Mistaken pride of the analytical mind
By Rajiv Vij After a long time, the other day, I started making a gratitude list. I noticed a familiar but unanticipated pattern, one that I have been trying to embrace for a while, although...
View ArticleThe gut-brain connect and mental health
By Narayani Ganesh A documentary that looks at how everything is closely connected has an episode on poop, tracing its journey from the human body to its place of final disposal. Interestingly, the...
View ArticleThe coronavirus is not your worst enemy
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev The writing on the wall is clear: A mental health pandemic looms large before us. However, there seems to be reason for hope, too. A doctor from Texas recently told me...
View ArticleOur life journey in a metaphysical nutshell
By Acharya Mithilesh Nandini Sharan A philosophical principle states that ‘manifestations’ are for the benefit of others, and not themselves. A bed is for someone to sleep on, a book is for others to...
View ArticleMaking a life, not just a living
By Pico Iyer The Covid-19 crisis has turned off so many lights – economic, emotional, physiological – in so many lives; the task of those of us still breathing is to see what lights it...
View ArticleDiscover the inner shakti
DHANPAL SOLANKI JAIN The nine days of Navaratri that exalt Devi Shakti, reveal the importance of the inward journey essential for outward expression. For many people, the thought of putting others...
View ArticleWhen Sita Ma embraced the no-grief zone
By Jaya Row Worldly, materialistic people are weighed down by worry and anxiety. Take a look at the people going to work every day. Does anyone appear jovial or inspired? Most look glum. Swami Rama...
View ArticleMystery Of The Mind
By NARAYANI GANESH All living beings don’t have brains. Some species, like human beings and a few other animals, do have brains and minds. We take our brain and mind for granted just as we...
View ArticleThe existential flow and its culminating point
By Shri Shri Anandamurti For the macrocosm, the movement is in a particular line, in a particular flow, in a particular direction, following a particular route. In each and every object of this...
View ArticleTime to get transformed
By Soma Chakravertty Time is precious but the flow of time cannot be stopped or regained. Harvey Mackey said, ‘Time is free, but priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t...
View ArticleMeditative Durga Puja beyond the festivities
By MN Kundu The corona pandemic crisis has forced us to go for silent celebration of Durga Puja this year, with enormous socio-economic impact on every stakeholder. To derive maximum benefit out of the...
View ArticleLife Can be Awesome
-V N MITTAL Awe is an emotion that makes us feel we are a part of something greater than ourselves. Awe is triggered by wonder. Virginia Sturm, professor of neurology, University of California, says,...
View ArticleDeath, the most fundamental question
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Do you know you will die one day? We don’t know if you will get married or not, if you will get a job or not, if you will be successful...
View ArticleTime cycles and yugas
by Meena Om There are four yugas, times cycles, and each yuga has three symbolic reigning divine powers. First, when the yuga begins, Mahasaraswati is predominant. Since the yuga is still in its...
View ArticleTo remove ignorance and purify the mind
By Swami Sukhabodhananda The nine nights and days of Navaratri indicate the darkness of ignorance present in us and ways to bring in the light of knowledge that will remove the darkness. Krishna says...
View ArticleCall it epic surrender
BY D SUNDARARAJAN SRINIVASAN When Vibhishana pleads with Ravana to hand over Sita to Rama, Ravana ridicules and insults him. After all his efforts fail, Vibhishana comes to Rama’s camp, seeking...
View ArticleStrong dislike for Vibhishana for turning traitor
By Bhartendu Sood Paradoxically, Ravana who was associated with the heinous crime of kidnapping a married woman by deceit, invokes less hatred than does Vibhishana, in an episode in the Ramayana. What...
View ArticleRama as archetype for a global civilisation
By Suresh Natarajan Every civilisation needs a meta hero, one who embodies all virtues as the beacon light for realising the potential of the human spirit. This requires two key elements in the meta...
View ArticleWhere nature & the Hindu way of life intersect
By Namita Devidayal These days, there is a lot of talk about how we must “save Hindu culture”. This is a bit like saying we must “save nature”. It is an upside down approach, which...
View ArticleAs ironclad and indestructible as the beetle
By Narayani Ganesh We’re told that the cockroach has great resilience; it can survive even a nuclear attack. There are an infinite number of microorganisms classified as extremophiles, known to thrive...
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