Apple's logo has no connection with byte, Bible's forbidden fruit or Newton: Designer shuts down popular theories revealing the truthRob Janoff, designer of the iconic Apple logo, reveals that the bite in the apple was added for clarity and was not a reference to the comp...
27 Feb, 2025, 10.55 PM IST
Tax collection: Old view to newThis journey of history is reflected in mythology as polytheism moving towards monotheism. In politics, it is from many tax-collectors to o...
18 Sep, 2020, 11.35 PM IST
Supreme Court to protect LGBTs from Section 377The CJI, however, refused to go further into rights of sexual minorities. “Whether homosexuality, heterosexuality or bisexuality, if it’s c...
10 Jul, 2018, 11.17 PM IST
Rewards of RelaxationIt is common experience that when one is under stress, all that he issues forth would be liable to be incorrect: be it his behaviour, evalu...
09 Apr, 2012, 02.02 AM IST
Intuit Your 'Truths'The Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary gives the meaning of 'intuition' as "the power of the mind by which it immediately perceives the...
02 Apr, 2012, 01.36 AM IST
Life lived out wellTruly comprehending truths to live by and thus guided to do all well and rightly and in consequence perceiving beauty and felicity all over.
05 Dec, 2011, 07.10 AM IST
Excellence in action is applying your ‘Truths’A Sanskrit adage notes that knowledge without application is useless. This is similar to the Biblical concept of ‘faith and works’
10 Oct, 2011, 04.48 AM IST
Ensconced in 'Being'Ensconced and established in ‘being’ implies transition from doing mere ‘activities’ to being engrossed in ‘action’ and from noisy theorisi...
21 Mar, 2011, 08.39 AM IST
Pursue excellence, and be contentedOne of the signs in a seeker, pursuing the objective of 'victory over oneself', is contentment (santushta). The great Tamil saint Avvaiyar ...
29 Nov, 2010, 02.17 AM IST
Have a love affair with yourselfThe Bible observes (Mathew : 4,4), “Man shall not live by bread alone” . Any attainments, possessions, status or pomp would be of no avail ...
03 May, 2010, 07.14 AM IST
Manifestations of atmasuddhiThe concepts concerning atmasuddhi, besides exercises in contemplation and meditation or taking time to be with oneself — these are not, in...
30 Nov, 2009, 04.05 AM IST
God is where you see HimInto the vast, peaceful and picturesque greenery, where the Kalakshetra School of Dance and Music is housed at Chennai, a board reads, “God...
22 Jun, 2009, 01.39 AM IST
Change as a matter of faithAs mentioned earlier, the trouble with most organised religions is that they don’t change with changing times and conditions, preserving in...
02 Jun, 2009, 12.20 AM IST
From darkness to lightThe second part of the great universal prayer from Brahadaranyaka Upanishad (1,3,28) is for being led from darkness to light (tamaso ma jyo...
09 Mar, 2009, 01.46 AM IST
To achieve, risk being unpopularThe essence of right living is living up to highest vision of yourself, no matter what the circumstances you might encounter.
18 Jan, 2009, 11.46 PM IST
Experience matters, not just knowledgeOne should talk and act based on experience and not mere knowledge.
20 Oct, 2008, 02.47 AM IST
Real benefits from great writingsDoubtless, there exists, in this great world, in abundant measure, great and inspiring writings besides specific injunctions on worthwhile ...
13 Oct, 2008, 01.02 AM IST