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Spirituality

Spirituality

Spirituality starts where belief ends. When you are content to say that "I don't know", the need to know arises. And with that the questions and the quest. That is the beginning of spirituality. It is a search for the Truth. We share our perspectives and search.

How Ideological Fanatics are Desecrating the Spiritual Environment of Sabarimala

How Ideological Fanatics are Desecrating the Spiritual Environment of Sabarimala

Rules and rituals in any ancient temple are governed by Agama shastras (read about them here [https://www.drishtikone.com/indian-supreme-court-interference-hindu-traditions-practices-perfidious-unacceptable/] ). Treatises which go into the energy consecrated and the geometry of the place. It is a place where energy is used – via prana prathistha (establishing the life force) – to

Tathastu Vs Inshallah – Two Paradigms of Living

Tathastu Vs Inshallah – Two Paradigms of Living

Except for the megalomaniacal jokers on this planet, no one has shown up saying he is god. And no space probes have come across anyone with the name “God” or “Allah” anywhere in the space between here and the next galaxy. Actually, as far as the telescopes can see, no

#GaneshChaturthi – Why We Bring Ganapati Home Today?

#GaneshChaturthi – Why We Bring Ganapati Home Today?

When Shiva was away into his own space for years on end once, his wife Parvati decided to create a brave and loving kid out of her own mother’s love and breathed life using tantric ways. Shiva returned to see this 10-12 year old guarding the entrance to Parvati’

Section 377 and Dharma – Imposed by British, Repealed by Indian Supreme Court

Section 377 and Dharma – Imposed by British, Repealed by Indian Supreme Court

Section 377 criminalizing homosexuality was introduced in India in 1861. Today the Indian Supreme Court called it “irrational”, “arbitrary” and “incomprehensible”, and ruled that consensual adult sex between two gay couples is not a crime. It took 157 years for Indian society to come back to its normal ways of

What is Truth and Why it is Not a Belief?

What is Truth and Why it is Not a Belief?

Sometime back I was talking to a friend, who is a Yoga teacher. He has grown up in a mid-west state of US and is a very curious person who has undertaken work that is aligned with his concern for the environment. He is surely one of the more sensitive

Dharma and Pollution – the Discarded Garments on the Banks of Mansarovar

Dharma and Pollution – the Discarded Garments on the Banks of Mansarovar

Dharma is the primordial underlying way of the existence. On one pilgrimage to align with that reverberation of this existence, as we reached the pristine Mansarovar Lake [https://www.drishtikone.com/my-journey-to-kailash-with-sadhguru/], its banks were full of garbage. The Isha meditators took the large garbage bags that someone had gotten

Somnath Temple’s Tale of Desecration and Destruction

Somnath Temple’s Tale of Desecration and Destruction

Somnath Temple is an expression of fire which renders beauty and luster. You see, the idea of divine in all societies was a culmination of the culture and a way of life. It was not the starting point. Whatever a culture – based on the geography, local dynamics, the social values