As you flip the calendar
As we flip the calendar, we need to keep flipping our mind as well. Often, our diaries are full with memories. See that you do not fill your future dates with past events. Allow the...
View ArticlePractise and see one in the synthesis of many
By Shri Shri Anandamurti The attainment of Brahmn, Universal Consciousness, the Supreme Entity, is not possible through the mind, nor is it feasible through words. After reaching the Supreme via...
View ArticleWith no expectations, love blossoms
By Bhartendu Sood Two travellers who survived a shipwreck, were washed ashore on a lonely island. With nothing to eat, nothing to protect them from the vagaries of the weather and with no one to...
View ArticleInfinite love, devotion, selflessness & joy
By Ashok Vohra Shankaracharya and other Advaitins admit that jagat is mithya, that is, the world is unreal. According to them, the world is a hallucination. It is a product of avidya, ignorance and...
View ArticleParamahansa Yogananda’s synthesis of yoga
By MN Kundu Human beings are invariably haunted by inner emptiness and the repetitive sufferings of life in this unintelligible sphere of mortality. Albert Camus found a parallelism of this human...
View ArticleThe number one hundred symbolises oneness
By Osho If you understand Aum, you have understood everything. The Upanishads are written in such a beautiful way: first, Aum … if you can understand that there is no need to go ahead. Aum...
View ArticleNurturing children who have special needs
By Pulkit Sharma Becoming a parent is one of the most exciting times of one’s life and nothing remains the same after the little one arrives. Brimming with unselfish love and a sense of deep...
View ArticleGet out of your mind
By OSHO Anyone can be a Gautama Buddha, but not everybody can be a Michelangelo or Friedrich Nietzsche. This is because spiritual realisation is everybody’s birthright. It is not a talent like...
View ArticleThe closing of the Indian mind
By Jug Suraiya The recent brutal police attack on students in Jamia Millia Islamia and the mob violence by masked thugs unleashed at Jawaharlal Nehru University have sent shockwaves not only throughout...
View ArticleCalm your heart and still the mind
By Asha Nayaswami I had a difficult decision to make. Desperately i prayed to God, “What do You want me to do?” But no matter how much i prayed, i couldn’t get an answer. I...
View ArticleHow grief can heal and humanise us
By Sudheendra Kulkarni The Mahabharata is a goldmine of lessons on all aspects of life, including death. One such spiritual teaching in the epic is the pedagogical episode of questions posed by Yaksha...
View ArticleFourteen jewels from the sea
The churning of the ocean of milk is a key theme found in temples across ancient Southeast Asia indicating the spread of Hindu ideas there between the 3rd and 13th century. This story is linked...
View ArticleEducation and the need to break barriers
By J Krishnamurti Co-operation and aggression can never go together. Co-operation is an absolute necessity in a world which is so splintered by national and religious beliefs, economic differences and...
View ArticleAum, the primordial sound of creation
By Anup Taneja The initial creative impulses arose as ‘spandan,’ as thought-vibration of the pure Being. The sound that emanated from the vibration was Aum. Sound is, in all creation, the one,...
View ArticleCelebrate the season of hope and abundance
By Renuka Narayanan The festival of Pongal affirms the enduring charm of religious culture. Even rationalist Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy, called Periyar, knew that. One year he reportedly won the Tamil...
View ArticleWhatever your goals, try practising this
By Rajiv Vij Shankar, a businessman, was disturbed by his 19-year-old son Arjun’s sudden change in behaviour. Bright, driven and hardworking, Arjun was not only a top student, but also an accomplished...
View ArticleVivekananda fostered spiritual empowerment
By MN Kundu Towering socio-spiritual contribution of Swami Vivekananda can be viewed from several angles. But the most important one is his amazing agenda for human empowerment through awakening of...
View ArticleGood karma is key to health and happiness
By Brahma Kumari Dadi Janki We all desire to live a beautiful lifestyle where we don’t have to face negative situations, which could be a reflection of our past karmas. By past, we mean karmas...
View ArticleReimagining wealth beyond money
By Ram Krishna Sinha Normally, in our day-to-day-life, we are preoccupied with or remain overly obsessed with wealth. There is nothing wrong or unethical about accumulation of wealth, if it is created...
View ArticleTime to arise, awake, and master your life
By Satsang: Swami Sukhabodhananda Why do we forget what needs to be done? What is the solution to this? One of the most notable things in spiritual practice is self-remembering. We need to remember the...
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