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May 2005

The Good Word

Even as a youngster reading through the unfathomable mystery of the Bible, these lines quoted earlier would spring out at me and grip my imagination. Mystical and mysterious they may have been but I sensed in them a strange..... More >>

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Becoming More Than Man
by Dr Ali Ansari
The heart' and 'the head' - symbols as old as language itself, symbols that stand for quintessentially human capacities and quintessentially human conflicts between reason and emotion, thoughts and feelings, logic and intuition,... More >>
Spirituality Equips you to Live
by Life Positive
She is majestic in appearance, tall, well-built and fair, with an upright carriage and an attractive face. Calm and poised, she speaks with a slight accent, thanks perhaps to her many sorties abroad. Anandmurti Gurumaa (38),... More >>
Arc of Faith
by Aparna Jacob
It's the close of another day and my mother's kitchen is silent. My father turns off the TV after his nightly dose of news and coaxes my brother out of his den. I'm eagerly sitting cross-legged on a fading reed mat, old as I am,... More >>
Introvert Extravert
by Luis S. R. Vas
Probably no one is entirely an introvert or extravert but predominantly one or the other. You could be an introvert and still achieve excellence in a field considered tailormade for extraverts. For example, Gandhi was an... More >>
Strength in a Pose
by Shameem Akthar
I recently cribbed to my asana guru from Canada that I was not going beyond the classic poses. Having gotten into a rut I was not growing further with the more exotic poses that gripped my attention, I whined. He reprimanded me... More >>
Nature Craft
by Lalita Sriram
It could have been just another store in the suburbs, but step in and you're drawn into a little corner of our cosmic village. Imaginatively styled, of course, with technology's blessings. There's a lot that an enterprising ... More >>
Falun Gong for Holistic Health
by Dr Torsten Trey
Falun Gong is a Buddhist Qigong (energy-based) practice, which has become popular through the entire world since its first introduction to the public in China in 1992. By 1999, at a rough estimate, 100 million people practised... More >>
Towards a Green Awakening
by Sangeeta Venkatesh
On 22 April, 2005, the world celebrated the 34th anniversary of World Earth Day. No time is more opportune to unearth the wisdom our ancestors possessed of the value of Earth's resources and their prudent use.
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The Sativic Mind
by Swami Veda Bharati
In the previous installment of this article we indicated some of the characteristic features of minds that may be weak or strong in spiritual terms. Here we may ask, what are the sources of mind? Of what is it constituted? How is... More >>
The Process of Feeling Human
by Pankaj Sinha
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land …
…Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow…
…Summer surprised us…

Thus opens T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and it best... More >>
The Body Beautiful
by Pulkit Sharma
Amit (name changed) is a desi reincarnation of the Greek god Adonis. The beauty of this 22-year-old would inspire envy in most men. He has an athletic built, rippling muscles, beautiful complexion and sharp features, all of which... More >>
The Song of Silence
by Aalif Surti
Consciousness is such a mystery," my brother Gyandev said to me at the beach on the last night. "When you sit here, relaxed, unfocused, it contains the entire horizon and your own body within it. But in a hundredth of a second,... More >>
Rising towards energy consciousness
by Indu Nair
The ashram stands out as one drives through the small, irregularly sloping roads in Anayara, on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram. "Take the second left turn from here. You can see the signboard," an old man on the road points... More >>
An Unmixed Blessing
by Suma Varughese
Life, when you come to think of it, is really an unmixed blessing. Everything, everything, has something to teach us. Nothing goes waste, nothing is bad, everything works out for our ultimate good. A crow shitting on your... More >>
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