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Understanding India – Part 1

Understanding India - Part 1

‘Chaos often breeds life while Order creates habit.’ This statement from the famous historian Henry Adams has a lot to tell. A few weeks back, on his return from Japan, Pujya Guruji Shree Rishi Prabhakar was sharing how the whole country appeared so morose as if it has gone into a mass mourning till date ever since the Hirosima episode.

He explained that this was simply because of too much order. Everything is right about Japan and that is the whole problem. When everything is right, the whole process becomes very mechanical, very robot-like.

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ADVAIT VEDANTA

Advait Vedanta

(as understood through the book ‘What is Advaita’ by K.Sankarnarayan)

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WHAT IS REALITY ?

‘Brahm Satya Jagat Mithya’ is an oft-repeated sentence most spiritualists would have heard. It is generally translated as ‘God is real; world is an illusion’. However, there is a confusion of sorts here.

First of all, let us look at what ‘reality’ or ‘truth’ is : Keep Reading

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The Seven Hindu Spiritual Laws of Success

Key Learning Points from

‘The Seven Hindu Spiritual Laws of Success’

by Swami Bodhananda

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Freedom is that ability to make use of your environment to explore your potential and to express that Infinite Potential while interacting with the world. This is the meaning of Moksha. Keep Reading

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A journey to where you already are

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Guruji often says that a problem lies in identifying a life situation as a problem. Once you have identified it as a problem, there is nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, if you do anything about it, you will only mess it up further. Let us draw a parallel of this with one another Eastern mystic culture – Zen Buddhism.

In the Zen culture, when a new seeker comes in and asks the master – ‘Oh master, I seek to be enlightened, please guide me’, the master takes a baton and gives the fellow a hard knock on the head. The seeker more often than not gets the point and walks away. By itself, the master’s action defies our understanding. But hidden beneath is a very sound logic.

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Freedom is not Free

Synopsis of :
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

By Shiv Khera

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To a patriot, serving the nation is not a SACRIFICE but a PRIVILEGE. Some people think that the only way to find one’s peace of mind is to ignore the danger.

In a democracy, legislators are supposed to be the representatives of the citizens and not the rulers.

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