For the Sake Of Survival
-NARAYANI GANESH A canopy of some species or even mixed species of trees reveals an extraordinary pattern of space channels that ensure they don’t touch each other. This phenomenon is known as ‘crown...
View ArticleDharma is based on loka sangraha
By Shardha Batra Dharma is the cosmic law which holds things, people, families, society, nations, and the countless, disparate elements of the cosmos together as a cohesive, harmonious and meaningful...
View ArticleInvoke newness with power and wisdom
By BK Shivani Basant Panchami symbolises new life and fresh beginnings. Today a decline in the quality of our life and the world makes us long for newness. Basant Panchami comes as a reminder that...
View ArticleStart investing in the self-work
By Rajiv Vij What differentiates exceptional people from good ones is their ability to shine during times of crisis. Their key to thriving in challenging times is their mastery over their inner self....
View ArticleRock solid principles
RAJASHREE BIRLA The foundations laid during the formative years can never be overestimated and most of us are rooted in these precepts. Among these, five principles form my life-force. The first is...
View ArticleThe art of facing life’s dualities
By Radhanath Swami Happiness and distress, honour and dishonour, pleasure and pain, victory and defeat, success and failure, health and disease – all these occur temporarily in our lives and we must...
View ArticleFrom dharma to moksha
Bhartendu Sood Averse in the Vedas says, ‘O merciful God, endow me with the tenets of dharma so that the wealth I earn is by noble means. May I use this wealth for the performance...
View ArticleLearn to make your sorrows sacred
By Swami Sukhabodhananda Treat all difficulties as divine surgery. Please do not think that I’m trying to rationalise all misfortunes that befall us. Only when we’re faced with problems do we wake up...
View ArticleExposition on Yoga
By K V Raghupathi The first sutra in Patanjali’s ‘Yoga Sutras’ is just this, Atha Yogansushanam — ‘…Now, an exposition on yoga’. This half-sentence, or incomplete sentence, sums up what has happened...
View ArticleSanskrit is our grandmother tongue
By Ramesh Bijlani Not many perhaps know that February 21 was declared the International Mother Language Day by the United Nations in the year 2000. Instead of getting into the controversy whether...
View ArticleYou don’t own pets. They own you all the time
First, there was Saha, and then Nittyy, Gritty. I don’t know whether it was because February 20 was Love Your Pet Day or whatever but, last night, I dreamt about Saha. I don’t know why...
View ArticleOur consciousness is just like steel
By Virendra Kumar Jain There is an old saying, ‘As you sow, so you reap.’ Auspicious deeds bring beneficial results, while evil deeds bring harmful results. All living beings experience individually,...
View ArticleThe scientific method to find God
By Sant Rajinder Singh Secretly, in every heart, lies the desire to have proof that there is God and we are soul, a part of God. Science exists to uncover these deepest spiritual truths. On...
View ArticleThe real purpose of human intellect
By Shri Shri Anandamurti What is the human intellect for? A human body has three functions: its crude physical movement and physical progress, its intellectual progress, and its spiritual progress. So...
View ArticleThe nature of meditation and its conditions
By Avatar Meher Baba Meditation has often been misunderstood as a mechanical process of forcing the mind upon some idea or object. Most people naturally have an aversion to meditation, because they...
View ArticleBadi, the Baha’i new world calendar
By Sheriar Nooreyezdan As successive religious dispensations have added glorious chapters to the volume of progressive divine revelations, so have new calendars been devised over the centuries. Hence,...
View ArticleTransform into an outstanding achiever
By Jaya Row Everyone is born with a unique talent and ability. But you must first identify your ‘svadharma’ or core interest and invest your energies in that field. In your svadharma fix a higher...
View ArticleThe dance of shadows and light
By James Anderson Human nature casts many shadows; we all have them. Although transparent at source, we cannot claim to be a clear homogenous whole. Our parts inside jar and collide with one another,...
View ArticleLaughter is a tonic
By Dada J P Vaswani When a black mood of gloom and despair creeps over you, perhaps the best and simplest way to ward it off is to laugh. Laughter is contagious. If someone laughs...
View ArticleContribute, it’s better than competing
By Bhupender Yadav As individuals, we are all trying to outdo each other in every sphere of our existence. At first, it appears to be a positive thing because this creates an illusion that each...
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