Laughing with the Lord
0God’s laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Moliere, He must […]
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Archive for 2009
Looking the Storm in the Face
0In May 1908, Sri Aurobindo was interned, along with thirty-eight revolutionaries, in the famous Alipore bombing case, but was released […]
The Epic Novel
0Some of the traditional and orthodox purists in India may object vehemently to this perspective and say Mahabharata is something […]
Love Is…
0This is what a group of children had to say when asked what they thought was LOVE… “When someone loves […]
Who Am I?
1At some time in our lives we feel the call of the spirit, we would like to follow the spiritual […]
The First Step
1Not a single day this year has gone by without the newspapers reporting on rapes, murders, robberies, scams, political turmoils. […]
To My Countrymen
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
The Law of Sacrifice
0“The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as […]
A Tryst with Destiny
0(The following speech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made on August 14th 1947 in New Delhi while introducing the pledge […]
The Idea of a Novel
0She was a smart, young and bright student of a venerable institution, which pursues spiritual values in education. We were […]
Signs of Entering the Spiritual Path
0At some time in our lives we feel the call of the spirit, we would like to follow the spiritual […]
True Commitment
0Can a sense of commitment to others be harmful to oneself? It is possible that some of us have experienced […]
Nationalist Organisation
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
Facing Stress
0Stress is defined as the response of an organism to perceived threats in the environment. The ‘environmental stress’ need not […]
Silence
0In the hush of the primordial nakedness, All garments fall away. Nude in the transparency of being, The myriad becomings […]
To Know Oneself
0All spiritual disciplines lay a great stress on self-awareness and self-mastery. But its importance is not confined to spiritual seekers […]
Hanging with the Uncool
1Some say God is not cool enough for the world as it exists today. He doesn’t know how to ‘hang’. […]
Can Genes Make Me?
0They shared the same genes and even a part of their bodies. The conjoint twins lived together, shared the same […]
The Busy, Busy Bus
0“Doorstep” is the story of how a small individual initiative has blossomed into a mini movement. Begun in Mumbai in […]
A Dangerous Cult of Absolute Nonviolence
0In the 1940 presidential address at the Twenty-second Session of the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha at Madurai, Savarkar criticizes Gandhi’s […]
Not so Mysterious, After All
0The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to […]
Project Warm!
1We run, we hide, we pretend we can’t see. But we cannot ever fool ourselves enough into believing that He […]
The Boycott Celebration
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
Spiritual Education
0The future of mankind depends on the education it gives to itself. And the kind of education that it develops […]
Staring Down Droughts
0In just seven years, with a modest one-time investment, BAIF, Dharwad (Karnataka) has lifted 10,000 people to good lives. It […]
The Dawn of Freedom
0(The following speech was made by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on the eve of taking a pledge on the night of 14-15 […]
Doubting the Existence of the Divine
0Most spiritual journeys start with a faith in the existence of God or the Divine, though we may not know […]
The Good and Bad of Obsession
0Of all the hours we have in hand, if one was to observe sincerely, it would turn out that many […]
A Task Unaccomplished
0(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a rocky sea in the middle of a storm — […]
The Rise and Decline of Nations
0Amongst the hundreds of unsung heroes of the freedom struggle was Ajit Singh from Punjab, better known as Bhagat Singh’s […]
