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June 2008

June 26, 2008

Your Presence

It has been 15 years since I last saw you. Heard your name on the...

May 2008

May 31, 2008

Why I am NOT an "Atheist"?

In my last piece I have talked of why I am a "Hindu" and what...

May 28, 2008

Why I am a "Hindu"?

The other day a friend, American, asked me what faith I followed? Or was I...

May 23, 2008

Arrival is the seed of Fear

Truth is infinite and has no locii. When we try and place arbitrarily a coordinate...

May 22, 2008

Khuda Jane Kahan Se Jalwaye Jana Kahan Tak Hai

I heard this song from Abida Parveen and its kinda tough to get over it...

May 20, 2008

Path has no meaning

With the formulation of Planck's constant, our limits of observation were set. Beyond this limit,...

May 19, 2008

If things dont go your way…

Just read this line on Amitabh Bachchan's blog that his father told him once: ‘Man...

May 03, 2008

Samar and Radha: A Love Story.

She was doe-eyed and long haired. As she walked down the aisle of the library,...

May 02, 2008

Relative Truth

I have read a lot of stories, but this one by Suresh Naig who wrote...

May 01, 2008

Thackeray, Marathi-ism and future of Hindu Activism

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and its leader Raj Thackeray - nephew of Bal Thackeray -...

April 2008

April 30, 2008

Between Material Science and Religious Miracles is the Consciousness Layer

As the comment of Amit showed on the blog about Miracles - there are two...

April 28, 2008

Does Prayer produce Miracles?

Can prayers save a dying person? Many believers say YES! Most rationalists say NO. Well,...

April 26, 2008

Rituals start with Identity

So many religious reformers have talked about rituals and frowned upon the existing ones..... only...

April 23, 2008

Business of Spirituality

Was talking to a friend on Spiritual issues last night and the phenomenon of religions....

April 11, 2008

Dead wife's SMS and the haunted world

Is there anything called supernatural? The spirits etc.? I am sure there are many people...

April 11, 2008

Bastardizing Infinity

"When there was neither aught nor naught, when darkness was covering darkness, what existed then?...

April 11, 2008

Deepak Chopra/Shekhar Kapur discusssion and Context/Infinity relation

Shekhar Kapur and Dr. Deepak Chopra discuss the nature of time and existence in the...

April 04, 2008

Satyakaam and his Journey of Truth into the Four Dimensions of Brahman

This is a story that we studied in our last Upanishad class at Houston's Arya...

March 2008

March 27, 2008

Singularity and the Ego

At the beginning of the world was a singularity. Volume had no meaning and the...

March 25, 2008

Fusion of Animals and Humans and our "Morality"

Humanity has always been curious about mixing breeds and species. First it was the horses...

March 16, 2008

What is Enlightenment?

Here is the take of Krishnamurti on Enlightenment: Questioner: I still don’t know what you...

March 14, 2008

Stroke of Insight

This is a very interesting video and very powerfully profound. The experience of Dr. Jill...

March 14, 2008

The Soul and our Death

When Krishna (in Bhagwad Gita) told Arjun about how his "Atman" will survive the death...

March 07, 2008

Fear of being alone

People around the world fear lonliness. They run away. They make up alibis. They fill...

March 04, 2008

Was Krishna's Gita a Rebellion of his times?

Lord Krishna has been known as the greatest Vedic philosopher of his time, probably of...

March 03, 2008

Pope and Sikh leaders drama and the mockery of spiritual fearlessness`

A fearful mind cannot be a spiritual mind. A mind where fear exists, will not...

February 2008

February 22, 2008

Rejoicing in the lack of choice and our journey from "here" to "here"

Religion makes people happy because it dumbs them down. Choice is hard to handle. And...

February 22, 2008

Personal God and the Infinite One

There has been so much of confusion over my last article on God, that not...

February 19, 2008

God is a demonstration of Ignorance!

We have a need to belong. To look for support. Because basically and inherently we...

February 12, 2008

Ignorance of Knowledge