And When Devotion is also the bar Many eyebrows of the Puritans may immediately raise at the very mention of such a topic. And perhaps understandably so; devotion has always been considered one of the basic requisites on the path to any higher pursuit. Devotion to one’s sect, culture, work, nation, religion, and gods, is… Continue reading And When Devotion is also the bar
Path and Goal Part 2 In the spiritual field, the experiences are quite the same. A spiritual seeker with the heightening of consciousness can reach truths of different levels. The higher he can ascend, the greater the truth that he can discover. And, it is only when he can get to the summit where the… Continue reading The Paths and the Goals – 2
The Paths and the Goals A very common notion prevailing in Indian spiritual or religious circles is: All paths lead to the same goal. Through all systems of spiritual discipline or religious practice, one can approach the same God, the same Truth. Only the ways are different, it is said, but at the summit, they… Continue reading The Paths and the Goals
Living Within I am sharing the following for my more serious-minded young friends who have recently joined me. This is about some fundamental perplexities of life which must have intrigued you during the course of your growing up. I hope you would find it interesting, if not explaining some of the baffling questions that were… Continue reading Living Within
Search for Perfection Part 3 With such an inherent ignorance when even an individual cannot be perfected, how can the whole society be changed towards perfection? Can society ever be perfect and happy—even with optimum economic development and material abundance—when its members continue to remain selfish, mean, and dishonest? Because in the present scheme of… Continue reading The Search for Perfection – 3
The Search for Perfection – 2 There is another concept, indeed, a crucial metaphysical truth that is imperative to know. Contrary to the Western idea, our being is a complex amalgam of many different elements, not only of body and mind, as is generally believed. In our surface consciousness, we are vaguely aware of only… Continue reading The Search for Perfection – 2
The Search for Perfection Part 2 There is another concept, indeed, a crucial metaphysical truth that is imperative to know. Contrary to the Western idea, our being is a complex amalgam of many different elements, not only of body and mind, as is generally believed. In our surface consciousness, we are vaguely aware of only… Continue reading The Search for Perfection
Aim of Life Never in its checkered history through several millenniums, was there a more significant era in human evolution than the present time. Man, it would appear, has reached the zenith of his material and intellectual progress, perhaps never as swiftly as during the past hundred years. Today we almost feel swept by the… Continue reading Aim of Life
Must we remain a Slave? A very peculiar feature of our nature is that we prefer to remain confined within the limits of our own mental formations. Our ideas, beliefs, principles, and inferences, formed from various experiences at an individual level and imposed on us over the years by the social, political, and religious convictions… Continue reading Must we remain a slave?
