Yashoda’s Karttika Nightmare
Damodara Pandita explains why Hindus light ghee lamps Few know the reason why millions of ghee lamps are offered, every single day in this present month of Karttika (morning and evening), to the...
View ArticleHow would you like your mind to be?
We see so many people around us. We keep meeting so many personalities. Every personality has many different features. Sometimes, we like a particular feature of a person’s personality or mindset. For...
View ArticleIn pursuit of peace and happiness
The mantra of happiness and peace magnifies if we increase our acceptance quotient and truly live in the present moment, writes Ravi Valluri Peace of mind is a state of mental and emotional calmness,...
View ArticleA ‘galloping’ mind
By practicing Pranayama, breathing techniques, yoga and pursuing knowledge over a period of time the mind stops galloping, regains its alacrity and glides into a space of dispassionate meditation and...
View ArticleSafeguard: Firewall the mind
Ravi Valluri says that we need to protect our minds by creating a firewall to ward off antipathetic thoughts, by constructing an effective aura. Firewall is a wall or an artificial partition designed...
View ArticleThe correlation between talent and success
Talent needs to be nurtured and nourished to achieve material and spiritual success in life, though the success or triumph is itself ephemeral, writes RAVI VALLURI At twenty-one, on their maiden...
View ArticleThe Greatest Gambler — Nityanand Charan Das
In a gambling match,the most miserable person is the one who wins initially and the most expert Gambler is the one who allows his opponent to do so. The person who is winning gets used to it and puts...
View ArticleOver 750 new genes involved in long-term memory identified
A new study has identified genes involved in long-term memory as part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during ageing, reports IANS. The team from Princeton University...
View ArticleThe great sage Veda Vyasa
Veda Vyasa or “splitter of the Vedas”, the splitting being a feat that allowed people to understand the divine knowledge of the Vedas, writes MEERA S. SASHITAL. Amongst all the sages in the annals of...
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Valmiki and Ramayana
The connection in many ways, of the life of Valmiki with the “Rama Story” was an incentive for him to write the Ramayana, writes MEERA S. SASHITAL. In our lives many a times transformations take place...
View ArticleAgony Aunt: Baby woes
Dr. Anjali Chhabria Q. My wife and I are expecting our baby in a few months. All this while its just been my wife and me and now seeing her planning for our baby is making me feel left out and a little...
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The significance of Mahashivaratri
The Shivaites observe this day by keeping fasts and vigil the whole night to get Lord Shiva’s blessings, writes Meera S. Sashital On 17th of February we will find people flocking o the temple of Lord...
View ArticleBanabhatta: The great Sanskrit poet
He, it is learnt, used to use clear demarcation between the Brahmins of the society and the rest of the general public, writes Meera S. Sashital. India is famous for its Sanskrit literature and...
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