Anekanta: There are multiple aspects to truth
By Acharya Lokesh Muni According to Jainism, no single, specific statement can describe the nature of existence and the absolute truth. Anekanta states that the ultimate truth and reality is complex...
View ArticleSet your goals for the New Year
By Pulkit Sharma As another year draws to a close, most of us are looking forward to making new beginnings. This is the time when we set goals and frame resolutions – eating healthier, exercising...
View ArticleLearning all about yog, yoga and yogaa
Interaction: Prashant Iyengar You say that yog has become ‘yogaa’; it has gone global but but has it lost its essence? It all started when the word ‘yog’ came to be spelt as ‘yoga’ and...
View ArticleChoosing the right path for happiness
By Hasmukh Adhia A disciple asks his spiritual master: “Swamiji, why should I consider the world as dream-like when it appears so real to me? Even if it is dream-like, why should i not enjoy...
View ArticleWhen ego dies, a noble human is born
By Andrew Cohen Is it possible to attain a state where the ego actually dies? Well, i’ve met one or two people in my life in whom it appeared that this had occurred – the...
View ArticleCan a leader possibly make his own luck?
By Deepak Chopra The entire field of business and government has been studied and analysed to the point that both look like rational enterprises – if you are judging by academic programmes. In reality,...
View ArticleWalk the lonely path
by Lavlin Thadani To reach the innermost depth of understanding and tranquillity, each one of us, as a free thinker, has to walk the lonely path to self-discovery through the noisy mind. Life in its...
View ArticleBe alert, not to code an experience
Satsang: Swami Sukhabodhananda A man goes to buy a national flag. The shopkeeper shows different sizes of the national flag to him. Then the man says something to the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper was...
View ArticleThree Jain ways to optimise human conduct
By Ashok Vohra In Jainism, jnana, knowledge; darshan, faith; and charitra, conduct, form an organic whole. They are called the triratnas, the three jewels. The rise or decline in one influences the...
View ArticleWorld peace is not such an impractical idea
By Nayaswami Devi The man had committed murder many times and was now incarcerated in Tihar Prison, Delhi. Yet, as we watched him tell his story in the documentary ‘Doing Time, Doing Vipassana’, his...
View ArticleA daily yoga routine could bring great benefits
By Ma Hansa Jayadeva Yogendra Yoga means uniting with the object i want to get to know entirely, which means concentration with a balanced mind. It also means excellence in work and complete mastery...
View ArticleThe kingdom of God is within you
By Janina Gomes All my memories of Christmas are tied up with the infant Jesus in the arms of Mary, his mother, with Joseph, his foster father looking on. This time there is a paradigm...
View ArticleLet’s Kindle The Christmas Light Of Love
By MN Kundu Traditional celebration of Christmas on the occasion of the advent of Jesus Christ is no longer confined to the Christian community. In fact, by paying reverential homage to the prophets,...
View ArticleExperiencing truth, consciousness and bliss
By Kishore Asthana Spiritual concepts are often given complicated explanations. Sat-chit-ananda is one such concept taken to mean the same as God or Brahmn, Universal Consciousness. This and other...
View ArticleCaste is what you do, not what you are
By Jug Suraiya A popular story which has long been doing the rounds in the corporate world concerns a top executive of a multinational firm who was asked by someone as to what he did....
View ArticleAre you desperately looking for a soulmate?
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Many people subscribe to the idea that there is a single ‘right’ person out there for everyone. Some believe that this is determined, by the stars. There is also the pervasive...
View ArticleCompassion, bedrock of universal fraternity
By Surendra Bothara In the Acaranga Sutra, the earliest available Jain scripture, Mahavira gives the first, basic and universal definition of ahimsa: “I pronounce that … nothing which breathes, which...
View ArticleBeing in complete communion with nature
By J Krishnamurti People are divided racially, religiously, politically, economically, and this division is fragmentation. This is what is happening; and the responsibility of the educator is really...
View ArticleThe Right Consultant
By Radhanath Swami With the New Year coming up and the nation getting ready for the elections, business circles are unsure what to expect in the coming months. Although we have little control over the...
View ArticleThis year, resolve to be loving and giving
By Mata Amritanandamayi Devi Another new year is here. All people dream of a happy and fortuitous future. May this New Year be filled with happiness and peace, with less war and conflict than in...
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