. Behind each problem, there is a means to surmount it, too. Understanding this, we must continue...
View ArticleThe ‘end’ could be a new beginning
By Janina Gomes Within the perimeters of failure are hidden the seeds of new beginnings. Often, we reach a point where we seem to have explored all possible options and then reach a place where...
View ArticleThere is an enormous energy reservoir in you
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan Scottish author and reformer Samuel Smiles observed in his self-help book, ‘It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficulty that makes man.’ This statement is based on...
View ArticleHappiness, sensorial mind & consciousness
By The XIV Dalai Lama Nobody wakes up in the morning wishing for more trouble that day. However, emotional trouble is essentially our own creation. I think it is largely due to two things. The...
View ArticleLife filled with love
By Mata Amritanandamayi A loving word, a compassionate look, a simple good deed — all these can bring light to the lives of the less fortunate as well as to your own. It is not...
View ArticleDivine qualities for a spiritual aspirant
Avatar Meher Baba For a harmonious and enlightened inner life, a spiritual aspirant has to develop and express many divine qualities while he is engaged in his daily duties. Every person is a rightful...
View ArticleOn the road to paradise
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan According to the Quran, those who, while in this world, had purified themselves will gain entrance to Paradise. For instance, the Quran says: “Successful is he who purified...
View ArticleArtificial versus emotional intelligence & soul food
By TK Mishra From the expansive world of technological reality delivering artificial intelligence (AI) to the truth of fading humanity killing emotional intelligence (EI), we need to respond to the...
View ArticleDeath is an inevitable leap into the unknown
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan American evangelist Billy Graham, died this month at the age of 99. Some called him “America’s pastor”, while others referred to him as the “Protestant Pope”. Serving as a...
View ArticleJewish fast of Esther and Purim festival
By Ezekiel Isaac Malekar India is mentioned in the Book of Esther in the Old Testament of the Bible. It happened in the days of Persian King Ahasuerus; he reigned over a 127 Provinces from...
View ArticleThe colours of holi
By B K Sushant The festival of Holi is observed as a celebration of fertility, love and joy that can be culturally construed to be a virtual New Year, in the spirit of spring and...
View ArticleThe Holi festival and the power of fire
By Prarthna Saran Fire is generated by fire. Fire is sustained by fire. Finally, fire is consumed by fire! Since attributes of fire are similar to those of the three facets of Divinity, the Trimurti –...
View ArticleSpring is in the air
Holi is essentially a holistic sociocultural celebration with spirit of friendship and harmony. It celebrates ultimate victory of good over evil and reminds us of the eternal play of love between...
View ArticleBe a pinch of salt to pep up life
By Francis Gonsalves Beginning of the month, you probably got your salary, literally meaning ‘salt-money’. Two millennia ago, soldiers of the Roman Empire were paid a monthly salarium – from the Latin...
View ArticleWhat should scare you?
By Shashank Kasliwal One day, in the plains of Africa, ayoung buffalo named Walter approached his dad and asked him if there was anything that he should be afraid of. “Only lions, my son,” his...
View ArticlePain is a given, but suffering is a choice
By Jaya Row In the Bhagwad Gita Krishna emphatically declares there is no place for grief in life. We invite grief into our lives by unintelligent identification. We further compound the problem by...
View ArticleEverlasting Blissfulness
Consciousness is the veritable source of man, and there need be neither dullness nor apathy in the life of any individual man, for he is born of wisdom.
View ArticleThere is a solution to every problem
By Pulkit Sharma The world is growing at a rapid pace with unfathomable innovations and developments in all domains. What seemed a fantasy till a few years ago has been made real by scientific...
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