Moving Moments
When we think of how amazingly things work in the cosmos, it seems revelatory, because it is not something that’s in your face.
View ArticleYoga NaMa
Some western experts like Mark Singleton have even tried to trace the roots of this transformation back to India; to ‘muscular’ visionaries such as Swami Vivekananda
View ArticleClockwork Cuckoos
A Clockwork Orange is about a sociopathic delinquent whose interests include classical music, misogyny, and what is termed ‘ultra-violence’.
View ArticleSleep Well, Sleep Tight
Scientists recently found that during sleep, neural connections are loosened and memories removed. This helps in increasing mental activity.
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Walk the Talk, Now!
PM Narendra Modi began his maiden speech at UNGA by reminding the august audience of India’s hoary civilisational past.
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Getting lost, and enjoying it
The discoverers of this phenomenon won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine, and thanks to them, we now know why we get lost.
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What’s Karma?
The freer our consciousness is, the more freedom of choice we experience. Avery simple way to interpret karma is that it is a conditioned response
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Good, Bad and Better
He’s also reasonably pleasant looking like herself. Petronella goes to live with him in his castle, leaving the prince stunned.
View ArticleMaster of Memories
Dead souls are supposed to drink from this so as not to remember their past lives upon being reincarnated!
View ArticleCorporate Sufi It Is
By denying women their rights, we deny rights to the entire humanity for we are also ignoring the contribution of half of humanity.
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Ash and Essence
Instead of using traditional fire-and-wick ceremonial lamps, the priests use muslin bags filled with ashes to worship the ritually decorated icon.
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Celebrate Like TTians
Others run eateries, work as tourist guides or practice medicine, law, etc, doing all the stuff we usually do to make a living, but chilled out. What’s the secret?
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To Find a Way Out
Perhaps that’s overstating the case a trifle but there’s still something to be said about having a mind of one’s own or are it be said a free will?
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Life is a Roti Wrap
Life, like a roti wrap, can have happy ingredients: vibrancy of red tomatoes, freshness of green cucumbers, spiritual richness of purple cabbage.
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Back to Basics
The tax and revenue department in Washington DC has added a 5.75% sales tax on all clubs, centres or gyms run for the purpose of physical exercise.
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For those searching for such symbols, like Mel Gibson does in M Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi thriller Signs, the universe is laden with spiritual significance.
View ArticleEpiphany or Choice?
Many religious people are essentially Stage II people, who have blind faith in a legalistic God who punishes misdeeds.
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Gana-gana mana!
His name — Ganapati-Ganesh — celebrates Gana, or community: one finds the secular avatar of the same sort of association rhyming and resonating in our national anthem Jana Gana Mana.
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The why of life
The advice to man is to forgive those who hurt him, seek forgiveness for egotism/arrogance and be grateful to God for his creation.
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Smile a while!
Curving your lips in a half-moon while crinkling the corners of your eyes in crow’s feet boosts mood-enhancing endorphins and lowers stressinducing cortisol levels. Smile!
View ArticlePainted Worlds
Similarly, scientists believe our universe may be made up in the same way, with the “pixel” size of space far smaller than a subatomic particle.
View ArticleCroc Mama
For Augustine, as compared to God, all of physical creation was prope nihil, or next to nothing. Of course, the Saint didn’t mean that literally.
View ArticleChemystical Experience
All personal religious experiences are rooted in mystical states of consciousness, and all mystical experiences are part of religions.
View ArticleBurning Bush?
Mart salesperson living in the cheapest lodgings to discover “all the tenacity, anxiety and surprising generosity of low-wage America”.
View ArticleTherapy of Life
The late British philosopher and writer Alan Watts is perhaps best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy in the West.
View ArticleTruth as Change
Hawking was talking aloud about things that happen at the so-called event horizon of the black hole.
View ArticleRock of Ages
And with greater knowledge of possessing such freedom — a knowledge other creatures besides us don't possess —comes the greatest responsibility of all because it confers the freedom to choose between a...
View ArticleCost of Freedom
Originally built to honour the virgin goddess Athena, the temple went on to become what master architect Le Corbusier called “the sacred standard, the basis for all measurement in (western) art”.
View ArticleThe Wrong Spirit
The photographs were taken by a couple of teenage girls at the bottom of their house garden in England that was apparently teeming with 10-inch-tall fairies, complete with tiny translucent wings and...
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Rites of Equality
According to Siedentop, it was St Paul who really spread Jesus’ revolutionary “revelation about God being potentially present in every believer”.
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Plea Bargain
One of the main problems with prayer is that in majority of instances, it’s a preloaded one-way street that tacitly denies equal rights to other party.
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To hell and back
During combats, faced with a barrage of enemy firing, soldiers often wonder if God is angry for some of the things they have done.
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Unchained Values
The Dalai Lama says that if science proves some Buddhist claims to be wrong, then those claims would have to be dropped.
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Wane Moon
Imagine if the Sun and the Moon were to play partisan politics. Would they be so universally worshipped?
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Truth be Told
In Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Camus writes about his protagonist Meursault as a kind of person who is incapable or unwilling to lie.
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Cloud of Mercy
As Edward Said warned, it might be dangerous to turn the horrendous mass slaughter by a small group of deranged militants into a wholesale proof of Huntington’s thesis.
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Charged Ouroboros
Feedback loops operate on the flow circuits of industrial fluids; the inputs get adjusted based on information from this feedback.
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Monk’s Modes
The Buddha himself counselled his followers to be sceptical; to critically examine and not to accept whatever he said in good faith.
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The Muse of Motoring
If you went to him with a problem like, say, your car not starting on cold mornings, he would give the impression that he hadn’t heard a thing.
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Soul Food
Their living descendants are supposed to provide the portions in the form of food ritually offered in Shradh ceremony.
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The Comfort of Belonging
This is the first of the many radiating concentric circles that make your world, your universe, of which you are the epicentre.
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Inner Devil
Milgram claimed to have exposed what was called ‘banality of evil’ in the Holocaust in the Adolf Eichmann trial.
View ArticleUnforgiven forgiveness
Unless the sadhu asked for forgiveness and the stone granted it, the Lord said, He would have to turn the sadhu into a stone.
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People Power
The Scottish referendum is being held up as a ‘glowing testament’ to the democratic process on a driech(wet, gloomy, grey) day! The monsoondrenched weather in Mumbai is very similar.
View ArticleBrother’s Keepers
The story goes that one such labour group also happened to be carrying their prayer beads with them and would from time to time chant their mantras.
View ArticleGanga and Jamuna
In deference to the ongoing festival, they’re presenting ragas named after Goddesses such as Parameshwari and Saraswati.
View ArticleA caring universe
The notion of a moral universe would also buttress spirituality and form the basis for kindness, compassion, altruism and caring for others.
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