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In the light of death (Jul - Sep )I was five years old when my father died. His body was brought home from the hospital and laid out in the drawing room, wrapped in a white sheet. I have lucid memories of this time; of being strangely calm and watching the....More >> |
From man to superman (Apr - Jun )Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), regarded as one of India’s greatest philosopher-sages, formulated a scientific and spiritual vision of evolution that envisages a complete transformation of the world and the birth of a....More >> |
Struggle and triumph (Jan - Mar )When Ahmed was born after just seven-and-a-half months of gestation, he weighed a meagre 1.2 kg, had immature lungs that required him to breathe with a ventilator, and developed meningitis. A tough call for a baby just....More >> |
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At the lotus feet of natureEver since I first embarked on my quest in 1991, nature has conspired to place me in offices and homes with a fantastic view of the sky. The marvelous expanse of the Mumbai sky, with its serene spectacle of eagles wheeling in....More >> |
Zen Finger pointing to the Moon• If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him, goes an old Zen saying.• When Bodhidharma visited China in the sixth century, he was invited to the king’s court. The king was proud of his spirituality and the.... More >> |
walking the Gurus pathWhat is the guru’s role in spiritual life? He is guide, mentor, example, mirror, motivator. The fertiliser that ensures the seed will grow, the hand that tends to the tiny sapling, rooting out weeds, watering and nourishing.....More >> |
Nine states of Emotional empowermentAncient Indian aesthetic thought codified our emotional responses to life into nine separately distinguishable categories, hence the term navarasa. Nava means nine, and rasa literally means ‘essence’, but is used here in the....More >> |
Liberation through acceptanceWhat you want to change you must first accept. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.—Carl Jung Carl Jung’s statement is absolutely the abc of spiritual wisdom. What you resist.... More >> |
Bhakti Consumed by DevotionBy removing earthly desires, the devotee makes room for the unlimited love of God to rush in as an exquisitely subtle experience that expands forever. After achieving the boundless love of God, the devotee sees love, hears....More >> |
100 paths to GODWhy hundred, you will want to know. Because, dear reader, it is exactly 100 issues ago that we first began this relationship with you. In April 1996, our first issue rolled off the press, heralding the birth of New Age in....More >> |
Living with passionThere was a deafening silence… seemingly an endless one… till it finally broke, a few moments later... by the feeble words of Ujjwal’s father whose head was in his lap. “I had seen only others dying. It is very different on....More >> |
Stories to transform your lifeThere was a man who wanted to know about the mind, what it really was and whether computers would ever be as intelligent as humans. The man typed the following question into the most powerful contemporary computer (which....More >> |
New Age trailblazersYou can smell it in the air, you can hear it in the wind, you can almost touch it with your hands—the New Age is almost, very nearly, here.It seems odd to make this prediction when the world is going ape over.... More >> |
Power of PrayerBharati Nirmal is today an entrepreneur-engineer based in Mumbai. But just one month before her third-year engineering exams, her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Much of her time was spent in accompanying her for radiation....More >> |
World GuruHaving created man and given him his mission to know and be God, the Almighty was faced with a conundrum. Where could he hide so that man would not be able to find him easily—up on a mountain, deep in the sea, floating on a....More >> |
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