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Earth’s gravimagnetic field and the mind

By Anil K Rajvanshi In the Ramayana there is the story of a devoted son, Shravan Kumar, who carried his aged and blind parents in two baskets hanging from his shoulders, taking them to various...

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Fiction and the truth

By Osho The happening of enlightenment cannot be described in prose. Prose is too mundane. And the happening of enlightenment is too poetic. The problem is, how to put the wordless happening into...

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Name, namer, named: Which is more powerful?

By Shri Shri Anandamurti Why is the name believed to be more powerful than the named? Energy, in the name is centralised. It is latent. But when a name comes into being, it means a namer has...

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Nourishing awareness in each moment

By Thich Nhat Hanh One cold, winter evening i returned home from a walk in the hills, and found that all the doors and windows in my hermitage had blown open. The cold wind had...

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The prince who woke up

By Pranav Khullar When Gautama Buddha was asked whether he was god, angel or saint, he replied, “I am awake.” It was these words uttered by the renunciate that served as catalyst to transform Prince...

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The theory of causation & dharma chakra

By Ashok Vohra The Buddha, in his teachings, was primarily concerned with questions like: ‘Why do we suffer misery, pain, old age and death?’ He answered these questions and showed a path to his...

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Spiritual Balance

What gives T’ai Chi its special power and speed to be an effective fighting art, from youth through old age, is the infusion of Chi, energy principles that have been used since ancient times primarily...

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Adi Shankara’s concept of formless Brahmn

By Pavan K Varma Vedanta as propounded by Shankaracharya makes him the most important thinker in the exceptional philosophical lineage of Hinduism. In the centuries that followed his elucidation of an...

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Become truly beautiful, inside out

By Pulkit Sharma Since antiquity, physical appearance and its beautification has been a significant part of human life. People have always looked for ways to enhance their outer beauty and have...

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Principle of Oneness

By Sri Sathya Sai Baba Divine Consciousness pervading all living beings is none other than Shiva. This Shivattwa permeates not only human beings but also birds, beasts and animals. So,...

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You are the sky where the clouds float

By Satsang: Swami Sukhabodhananda Why is our life limited to our mind and its pranks? Life is as vast as space, but somehow we use our brain in a limited way. Our brain has been...

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Harmony in relationships

By Sant Rajinder Singh If we analyse the core issues behind relationship problems, we find that they focus on inability to handle anger and stay calm. Most problems arise when people disagree with each...

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Eco-philosophy promotes unity of all life

By Vir Singh Former professor of philosophy at Michigan University, and father of eco-philosophy Henryk Skolimowski, would have turned 88 today had he not passed away in Poland on April 6. But he has...

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Know who you are

By SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI Who am I? The gross body that is composed of the seven humours, I am not; the five cognitive sense organs of hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell, which apprehend their...

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In a muddy situation, be like the lotus

By Brahma Kumaris Many spiritual paths advocate a mental state called detachment, in which a person moves away from worldly concerns and becomes an observer of life. This is considered to be a means of...

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We are aware, we dream, we sleep

By Osho ‘Turiya is the sannyasin’s sacred thread; self-absorption is his lock of hair. Renouncing the world by becoming totally conscious is his sceptre. To constantly see the ultimate reality is his...

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Everything begins with your thoughts

By Swami Avdheshanand Giri  Among all species on the planet, the human being is considered to be the most superior only because of his ability to think and discriminate. It is said that even after...

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T’ai Chi Unites the mind, body, heart

By Sensei Sandeep Desai When a lot of people got sick due to population explosion and lack of sufficient medical care, in 1956, during the communist revolution, top t’ai chi practitioners and masters...

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It’s good to be content

By Brahma Kumaris Contentment is like an underground river whose course just cannot be daunted. On the surface, people are stamping, pushing, pulling; the ground is cracking or left derelict, but...

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Ethics education to boost hope & humanity

By TK Mishra If you boost ethics in the process of education, you boost hope and humanity. If you remove hope and humanity from life, not much is left. Why are we educating everyone? To...

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