How to fulfil your genuine desire for bliss
By Arup Mitra We all are striving hard to attain full satisfaction in a persistent manner. In the material world, nothing can give us such ecstasy. Consumption of a normal good is characterised by...
View ArticleIn nature, there is no such thing as waste
By Namita Devidayal The word ‘garbage’ has a distinctly dirty feel to it. It instantly evokes a foul odour and a desire to turn the other way. Yet, garbage and dirt are an inevitable part...
View ArticleDignity is an essential blessing to seek
By Deepak Hiranandani What is it that supplicants first seek from Jhulelal, also known as Zind Peer, the Living Saint, who is revered by Sindhi Muslims as Hazrat Qalandar Shah and also identified as...
View ArticlePoetry, like music, is a form of secular prayer
By Jug Suraiya Some time ago I was asked to help run a workshop on creative writing for the staff of an advertising agency. My session dealt with poetry. One of the participants raised a...
View ArticleGanesha around the world – Japan, Mexico, Thailand, and Indonesia
Hinduism is the world’s oldest surviving religion. The concepts, rituals, pilgrimage sites, cosmological systems, and knowledge of Hinduism have helped this faith survive and thrive despite numerous...
View ArticleSpread the message of selflessness this Eid
By Sumit Paul The festival of Eid-al-Adha is on the cards. ‘Eid-al-Adha’ is Arabic for ‘Festival of Sacrifice’, and it is also known as Eid-al-Qurbaan and Eid-al-Kabir, Major Festival. Though a tad...
View ArticleShape your life into what you want it to be
By Swami Kriyananda How can we adjust our consciousness to adapt to the challenge of difficult times? At this time, humanity is caught in a struggle between light and darkness, and between faith and...
View ArticleEid al-Adha inculcates modesty and Selflessness
By Farida Khanam Eid al-Adha is celebrated in the Islamic month of Zul Hijjah. ‘Eid al-Adha’ literally means ‘Eid of sacrifice’, as Muslims symbolically sacrifice an animal as an act of ‘qurbani’. It...
View ArticleThe boatman who takes you ashore safely
By VS Krishnan There was once a benevolent king, reigning supreme in his land. He was killed by the conspirators. And, his wife, who was pregnant at that time, had to escape to a forest....
View ArticlePurpose of life? Refine our samskaras to ‘regain’ oneness with creation (2)
Modern society is blissfully ignorant that the only purpose of our whole life is to somehow regain (religion) and reunite (yoga) with our basic inherent changeless nature of ‘ananda’. Whereas our...
View ArticleGuru is like the shining flame of an oil lamp
By Mata Amritanandamayi Children, the term ‘Guru Purnima’ compares the guru to the full moon. The full moon has an attraction and magnetism that uplifts our mind. Its silvery moonlight gives joy to...
View ArticleA stream of awareness that can’t be destroyed
By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Life is eternal; we never give a thought to this truth. When someone dies we declare that the person is immortal, but the truth is we ourselves are immortal...
View ArticleScientific and metaphysical thoughts on infinity
By Narayani Ganesh The newest talking point in math circles is about the size of infinity. But if infinity is endless, can it be circumscribed by a particular size? This curious topic is raising...
View ArticleFor fulfilment in life, know your true self
By Rajyogi BK Brijmohan Lack of knowledge of one’s true self is the root cause of human suffering. We normally identify ourselves with our gross body, the way we look, our gender, race, religion and...
View ArticleRight attitude to work can solve the mystery of This and That
All religions in their essence describe the reality in the same way: The modern western and Islamic world has the intellectual conviction that the Kingdom of God is within; that man has been made in...
View ArticlePlanet Earth has a key to our spiritual growth
By Alka Nigam Enchantingly beautiful as well as superbly managed by its creator, our Planet Earth is hanging in the cosmos as a part of only one known solar system consisting of nine planets. As...
View ArticleLet us practise charity in its true spirit
By Geetika Jain In recent times, we have seen many organisations and individuals voluntarily come forward to perform commendable relief work and charity. And to some extent, they were able to mitigate...
View ArticleLet’s take time out to be a friend to others
By Marguerite Theophil My window overlooks a small children’s playground in our apartment complex, and watching children interact – helping, bossing, bullying, comforting each other – is often...
View ArticleWhen a cannonball triggered a canonisation
By Francis Gonsalves Canonisation is the catholic church’s declaration of a person of extraordinary virtue as a ‘saint’ after death. Many may have neither heard about ‘Ignatius’ nor the ‘Jesuits’....
View ArticleLet go of all that is causing negative emotions
By Dada J P Vaswani Let go, let go, let God! Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? And yet most of us know that this is not as easy as it sounds. Indeed, it is a...
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