Performing your responsibility ensures that the other’s rights are met.Earlier, if you asked a person in the morning, where he was going, he would say I am going for ‘duty’. As children, we would giggle at ‘duty.’ Later I understood …
Know that responsibility is taken, not given The greatness of Bharat is because of the great people who know that responsibility is always taken, not given. They do their duty towards their families, societies, communities and their nation that leads …
To sip the water of Jnana-Ganga, we need a ghat, a flight of stairs or a place from where you can access the flowing waters easily. Each teacher of Vedanta is like a ghat who drank long and deep from …
A random quote, a book, a video popping up in your feed, a friend recommending that you ‘must-try’ out a class/course/camp/podcast or just seeing the remarkable transformation of a friend or relative into a cheerful, loving and objective person – …
‘Japa’ is a repetition of a word or chant during the practice of meditation. The letter ‘pa’ stands for that which removes or destroys all impurities and the letter ‘ja’ stands for that which puts an end to the cycle …
How do we learn about the glorious vision and the ways of living about Sanatana Dharma? Through living in the culture, through our families particularly elders (vrddha-vyavahaara), through our gurus, the mathas we are affiliated to, the media and the …
Based on the shastra, we developed the ‘zero’, the base-ten decimal system, now in global use, and crucial trigonometry and algebra formulae as well as many astronomical discoveries. Mathematical thought was intertwined with linguistics. Rishi Panini ‘s rules for Sanskrit …
The intricate kolam (rangoli) with rice powder in front of our homes (also food for the ants), caring for our cows, doing namaskar to Ma Ganga/Narmada and our sacred rivers, doing pradakshina around the pipal tree, doing a parikrama around …
When you try to pick one noodle from a heaped plate of noodles, a few more noodles tag along. You can’t eat just one! When you try to do even a few asanas or pranayama other angas of Ashtanga yoga, …
A long time ago when I used to work with abused, homeless children, one particular morning a bright fellow, probably eight years old had walked in. He was trying to break the queue of the other boys who had lined …