“Would you like to come to some villages around Chamba?” a friend asked. I happily said yes. He wanted to visit the kin of former servants of his family and bring them gifts before Diwali. After buying boxes of sweets and drawing money from an ATM, three of us set off from Mussoorie. The air […]
When SRF’s Paramahamsa Yogananda Met Ramana Maharishi
The greatest of yogis have descended upon earth to unchain man from eternal suffering. One of them was Paramahamsa Yogananda who wrote the eternal spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi and the other was Ramana Maharishi whose silence instilled in seekers the unspeakable joy of absolute awareness that Hindus who seek liberation identify with easily. […]
Inquiry Into Vedanta: prArabdhA and Free Will
By Malathy Krishnan A few questions remain unanswered for many of us. Can we get answers for every question we have? We do get answers to some at some point in our life though some remain unanswered till the last breath we take. ‘Destiny is one such aspect on which questions kept occurring to me […]
How Spiritual Experience has Transcended Religious Belief in Yoga
Many North Americans and westerners are turning to practices that promote spiritual experience rather than religious beliefs. One such widely practiced phenomenon that contributes to this transition from religious belief to spiritual experience is the practice of Yoga. Amidst this transition there are also many who have taken on Yoga without any religious beliefs preceding […]
Does Monotheism Kill Spirituality?
By Ajay Nemade Monotheist says, “God is one, my God is true and your God is false”. This kills spirituality. In spirituality there is no my God or your God. God is the same for all humanity, whether they believe him in any form. Monotheist insists on their own God which is actually their imagination […]
Learning the Ropes to Happiness
By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM With the permission of our readers, may I say again : Happiness is a state of mind. That explains why I say it aloud every now and then: old boy, your mental make up says that you may not live long to be a Centenarian. I dismiss the idea as it […]
Waking vs Dreaming – Dissertation on the Illusoriness of the World
By Vishnu Prakash (CHAKRA) This is extracted from second chapter [Vaitathya prakaraNa] of Shri GauDapAda’s kArikA converted into a question answer format. Point of discussion: Analysis of Waking and Dreaming states. Q: How do you say that waking state is similar to dream state? A: You can’t accept the similarity because you have never compared them. As […]
Satya Sai Baba and His Miracles
By Dr. OP Sudrania (CHAKRA) Sri Satya Sai Baba of India is well known globally as a Saint, philanthropist, spiritual preacher and healer, a Godman often derided by His doubting Thomases as a magician, trickster, sleight of hand, black magician, cheater, fraud, even call Him a scoundrel etcetera. One always see the same colour as […]
Musings on AtmA
By Smita Agrawala (CHAKRA) There are two things in the world, the Atma or the Self which is real, and the body which is unreal (though as we will eventually see, the AtmA alone is the substratum upon which the entire world is based, and there is no duality on the absolute level). Both of these […]
Paths are Many, the Rishi’s Call it by Many Names .
By Yogi Baba Prem Yogacharya, Veda Visharada (CHAKRA) One of the most common quotes I hear from Hindu’s is that we are all one, all the religious teach the same thing, and there is no difference between Hinduism and other religions. Ironically, we do not hear this view from Christians, Muslims or other groups. The […]
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