Thinking of MK Gandhi
By Pramod Pathak The assassination failed to kill Mohandas Gandhi. Here’s why: as a course instructor teaching Business Ethics to management students for over two decades, Ihave found Gandhi fitting in...
View ArticleThe infallible law of action and reaction
By Swami Swaroopananda Every action, as the ancient sages and later, Newton, too discovered, has an equal and opposite reaction. This is true in both the physical domain as well as life in general....
View ArticleKnowledge is often mistaken for wisdom
By Jaya Row Knowledge is accumulation of facts and data. It is to be well informed. Wisdom is application of the information. It is transformational. Society esteems the wise for their virtuosity....
View ArticleWe think that jealousy is a sign of love
By Osho What is the pay-off in jealousy that makes us ready to endure the misery it brings? You are feeling jealous; it creates misery. But look around – there must be something positive in...
View ArticleOvercome whatever contributes to your anxiety
By Rajiv Vij Francis was one of the leading candidates for the chief strategy officer role and he had been anxious for months to get it. Not only did he not get the position, but...
View ArticleSimple techniques to still the chattering mind
By K Vikram Simha Rao Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhagwad Gita (6:17), that the bliss supreme accrues to the person whose mind has been stilled, who is egoless, and who is convinced that God...
View ArticleFaith leaders too need to address social injustices
By Francis Gonsalves When religionists raise serious concerns about unjust situations in society, they are accused of being too political or overinvolved in matters of secular interest. But which God...
View ArticleBhairava: Ultimate form of ‘I’ Consciousness
By Vijay Hashia The Trikha philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism is the theology of universal consciousness, a non-dualistic concept similar to Chit, Brahmn, in Vedanta. Trikha means three – the realities are...
View ArticleThe being of infinite love and kindness
By Pratiksha Apurv Each moment contains two phenomena, creation and dissolution, because opposites in life create the required cosmic balance. Just like our in-breath and outgoing breath, there is...
View ArticleWhen women win battles and more
By Ranjeni A Singh While women have shattered the glass ceiling in various professions, their role in the defence forces has remained marginal. A PIB press release says, the percentage of women...
View ArticleSilent revolution from religion to responsibility
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Two footwear salesmen were sent to different parts of Africa. A week later, one sent an urgent email home: “Get me out of this place. Nobody wears shoes here!” The other...
View ArticleQualification of the aspirant: Ready to serve
By Avatar Meher Baba The aspirant always has to be in readiness to serve the cause of humanity. Whatever service he can do, he renders it even in trying circumstances. The ordeals through which he...
View ArticleSignificance of the holy season of lent
By Christopher Mendonca Human beings are bio-degradable. This is the stark reminder given to Christians as their foreheads are sprinkled with ashes on Ash Wednesday. “Remember you are dust, and to dust...
View ArticleFinding the key to happiness and success
By Sadhvi Kamal Vaishnav Does the colour of one’s skin, physical appearance and financial status decide the level of success one achieves in life? Or is it the moral framework of a person and their...
View ArticleDon’t close the doors of your thinking!
By Swami Sukhabodhananda Whenever low self-esteem and depression raise their ugly heads in us, it is a good idea to boost ourselves by telling ourselves, ‘I am born to be successful, I am a great...
View ArticleA revolution that will check polarisation
By M Rajaque Rahman We live in strange times. Solemn chants like Jai Shri Ram or Allahu Akbar are being chanted not to invoke solemnity and piousness, but to spread paranoia over the ‘other’. This...
View ArticleContrasting Indian and Western philosophy
By Arvind Sharma The ‘this-worldliness’ of Western thought, which traces its roots to Greek thought, and the ‘other-worldliness’ of Indian thought, was first revealed in an account of a meeting of...
View ArticleSpiritual teachings for collective welfare
By Shri Shri Anandamurti The main duty of the tattvikas, spiritual teachers, is to promote education that aims at collective welfare. Propagation of collective welfare is full of the greatness of...
View ArticleDespite outward differences we are one
By Sant Rajinder Singh A colour wheel is a round, flat disk made of paper or cardboard. The outer edge is painted or coloured with stripes for each of the seven colours of the rainbow: red,...
View ArticleCultivating a borderless perspective of unity
By Soma Chakravertty We need to break free of sectarianism and separatism, move out of belief systems that create division, destruction, conflict and chaos. We have to make a paradigm shift in our...
View Article