The Syndicate Bank is in expansion mood. The bank has taken a new approach which is claimed to be a first of-its-kind strategy in the Indian banking industry. This is strengthening the connectivity of the top management and senior officials with the front line employees. Another drive of its special...
Spirituality is connecting the human with the nature; every human being is spiritual by nature. A person just has to awaken the spiritual side within. Religion is an important aspect of spirituality but we have to raise ourselves much beyond religion to reach the true spiritual values within us. A h...
Many times, I am asked, what spirituality is.Does it mean to leave everything and go and live in the Himalayas? Or does it mean to give up material wealth and live in poverty? Do I need to practise meditation all the time? Isn’t spirituality only something for the old?Questions are beautiful becau...
What is it that takes you to the heights of greatness? Here’s something to think about.“Opportunity has never knocked on my door, Swami,” an entrepreneur said to me the other day.“I read somewhere,” I replied, “that if opportunity doesn’t knock, create a door.”“Well, that hasn’t ...
India interpreted spirituality in many ways. The idea “spirituality” defies words yet man has written and spoken in an unbroken stream of collective consciousness for many thousands of years. The idea of a mystical power as Creator, Controller, and Destroyer in creation is very old. Almost every...
The Bhagavad Gita, literally ‘Song of the Lord,’ often referred to simply as the Gita, is the most important spiritual text of the Hindus. It is one of the three main sources texts (prasthanātraya) of Vedanta, the Upanisads and the Brahma-Sutras being the other two. It has been aptly described...
Today we are making rapid development in the fields of science and technology, as well as in communication techniques; as we are talking about the ‘global village’. Paradoxically, as the physical distance is reducing, mental distance between human beings is increasing. Unless we can have global ...
Spirituality is the timeless quest of the human soul to go back to its source, which is called by various names in different traditions as God or Brahman or Allah or Nirvana. It is the unceasing desire of the finite to merge with the infinite. It is seeing God in everything and everywhere. It is all...
Countless people across the world ask me, “Have you converted to Hinduism?” The question is understandable. After all, people don’t often behold an American woman of Jewish ancestry draped in the saffron robes of a Hindu renunciant.However, although the question is simple, the answer is comple...
For thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution, per capita incomes of humanity were largely stagnant with only some small variations. Life expectancy was low.Poverty, deprivation, and disease were widespread. During this period, many eminent spiritual leaders emerged who, among other things...