Human will is like a chapel on the edge of hell
By Ayushman Jamwal In The Matrix Revolutions, the power-crazed Agent Smith is about to end the Prophet Neo’s life, but remains puzzled as to why his adversary keeps fighting. After being beaten...
View ArticlePhysics and Metaphysics
By MN KUNDU Spirituality is quest for the ultimate reality, the unity of existence beyond endless pluralities of manifestation. Science usually concerns real nature of the physical universe within...
View ArticleInhalation is birth and exhalation is death
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev A new year is when people often conduct life audits, and reflect on the inexorable march of time. What has this past year meant to you? Time can mean different things...
View ArticleCycle of birth and death
Life has been described as a long preparation for death. Death, as also birth, is governed by the inexorable cosmic laws of shrushti, sthithi and laya. Even though death is a commonplace event, it is...
View ArticleEthics in business and corporate leadership
By Jayanta Roy The impact of your employees’ ethical choices can be just as significant as the impact of your business decisions. Employees need to learn to recognise business ethics issues, the...
View ArticleThe cause is that which pervades the effect
By Swami Swaroopananda What is the cause of the world; who is the Creator and what is our relationship with the Creator? If there is an effect, there must be a cause. Likewise, what are...
View ArticleLearning, detachment and sacred symbols
By Mukul Shri Goel The swan, lotus, turtle and peepal tree have been used as metaphors in Indian spirituality and have specific interrelated meanings for seekers. Understanding sacred symbols, can be...
View ArticleKnowledge or knowing?
By SP Mehta Knowledge and knowing are two different things. Knowledge is that which we gather from outside. Knowing arises from within. Knowledge is memory that is of the mind, but knowing is...
View ArticleTo know everything, hold onto nothing
By Andrew Cohen What would it be like to realise a condition where one had no fixed notions of self? The answer is, undistracted – by the notion of being anyone or anything in particular. Undistracted...
View ArticleSpontaneous bliss of uninterrupted self-knowledge
By Avatar Meher Baba Any kind of meditation followed by a spiritual aspirant has only one aim, namely, to speed up the fruition of his longing to be united with the Infinite. When this union...
View ArticleWhy India and the world respect Gandhiji
By Arvind Sharma We ritually speak of MK Gandhi’s contribution to India and the world. Gandhi was committed to Ahimsa, non-violence. Its true significance emerges when we realise that Gandhi had no...
View ArticleBanish corruption and jealousy with awareness
Interaction: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Q: In this world of stress, violence and corruption, what is your message for youth starting out in business? We must know that the whole world is not corrupt. There...
View ArticleAn analogy: The sacred alchemy of love
By Jug Suraiya The strangest thing about the emotion we call love, which ennobles those who give and those who receive it, is that it is often born as a response to its polar opposite,...
View ArticleWe haven’t learnt from the agony of wars
Interaction: J Krishnamurti J Krishnamurti: We must question whether there is a learning at all or just blind wandering. After ten thousand years or so, human beings haven’t learnt a very simple thing:...
View ArticleWork on your intuition and get it right
By Bhartendu Sood During his brief stay in India in the ’70s, Steve Jobs had said that Indians worked more on intuition as compared to those in the West. I don’t know whether that was...
View ArticleThe Aitereya Upanishad on Pure Consciousness
By Pranav Khullar The nature of Consciousness is a seminal theme at the heart of Upanishadic thought. The Taittiriya Upanishad explores the fivefold sheath of human consciousness, the koshas – annaya,...
View ArticleYouth are being robbed of youthfulness
Talk: Osho Youth is a balancing midpoint, when the mind is in a state where there is no past and no future. When we rightly live in the present, the mind is young, fresh and...
View ArticleThe ‘Mahatma’ and the Maharishi
By Ashok Vohra Though MK Gandhi and Ramana Maharishi were contemporaries, they never met in person. Gandhi tried thrice to meet Ramana but each time, due to pressure of work, to his regret, he could...
View ArticleWhy women stay away from the spotlight
By Bhanumathi Narasimhan Recently, i invited a new mother to model in the fashion show at our upcoming International Women’s Conference. Her radiance and beauty should get some spotlight, i thought....
View ArticleEnchanting symbolism: Buddha’s Bowl @ Ajanta
By Vithal C Nadkarni The 200th anniversary of Ajanta’s rediscovery was the occasion for a celebration called ‘Buddha’s Bowl @ Ajanta’ at Asiatic Society of Mumbai. It sought to link the past – of these...
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