SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI explains how we can show the young the way to spirituality, especially if they don’t seem inclined When I was in school, if our teacher asked a question, simply giving the right answer wasn’t enough. The teacher...
Sri M’s new book, ‘Yoga Also for the Godless’, reviewed by OSWALD PEREIRA In my late teens and later in life, I did complicated yoga asanas, including the headstand. I would also do some basic meditation. In the last few...
REENA SINGH recounts the everyday stories of several New Age God men and women she has had occasion to meet In the almost ten years I spent working for India’s top spiritual newspaper, where I retired as Deputy Editor, I...
May the year 2021, bring peace and real joy to our world. After living a life without indulgences in 2020, we have now realised that we can live satisfactorily, even beautifully with the minimum in life, says NITA AGARWAL May...
You are born with a unique energy signature; so make the most out of it and create your own destiny for all times to come, says GIAN KUMAR Everything around you that you call life was made up by people...
When we were children, Christmas was always a grand celebration, with new clothes and a sumptuous feast of the choicest food on December 25. A month before Christmas, we seven siblings ― four brothers and three sisters ― would accompany...
All of us are heroes in our own right, but it is left to us to develop our potential based on our own merit, coupled with hard work, rather than depending on favours from others, says MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN Everyone...
When desires go away, fears leave; you empty yourself, you observe the silence, and then God fills in, says MOHANJI Watch your thoughts and hold on to faith. Watch them, do not participate, do not energise them. The more you...
When there is trust and unconditional surrender to God and prayers emanate from purity, love and innocence, many miracles can happen both within us and in the environment and the world around us, says RAMESH RAJARAMAN Prayers express our feelings...
In her new book, Of Epilepsy Butterflies: Flying Beyond Stigmas, PREETI SINGH herself a person with epilepsy (PWE) since the age of two, raises awareness about the ailment and inspires other epileptics to become epilepsy warriors and not give in...
When you love God and put your trust in him, you find that He solves your problems for you, through you, says SWAMI KRIYANANDA People who are very worldly tend to laugh at those who love God, calling them “impractical.” And then...
All that God wants is love, faith and that you are a pure devotee ― your love for Him is not measured in terms of your riches or position in life, says OSWALD PEREIRA It is said that faith can...
The happiness and sorrows that we experience in our mind has no power to affect our soul, which is above both emotions, says DR SANJAY TEOTIA Happiness and sorrow are two sides of same coin, and one cannot exist without...
We should pray to God not to seek a list of favours but to connect with the Divine and change ourselves, says SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI Prayer plays a very deep and important role in our life, but the role is...
The gift of living is breathtakingly miraculous and creation feels like one great vibration of love, says CHANA MEDDIN Walking down the wide hall to my doctor’s office last week, I began feeling anxious. A second round of mammograms indicated...
This inspirational talk by Nayaswamis JYOTISH and DEVI delivered a decade ago is relevant even today and can brighten up our lives and lessen the fear of this current pandemic Paramhansa Yogananda often said, “Creation is a dream of God...
Wise men who gracefully handle their money and use it for the well-being of themselves, their family and society, are truly rich and earn love and respect from the world, says MOHANJI Why do we think that money is bad?...
God is Light, within and without. When there’s a synergy between the two, we have peace and happiness. Then denomination and nomenclature don’t really matter. What really matters is oneness and the fact that the Light is above all divisions,...
