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Do Desires Come True?

By Swami Chinmayananda We are under a delusory idea that thought is an idle, impotent happening, merely within ourselves. In fact, thought has godly powers. As each thought sweeps across the mind, its...

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Deal with destructive emotions & be happy

By Kamal Jain The key to happiness lies in our own state of mind, as it is the mind that is the primary obstacle to happiness. The greatest impediments to our happiness and our ability...

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To criticise is to eulogise

We live in a world of fragile sensibilities and uber emotions. So, it’s all the more important and imperative in such emotionally charged and sensitive times to be careful not to hurt anyone with your...

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Remember that you are part of nature

By Swami Vishwananda The world is suffering because of pollution. There is no point in shouting from the rooftops that carbon emissions are rising substantially. Every individual can act with the...

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The Gita verse, ‘Sambhavami Yuge Yuge’

By B Shankar The scene is the battlefield of Kurukshetra, where opposing armies of the Kauravas and Pandavas are arrayed in battle formation. Arjuna is seated in his chariot driven by Krishna. Looking...

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Implications of rajasic guna in Anu Gita

By MM Goel The mid-point of the three gunas, is rajas – between tamas and sattva. All non-spiritual activities including social, economic, political and religious ones fall in the domain of rajas. As a...

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A material world

By : B V Vaman Maharaj Those with material vision confine themselves to thoughts of their gross bodies. Similarly, whether it is caste, religion, country or world, their thoughts remain confined to...

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Here’s the right way to observe fast

Talk: Acharya Shriram Sharma Eating is an essential function for the survival of body but what to eat and how to eat is a very important aspect. Even members of other species in the animal...

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Know about nothing

By- SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV Energy, if it vibrates, takes a form. Now you want to put a line between what is physical and what is beyond the physical. When you are talking about energy as modern...

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Happiness has something to do with you

By James Anderson The wise will always state that happiness does not depend on circumstance. Being happy is truly a natural state; there are no pretexts – one is simply that. However, from birth,...

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Brahmn, the unknowable phenomenon

By Kishor Kulkarni What is this physical creation? There are two broad ways of looking at it. First, creation with a creator behind it who may have designed and programmed it, possibly with some degree...

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Seek out the crown of contentment

By Swami Avdeshanand Giri Most of us are familiar with the story of a man who had a hen which laid a golden egg every day. He lived by selling it. One day, he thought...

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Mind control & salvation

By Amar Singh Mind is the veil that hides reality from you. Sivabala Yogi’s teachings are based on his direct experience of reality. A thorough understanding of the mind’s nature and functioning is...

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Rethinking anger management

By Pulkit Sharma Anger is a primitive emotion. Let’s face it, we all get angry over big, small and imaginary things. We become furious when our wellbeing is threatened, our needs and expectations are...

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Differences simply vanish

By Sakshi Harlalka Krishna says in the Bhagwad Gita, “Arjuna, I am you and you are me.” We all have come from the Supreme Being, and to merge in the Supreme is divine oneness. It...

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Be sporting, give your very best!

By Francis Gonsalves There’s a joke about Jesus viewing a football match between the ‘Catholic Conquerors’ and ‘Protestant Punchers’. Both teams were excellent; the match was exciting. The Conquerors...

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A thought for Gaia

By Adi F Merchant The Earth is the only worldly home we know. This is what we will bequeath to our children, their children and grandchildren. What would we say to them? Here’s your legacy....

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These are the sounds i like to hear

By Ruskin Bond All night the rain has been drumming on the corrugated tin roof. There has been no storm, no thunder, just the steady swish of a tropical downpour. It helps me to be...

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Die to the past, every moment

Talk: Osho Clinging to the known is clinging to a corpse. It does not need courage to drop the clinging; it needs courage to go on clinging to a corpse. That which is familiar to...

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Dogmatic rationality

By Ashok Vohra Some believe that there is room for only one model of rationality: presented by either mathematics or the empirical sciences. That even mathematics is not a complete system was proved by...

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