Inquiry can be a catalyst for change
By Anjali Hazarika Seeking answers to existential concerns through the medium of questions and answers is recognised by Upanishads as a powerful process. The ‘Prashna Upanishad’, for instance, derives...
View ArticleSimplicity & Humility
-R K LANGAR Where there is greatness, you will find simplicity. Simplicity is a characteristic of greatness. It is the perfect alignment of one’s thoughts, words and deeds. Great truths are simple, but...
View ArticleAwareness can end your suffering
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Why didn’t the universe create everyone equal? Why are some handicapped, and others able-bodied? Why are some poor, and others rich? What is the point of all this terrible...
View ArticleSeeking health and happiness for all
By Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai A religious person is one who is happy, and the mark of a happy person is contentment. He does not seek happiness outside, but the discontented one pursues it outside, and he...
View ArticleBhagwad Gita and the lives of the Stoics
By Narayani Ganesh Reading about the Stoics, the similarities struck me – with what Krishna spelt out in the Bhagwad Gita to Arjuna and the principles by which the Stoic philosophers lived and taught....
View ArticleVariety is the spice of life
-NARAYANI GANESH The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you, Werner Heisenberg, Nobel laureate in physics,...
View ArticleTry listening to your inner voice
By Atul Sehgal The inner voice is the call of conscience or the signal from God. People say that the Divine dwells within you and gives you corrective signals when you tend to go in...
View ArticleTowards a new renaissance of life
By Daisaku Ikeda Our world today is facing a crisis unlike any other as the coronavirus pandemic shakes the foundations of our global society and economy. Yet, amidst this devastation, we are also...
View ArticleThe virus and vaccine within us
By Arijit Ray The last ten months have been tumultuous for most. An unknown virus came from nowhere and threw our lives asunder. Swami Sarvapriyananda of the Ramakrishna Mission, in one of his talks,...
View ArticleBe anchored in the present moment
By Pulkit Sharma Our mind has a proclivity to run in multiple directions. Under the different pretexts, it wanders to the past, revelling in happy moments of yore or dissecting some old traumatic...
View ArticleGod as an unreasonable proposition
By Jug Suraiya When asked to prove that God does not exist, an atheist replied that, as God is a needless hypothesis, it is not necessary to prove his non-existence, but for believers to prove...
View ArticleCreating a New You
-KAMBIZ NAFICY A group of neurological researchers have proven that Buddhist mindfulness meditation and creative visualisation strengthen certain parts of the brain by generating fresh brain cells,...
View ArticleHuman beings have nothing to crow about
By Narayani Ganesh Culture, cognition, self-awareness, creativity and language are all seen as unique attributes of human beings that make us so special vis-à-vis other species. Decades of research by...
View ArticleTo ignore is also an art
-NARAYANI GANESH The popular saying is, ‘Learn to accept the things you cannot change.’ Or, ignore. Imagine you find yourself in the middle of a ferocious argument between two colleagues. What would...
View ArticleSilence makes longevity possible
By Alka Nigam The majestic peaks and deep valleys of the Himalayas silently call us and leave us speechless with their magnetic charm; so does the bewitching beauty of the Saharan desert. The sound of...
View ArticleThe Virtue Of Humility
-SANT RAJINDER SINGH Humility is a virtue that helps us grow spiritually. It means that we live without looking down on others. We are kind and considerate to others. Humility is a way that we...
View ArticleGuru awakens compassion and dispassion
By Pranav Khullar The search for a real preceptor is triggered in most of us in that moment of inner dissatisfaction with material acquisitions one has stacked up, in the need to find inner peace...
View ArticleHeaven, Hell Your Choice
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev When a person dies, he loses his body, and his intellect or discerning mind. The memory part of the mind, however, continues to function but only as tendencies within him. He...
View ArticleTurning transactions into tangos
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Recently, a couple came to me. Around five years ago, they believed they had the most spectacular love affair in the world. Now, ironically, their question was, “How can we...
View ArticleShiva bhakta defines true love
By P Raja What is love? Definitions galore would vie with one another to answer this poser. But no definition would excel the following: If one can deny oneself and make a gift to satisfy...
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