Sanctity of holy week and the crown of glory
By Francis Gonsalves Most people are staying home, complying with the 21-day lockdown advised by the government of India. There are some other countries, too, where a similar situation prevails, due to...
View ArticleGetting rid of all that clutter
By Geetika Jain Clutter is suggestive of disorder and mess, a negative phenomenon which needs to be identified, understood and then eliminated. The different kinds of clutter that can significantly...
View ArticleSelfless Service
By Mata Amritanandmayi The human body is anyway impermanent, so it is better it wears out in service. Constant effort and hard work are absolutely essential. Prayer and worship are not enough. There is...
View ArticleInfect people with love, kindness and positivity
By Vijendra Gupta Scientists, politicians, the medical fraternity – their warnings about the course of action to be adopted in order to arrest any further spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic,...
View ArticleProtect yourself from the fear contagion
By Narayani Ganesh In the housing society where i live, fear as well as common sense, are prompting most residents to stay indoors, but in the process, they inevitably consume more and more doomsday...
View ArticleWhy so many souls fall in love with Rama
By Renuka Narayanan Ramanavami, the birth of Rama in the month of Chaitra, refreshes tender thoughts of Rama whom we ‘received’ in childhood as the embodiment of compassion, kindness and graceful...
View ArticleTake this quiz and see how you fare
Kiran Bedi Humanity is taking a Common Re-entrance Test (CET) with the entire country in a lockdown. The coronavirus pandemic is testing us as persons – personally and professionally. Personal test...
View ArticleThe dangers of stupidity
Ishan Chaudhuri What is it about stupidity that makes it so susceptible to religions? I know that many of you would find the previous sentence to be an error of some sort, and think that...
View ArticleCorona is here, but where is karuna?
By Karan Singh The grave crisis that has developed worldwide due to the spread of a tiny, invisible virus, reminds me of the samudra manthan story, the mythological churning of the milky ocean....
View ArticleHow to connect despite physical distancing
By Kamlesh Patel How each of us copes with lockdowns, social distancing and work-from-home routine – to prevent further spread of the Covid-19 pandemic – will vary from person to person. Some will be...
View ArticleChronicle of a pandemic foretold
By Jug Suraiya The coronavirus pandemic has prompted people to recall a number of functional scenarios that narrate apocalyptic events. One of the best known of these is Stephen King’s 1978 magnum opus...
View ArticleRamayana has both literary and spiritual value
By Swami Tapasyananda Valmiki’s Ramayana has a direct and indirect meaning. Some see in it only a great literary work dealing with the heroic exploits of Rama. But following the tradition, that...
View ArticleWays to restore harmony in your relationships
By Rajyogini Dadi Janki Almost every day, we see people behaving in ways that go against our beliefs. Hence we are quick to judge them, based on one or two of their behaviours. Their actions...
View ArticleTablighis’ action disregards Islamic teachings
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan We are living in extraordinary times. The world is in the grip of a pandemic and world governments are making wide-ranging efforts to control the spread of the disease and...
View ArticleThe face mask could protect you and others
By Lokesh Muni Wearing a face mask has become imperative for every one of us today, as this could help prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading further. Interestingly, for more than a millennium,...
View ArticleCall off the outer search, look within
By Pranav Khullar Papaji often recollected that his guru Ramana Maharshi would say, “Call off the search!” This was his central teaching to all seekers. The Self which we seek, is right here, within,...
View ArticleWhat true renunciation is all about
By Anup Taneja Ramana Maharshi was often confronted with questions like: Should not a man renounce everything in order that he might get liberation? Should i resign from my job and live like a recluse...
View ArticleCultivating dispassion during a pandemic
By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Social distancing during a lockdown is not necessarily a punishment. Silence and solitude are potent means for personal growth and self-renewal, a great way to nurture...
View ArticleHealing and Redeeming
By MURALI KRISHNA Prayer is an earnest hope or a wish, a request for help or expression of thanks made to God. Petition is the kind of prayer that begs for determinate objects. Supplication is...
View ArticleWhy is everything the way it is?
By Deepak Chopra Jagdish Gupta, 60 years: Why is everything the way it is? What is the sense of it all; who are we? Does life signify nothing? Dear Jagdish, I take your questions to...
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