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November 2015

November 15, 2015

How the Historically Intolerant forces are now Preaching India and the Govt On the Virtues of Tolerance

When belief is paramount in your sense of being, then imposing it on others...

November 10, 2015

This Diwali Light a Lamp for Humanity’s Future

Diwali celebrations in India start with Dhanteras, followed by Naraka Chaturdasi and then Deepavali...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Karwa Chauth: Why this celebration of love is so powerful

Whenever anyone has broken the boundaries that come with the limitations of mind and body,...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

International Yoga Day: Controversies, responses and Why Yoga?

Well being has nothing to do with your belief system. If your cholesterol is in...

April 2015

April 11, 2015

Yin and Yang: the basis of life

Interestingly, an average healthy male can release between 40 million and 1.2 billion sperm cells...

April 05, 2015

Open Source Human Transformation: Hinduism’s gift to mankind

This post is part of a Patheos Symposium exploring the "Good" of each of our...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

Karma, the Stimulus-Reaction Memory structures and Nirvana from this bondage

Karma and its impact has been thoroughly misunderstood in the world generally and by Hindus...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Spiritual Saviors? But there is nothing to Save!

One day I happened to meet a rather self righteous-posing as a do-gooder missionary. He had...

November 01, 2013

Diwali is not a mere “Festival”, it is a Spiritual Possibility… a Shift!

Existence lies both, in the Gross and the Subtly profound. In Matter and the Quantum....

October 2013

October 13, 2013

Vijay Dashami: Ram’s war was NOT against Ravan, but FOR Sita

When Ram had defeated Ravan, the Demon king; Ram walked over and bowed to him...

October 02, 2013

Buddha and Ananda: Sit by the side of your Mind to be meditative

There is a beautiful story form Buddha's life, which discusses the crux of being meditative....

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Near Death Experiences, Soul, Reincarnation, Consciousness and Quantum: Interesting Scientific work and new horizons

Reincarnation and after death has baffled many. Abrahamics have vehemently denied it for long, while...

September 25, 2013

Hinduism and Quantum Physics: Experiential vs Mathematical view of the Conscious Reality

When I listen to the debate in the West on Evolution vs Creationism, I am often...

September 11, 2013

September 11: When a Monk “Invaded” the Consciousness of America 120 years ago

12 years from now on the early morning of morning of September 11, 2001, 19 Islamic hijackers took...

August 2013

August 08, 2013

Society and Spirituality: The 3 Paradigms of Interaction with the society in Hinduism

Most religious people, specially those who are part-time Spiritual students, are always confused about how...

August 07, 2013

Yoga has nothing to do with Beliefs, it’s about Transformation!

When San Diego Superior Court Judge John Meyer asked the question "What is Religion?" in context...

August 06, 2013

Religion may be of a Book, but Spirituality has nothing to do with Books

The Existence - the Universe (or the Multi-verse, maybe?), the Solar System, the planets, the...

August 05, 2013

Hinduism in China: Influence that goes back many millennia

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA once said "India conquered and dominated China...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

The Utter Nonsense of Secularism

Secularism is called the panacea for all the problems that religion has created. Religion, as...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

What is Yoga? (Sadhguru)

The word yoga means literally means "union" or "to merge". More than a set of...

April 20, 2013

Krishna and Sudama: Sudama’s gift was greater

Questioner : You say that persons like krishna don’t make friends nor do they make...

April 19, 2013

Rajiv Malhotra at Bhabha Atomic Research Center: Why Indian Civilizational challenge to Western Universalism is required

Rajeev Malhotra's work on Indic civilization is unique and without parallel. He has written two...

April 18, 2013

Handling your loneliness and ignoring the “Tiger”

We are all alone. And we cannot handle that. When I see the world around...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

From Hinduism to Sanatana Dharma: A Critical Journey whose time has come

Hinduism is a moniker given by the invaders to the practices that were followed in...

March 17, 2013

Donna Karan celebrates Mahashivrathri at Isha Center

Donna Karan, the legendary designer and owner of the designer label after her name, was...

March 17, 2013

Sadhguru Jaggi on What India is and What it needs

What is India? And, what does it need? We have heard politicians and "intellectuals", think...

March 04, 2013

Bhagwad Gita is not a Message. Not a book. It is a Process.

Unlike popular belief and suggestions by the great "thinkers" and intellectuals, Bhagwad Gita is not...

March 04, 2013

How a being blossoms the Isha way

Sometimes one does not fully understand the import of things that Sadhguru says until you...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Meera and Krishna: All are women except He.

There is a beautiful story about a great woman mystic of India, Meera. She was...

February 25, 2013

What is Truth?

The very idea of "Truth" is so restricted and incompletely understood. Truth, in real Spiritual...