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In the following letters, Sri Aurobindo describes ...

At the Celebration of the 68th Anniversary of the ...

(In this article, the Mother explains the conseque ...

“The first and lowest use of Art is the purely aes ...

O unknowable land of familiar stories your secre ...

It is neither by moral precepts and observances, n ...

Life is often a struggle, outside and within. We a ...

(from https://medium.com/@floatingsuns/sri-a ...

One day, and all the half-dead is done, One day ...

What took place on the 29th February, 1956 was a m ...

Mother, this new force which is going to act, will ...

As the beginnings of the supramental life, which m ...

The human body can adapt endlessly. All we need is ...

Life, death, - death, life; the words have led ...

Human affection is obviously unreliable because it ...

Speaking about best friends the other day, it brou ...

Perhaps you have never heard of Katherine Lawes. K ...

(From the Kabir Project) Kabir evokes the simul ...

Man's highest aspiration - his seeking for perfect ...

There is no law that a feeling cannot be an experi ...

In this witty talk, neuroscientist Stuart Firestei ...

On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri Part Two: Collected ...

The lover dissolving into the unseen, Making vi ...

Is it said that when the supramental descends, it ...

Have you ever experienced that moment of frustrati ...

The boy with the flute is Sri Krishna. The Lord de ...

Come as a gold spangled breath of presence A mi ...

I am speaking of an incident that took place about ...

What is meant by "the Divine gives Himself"? It ...

With beauty before me, May I walk With beauty be ...

Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace is an epic novel t ...

Prahlad Tipanya is one of the foremost names which ...

Majestic Master of the immutable Light, Calm trav ...

As a new year approaches, pondering on a perennial ...

The quest for immortality is as old as man himself ...

A short and powerful talk by Frans Lanting who not ...

Steps to Freedom and Mastery Publisher: Sri Aur ...

Sri Aurobindo tells us that man is a transitional ...

…the only thing which is very important for the mo ...

Recently I stumbled across a singer just by chance ...

A Unique Little Girl — Pournaprema Publisher ...

I was battered and scarred and the auctioneer Tho ...

I came across this piece of ingenuity in an articl ...

(Continued from the September issue)   ...

In all spiritual traditions the teacher, or the gu ...

As  I  walk  the  wet by-lanes  of  Mumbai  shelte ...

Seed of Grandeur Commentary on Sri Aurobindo's ...

Is the body purely matter? How is it different fro ...

A powerful video indeed... Are you that Change? ...

At present, the world is facing a serious environm ...

About a month ago I watched a movie called "The Mo ...

Unless your vision is constantly the vision of the ...

(Sri Aurobindo has said, “India of the ages is n ...

(This article first appeared in Mother India (1949 ...

They say that the gospels are forgeries and Krishn ...

Like a song of joy, humming On dreaming wings, H ...

Sri Aurobindo: Saga of a Great Indian Sage Auth ...

Consciousness is liberty, unconsciousness is slave ...

“True Surrender enlarges you; it increases your ca ...

Book: The Knowledge Within The Source, the Brea ...

The Wemmicks were small wooden people. These littl ...

Sweet Mother, when we make an effort to do better ...

Examine thyself without pity, then thou wilt be mo ...

(Following is a compelling speech on politics and ...

Traveller: "What kind of weather are we going to h ...

(Continued....) And then comes literature – I s ...

Book: Transformation of Consciousness in Savitri ...

To walk through life armoured against all fear, pe ...

With worshipping hearts we bow to Thee this day ...

There is no doubt that the machines, factories and ...

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have spoken a lot abo ...

Remarks prepared by William Rosenzweig On the occ ...

If you desire only the Divine, there is an absolut ...

I'm not a big fan of bees. I've been stung a few t ...

A student asked Suzuki Roshi why the Japanese make ...

Book: The Tale of My Exile (Twelve Years in the An ...

Let me see you in all In every voice your sound ...

“I am with you.” What does it mean exactly? Whe ...

I have been asked to speak about the Mother. How t ...

Book: The Mother Abides               Final Ref ...

What is the gift that Africa has to share with the ...

There are men and men; qualities differ.  We have ...

Book: Paths to Self-Discovery: Reflective Practice ...

It is then by a transformation of life in its very ...

My idea of education is Gurugriha-vasa. Without th ...

All great and new creation has to come from the yo ...

The course of evolution proceeding from the vegeta ...

Lost in the many layers of clothing that I wear ...

There are men and men; qualities differ.  We have ...

On 5th December 2013, the world mourned the pass ...

I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty From which ...

I had to go shopping for a pair of shoes recently. ...

It is indeed possible even while fasting for very ...

Book: To Thee Our Infinite Gratitude Writings o ...

A New Consciousness, a higher spiritual consciousn ...

(A talk given in Auroville, on 28th November 1973) ...

At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary c ...

Book: Education: Philosophy and Practice (Articles ...

Once Rishi Dattatreya was asked by King Yadu who h ...

The strokes of time have left no scar on her: Dea ...

For thousands of years, ancient traditions and kno ...

Andras Forgacs may be saying things which seem abs ...

In the spiritual path, and also in our ordinary li ...

I think it will be scarcely too much to assert, th ...

An eagle Circling majestically Over Arunacha ...

Oh, how I loved this talk by Ernesto Sirolli! F ...

This is a short story the Mother told the children ...

Sri Aurobindo withdrew from politics; and, in his ...

Charles P. Steinmetz, the great electrical enginee ...

Book: The Concept and the Destiny of the Individua ...

A considerable movement is visible nowadays agains ...

DIMENSIONS OF LIBERTY Most modern conceptions of ...

As the elephant on the battlefield endures the arr ...

Everyone loves innovative ideas. And simpler, the ...

I hate the smell of hospitals. The white walls and ...

All knowledge is within you. Information you get f ...

Because you never claim of us a tear, O Silent ...

Celebrating Lord Krishna's birthday with Pandit Bh ...

THE INTEGRAL VIEW  The concept of sustainability ...

“Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indi ...

I took my seat, it was almost time, perhaps half a ...

What is exactly the role of Sri Aurobindo in the I ...

(This is a transcription of a talk given by Alok P ...

At last I find a meaning of soul’s birth Into thi ...

Book: Sri Aurobindo: The Poet, Yogi and Philosophe ...

I have met a number of artistes, painters, actors, ...

Behind the enormous untapped potential of the huma ...

The veil parted momentarily, To reveal a silver ...

Always indeed it is the higher Power that acts. Ou ...

I have been trying to understand what causes disap ...

“Education is not a mechanical system; it is a hum ...

… the experience precedes and transcends by far th ...

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell whe ...

A rather pleasant surprise came my way recently. I ...

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom ...

Sweet Mother, is there a spiritual being in everyb ...

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal ...

Thank you to my distinguished friends, President A ...

Edi Rama is the Mayor of Tirana, the capital of Al ...

A resplendent sun rises above the horizon. It is y ...

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely ...

Enforcement by Law Government laws and regulati ...

We move in an age whence the boundaries of well-de ...

I beg of you, stop ill-treating your children! Sto ...

Man, perhaps, has been the only animal who has the ...

What happens when one of the most abundantly found ...

1857 The Real Story of the Great Uprising by Vishn ...

This is a trailer from a documentary being made by ...

There is this ancient lock in the main entrance to ...

An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every ...

Surfing through the Internet, I stumbled across th ...

"…he has felt a Divinity who is all these things, ...

(Rabindranath Tagore tried to give a new orientati ...

In this article we will discuss briefly the instit ...

The human being can be viewed from different persp ...

‘Yoga is nothing else but practical psychology.’— ...

Book: In the Mother's Light Author: Rishabhchan ...

A man puts a computer in a hole in the wall and a ...

For centuries and centuries humanity has waited fo ...

In Part 4, we examined the psychological roots of ...

 We often hear it being said that whatever happens ...

Everything I need to know about life, I learned fr ...

(In the popular conception, science is an entirely ...

In Part 3, we continued our study of ancient India ...

In this interview with Bertrand Russel , when aske ...

In the spiritual life, even more than in other fie ...

"In the Divine, by the Divine all is transfigured ...

O with what joy do I remember Thee! And with what ...

Book: The Mother: Her Miraculous Touch (Photograph ...

My journey began eight years ago in the city of Ah ...

In Part 2, we began by examining the political pri ...

When the dastardly incident involving a 23 year ol ...

All spiritual seeking is a seeking after the deepe ...

The concept of Sustainable Development is now univ ...

The Standard Bearers of a New Humanity Our call ...

On 26th January 1950, India became a Republic with ...

There is something so wonderful that gets conveyed ...

India, said a western historian, is the Mother of ...

In Part 1, we made a preliminary foray into the st ...

This is a December few of us will forget. Delhi-it ...

In the following articles, we are presenting Sri A ...

"A flash mob (or Flashmob) is a group of people w ...

If you are in a state of conscious aspiration and ...

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even ...

11-12-12. On this day of Ravi Shankar’s passing, I ...

When I first heard this song, I didn't understand ...

I can only state my own knowledge founded not on r ...

Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5th December 1950. ...

A friend mentioned how she had enjoyed the process ...

Life, death, — death, life; the words have led for ...

In the world of Nature, nay, in the world of Man, ...

In order to understand the importance of this day ...

(Legend of the origin of the book Tao Te Ching on ...

There comes a time when one begins to be almost re ...

 .. Previous articles in this series p Part I  | ...

It's night. There is only one auto on the street. ...

When one draws back from the path, one draws back ...

.. Previous articles in this series . Part I  |   ...

Many must have heard the name of Georges Carpentie ...

Book: I Too Had a Dream by Verghese Kurien as told ...

The human body has been sometimes visualised as a ...

We read, we try to understand, we explain, we try ...

Not many of us would have heard of Bhaskar Save bu ...

If you know the point of balance, You can settle ...

Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all stre ...

Human beings are a complex amalgam of many sub-typ ...

Is it necessary to be a little mad in order to be ...

"Can you say among a hundred people who is the mos ...

When the moon rises in the Heart of Heaven And a ...

India, said a western historian, is the Mother of ...

Man is a strange creature, to say the least. A mix ...

(15th of September was celebrated as World Tree Da ...

Ask anyone in India who Salman Khan is and actor/s ...

Can faith be increased by personal effort? Fait ...

The mental intelligence and its main power of reas ...

Sometimes you stumble upon a piece of writing whic ...

I place the typewriter in front of me and I begin ...

How little we understand the way the physical worl ...

India, said a western historian, is the Mother of ...

Although written as far back as 1882, Bankim Chand ...

(On the occasion of India’s Independence Day which ...

(This article by Amal Kiran was published on Augus ...

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote Anandamath in 1882 ...

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. . . . . Krishna At last I find a meani ...

India, said a western historian, is the Mother of ...

Bombay, 8 August 1942 The speech which Gandhi d ...

India's National Song 'Vande Maataram' was written ...

“Pain and grief are Nature’s reminder to the soul ...

There is an outer technology of machinery and equi ...

(Through the ages, authors and poets have walked – ...

How many of us wonder when we are well into our li ...

The India Idea: Heralding the Era of Path-breaking ...

One early dawn in March I swam off Kanyakumari jus ...

Most of us are familiar with copyright laws. You c ...

The Mother says a professor, a true professor, mus ...

('Bande Mataram' was written as part of 'Anandamat ...

Man is a transitional being, he is not final; for ...

A tribal man with raging fever is carried on a str ...

India is well-known as the land of religion and ph ...

At times one feels the sudden urge to do something ...

A million years ago the animal sprawling in the sw ...

The decision of the Government of India to bring i ...

The nature and scope of education cannot be consid ...

One is literally bombarded by an advertisement sel ...

The rich ambitious type A executive had just recei ...

When love is brewed to its richest, It exceeds wo ...

A wealthy couple renounced the world and set out t ...

In fact, a supermind is already here but it is inv ...

Sri Aurobindo  clarifies the meaning of the words ...

Contrary to what many of us feel a lot of the time ...

The Mother was once asked when and how she bec ...

All sadhana and spiritual effort lays stress on th ...

Don’t sleep for just one night, my beautiful frien ...

This article is based on a talk given by the autho ...

A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage a ...

There is a tendency to interchange words like expe ...

Have you noticed how instinctive some of our react ...

We buy use and throw. Often we buy much more than ...

When we take a discerning look at organized educat ...

Is there a need to look for an alternative to mode ...

WHAT can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not b ...

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a sma ...

Some of us are not fortunate enough to leave every ...

What kind of a year has it been for us? All hailin ...

1.26 am, December 5, 1950. A moment like any o ...

(This was written by Amal Kiran (K.D.Sethna) in 19 ...

I’m chatting with Srila, presently the vice-princi ...

Sheikh Saadi was passing across a wasteland when h ...

(Steve Jobs (1955-2011) truly did take our world f ...

When we leave the old world and commit to a life i ...

Life is so incredibly interesting. Every step of t ...

I got up refreshed at 6 am. As usual, I sat on a c ...

I spot Subu outside the ‘living museum’ struggling ...

After a spate of scams and a strong popular uprisi ...

(This was a talk delivered at the "Intensive Aware ...

When we leave the old world and commit to a life i ...

We find the play of gravity as a constant in every ...

The self and its experience after death Is ther ...

A young, 18-year-old student was struggling to pay ...

Boris Pasternak’s classic novel Doctor Zhivago is ...

In all organisations, including those which may be ...

Moment by moment. Years upon years. Life after lif ...

Death the great annihilator of the works of time i ...

(Rabindranath Tagore was undoubtedly one of the gr ...

Sri Aurobindo’s Teachings Sri Aurobindo’s teach ...

Silence appearing as thought, The formless assumi ...

The Guru once wished to put his disciples through ...

In India the objective behind entering the world o ...

It’s exhausting sometimes to try and keep up with ...

(This is a transcription of Dr. Amartya Sen's keyn ...

I am standing next to the bamboo groove at the edg ...

How do we interact with and bring solace to those ...

Once upon a time an old man spread rumors that his ...

Many of us come to the Ashram with our own notions ...

When you think of wisdom and those who are wise, i ...

Polo and Me When I tell people, “I wouldn’t have ...

I washed my cumbersome long hair in the morning. S ...

An integral view of illness demands an integral cu ...

What can I worship you with? I tried songs woven ...

What exactly does the Ashram itself mean to those ...

Everything has a vibration. We have all been told ...

This article explores the different ways of regain ...

We are witnessing today two interesting phenomena. ...

A river is a lake that is in a hurry to reach the ...

The other morning, as my six year old daughter was ...

When we start our climb towards the gates of the D ...

Love is so misunderstood. Be it with friends or fa ...

I ask a serious-looking Khyati, an 8 year old of O ...

The mask of death Stress is regarded today as t ...

There was once a king who decided to distribute co ...

When one begins to walk on this path, it is alrigh ...

Many times we come across or participate ourselves ...

It actually takes the smallest part of a second to ...

Having cast aside the trinkets of the world, I li ...

If we look at the earth from a cosmic standpoint, ...

There is a recent dangerous trend in certain scien ...

Love drops from Above Soaking the body’s cloak ...

Get the psychic being in front and keep it there, ...

The other day someone mentioned that she was w ...

Society and human relationships can be a source of ...

The Mother says that there is infinitely greater j ...

I see You in the blue of the sky In the white clo ...

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. ...

Social service and philanthropy are normally consi ...

Speaking to a sadhak, Sri Aurobindo suggests some ...

Ever wondered what a ball feels like? When some ...

Book: Science and Poetry; Author: Mary Midgley ...

There is a tendency in certain quarters to almost ...

Something is happening to our education system. It ...

There are times when we face an assault to our bei ...

If you look around you, you’ll probably no ...

Once upon a time there was a water-bearer who had ...

Harmony. Even the word itself sounds like what ...

If we earnestly pursue the search for the spiritua ...

Not all of us experience the call to the Path in t ...

A well-known concept in modern psychology is the c ...

Man-management is essentially an extension of self ...

There is another quality which must be cultivated ...

Many times we feel our endeavours are misplaced or ...

The Commonwealth Games came and went. Such a hu ...

The rich executive had just received a heart trans ...

It would be interesting to formualte or to work ou ...

(Review of the book, Lee KuanYew: The Man and His ...

This is it... this is the body we have and we offe ...

The Vedic Social Ideal The other important ques ...

Book: Birdwing; Author, Rafe Martin Birdwing by ...

The Self and Nature are like the light and its lam ...

At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary c ...

There are times when in our own excitement and ent ...

The other day a doctor was heard commenting on how ...

Man and Cosmos (Vedic Cosmology) All great spir ...

“Or we may find when all the rest has failed Hid ...

An evolution of consciousness is the central motiv ...

Sri Ramakrishna walked across the paddy-fields in ...

We have often heard of the term ‘Hostile Forces’ w ...

Freedom is a strange notion. Everyone wants it. In ...

The Fire of Sacrifice The key to the secret of ...

There’s always something going on in this country… ...

The grand synthesis and more It is here that Sr ...

The logical intelligence of man is a great obstacl ...

A little boy is on his knees scooping and packing ...

In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling w ...

We have often heard of the term ‘Hostile Forces’ w ...

It can be said without exaggeration that many (if ...

Discoveries of the Vedic Seers The best way to ...

In 1967, 25 year old Bindeshwar Pathak had missed ...

Another Vedantic Solution Indian thought is not ...

While one may derive love and joy from human conta ...

Has it ever happened that you take a sip of tea or ...

The Indian psyche has some special inherent featur ...

An effort pioneered in India to organise a formal ...

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his c ...

While on the one hand, complete withdrawal from th ...

Sadhana in its deepest sense is independent of all ...

It is common for Indian businessmen to complain of ...

Dear God, please untie the knots that are in my ...

What role does family play in the life of a spirit ...

The walk to God’s house is the most interesting on ...

(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a r ...

The paradox of our time in history is that we have ...

Man is gregarious by nature and constantly strives ...

There is a right time for everything. How often ...

Drought in some parts of the country, notably Raja ...

The physician is not just a person who is responsi ...

In an article in the Deccan Chronicle (6th January ...

Someone once asked Hellen Keller: “How do you acco ...

There are many dilemmas which crop up when we are ...

For those on the path, aren’t there numerous occas ...

“Man’s science builds its abstracts cold and brief ...

In olden times, in our country, nay, in China, Egy ...

Book: Hope for Flowers; Author: Trina Paulus I ...

Drought in some parts of the country, notably Raja ...

On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, c ...

There are many dilemmas which crop up when we are ...

As the New Year begins, one wonders what all one c ...

God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit ...

In May 1908, Sri Aurobindo was interned, along wit ...

Some of the traditional and orthodox purists in In ...

This is what a group of children had to say when a ...

At some time in our lives we feel the call of the ...

Not a single day this year has gone by without the ...

(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a r ...

"The law of sacrifice is the common divine action ...

(The following speech by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru w ...

She was a smart, young and bright student of a ven ...

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Can a sense of commitment to others be harmful to ...

(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a r ...

Stress is defined as the response of an organism t ...

In the hush of the primordial nakedness, All garm ...

All spiritual disciplines lay a great stress on se ...

Some say God is not cool enough for the world as i ...

They shared the same genes and even a part of thei ...

“Doorstep" is the story of how a small individual ...

In the 1940 presidential address at the Twenty-sec ...

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on ...

We run, we hide, we pretend we can’t see. But we c ...

(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a r ...

The future of mankind depends on the education it ...

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(The following speech was made by Sarvepalli Radha ...

Most spiritual journeys start with a faith in the ...

Of all the hours we have in hand, if one was to ob ...

(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a r ...

Amongst the hundreds of unsung heroes of the freed ...

The spirit of education is inherent in the word `e ...

Has science reached its final limits? This is the ...

A man sat in a metro station in Washington DC and ...

This moment let me thank you for the deliverance, ...

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his ...

All of us are confronted with various types of fea ...

It is said that the most difficult path to walk on ...

(A hundred years ago, India was like a raft in a r ...

A complete psychic and spiritual education is a li ...

There is a power in Peace. The power to heal, supp ...

(Radha Kumud Mukherji, the noted historian and pol ...

Concentration is a very important part of many spi ...

Recently an article appeared in the New York Times ...

Some of you may already know that I travel around ...

The revolution of the 16th Century, which is usual ...

Man, the explorer, has ever been in quest of the e ...

Aspiration A yearning for Thee An infant aware ...

Every evening between 4 and 8 o’clock, Kamalam, Ka ...

World War II produced many heroes. One such man ...

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was sentenced to six years imp ...

Man is a social being and has different relations ...

On observing the bird life in cities these days, i ...

Anuradha Goburdhun Bakhshi says she is paying back ...

Our religions have proclaimed from the very beginn ...

All those who set their feet upon a new way of liv ...

Why this begging for alms of human love When your ...

In the following speech made at the Indian Science ...

In the spiritual history of humankind, there have ...

Someone recently cited an example of how there was ...

Calm was the day, and through the trembling air, ...

There is a second , which is obviously, as indispe ...

There are three kinds of blindness in the world of ...

(Lala Lajpat Rai had left India in 1913 and gave t ...

We all face, and are bound to face, difficulties i ...

If one takes a moment to reflect, it would seem in ...

Legends speak of the three strides of Vishnu*. The ...

There is some meaning in describing the Upanishads ...

Each month we take a question of this nature and p ...

In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, the wise g ...

(Swami Vivekananda, the warrior monk who took the ...

I have nothing to do with America other than the f ...

Each month we take a question of this nature and p ...

A friend sent me an sms recently, inquiring about ...

In the speed and stress of modern life, more and m ...

On numerous occasions in the course of a single li ...

It has been realised that in the existing system o ...

Research in life sciences, of which medicine is a ...

One who speaks untruth goes to Hell like one who, ...

Meditation has always been part of spiritual disci ...

Institutions. Organisations. Committees. Councils. ...

The growing dissatisfaction with modern medicine h ...

President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporatio ...

We have very little control over our mind and thou ...

Parenthood is such a thrill… for most at least. Ap ...

How often do we find that praise turns upon itself ...

There is a harmony of animal life. It is a double ...

The best of all paths is the Eightfold Path; the b ...

The qualitative dimension A new science and new ...

The last wolf hurried toward me through the ruine ...

I was shocked, confused, bewildered As I entered ...

The ecological crisis facing humanity today is mad ...

The illusion of action is one of the great illusio ...

Frequently, when we despair of where India is at t ...

The Mother always said that to be a successful tea ...

The Qualitative Dimension A new or rather a dou ...

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut an ...

Literary Sources: The Vedas Our discussion so far ...

We find it happening every day - we are shocked by ...

In different forms of the media, in a single week, ...

For decades donors like the World Bank and the Gov ...

The first task of the teacher is to maintain the c ...

The Parallel Lines Modern science has travelled ...

I hear You breathe In the void of silence Echoes ...

Spring breezes sweep the green meadows. Rains hav ...

Recent Discoveries and Evidence We have discussed ...

The highest spiritual experience affirms that the ...

Recently, the ruling government in India inducted ...

In 2007, celebrated writer Doris Lessing, aged 88, ...

A very important part of sadhana, of spiritual see ...

Has science arrived at its limits? This is the sub ...

The Aryan Invasion: Was there any? (continued fr ...

One who gives himself entirely to what is unprofit ...

No matter how many languages one knows or to what ...

‘You road I enter upon and look around.  I believe ...

Man needs miracles. This need, when deeply observe ...

Wide mouthed the earth drinks, Ambrosial rain tha ...

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: ...

Among those who hate, happy are we to live without ...

The Aryan Invasion: Was there any? This brings us ...

From times immemorial, one of the dreams and aspir ...

Human beings are notorious for creating problems f ...

Purusha of golden eternities of might, Sun-self o ...

Teachers who are not perfectly calm, who do not ha ...

For nine thousand years society has depended upon ...

He whose victory has never been surpassed nor even ...

The origin of ancient civilizations like India is ...

What a lovely month…! A leap year for most, an occ ...

All spiritual paths and yogas lay stress upon the ...

Introduction: Rediscovering Connectedness In a ...

There is a growing concern among parents and teach ...

Now this is what we believe. The Mother of us all ...

Of late, the study of history has become either a ...

The search for God, the effort to find the Divine ...

Youth is that stage of life least committed to ves ...

There are two kinds of perfection to which all hum ...

An article in a leading Indian daily reports that ...

There was commotion in the grove on the banks of t ...

Holy Earth Mother, the trees and all nature are wi ...

If a man holds himself dear, let him guard himself ...

The year end is always so welcome for it brings on ...

It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was g ...

An illness is like a mis-spelt word in an unknown ...

At present, Business and Management is going throu ...

Why this joy, this gladness, when the world is for ...

All around us, we see violence, destruction of wha ...

We all have our own ways of understanding things, ...

We are living in a fast changing world. Due to adv ...

There are two poles of the One Reality — the brigh ...

At present, Business and Management is going throu ...

All tremble when faced with punishment; all fear d ...

This is what happened to me when I was born 46 yea ...

All around us we see violence, destruction of what ...

Many of us are prone to working better when under ...

September 11, 2001. It’s a date almost all who are ...

Faith does not depend upon experience; it is somet ...

The aim of this organisation would be to promote a ...

It has been said in spiritual traditions that succ ...

At present, Busi­ness and Man­age­ment is going th ...

Near Tokyo, there lived a very great Samurai who h ...

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