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March 2012

March 16, 2012

Are Animals attracted to Meditation?

Do Animals have a sense of energies that we humans cannot sense? As per many,...

March 12, 2012

Sri Sri visiting Pakistan and History of Art of Living in Pakistan

Sri Sri Ravishankar is making his second trip to Pakistan today via the Attari border....

March 07, 2012

The Guru’s Khalsa: Devotion beyond Death

When beauty in the world dies, we all die a bit with it. Sometimes, we...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Bastardization of “One-ness”

All are equal. Every religion is the same. All Gods are the same. These sentiments...

February 15, 2012

Sikhism, Hinduism and the Truth

I recently came across a blog site, which is fairly interesting. It had an article, where...

February 13, 2012

Dharma and Religion – the foundational difference

A rose was born in a lovely garden of marigolds and jasmines. In his small...

February 02, 2012

Why does a New Zealand school teach Sanskrit?

These days in India, if we have any schools making it important to learn Sanskrit,...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

The Business of Death: Cremation vs Embalming

Unbeknownst to many who don't live in the US, Death is a very lucrative industry....

January 27, 2012

What does it mean to be Hindu or Spiritual?

Where is America's Spiritual soul moving towards? When you listen to the popular political discourse,...

January 25, 2012

The Future of Well Being

There are two parts to well being - Understanding the physical part of your existence...

January 10, 2012

How does one Promote Spiritual Profundity?

A teacher who has some worthwhile knowledge to share with the world seeks to touch...

December 2011

December 08, 2011

How Swami Vivekananda changed John Rockefeller

A French lady Madame Drinette Verdier has an interesting fact in her diary. Madame Emma...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Religious Expansion: Vatican, Western Politics and the Antagonism to Hinduism and Eastern Spirituality

Yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and “all eastern religions...

November 28, 2011

Sat Sri Akal: Invoking the Fighting Spirit entrenched in Sacrifice for the Infinite

The beauty of Sikhism is that the teachings of the Gurus is profound and yet...

November 28, 2011

Non-Indian Hindus Interviews #3: The White Hindu: Ambaa

After the first two Interviews with non-Indian Hindu bloggers, here is the third one. Ambaa...

November 25, 2011

Non-Indian Hindus Interviews #2: The Accidental Hindu

In our series of interacting with non-Indian Hindus, this is the second part.

November 23, 2011

Non-Indian Hindus Interviews #1: A Western Sri Vaishnava

In the coming weeks and months, I would like to objectively discuss Hinduism, a Dharmic...

November 23, 2011

Tina Turner Sings Sanskrit Peace Mantra

Tina Turner, the famous rock singer, has sung a Sanskrit peace shloka for the new...

November 22, 2011

Being a Hindu: non-Indian Hindus and their perspectives

Ever since Julia Roberts "converted" to Hinduism publicly and announced that she is now a...

November 21, 2011

कबीर के दोहे – 1

This is the first post on Sant Kabir's verses - called Dohe. I will bring...

November 14, 2011

Gaia and the coming change

Gaia, our Beloved Planet Earth, is now being bathed in an enormous inflow of Light,...

November 03, 2011

Handling sorrow of a terrible death

I met him recently. He had just moved from Minnesota to India. Moved? Yes. Because...

October 2011

October 10, 2011

Buddha’s Bowl and the teaching from the Himalayas

We had all but completed the Himalayan Dhyan Yatra. Any profound experience that we had...

October 08, 2011

Himalayan Dhyan Yatra: Manifesting the unmanifest

Existence in Sanskrit is called Srishti - manifestation - and not Kriti - Creation. For...

September 2011

September 04, 2011

You are not Nanak!

It is very fashionable to use the utterances of the Saints and the Enlightened Masters...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

Why is Krishna Relevant to India and Team Anna’s movement today?

After the 999th abuse by Shishupal, Krishna killed him, as he had been warned not...

August 02, 2011

How to Receive a Guru’s Wisdom?

I have a friend who was bitter about his experience with Sathya Sai Baba and...

August 02, 2011

कवयित्री डॉ.मृदुल कीर्ति के साथ एक संवाद

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July 2011

July 31, 2011

Losing Anger, Lust and Ego

In so many religious frameworks, a lot of emphasis is given to the get away...

July 28, 2011

Menaka redux: Rakhi falls for Ramdev

Sometimes it takes a mindless "Savant" to turn a Swami into a "hot dude".