What is the Essence of Life
Dr Ravindra Nath Sharma Even though we talk a lot about life, it is difficult to define it. We love our near and dear ones and our friends. We revere great persons, we value humanity…
Category: Sacred Space
Lalleshwari – A Spiritual and Cultural Icon
Dr Ramesh Raina Lalleshwari – the great saint-poetess ever produced by Kashmir, was born to a Brahmin family in 1335 AD at Puran Deshthan, the modern Pandrethan, during Udyan Deva’s rule. She was born at…
Karma catches up with you
B L Razdan “Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.” (Jay Crownover) Karma is a spiritual belief that is all about cause…
Understanding the true worth of time
Arun Kumar Gupta Imagine there is a bank that deposits money into your account every morning. However, there is a catch: you must spend all the money by the end of the day, as any…
Timeless Wisdom for Contemporary Society
Dr Ankush Mahajan The Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the Indian epic Mahabharata, has been a source of spiritual and philosophical guidance for millennia. Its teachings, delivered by Lord Krishna…
Community feasts A spirit of camaraderie
Sunil Vaid Eating together with a group of people is called community feasting. It is a special meal specifically prepared during social gatherings to celebrate or re-enact, ritually celebrate or anticipate events or seasons –…
Meditation in Motion
Chetan Prabhakar We all know meditation as a sitting affair. We have always been taught or made to think that the only way to meditate is to sit in stillness. Sitting is only one form…
Self-Compassion for tranquility
Prof Sheetal The word ‘compassion’ stands for empathy, warm-heartedness and fellow-feeling towards others. In the eastern philosophy, the virtue of compassion had been put forth by Mahatma Gautam Buddha who stated that, ‘to alleviate sufferings…
Yagya A Holistic Approach to Public Health
Arun Kumar Gupta Today’s extraordinary progress in the fields of science, coupled with government claims regarding various deadly diseases in the country, highlights a growing concern. Diseases such as plague, tuberculosis, leprosy, swine flu, dengue,…
The Temple: The Crown of the Society
Prof (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Mehta The Hindu Temple is the crown of the society designed to bring the human soul (Atma) and the Supreme Soul (Paramatma) in union through deep faith and devotion. Our Vedic…