Religion is a privilege of man and not an instinct of the animals. To the animal, life is one round of eating, sleeping and mating. Man, even when he has food, shelter, clothing and recreation does not feel satisfied. He yearns to seek for a greater purpose in life. So long as he has not these minimRead More >>

I am what I am, a confused confounded entity. At one moment I am a sweet little thing, at another, a terri¬ble monster, because of the variety of gratifications of my physical demands of lusts, mental demands for emotio¬nal satisfactions and because of my perturbed intellect, tossed by its endlessRead More >>

A problem in life is a challenge to be faced. The outer problems, created by the arrangement of happenings and the pattern of the available environment are all actually interpreted by the mind, judged by the intellect. Then only responses arise from us towards them. Behind the hands and the legs, weRead More >>

Exploiters of religion have been making capital out of repeating the word Sraddha as their safest excuse for all problems spiritual; to clear which devotees may approach these men who pose themselves as guides in religion. Perhaps no other spiritual term has been so far badly handled by the priest-cRead More >>

The fundamental cause of all confusions is man's "non-apprehension" of Reality called in Vedanta philosophy as "ignorance" (ajnana v, which also includes all vacillations of the mind, doubts and despairs, dejections and hesitations, fears and weak¬nesses. It is because of man's false attachments wiRead More >>

The whole world is frantically searching for a message, a revealing light, a knowledge that will impart a meaning and purpose for life. The Communist and the Capitalist, the developed and the developing, the scientist and the layman, the materialist and the idealist — knowingly or unknowingly, Read More >>

As I sit in Tapovan Kuti, my table piled high with Mission work and correspondence, I pause for a moment and listen to the sweet melody of Mother Ganga. Slowly the mind's eye lifts up and I can see her in one glance, as she trickles forth from the eternal snows of Gomukh; runs, curls, gurgles; gusheRead More >>

In the Upanishads we find the teachers insisting upon the glory in the spreading of spiritual knowledge. In Taittireya Upanishad the very parting advice of the teacher to the taught contains an oft reiterated injunction that he must practice not only the study of the scripture himself, but must contRead More >>

Last time, we brought you the story of a girl from Guwahati who is pushing the limits to reach beyond one’s wildest imagination. Now we bring you another inspired Sevak, this time from the sandy beaches of Goa. An artist, she had come at a time when life was seemingly colourless. But she ended up Read More >>

About new life and a living portrait of simplicity with depth, humility with courage and wisdom with devotion.Read More >>