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GOA : A stray dog is hit by a speeding car. The car driver doesn’t even care to stop and have a look at the innocent animal leave alone taking it to a near by vet hospital. The poor dog lying half dead with eyes popping out in the middle of the road with cars racing by choosing to ignore completely the pain in which the dog must be. Residents of the area on either side of the road ignored it too as though it was a regular sight for them. The various NGO’s that were contacted refused to pick up the dog. Finally, after 2 hours of frantically calling the NGO’s and vets in order to save an innocent life, a lady did agree to pick up the dog but when she did reach the spot, the dog had died a painful death. Have we humans forgotten to value life? What is going on?

We all know that we come in this world alone and go back alone. We will not be accompanied by anyone, no matter how close or dear we are to them, or they to us. Pause a minute and think: A majority of our problems stem from our near and dear ones. That is, relatives, immediate family, enemies and friends, not from someone unknown. You will also find that the rootcause of arguments, fights, emotional turmoil, congestions, broken relationships and business losses are also these very people. So it is safe to conclude that for the greater part of our lives we get troubled, not by absolute strangers but by people who are known to us. Your relationship with every individual is a result of one basic principle — as you sow so shall you get. It is a mere give and take. This give and take is a payback of our karma from our previous births and from this lifetime. You get associated with people because they need something from you and you need something from them too. Without any level of dependen...

“Yoga chitta vritti nirodh” says Patanjali, the fountainhead of yoga, which means blocking the activities of the senses. Blocking the activities of the mind/senses definitely cannot be connoted as suppression of desires for one of the five yamas (principles) of ashtanga yoga is ahimsa/non-violence, which means prohibition of an action perforce. Suppression, therefore, is considered an act of violence. A normal human being has five basic senses, the satisfaction of which is a must. When a normal human being holds the hand of a Guru and is in yoga then s/he crosses the sansar sagar and gains complete control and mastery over the five senses. The sense of touch (sexual sense) is one of these senses. Yoga is not suppression of these senses and abnormal behaviour just because you want to project yourself as a super being. Yoga is a mastery over the senses where if you choose to have sex then you will have, the difference being that the desire does not control you but you control the desire ...

The human existence is not just limited to the physical, the physical is just an aspect, an aspect which is perceivable by the five senses. Majority of the people go through the journey called life with this limited perception of themselves. The perception being limited, obviously there is none or minimal fulfillment... From morning to night and from puberty to old age the majority of beings chase what is the limited i.e. the satisfaction of the five senses and since one is chasing the limited, till ones last breath one remains limited and dissatisfied. The ancient masters understood the complete being, and were therefore forever satisfied. The satisfaction levels were phenomenal even when there were no movies, no stock markets, no designer wear, no literature to read and the best of all no parties to attend! And the whole world acknowledges that the best of philosophy (the Upanishads), the best of literature (the epics), the best of romance (Radha and Krishna), the best of dance ...

Time travel has remained one of the most intriguing subjects for physicists of all times. Scientists have spent their lives racking their brains on how to make it possible, yet as per modern sciences it remains a dream. On the other hand, the Vedic rishis had already decoded the mystery of time. Time, as per the Vedic rishis, is nothing but the distance between two thoughts. That is why in the state of dhyan, time does not exist as at that point thoughts cease to exist. The higher the state of evolution or stillness, slower is the passage of time for that being. It is said that in a blink of Lord Brahma’s eye a yuga passes by, and a blink of Lord Vishnu’s eye sees a mahayug pass by. Through yogic practices like Sanatan Kriya , one is able to still ones thoughts and hence become independent of time. The yogi can then travel in time — go forward or backward. Travelling in time, in fact, is widely used in yog for the purpose of evolution and for aiding the creation. Yogis visit past liv...

The manifested Creation is based on certain laws, which govern it since it’s beginning. These laws rule us whether we approve of them or not. One of the major laws which binds us in our journey on this plane is the ‘Law of Karma’. It is not a mere coincidence that nearly every major religion of the world talks about the Law of Karma. This could not be a coincidence that all the great men of different religions saw this rule of Creation and gave it as a law. This is an unfailing law and the foundation of any yogic practice. Karma can be simply translated as action. Action doesn’t necessarily stand for an act in the physical; it can be a thought also. In fact, every action in physical terms is a thought before manifestation. The Law of Karma states, “What you sow, so shall you reap”. Does everyone believe in the Law of Karma, that everything we do comes back to us in some form? We know, but somehow there is a doubt when we actually begin to do things. This is the basic problem with all o...

There is an outdoor shoot; the sky is dark and cloudy. A shoot seems unlikely; your job is at stake. Suddenly the sun breaks in. LUCK. There is a flight to catch; there is no way you can make it in time. You reach the airport only to find that the flight got delayed because a minister chose to fly on the same plane and got late. COINCIDENCE. Doctors have given up hope. There is no way you can be recovered medically. Your near and dear ones are praying and their prayers get answered. MIRACLE. Life is beautiful. Too good to be true? Exactly. We have instilled in us this strange notion that ‘good’ cannot be true. What is even stranger is that we are actually comfortable with this thought. Human behavior surprises me. When things are not working out, we crib but find ‘solace’ in saying ‘that is life’. And as soon as something good happens, instant reaction is to justify by calling it luck or co-incidence or miracle… Think about it. There are just two ways in which things may turn –...