Mystic Mantra
Mystic Mantra
First, get a fix on yourself
Anxiety” simply means that you are concerned about the outcome of something. But the outcome of that something is not going to be determined by your desires. It is going to be determined by what you do. The more unprepared you are for what you are doing right now, the more anxious you will be. Isn’t it so?
The hidden monsters
All over the world we see an outburst of violence in some form or the other.
Science of inner being
In April, there were news reports that the White House has embraced yoga as a worthy physical activity at a time when some schools in America were railing against the ancient Indian practice, saying it promotes Hinduism.
Agents of change
To see change in our lives for the better, we need to work on various factors of our daily life. The sloka we discussed in my last column (Small steps for change, April 17) from the Bhagavatam gives us 10 such factors. We had seen the first five and to summarise, they were:
All work is sacred
When Pope John XXIII was asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” he replied, “About half.” Today, while celebrating International Labour Day, we could reflect upon our work.
Living for others
Swami Vivekananda, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated all over India, has had considerable influence on me. I never tire of quoting one of his famous sayings everywhere, including in churches: “They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.”
Threads of commonality
It is seen that Hinduism and Islam have many doctrines and beliefs in common to serve as a civilising force for all human beings in general and Indians in particular.
Verses of elder women
The earliest women ordained into the Buddha’s sangha some 2,500 years ago experienced profound transformations that they rendered into poetry. Their poems came to be compiled as the Therigatha, literally “stories of women elders”.
Yog is a sadhana
“Om poornamidah poornamidam poornaata poornam uddachhyate
Poornasya poornamaadaaya poornamevaava shishyate Om”
The mystique of Mai Sahiba
The dargah of Mai Sahiba at Adchini near Mehrauli is one of my favourite Sufi spaces in Delhi. Her Urs, death anniversary, was celebrated last week.
