Strokes of Mysticism
Pratiksha Apurv’s show Mystical Moments, expressed her journey as a divine seeker through meditation and spirituality. The exhibition was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the presence of...
View ArticleOnly After Sixty My True Life Began
At 60, Bodhi Hanna Kistner moved from Germany to India. Then she started practicing Kyudo, Japanese zen archery. At 70, she became a Kyudo teacher. Now she’s 86 and gives lessons in India, California...
View ArticleAccidental Wellness Goddess
You’re more mindful than you think. Photo: Stocksy The art of quieting the monkey mind can take many years to master. Many of us will never get there, and to be honest, most of us won’t even try. You...
View ArticleMeet the Queen of Listening to the Body
Nineteen years ago, in my early 20′s I found myself in the Osho Meditation Resort and, wandering around curious about what activities happened in the evenings, I shyly entered a building that had a...
View ArticleCultivate Compassion!
The real meaning of the word ‘compassion’ goes back hundreds of centuries when Sanjaya described Arjuna’s state of mind in Kurukshetra to the Kaurava king, Dhritarashtra, before the battle of...
View ArticleWhy do our decisions fail?
What is so special about the decision-making process that it is considered to be a prime quality in a good manager? A quick Google reveals 201,000,000 results on decision-making in management in 0.71...
View ArticleMeditation – A Festivity
Yoga may have become very popular these days but the fact is most of the people are interested in meditation, as they are suffering from tension and stress. They think meditation can free them of...
View ArticleNovelty of Meditation
There was a boss who had a terrible habit of telling stale jokes, but his staff would always laugh at them as heartily as if they were hearing them for the first time. One day his secretary did not...
View ArticleHow Can We Change the World?
For thousands of years, philosophers and thinkers, moralists and spiritualists, politicians and dictators, and even commoners, all have been trying to change the world or at least thinking to change...
View ArticleVinod Khanna: The Actor Who Became a Monk and Sold His Mercedes
It is said that when Sunil Dutt saw Vinod Khanna for the first time what attracted him to the young boy was that he was from Peshawar, now in Pakistan. Dutt decided to launch Khanna and his younger...
View ArticleThe Advaita of Life
Most of us, when we think about our lives, we think in parts and fragments. We start living our lives the way we think. This kind of thinking is dangerous as it creates split personality. A worldly...
View ArticleLife is a Mystery to be Lived
We deplete our vital energy when we live a fragmented life — when our body, mind and soul are not in agreement with each other. Existentially, our body belongs to nature, our soul belongs to God, and...
View ArticleKyrie Irving: Life Away From Basketball
Welcome to Anything But Basketball, an interview series that strives to bring readers a glimpse into the lives of NBA players away from the hardwood. Joining us for the inaugural edition is Cavaliers...
View ArticleCanvas Queen
It was a defining moment for Pratiksha Apurv when three top leaders of the country – President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President M Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Narendra Modi – launched her...
View ArticleLove – The Bridge to Reach God
Jesus and many enlightened masters have proclaimed that God is love. And for thousands of years people have been searching God, without being in love, without paying attention to this profound...
View ArticleParenting Can Be Fun
The very question sounds like sacrilege, when parenting surely is the most exalted and glorified job of men and women — absolutely choiceless! Women particularly are so heavily conditioned about...
View ArticleWhy Hoard? Like Blood, Money Should Circulate
A society that condemns wealth will invariably become dishonest. Why the businessman of India is not productive? India has been condemning wealth for thousands of years. It has been saying that money...
View ArticleEnergy Travels
Among the seven chakras that represents seven bodies, muladhara is the basic and first chakra that provides a platform for a seeker to dive deep into the ocean of ultimate bliss. The muladhara or root...
View ArticleTo Save the Planet with a Paintbrush
Art, Consciousness and humanity in peril When Consciousness is free of mind, it celebrates. Rashid Maxwell is a writer, poet, artist, fine art lecturer, designer, art therapist, furniture maker,...
View ArticleRestore balance of nature
Human ego is always in conflict with others, and we cannot expect others also to be without ego… Two thousand year ago in China, when Tao was being widely accepted by the seekers of truth, someone...
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