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July 2011

July 07, 2011

Misinterpretation of a Realized Master’s powers and Grace

Last night I happened to listen to a speech by Vivek Shauq - the comedy...

July 06, 2011

Treasure of the Hindu Temple: Basic Rules of Ownership and Lessons from the Past

The underground vaults of a 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala have revealed treasure estimated...

June 2011

June 24, 2011

Sins of Drinking, Sex and Meat in Spiritual Journey

Many societies and religious groups try to ban alcohol and drinking. Just like they ban...

June 24, 2011

Reclaiming Hindutva: It will Need a Fight to the Core!

Hindutva as a word has been abused in the recent years - both, by those...

May 2011

May 22, 2011

Devotion and Belief

Devotion is Heer's love. Belief is marriage. Latter does not involve the former, and former...

May 19, 2011

From Spiritual Rigor to Religious Rigidity

Anything less than complete Spiritual awakening is a dangerous thing. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

May 16, 2011

Thoughts on Sathya Sai Baba: Nagendra Rao

(The Article has been written by Nagendra Rao, MBA from Wharton and a Corporate Finance...

May 01, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba: Miracles he did, just not the ones you think of

Truth exists at many levels. In media of today, however, "truth" is manufactured based on...

April 2011

April 28, 2011

Preparing for The Super Convergence: Rise of The Bio-Info-Nano Singularity

In 1900, Lord Kelvin famously stated, "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics...

April 28, 2011

Noosphere: Are The Cloud, Collective Consciousness and The Singularity Intertwined?

The small and beautiful humbling forces for tranquility and peace include love, laughter, being grateful,...

April 28, 2011

The God Particle, Quantum Entanglement, And The Holographic Universe

A leaked internal memo at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, contains unconfirmed reports that one of...

April 20, 2011

Can you have Perception without the Sensation of Seeing?

Are you able to see something, without knowing that you can see?

April 20, 2011

How Evangelist Forces Completely Annihilated the Druids in Ireland

Bryan McMohan has an interesting game for his Indian guests in the motel in County...

April 19, 2011

Mindless Baba Ramdev Bashing Brigade: When Elitists become pawns in the Grand Game of Politics

On January 9th, 2009 Rajeev Dixit founded the Bharat Swabhiman Movement along with Baba Ramdev.

April 11, 2011

Leadership Lessons from Lord Ram

Ram Navami - the birth of Lord Ram is coming this week.

April 01, 2011

Intellectual Nonsense, Javed Akhtar and the India Today conclave

I happened to watch this series of video and wondered at the high level of...

March 2011

March 22, 2011

Lessons in Freedom from a kid and a pup

When I reached home, a young kid was talking to my wife. He was selling...

March 08, 2011

Yoga: Indian Export for US Health Care Reform

Modern medical science now recognizes that conventional allopathic medicine cannot treat everything, especially chronic illnesses.

February 2011

February 28, 2011

We are One

We are all One here. We are all One on this tiny, spinning, blue and...

February 22, 2011

Spirituality, Religion, Beliefs, and Devotion

There is a great tendency for certain niceties in the area of religious debate. One,...

February 10, 2011

Are Nice Teachers Good teachers?

In several studies, a radio program host said yesterday, evaluations of the teachers in schools...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

Sadhguru Jaggi, Mystic and Yogi, Talks to a Race Car Driver on Jan 30

Indiscriminate and infinite love has the power to bring strange recipients to the giver.

January 14, 2011

Swami Vivekananda – A Light Beyond Dimensions and Geographies

Yesterday, January 12th was Swami Vivekananda's birthday. He was born in 1863.

December 2010

December 30, 2010

Envelope in Deep Gratitude for the Universal Symphony

Yesterday, a friend talked about the value of gratitude in life and even more importantly...

December 07, 2010

Living a Complete Life is the Legacy of Krishna

Shri Krishna cannot be understood in percentages. He has to be known completely. Anything less...

December 06, 2010

Why is it important to kill Ravan?

Rambha was to be married to Kuber's son. Kuber was Ravan's half brother - same...

November 2010

November 30, 2010

Guru, Realization and Athletics

A Pole Vaulter readies with his pole before the jump beyond the high bar. As...

November 24, 2010

For the Ones Who Came

Up, up into Blindingly white light We soar, The wings of our plane Piercing bounteous...

November 23, 2010

When the Sacred Breaks Upon You

When the Sacred breaks upon you, completely out of context with the present moment and...

November 20, 2010

Way To Go: Choose Your Death!

A few months ago, an accident during a trek in Himachal came to my notice....