Overcome evil with her
By MN Chatterjee The autumn festival of Durga Puja commemorates the victory of Goddess Durga over the buffalo-demon Mahishasura and celebrates her annual visit to the terrestrial home of her parents....
View ArticleNavratri, a festival of joy and colour
By Pranav Pandya The nine-day festival of Navratri provides a twice-a-year opportunity for the seeker to prepare himself for changing weather. If Navratri is celebrated with dedication, it is bound to...
View ArticleIncrease your spiritual magnetism with fasting
By Nayaswami Jyotish I’m feeling better today. I fasted yesterday, in part to help clear out some respiratory congestion i’ve had since we got back from India a few days ago. For this particular...
View ArticleTry to play your role to perfection
By Swami Prakarshananda In life, we play many roles but there is one principal role that we share in common – to be the best human being possible. If prime importance is given to this...
View ArticlePursuit of kama and artha: Know your limits
By Kishore Asthana Few management or psychology students will be unfamiliar with Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which he proposed in his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation” in the...
View ArticleIf you are devoted
By E Ravishanker Some people are in high spirits, active and focused. Others are active, just enough, without great ambitions. Still others are laggards. We tend to view the active ones alone as highly...
View ArticleA new movement for spiritual progress
By Shri Shri Anandamurti Parama Purusha is Consciousness personified. He is not bound by relativity. In some minds, the bondage of relative factors is so great, and the mental outlook is so narrow, but...
View ArticleMany significant aspects of Durga Puja
By MN Kundu Durga puja covers a lot, including God-consciousness nurturing nature, being mindful of wealth, learning and fine arts, wisdom, military prowess and also the Absolute. It embodies mother...
View ArticleSelf-motivation for achieving excellence
By Geetika Jain The common observation is that some individuals, though only a handful, excel in various spheres of life while the majority lead ordinary lives with hardly any accolades to their...
View ArticleThe Himalayas: How they nurture us
By Vir Singh Water is the core of life; hence water must be central to our spiritual thinking. Water is not only most of earth, but also most of life. Therefore water pollution must be our...
View ArticleWe connect differently to a personal God
By Swami Tejomayananda Sri Rama was the maryada-purushottama, the ideal man. The purpose of his avatara was to teach us how to live. On the same day, three other mahapurushas, his brothers, were born....
View ArticleCleanliness Everywhere
Gandhiji emphasised that servants’ quarters should be as clean as the masters’ bungalows.
View ArticleI wonder why women are considered impure
By Kulbir Kaur Are women impure? Should they be barred from sacred places as protesters demonstrate in Sabarimala, Kerala, as they physically prevent women (of menstruating age) from entering the...
View ArticleThe joys of doing things religiously
By TK Mishra Being religious, besides meaning ‘having to do with religion’, can also mean ‘acting as if something is a religion’. If as teacher I have never missed a class of my students for...
View ArticleDeal with the karmic mountain around you
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Shankaran Pillai boarded a local bus. Suddenly, he covered his face with a shawl and doubled up. A puzzled co-passenger asked him, “Sir, are you all right?” Shankaran Pillai...
View ArticleSo, what is the meaning of life, then?
By Brother Phap Hai After more than two decades as a monk, i have begun to recognise that a shaved head and a brown monastic robe is invitation for people to come up and ask all...
View ArticleWhy the brain doesn’t really think
By Deepak Chopra At some point in the history of medicine, a picture coalesced about the role of the brain. From the first basic insight that the brain is the organ of thought, this picture became...
View ArticleDesires that impel us to remain unsatisfied
By Swami Chidanand Saraswati Many years ago, before the severe violence in Jammu & Kashmir, we travelled to Kashmir to spend a few days meditating on the Dal Lake. All the members of our group...
View ArticleA queue is much more than a mere line
By Ramesh Bijlani A queue is more than a line in which people stand one behind the other, waiting their turn. It is also more than a symbol of order and discipline. It signifies respect...
View ArticleWhy fight for something that’s temporary?
By BV Vaman Maharaj In general there are two visions. One is material vision and the other is spiritual vision. Practitioners of material vision confine themselves to thoughts of their gross bodies....
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