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How does one Promote Spiritual Profundity?
A teacher who has some worthwhile knowledge to share with the world seeks to touch as many people as she can so she can enrich lives around her. An advertiser...
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How Swami Vivekananda changed John Rockefeller
A French lady Madame Drinette Verdier has an interesting fact in her diary. Madame Emma Calve, a French disciple of Swami Vivekananda had once narrated an incident to her.
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Religious Expansion: Vatican, Western Politics and the Antagonism to Hinduism and Eastern Spirituality
Yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and “all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation”.
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Sat Sri Akal: Invoking the Fighting Spirit entrenched in Sacrifice for the Infinite
The beauty of Sikhism is that the teachings of the Gurus is profound and yet simple.
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Non-Indian Hindus Interviews #3: The White Hindu: Ambaa
After the first two Interviews with non-Indian Hindu bloggers, here is the third one. Ambaa writes on her blog “The White Hindu”.
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Non-Indian Hindus Interviews #2: The Accidental Hindu
In our series of interacting with non-Indian Hindus, this is the second part.
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Non-Indian Hindus Interviews #1: A Western Sri Vaishnava
In the coming weeks and months, I would like to objectively discuss Hinduism, a Dharmic ethos that encapsulates the longing and path to liberation from all bondages of mind and body.
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Tina Turner Sings Sanskrit Peace Mantra
Tina Turner, the famous rock singer, has sung a Sanskrit peace shloka for the new Album
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Being a Hindu: non-Indian Hindus and their perspectives
Ever since Julia Roberts “converted” to Hinduism publicly and announced that she is now a practicing Hindu, inter
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कबीर के दोहे – 1
This is the first post on Sant Kabir’s verses – called Dohe. I will bring more of these everyday.
बिरछा कबहूँ न फल भखै, नदी न अन्चवे नीर
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Gaia and the coming change
Gaia, our Beloved Planet Earth, is now being bathed in an enormous inflow of Light, which was maximized on 11-11-11 beneath the light of November’s full moon.
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Handling sorrow of a terrible death
I met him recently.
He had just moved from Minnesota to India. Moved? Yes. Because of your job? No, I have taken off for last 3 months. Don’t feel like doing something yet.
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Buddha’s Bowl and the teaching from the Himalayas
We had all but completed the Himalayan Dhyan Yatra. Any profound experience that we had hoped for had happened. But there was a “final” parting message from my journey that I was still waiting for.
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Himalayan Dhyan Yatra: Manifesting the unmanifest
Existence in Sanskrit is called Srishti – manifestation – and not Kriti – Creation. For manifest to occur, unmanifest is an absolute necessity. Manifest, however, has no existence of its own.
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You are not Nanak!
It is very fashionable to use the utterances of the Saints and the Enlightened Masters and start drawing conclusions on life and the world. Even on God. It is very dangerous and misleading.
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Why is Krishna Relevant to India and Team Anna’s movement today?
After the 999th abuse by Shishupal, Krishna killed him, as he had been warned not to go that far with his tirade. It was not because Krishna liked to kill others or he lacked patience.
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How to Receive a Guru’s Wisdom?
I have a friend who was bitter about his experience with Sathya Sai Baba and at the Art of Living. There could be many reasons.
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Losing Anger, Lust and Ego
In so many religious frameworks, a lot of emphasis is given to the get away from deficiencies like Anger, Lust, Attachment etc. But the way this ideal is approached is very superficial.
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Menaka redux: Rakhi falls for Ramdev
Sometimes it takes a mindless “Savant” to turn a Swami into a “hot dude”.
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Misinterpretation of a Realized Master’s powers and Grace
Last night I happened to listen to a speech by Vivek Shauq – the comedy actor in Hindi and Punjabi movies (well known for his association with Jaspal Bhatti) – on his take on Spirituality.
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Treasure of the Hindu Temple: Basic Rules of Ownership and Lessons from the Past
The underground vaults of a 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala have revealed treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion (and growing).
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Sins of Drinking, Sex and Meat in Spiritual Journey
Many societies and religious groups try to ban alcohol and drinking. Just like they ban many other things like sex, meat etc. And the faithful make it into a code to live by.
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Reclaiming Hindutva: It will Need a Fight to the Core!
Hindutva as a word has been abused in the recent years – both, by those who run it down and those who want to assert it.
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Devotion and Belief
Devotion is Heer’s love. Belief is marriage. Latter does not involve the former, and former doesn’t need the latter.
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From Spiritual Rigor to Religious Rigidity
Anything less than complete Spiritual awakening is a dangerous thing. Ignorance is indeed bliss.
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Thoughts on Sathya Sai Baba: Nagendra Rao
(The Article has been written by Nagendra Rao, MBA from Wharton and a Corporate Finance and Planning executive. He is also an expert in Indian Spirituality Practices of every type).
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Sathya Sai Baba: Miracles he did, just not the ones you think of
Truth exists at many levels. In media of today, however, “truth” is manufactured based on one’s agenda.
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Preparing for The Super Convergence: Rise of The Bio-Info-Nano Singularity
In 1900, Lord Kelvin famously stated, “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.
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Noosphere: Are The Cloud, Collective Consciousness and The Singularity Intertwined?
The small and beautiful humbling forces for tranquility and peace include love, laughter, being grateful, showing respect and forgiveness.
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The God Particle, Quantum Entanglement, And The Holographic Universe
A leaked internal memo at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, contains unconfirmed reports that one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has picked up signals that could be the long sought
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Can you have Perception without the Sensation of Seeing?
Are you able to see something, without knowing that you can see?
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How Evangelist Forces Completely Annihilated the Druids in Ireland
Bryan McMohan has an interesting game for his Indian guests in the motel in County Kerry in Ireland. He starts humming an Irish folk tune and then stops.
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Mindless Baba Ramdev Bashing Brigade: When Elitists become pawns in the Grand Game of Politics
On January 9th, 2009 Rajeev Dixit founded the Bharat Swabhiman Movement along with Baba Ramdev.