Blueprint for a life God wishes for us
By Sant Rajinder Singh As we reflect on how we can better our lives in the new year, here is a blueprint to help us lead the kind of life God wishes for us. Our...
View ArticleNewton’s laws resonate with Indic philosophy
By Ullhas Pagey Isaac Newton was not only an eminent mathematician and physicist but also an erudite philosopher, a deeply spiritual person and a theologian known for Biblical literalism. To most of...
View ArticleNot optimist or pessimist, but an agathist
By Narayani Ganesh Learning a new word is always exciting. More so, when a favourite author like Agatha Christie is named after it. The word ‘agathism’, says Anu Garg – who comes up with a...
View ArticleGreat ecstasy comes from doing something useless
By Osho You don’t know the usefulness of the useless. In fact, the useful is only useful so far. It has a certain utility, but the useless has no limitation to it. What is the...
View ArticleWhen prized possessions gain immortality
By Sudhamahi Regunathan One of the side effects of the pandemic has been that every one, at some time or other, has ‘cleaned’ their house. Looking at all the stuff they have collected they have...
View ArticleThe Guru who only knew how to give
By Inder Raj Ahluwalia His entire life a saga of selfless sacrifice, nobleness of thoughts and actions, and supreme belief in justice and dharma, Guru Gobind Singh was a guru and apostle. In his life...
View ArticleThe unreality of fact and reality of fiction
By Jug Suraiya In an interview a few months ago, when asked why he chose to write fiction in an age when there was so much misinformation being propagated both in mainstream as well as...
View ArticleFaith in God, the self & in the world around
By CL Gulati Whenever we require something in life, we acquaint ourselves with its known attributes and characteristics for an objective test to affirm our faith in its genuineness. Once the attributes...
View ArticleThe Swami who stood for harmony of religions
By Rabbi Ezekiel Isaac Malekar Swami Vivekananda always stood for harmony of religions. He spoke about acceptance of all religions as true and appealed to religious and spiritual leaders to shun all...
View ArticleThe ultimate reality in the universe is love
By KS Chowdhury Why are we to do good to others or consider the greatest good of the greatest number as the highest morality? It becomes easily explicable by Dadaji’s conception that Sri Sri...
View ArticleImmerse the mind in holy waters of Viveka
By Anandmurti Gurumaa In a typical world, while going about the daily chores, one seldom feels the urge to delve deeper, to comprehend the true purpose of human life. However, a revolutionary change...
View ArticleMeditation that takes you beyond all limits
By Ashok Vohra According to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, ‘Mankind was not born to suffer, mankind was born to enjoy. The purpose of life is to expand happiness.’ Human beings can get rid of their suffering,...
View ArticleOvercome challenges with faith and patience
By Radha Kumar The third wave of Covid-19 pandemic is upon us. As we try to find a way out of all the resulting uncertainty, the words ‘shraddha’ and ‘saburi’, faith and patience, frequently associated...
View ArticleSoul consciousness wards off vices and viruses
By Brahma Kumari Shivani ‘I am a teacher’…‘I am aggressive’ … ‘He is an Indian’ … ‘She is so rich’ … ‘My colleague is lazy’. From the moment we are born, we are taught to...
View ArticleIdeal time for us to begin our own moulting
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Based on our experience of the past two years, there is one lesson we can definitely carry into 2022: that the need of the hour is a conscious planet. The pandemic...
View ArticleMan was created as a part of God’s own family
By Usha Paul Raj The Book of Genesis begins with an account of how the universe came into being. The Spirit of God was the Prime Being who pre-existed the universe. Nothing else was in...
View ArticleThe last chapter is never complete
By Sridhar Balan The timeless art of storytelling is best illustrated by Arabian Nights, where Scheherazade saves her own life and that of all other girls in the kingdom by telling the Sultan Shahryar...
View ArticleThe way to be free from worldly pressures
By Jaya Row Children play with masks. The more grotesque the mask, the greater is their amusement. The secret to their enjoyment is the fact that they know the mask is different from them. The...
View ArticleHappiness is available, help yourself to it
By Thich Nhat Hanh Every day we have many feelings. Sometimes we are happy, sometimes we are sorrowful, sometimes angry, irritated or afraid; and these feelings fill our mind and heart. One feeling...
View ArticleTrue dharma begets peace, purity and prosperity
By Swami Tejomayananda Generally, the word ‘dharma’ translates as ‘religion’. It brings to mind different religions – Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam and so on. It generates ideas of customs,...
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