Gratitude & Happiness
We often tend to take things for granted in our lives, which becomes a reason for our misery. Gratitude bestows immense happiness, both to the giver and the receiver when offered with purity of heart.…
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Life Purpose is not the roles you play
The key to making decisions is not so much about what to do, but about who I am. We have gotten brainwashed into believing that the purpose of our life has to do with the…
Nile, The Annalist
Rivers have always captivated my imagination since childhood. Meandering her way, sparkling under the sun or glowing under the moonlight, gurgling happily at every child’s dip into her waters, eavesdropping on women bantering at her…
Sanyas, Celibacy And God
There are three stages of life. First comes sanyas, renunciation, which means complete surrender through evaporation of ego. But, so long as there is life there is ego. You cannot do without it. You can…
Why Visit Places of Worship?
Every year on international peace day, we take all children from our schools to different places of worship to inculcate in children a feeling that God is one, though the way to worship Him may…
Cause of Misery
Once a wealthy man gave some food to an old beggar who happened to come at his door. Incidentally, the beggar began to turn up every day. The wealthy man became upset and he rebuked,…
Language And Culture
The 66-year-old Vairamuthu, with a literary innings of nearly 50 years, says he has been interested in the Tamil language from the age of 12 and he started writing venpa, classical poetry, at the age…
Feel it in your Gut
The stomach has always been a point of reference to a variety of emotions. There are vernacular phrases that indicate this. For instance, when you experience a great sense of relief, an analogy used is…
TRUTH OF ONENESS
Modern science provides a simplified materialistic approach to life by attributing it to a agglomeration of cells, tissues, organs, energy, and information. This perspective of life fails to fully explain the processes of birth and…
INSPIRE YOUR CHILD
Today, worldwide, educational systems have become 100% informative; there is very little inspiration. Without inspiration, no human being rises beyond the limitations in which he lives. It’s only when he’s inspired that a human being…