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June 2005

Conquer your Fear

There's no better time to write about fear than a month when one has endured days of grief in hospital vigils. An average day's routine included the rise of anxiety, a dread in the pit of the stomach, perhaps a sinking of the..... More >>

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Expanding our Sacred Treasures
by David Harshada Wagner
In the Chandogya Upanishad, there is a story about a boy named Satyakama Jaballa.

When Satyakama became a young man, he wanted to receive initiation and enter the ashram of the master Haridrumata Gautama; he wanted to... More >>
Fusion Man
by Suma Varughese
The extraordinary thing about a Westerner when he gets passionate about India and Indian spirituality is that he bores into it with so much determination and thoroughness that he leaves the rest of us far behind. Dr Robert... More >>
Friends: Sanctuary for the Soul
by Aparna Jacob
Returning early one Friday afternoon, I found my mother and her best friend Sara, sprawled on the couch, watching TV and giggling like schoolgirls. Just catching up, they wave, by way of explanation, before returning to their... More >>
Alexander Technique to the Rescue
by Jayesh Talpade
Spondylitis…that's what you have," said the doctor. Images of people wearing collars immediately rushed across my mind. I am not going to be one of those, I decided.

I stumbled across the Alexander Technique quite... More >>
The Body Mind Link
by Shameem Akthar
Have you fought with someone you love and felt upset that that person was deliberately being obtuse? And suddenly, when feeling blue and sorry for yourself, developed a sore throat? Perhaps you have never truly appreciated... More >>
Lose the Bottle Win the War
by Aparna Jacob
o You don't always need a reason to start drinking, Raj Mathur discovered when he was posted in Pondicherry. There the booze flowed plentiful and cheap. But what began as a thing to do soon turned into a vortex of guilt and... More >>
Healing: Future Perfect
by Prabhath P
Perfect health and longevity, even immortality, seem attainable if our leaps in medicine and technology are anything to go by. However, the perils of such mechanical recourses are making themselves felt. The need now is to... More >>
Milk without Milk
by Life Positive
The vegan diet is probably one of the most holistic diets for it keeps the larger interest of animals and planetary welfare at heart. In doing so, it secures our welfare too. Veganism abjures all animal products including meats,... More >>
Make up Your Mind
by Swami Veda Bharati
In the previous articles we have described the aims of Indian psychology up to its penultimate goal. The rishis did not study the secrets of the mind by observing animal and human behavior. They studied and analyzed it by using... More >>
Out of the Maze
by Pulkit Sharma
Twenty-year-old Anuj (name changed) broke into wracking sobs on the first day of his counseling session. Part of his turmoil was an emotional disorder based on strong conflicts in his needs and desires. More poignantly, though,... More >>
Walking the Talk
by Life Positive
Effortless living is dynamic living," reveals Manoj Lekhi, the affable head of the Mumbai chapter of Siddha Samadhi Yoga (SSY), a meditation program run by Bangalore-based Rishi Prabhakar. Lekhi has also introduced Infant Siddha... More >>
Light Made Manifest
by Meenakshi Suri
A revered ancient book, the Bhagavad Gita; a new name for a universal energy, reiki. In this yuga, the Bhagavad Gita was brought to light in India, and reiki was received and disseminated from Japan. However, both contain... More >>
The Outstretched Hand
by Anahita Sanjana
The turning point in my life was perhaps the summer of May 1997 when I was going through one of the darkest spells of my life. A dear friend of mine, Lina, had arranged for me to go on a trekking trip through the Himalayas to a... More >>
The Land of Is
by Suma Varughese
Some months back a friend, quoting Eckhart Tolle (all of you know by now that I am partial to his clear wisdom) said, "How absurd to resist what-is." Thinking about that statement later I experienced viscerally the total... More >>
Training for Enlightenment
by Abhishek Thakore
One of the top 10 spiritual destinations of the world is surely in India – and it is the Mumbai local train. Nowhere else on the planet do you have such a wonderful opportunity to practise a plethora of spiritual... More >>
Be Yourself
by Dhyan Antar
Is the radiant sun a Hindu? Is the beautiful moon a Buddhist? Are the beautiful, sparkling stars in the heavens members of any spiritual organization or do they belong to any religion? When a bird sings, does it sing in English... More >>
In the Footsteps of the Mahatma
by Gayatri Makhijani
Within the first two days itself, I developed blisters on my feet, and my feet burned when I walked. After walking seven to eight hours a day, I had to go up to a stage and speak to the villagers. So often, I would fall asleep in... More >>
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