The last few decades have witnessed tremendous advances in the scientific understanding of the...
Is yoga scientific? This is a question I am often asked, in various forums. The problem that lies...
Buddhism has long argued for the tremendous potential for transformation that exists naturally in...
Recent discoveries in neuroscience have demonstrated the innate plasticity of the brain, both in...
When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with...
Religion, as history shows, is immortal: can its source be illusion? Once we grasp the idea of the...
Now, to understand this about the meditator and what is meditated upon, I will go to a beautiful...
Man is an intellectual being. He is endowed with a mind, which is his greatest faculty. It is only...
A great thinker once said, “If I were to create something new, I would study all that is best and...
Today the world’s unrest is deepening. Civilisation is sinking. Forces of chaos are at work. I...
One of Einstein’s biographers writes: “We can take heart that it is not necessary to be a good...
So, this is exactly what I was saying—the Upanishad is not trying to give you an answer. The...
It is easy to get to the top but difficult to stay there. Once you are in a leader’s position...
What happens when you meditate? You feel a stillness in your wandering mind and calmness in your...
The Brahmanas (religious texts) refer to manuals that connect Vedic hymns (mantras) to rituals...
We live in paradoxical times. We are born amidst nature, yet we live in concrete jungles; we have...
In Act 2, Scene 2 of Hamlet, the protagonist Hamlet tells Ophelia: “Doubt that the stars are...
The Atman as the background of nature, as the very substance and life of nature! This realised the...
Observe how you react when you read the word ‘mythology’. You are conditioned to believe it...
