Colors fascinate me. Once sitting in my lawn I was enjoying the fruits of my labor that had spurted forth in countless glorious colors. I was trapped in a net of wonder to notice that no two shades of any color was the same. It is hard to imagine that billions of years ago this […]
Adhyatma: A Way to Self Realization
Speaking Tree, Times of India: July 1, 2018 https://www.speakingtree.in/article/precious-teachings SHRIMADBHAGWAT GITA, a unique dialogue between God Shri Krishna and His disciple Arjuna, contains the quintessence of Hindu thought. Arjuna is the eternal sadhak in us, ignorant about his raison dˆetre. In the battle of life, he asks the creator of the universe seated in […]
What Is In a Name?
“What is in a name?” said Shakespeare, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The famous bard could not be wrong. Call Laxmi Niwas* Mittal by any other name and he would be as rich. But it is amazing that the connotation and denotation of his name merge […]
The Bible: A Book Of Hope
Christmas is around the corner. The festivities of Christmas have painted the world in rainbow colors. The cord that binds the large sea of the population of Christians in one religious thread is The Bible. The reason the Bible is such an amazingly all -time popular book is that it takes the whole humanity in […]
Are We Still In Kaliyuga?
IN SEARCH OF THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION scholars acknowledge the impressive accomplishments of ancient civilizations of Anatolia, Egypt, Meso- America, Tibet and Central Asia but consider the Indus valley civilization to be the oldest continuous and living tradition. A section of the oldest Vedic literature written by an archetypal god- man Manu deals with the […]