‘Buddhas have more fun … if you don’t find the nature of reality, which is...
Robert Thurman, the first American to become an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk, is Buddhist scholar and acclaimed translator into English of complex Tibetan Buddhist literature, including the...
View ArticleConstant struggle between the ideal and reality
Interaction: Osho Q. When i have to make a choice, the yes and the no are both so possible that i just don’t know. What is there that i don’t understand? This is your inheritance....
View ArticleThree kinds of people
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Ramakrishna describes three types of gurus and likens them to medical doctors. One looks at the patient, feels his pulse, then prescribes the necessary medicine and asks him...
View ArticleThink big, act wisely and show results
By Swami Tejomayananda At different times, we face different problems. At the individual level, they relate to health, emotions, relationships, marriage, children and career. At the national level,...
View ArticleRising above the dynamics of happiness
By MN Kundu Happiness is a state of mind, instantly produced by sense-gratification through touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing of the desirables. At the emotional level, it is produced by social...
View ArticleThe common thread that unifies yoga is energy
By bNayaswami Gyandev Yoga is the art and science of attaining true, lasting happiness. It is a science, because it offers specific, practical methods. It is an art, because its highest benefits come...
View ArticleAn aching longing only for the divine
By Janina Gomes We have an aching longing for many things in life – we pine for a deceased loved one, hanker after a position that brings us fame and prestige, long for a bigger...
View ArticleThe value of knowledge
By Parmarthi Raina Two brothers set out to make their fortune. One of them joined agurukul to get educated, while the other became an apprentice to a rich merchant. Several years later, the two...
View ArticleBecoming an authentic human being
By James Anderson Becoming a true individual is a long process and requires considerable effort: it is about becoming an authentic human being. If we make no effort, we become slaves to conditioning;...
View ArticleConscious of the cosmos
By MM Divakaran Aurobindo Ghosh explained the different types of human minds: between the upper and lower hemispheres, there was a link plane, the ‘supermind’. This was not, as the name might suggest,...
View ArticleWe need macrocosmic grace for attainment
By Shri Shri Anandamurti Bhakti means “to praise with love”, “to worship someone”. Two entities are required – the one who is eulogised, and the other who eulogises. Here the two entities are the...
View ArticleWhy sometimes satsang makes you uneasy
By Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai A seeker must first discover the main cause of his ‘dis-ease’. Treatment cannot begin until the disease is diagnosed. We see our weakness and deficiency in others. A lustful...
View ArticleDevoted To The Enchanter Of The Universe
By Swami Swaroopanandaji A young brahmachari, Sage Narada, Brahma’s son, with a veena in one hand and a ‘kartal’ in another, moves around the universe singing the glories of the one Supreme. His entire...
View ArticleKurukshetra to Dharmakshetra
By Amitabha Bhattacharya Chaitanya Mahaprabhu made the ‘Hare Krishna’ mahamantra popular; Dadaji Amiya Roy Chowdhury did so with the Mahanam, to make it universally accessible. Like Lahiri Mahasaya,...
View ArticleWith spiritual insight, develop your abilities
By Ezekiel Isaac Malekar Each of us has a mission in this world. The world cannot be boring because there are infinite number of possibilities in the world. There are arts, beautiful music and...
View ArticleWhy we need to undertake retrospection
By Acharya Mahaprajna Whether it is a new year or a birthday, one important dimension of the celebration should be to retrospect, because we are endowed with the power of reason. We should retrospect...
View ArticleThe positive power of negative thinking
By Jug Suraiya In a recent Mann ki Baat radio talk, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to his listeners to work towards creating a climate of ‘positivity’ to counter the miasma of ‘negativity’ which...
View ArticleThe weather could be always sunny
By Sant Rajinder Singh All around the world, people are concerned about the weather. Wherever i travel, i learn how various types of weather affects people in different countries and regions. For...
View ArticleBored? Disengage yourself for a while
By Pulkit Sharma When was the last time you experienced boredom? Was it a few days back, yesterday, today or now? How do you deal with feeling bored – do you sulk and let it be,...
View ArticleFind the right balance in your life
By B K Dadi Janki To achieve balance is the law of nature. Balance brings harmony and happiness, while imbalance begets discord and suffering. Be it ecological balance or the life-nature equilibrium,...
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