Archive for 2012

Call Me by My True Names

Call Me by My True Names

0 / Dec 20, 2012 6:00 AM

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second […]

Ravi Shankar – The Legend

Ravi Shankar – The Legend

0 / Dec 20, 2012 5:02 AM

11-12-12. On this day of Ravi Shankar’s passing, I feel deeply grateful for everything that he has done and has been to India, to […]

Husn-e-Haqiqi (Beauty of Truth)

0 / Dec 20, 2012 4:27 AM

When I first heard this song, I didn’t understand a single word and yet, it had me completely absorbed – […]

Divine Guidance behind Life

Divine Guidance behind Life

0 / Dec 20, 2012 4:22 AM

I can only state my own knowledge founded not on reasoning but on experience that there is such a guidance […]

The Passing of Sri Aurobindo

The Passing of Sri Aurobindo

0 / Dec 5, 2012 5:06 AM

Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5th December 1950. We publish here an article written by K. D. Sethna in […]

Kneading Perfection

Kneading Perfection

0 / Dec 5, 2012 4:00 AM

A friend mentioned how she had enjoyed the process of kneading dough and then watching it rise, becoming this wonderful […]

Life and Death

Life and Death

0 / Dec 5, 2012 4:00 AM

Life, death, — death, life; the words have led for ages Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed Two opposites; […]

Wings of Life

0 / Dec 5, 2012 4:00 AM

In the world of Nature, nay, in the world of Man, there can be no life if it weren’t for […]

The Day of Siddhi

The Day of Siddhi

1 / Nov 23, 2012 4:30 AM

In order to understand the importance of this day it is necessary to go back to Sri Aurobindo’s experience in […]

On the Road to Exile

On the Road to Exile

0 / Nov 23, 2012 4:00 AM

(Legend of the origin of the book Tao Te Ching on Lao Tzu’s road to exile) Once he was seventy […]

Delight of Being

Delight of Being

0 / Nov 23, 2012 4:00 AM

There comes a time when one begins to be almost ready, when one can feel in everything, every object, in […]

The Mother of Indian Culture (V)

The Mother of Indian Culture (V)

0 / Nov 23, 2012 4:00 AM

 .. Previous articles in this series p Part I  |  Part II  |  Part III  |  Part IV Modern Theories When […]

Desi Jugaad@Play*

Desi Jugaad@Play*

0 / Nov 23, 2012 4:00 AM

It’s night. There is only one auto on the street. My mind starts ticking: Bas, Bacchu! This one is gonna […]

Leaving the Path

Leaving the Path

0 / Nov 9, 2012 4:00 AM

When one draws back from the path, one draws back for the present life or… In this, you see, there […]

The Mother of Indian Culture (IV)

The Mother of Indian Culture (IV)

0 / Nov 9, 2012 4:00 AM

.. Previous articles in this series . Part I  |  Part II  |  Part III From Samhita to Sayana Let us […]

The Foundations of Education

The Foundations of Education

0 / Nov 9, 2012 4:00 AM

Many must have heard the name of Georges Carpentier, the famous sportsman of France. In spite of his being young […]

Milky Ways on Earth

Milky Ways on Earth

0 / Nov 9, 2012 4:00 AM

Book: I Too Had a Dream by Verghese Kurien as told to Gouri Salvi There are just so many incredible […]

Chariot of the Gods

Chariot of the Gods

0 / Oct 26, 2012 4:00 AM

The human body has been sometimes visualised as a chariot with horses as the vital–nervous forces driving it. The rein […]

How to Have the Experience

How to Have the Experience

0 / Oct 25, 2012 4:00 AM

We read, we try to understand, we explain, we try to know. But a single minute of true experience teaches […]

Farming the Gandhian Way

Farming the Gandhian Way

0 / Oct 25, 2012 4:00 AM

Not many of us would have heard of Bhaskar Save but the world certainly has, even to the extent of […]

The Way to Think

The Way to Think

1 / Oct 25, 2012 4:00 AM

If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can […]

Hymn to Durga

Hymn to Durga

0 / Oct 10, 2012 4:00 AM

Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength, Mother, beloved of Shiva! We, born from thy parts of […]

Motivation

Motivation

0 / Oct 10, 2012 4:00 AM

Human beings are a complex amalgam of many sub-types. So it is hard to define one or even a few […]

Creativity and Insanity

Creativity and Insanity

0 / Oct 10, 2012 4:00 AM

Is it necessary to be a little mad in order to be creative?  In an interesting article in the Economist, […]

Collecting Lost Heritage

Collecting Lost Heritage

0 / Oct 10, 2012 4:00 AM

“Can you say among a hundred people who is the most important? Everyone has his own importance. So, I find, […]

A Moment in Passing

A Moment in Passing

0 / Oct 10, 2012 4:00 AM

When the moon rises in the Heart of Heaven And a light breeze touches the mirror-like face of the lake, […]

The Mother of Indian Culture – III

The Mother of Indian Culture – III

0 / Sep 25, 2012 10:27 AM

India, said a western historian, is the Mother of the human race. The ‘Veda’ is the Mother of Indian civilization […]

The Journey so Far

The Journey so Far

0 / Sep 25, 2012 10:27 AM

Man is a strange creature, to say the least. A mix of demon and god, he is yet to find […]

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

0 / Sep 25, 2012 10:26 AM

(15th of September was celebrated as World Tree Day by an inconspicuous organisation is one corner of the world: worldtreeday.org […]

Reinventing Education

0 / Sep 25, 2012 10:26 AM

Ask anyone in India who Salman Khan is and actor/superstar would be the answer. Ask the same in America, and […]