Medicine should give you more immunity
By Osho In India river buffaloes are enjoying their bath, donkeys are drinking, people are taking a bath, clothes are being washed – and the same water is perhaps being drunk by some. But the...
View ArticleThat pesky habit of eating unmindfully
By Narayani.Ganesh@timesgroup.com Eating is what we do when we’re hungry or when it is the designated mealtime of the day. But, for many, eating is much more than activity that satiates hunger; it is a...
View ArticleSecular Nehru helped spread Vivekananda’s ideas
By Anil K Rajvanshi In his ‘The Discovery of India’, Jawaharlal Nehru has devoted six pages to Swami Vivekananda’s philosophy. Nehru wrote this book in the early 1940s while he was confined in...
View ArticleThe difference between boundaries and limits
By Valson Thampu That peace among peoples is impossible without peace among religions is now a truism. This does not have to be argued. But what needs to be reckoned is: Why is religion, presumably...
View ArticleA practice for harmony in relationships
By Thich Nhat Hanh The health and happiness of our relationships with individuals and communities depends on the harmony, peace and joy that exists between everyone. The idea of the practice,...
View ArticleImportance of awareness and contemplation
By Geetika Jain For the majority, life means simply drifting through it, struggling with mundane duties and livelihood and culminating in the final exit. However, the opportunity of human life is too...
View ArticleYou need never feel lonely again
By Swami Swaroopananda Today, loneliness is a familiar occurrence. Being alone is not synonymous with being lonely. Loneliness does not arise from being ‘alone’ with ourselves; it emerges when we crave...
View ArticleSlow down and savour the experience
By Narayani Ganesh Holidays normally involve travel – domestic or foreign. They bring excitement, expectation and enthusiastic planning, in anticipation of all the wonderful things one was going to see...
View ArticleGautama Buddha’s awakening to Karuna
By Pranav Khullar Huston Smith evocatively dramatises the moment of the Buddha’s awakening from his deep meditative state under the Bodhi tree. Gautama is asked whether he is a god incarnate, an angel...
View ArticleAdapting to what is being called the New Normal
By Pulkit Sharma As the global struggle with the novel coronavirus continues, for many of us, the ease of existence is getting confined. A litany of woes can be heard from almost everywhere: Will this...
View ArticleGandhi, environmental Swaraj and us
By Uday Agarwal Climate change has made us aware of the absorptive capacity of our atmosphere. There is a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that the atmosphere can absorb. Scientists...
View ArticleMake room for space in your relationships
By Deepak Chopra How much space should be given in a relationship? – Sarika, 26, Delhi Dear Sarika, Your question is very broad, but the simple answer is that you should give as much space...
View ArticleMacrocosmic grace brings bliss of knowledge
By Shri Shri Anandamurti Sampranata samadhi, concrete meditation, causes the seed of omniscience to ripen. In permanent savikalpa, higher state of samadhi, that is, samprajnata samadhi, the seed...
View ArticleFear of death versus following your bliss
By Narayani Ganesh When you go where your body and soul want to go, all the forces come together to help you. If you have lived all your life never doing what you wanted to...
View ArticleIsolation, social distancing and connections
By GS Tripathi We are connected to everything, by some means or other. Society, friendship and love result from connections. Connections are of three types: physical, mental and Self-connection....
View ArticleCleaning out the house and our thoughts
By Sant Rajinder Singh Just as we have physical spring cleaning, we can perform spiritual spring cleaning to become receptive to God’s love and bring joy and happiness into our lives. Our spiritual...
View ArticleFaith and discipline in the Ramayana
By Sudhamahi Regunathan When Valmiki wrote the Ramayana, at every step he understood that victory called for more than a wish. It was sometimes built on determination, at other times on patience and at...
View ArticleCosmic fury as a spiritual wakeup call
By Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee The pandemic of coronavirus has shattered the human soul.The cosmic law of justice has pronounced an unprecedented and unexpected fury on the human race on this planet.But...
View ArticleThe joy of being
A life without joy is not really life; it is death. Jesus said, “Let the dead bury their dead” (Matthew 8:22). He was referring not to corpses getting up and burying other corpses, but to...
View ArticleTransforming entanglement into ecstasy
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev There seem to be two ways to live life: entangled or ecstatic. Thanks to the intellect, achievements of human civilisation are many, but a significant lacuna in modern...
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