The Guru
The Guru is a unique symbol and understanding of Indian spirituality. In no other culture is a seemingly-ordinary human being held with such reverence and devotion. The Guru is one […]
The Myth of a Hindu Way of Thinking
Hinduism is a myth. There is no religion such as Hinduism at least in the way we understand religion. It does not have one prophet, one set of unchanging beliefs […]
A Definition of India
Is there such a thing as India? And if there is, how do we define it? Is it a nation? Or a civilization? Is there such a thing as India? […]
Mahayuddha, The Great Battle
A dharma yuddha, unlike other battles fought on the ground, is mostly invisible and inaudible, it is waged in the depths of consciousness and engages ancient unseen forces that have always […]
Madhusudan’s Bowl
In a remote village in Bengal, in a small hut by the village pond, lived a simple widowed woman with her eight year old child, Gopi. She was poor and […]
The Real Miracle
The story of Devdas and the mysterious sadhu…What did the sadhu give, and what did Devdas find? Devdas was an ordinary man living an ordinary life in the city of […]
Vivekananda: An Unfolding Dream
Is Swami Vivekananda important? To some, he is an apostle of Sanatana Dharma, a stalwart for the ‘Eternal Philosophy’ who led the Indian renaissance from centuries of hibernation. To others, […]
A Glimpse of Shiva
Who is Shiva? Is he a puranic god, member of the trinity, who destroys even as Brahma creates and Vishnu preserves? Or is he the first yogi, who sat on […]
The Human Body : A Mystery’s Workshop
Continuing our explorations into the yogic secrets of the body with Alok Pandey We are so used to seeing the body so much as organs, tissues, cells and their functions […]
The Human Body – a Spiritual View
Continuing our series on understanding the spirituality of the Human Body There is a scientist’s way of looking at the human body and there is a spiritual way to look […]