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Spirituality is one of Drishtikone's popular category of posts. This section lists them.
For last 5 months, I have worked to promote a program called Inner Engineering by Sadhguru. I am just one volunteer and on this blog I don’t carry any brief from the organization. I have always written what to me is important with utmost frankness. And that is exactly what I intend to do this [...]
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We had trekked all the way to Kedarnath and back and after a day’s travel, with our legs in pain, we landed in Uttarkashi. We gathered for dinner, and while we all went after food, we saw this one unhappy traveller start his long and high pitched cribbing session with a Swami sitting with him [...]
Read More...There is a sad problem with those who consider themselves “Hindus” in India and those who comment on the larger history of the Hindus. Personally, I don’t like this term because it boxes India’s historical ethos into a box. Indians prior to religious invasions were “Dharma” oriented. So Dharmic. Religion is a restrictive concept. “In [...]
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First Sri Sri Ravi Shankar went to Pakistan with his Sudarshan Kriya and the Art of Living, and now Morari Bapu will enter Iraq’s Karbala and shares the Ram Katha (story of Ram) with the people there. Karbala is the third holiest city – after Mecca and Medina for the Shia Muslims. The necessary clearance [...]
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Sometime back, I had a series of discussions with people who weren’t born Hindus but now have embraced Hinduism. I wanted to ask them about their experience and reasons for taking such a journey. Here is a discussion with Tāṇḍava Nadesan, who runs a blog Western Hindu, which I am sure you will profit from. [...]
Read More...In Spiritual circles, it is very easy to talk of “nicey-nicey” stuff which looks appealing but is Spiritual nonsense. Just add in some buzzwords and say something that helps one feel good and placated and you have a best-seller and winner on your hand. But if Spiritual journey and your longing to know is more [...]
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Do Animals have a sense of energies that we humans cannot sense? As per many, animals have a sense of perception that humans can rarely have. Cats, Dogs, Snakes and even fish all have an enhanced sense of perception, specially of energy is amazing. That is why, I found it very interesting when our new [...]
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Sri Sri Ravishankar is making his second trip to Pakistan today via the Attari border. Amongst other things, on this 3 day visit, he will also be innaugurating an Art of Living center in Islamabad. It sounds interesting and often difficult as to how an Indian spiritual organization could have such a following in Pakistan, [...]
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When beauty in the world dies, we all die a bit with it. Sometimes, we orchestrate it ourselves. One spiritual tradition in India has been very special and beautiful, but its beauty and profundity was probably missed by many. Even those who carried it. On March 30, 1699 – the 10th Sikh Guru – Guru [...]
Read More...All are equal. Every religion is the same. All Gods are the same. These sentiments seem very nice. Indeed laudable. But when you look a little deeper, they are nothing but nonsensical. Worse when such statements are made using the utterances of Realized Beings and Masters, who have spoken in a context totally removed. Let [...]
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