About Being Conscious
By Ramesh S Balsekar What is Consciousness? Consciousness is the One without the second; the Source of everything. The totality of manifestation, and everything therein, is Consciousness Itself. All...
View ArticleAum connects you with consciousness
By Anantharaman Almost all Hindu prayers begin with Aum. In recent times, Aum has transcended the strict confines of the spiritual and has assumed wide prevalence among the world population as a tool...
View ArticleForetelling the future
By Prithwis Datta At the gurukul, the morning class was coming to an end. It was the last day at the ashram for a batch of young men in their late teens. Over the past...
View ArticleLoneliness as a death penalty
By Jug Suraiya Can loneliness be a sentence of death? In an increasing number of cases in Japan it seems that it can. The Japanese government has appointed its first ‘suicide minister’ to address the...
View ArticleThe index of satisfaction
By Yogi Ashwini Yog is ‘ek tatva nirantar abhyas’, undiluted, one-pointed, constant focus on one energy. When this becomes your natural state, whatever has to flow, flows into you automatically, you...
View ArticleDeclutter your life to reclaim happiness
By Pulkit Sharma Nowadays, one hears a lot of people complaining about their life becoming highly complicated, extremely busy, and exceedingly mechanical. These individuals are perpetually embroiled in...
View ArticleWoman is Mother Power
By Brahma Kumari Chakradhari Human brain has two sides. Its left side is person’s analytical and logical mind. The right brain represents one’s creative and artistic responses. It also delves deep into...
View ArticleSikh women who were source of inspiration
By Stuti Malhotra The first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Devji, laid the foundation of equality between men and women by stating: “Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman...
View ArticleSearching for the completeness of love
By Pranav Khullar The intense ‘samvad’ between Sage Yajnavalkya and his wife Maitreyi, on the notion of love and desire, on this inexplicable feeling of connectedness with another, and how this is...
View ArticleThe Supreme Emancipation
By SHRI SHRI ANANDAMURTI For the dissemination of spiritual instruction, how many scriptures and mythologies have been composed, from age to age. And these scriptures, these social treatises and...
View ArticleLook at the world through Shiva’s three eyes
By Swami Tejomayananda We are accustomed to seeing people with two eyes. So, anyone with an extra eye would attract attention and be termed a freak. However, Shiva, with his three eyes, is beautiful...
View ArticleExperience the sublime state of Shivoham
By Anup Taneja The three main cosmic functions of the Supreme Being, which are accepted by all systems of Indic philosophy, are ‘srishti’, creation; ‘sthiti’, preservation; and ‘samhriti’, dissolution....
View ArticleThe night to celebrate the descent of Shiva
By Brahma Kumar Brijmohan Among the numerous festivals celebrated in India, Shivaratri stands out. It signifies hope – bringing the promise of light and the end of darkness, the beginning of a...
View ArticleTen major lessons from the Covid pandemic
By Hasmukh Adhia Covid-19 was a global catastrophe. It shook the world completely. But it taught us many lessons. Here are 10 spiritual lessons out of them. Life is unpredictable. No one has full...
View ArticleYou can design a bright future for yourself
By Jaya Row When you want to go on a vacation, you know what to do and you go and enjoy the holiday. However, when you want happiness, there seems to be no definite path...
View ArticleAn orchestration of diverse divine notes
By MN Kundu Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa once asked an aspirant, “Do you have faith in an image of the Spirit, or you prefer to worship God as the formless Absolute?” The aspirant replied, “I am...
View ArticleBe a Good Samaritan, not a passerby
By Francis Gonsalves ‘Good Samaritan’ is a term that has come to stay. It originates in one of Jesus’s parables that shocked people in his day. Pope Francis has popularised the parable in his...
View ArticleDespondency is a good place to start
By Narayani Ganesh Are you feeling frustrated, dejected and hopeless? That’s a good place to look for answers to life’s eternal questions and it helps to have a genuine guide to channel your thoughts...
View ArticleAsk not for deliverance but devotion
By Arup Mitra Where’s the end to selfless action? Nowhere. Even the creator himself is bound by the chains of his own creation, as Tagore wrote. Experimentation and evolution go on perpetually....
View ArticleA law to keep you perpetually happy
By Swami Mukundananda True happiness comes by growing from within to become a better person. The way to be happier is not by accumulating possessions, but by becoming a better person. All our life we...
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