From my brush to my canvas, My pen to my verses, I created You, In my likeness. You are the mountain mighty, And the blade of grass, You are the whole, As also the part. You are the body, You...

A spiritual perspective is capable of providing adequate support, thoughtful guidance and filling the grief-stricken people with new hope. When the bereaved persons probe their assumptions around life and death, falsehood and truth, and loneliness, there is a widening of...

What does one do on waking up in the morning? Here are a few tips for a spiritual start to your day. Read Something Uplifting That’s what Sister Shivani of the Brahmakumaris advises. It makes sense too. Why read the...

Sometimes, All You Need Is A New Perspective If you have inculcated this habit of being aware of natural laws, you will definitely wake up to the fact that everything doesn’t happen the way you desire or plan them. Despite...

We can either be butchers and cut up Earth’s resources mercilessly or protect it from further damage, so that it can heal itself There once lived a venerable sage at the ghats of the river Ganga. When he preached, crowds...

The rainy season is round the corner. Uplift your spirits with Ragas Miya Malhar, Bahar and Basant, which resonate with the mood of this wonderful season. Raga Miya Malhar was composed by Miya Tansen, the chief musician in the court...

Covid-19 has brought sweeping changes to the way we teach in schools. This pandemic has forced education to go online without any prior warning, and teachers, students and parents were totally unprepared for this new model of teaching in schools. For...

The author, an Ayurveda teacher pursued spirituality for several years, only to discover that real spirituality lay elsewhere The day you stop racing is the day you win the race – Bob Marley Sometimes, I feel suffocated by ‘spiritual’ and...

Arunima Sinha lost her leg, but not her courage and determination to achieve what would seem impossible for an amputee.  Two years after criminals hurled her out of a moving train after snatching a gold chain along with her belongings,...

You don’t need a fancy gym membership or even equipment to begin yoga. All you need is a firm commitment to begin your day in a healthy way. You can do yoga anywhere―on a yoga mat, a durrie, a thin...

What use are Natural Laws to us? If everything is meant to be as is, then we are mere spectators and we don’t have to do anything but just live our own life. If our destiny is already written, are...

Every day people go out, go to work, earn money and become more and more prosperous.  Yet, at the end of the day, when they return home, they are not happy.  At night, when they lie in bed to go to sleep,...

You may find this hard to believe but for a walk to do you any good, you must walk in a particular way. There are three kinds of walkers in the fitness world: performance walkers who consider walking as an...

We seem to live on a mental diet of worries, tensions and anxiety. The writers teach us the benefits of calm, regular breathing and how this simple technique always relaxes the mind Years ago, when we were first starting our...

When I was a child barely three years old, before I even knew who or what God is, my mother told me God is everywhere. She didn’t even tell me God exists in heaven, because that would mean explaining the...

Nature seems to be serving a purpose which is very evident and obvious – of propagating and sustaining life. The universe works under a system that seems to be ruled by certain laws. Who is running this system is a...

For some of the migrants, their bicycles have proved their saviour. They used it to cycle all the way home hundreds of kilometres away. The author recalls her own carefree cycling days back in the ‘70s in the context of...

He who possesses bhaga is Bhagawan. Bhaga means majesty (aishwarya) or potency (shakti). Therefore, Bhagawan is He who possesses majesty and potency. The word Bhagawan does not specifically define the type of potency or energy involved. Bhagawan is the Omnipotent...