Maya conceals Brahmn, entangles consciousness, projects unreal as real. Adi Shankara states Brahmn alone is real, illusory world resides wi...

Pratyahar practice involves withdrawing senses from external stimuli to focus inward, recognizing the transient nature of the external worl...

Moksha, also known as nirvana, is commonly understood as never to be reborn. According to the theory of karma, stepping off the wheel of bi...

"Prime Minister Modi on August 15 gave five resolves to the people. If every person moves on the path of duty keeping in mind the five reso...

You live in a world of thoughts. First is thought. Then there is the expression of that thought through the organ of speech. Thought and la...

Mind alone is the cause of the bondage and liberation of human beings.

Once you start experiencing life beyond sense perception, naturally the identification with the body and mind recedes and slowly disappears.

Yogis strive for universal freedom from bondages through yog practices. Freedom from bondage empowers us all and confers joy. We get libera...

Even 37 years after Parliament passed the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, the abominable practice still exists.

In addition, the submerged Tribal vs Gorkha sentiment is also surfacing up fast in the region on different political issues.

If 'Intelligent Design' were to be a reality television show today, 'Darwin's evolutionary theory' would surely lose in terms of TRPs.

In his Book of Understanding, Osho tells the story of how Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tzu went to heaven and were served three glasses of a j...

"The rain in Spain is mainly in the plain," Professor Higgins tells Eliza in My Fair Lady. In wild contrast, the rain in Mumbai falls all o...

Last week, the renowned risk expert and philosophical essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb told your columnist during a meeting in Mumbai, “The m...

Duality divides. Oneness unites. When we think, we divide ourselves. Thought creates a duality or division -by a ‘mind-made scale’ for meas...

Three decades ago, Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer carried out a novel experiment to check if thought patterns alone could reverse aging....

Four hundred years ago Rene Descartes, the French philosopher declared, 'I think, therefore I am.' He was right, and at the same time, he w...