According to Charak’s delightful story, the ancient wise men of India one day assembled at the foot of the Himalayas with the purpose of ridding men of disease. They decided to send one Bharadwaj to heaven to learn medicine from…
The Santa Scripture says the spirit is libido. What roams in Brahma is spirit, libido, or surat. The ‘Setaswatar Upanishada’ says: That which, with ectoplastic body -like a sunbeam-. promised and egoed, sufficient in its own purity and power, and…
Men of the Vedas and Upanishadas realized the sound Om; those of the Ramayana and Mahabharata realized Rarang and Shohang. Recently we have had many teachers who speak of new realizations. We call them the creators of the new order.…
Responsibility grows from services, and there are many ways to serve. Wherever men expand and establish themselves, they have been serviceable to their environment. Where they give peace and happiness, they are most serviceable and become as gods. Service…
The universe is truly mysterious. Sir James Jeans realized this and quoted a few lines from Plato. He did not support Plato in toto, but when he could not make out the workings of the universe, he came to respect…
In this world we see that everyone more or less is suffering from some ailment or other. Some are susceptible to colds, some can’t stand heat, some are prematurely gray or their teeth loosen, and some have poor eyesight, etc.…
We want to discuss some sages and seers of ours living between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. Kabir was born in Benares. He lived from 1398 to 1448. His father, Niru, was a weaver and a Mohammedan. Kabir never left…
When we follow religion, we are being religious men. We should admit this truism. There are very few men in this world who do not pray to God in their crises, whether He hears them or no. At a critical…
In an upheaving sparks of beauty shot forth from the bosom of the Beyond, each shooting energy becoming a finite bubble on the infinite ocean of Cause. The bubbles were vast, and their shooting energy had a double motion; one…
The war-drum beats. Any moment now the fighting may begin. The immortal sons of the earth are marching forward, torch in hand, toward the smoldering fire. They will not stop till everything is massacred. No death, no pain, no tears,…
Charles Darwin was born in 1809, in England. He thought of evolution in a new way, in a way no other scientists had been able to do. His two famous books were the ‘Origin of Species’ (1859) and the…
In the Bhagavat Gita Lord Krishna describes devotion. He says: “The man who dedicates his thoughts and deeds to Me, whose faith is like Gibraltar, and he the same, not discontent, not thinking ‘mine’ and ‘me’ who makes no sore…
We see with our eyes and hear with our ears, but how do sight and sound arise? One life energy flows throughout the world, and there is nothing lifeless. Man has life. Even a grain of sand has life. A…
The birds’ sweet songs make the happy morning. Who does not love to hear them? Who will lie drowsing in his bed till after the sun has risen? Light is life, dispeling dark and gloom. When sky is tinged with…
Health And Energy: On September 3, 1939 war broke out among England, France, and Germany. We want war to be abolished; yet we cannot avoid it. It has been with us since the beginning of civilization. When war protects our…
