“Om Prithvii Tvayaa Dhritaa Lokaa Devii Tvam Vishnunaa Dhritaa/ Tvam Cha Dhaaraya Maam Devii Pavitram Kuru Chaasanam//”, i.e., “O Devi (Earth)! The entire world is held by you, and you are held by Shrivishnu (the Supreme Soul); O Goddess (Earth)! Kindly accept me also and accord sanctity to th...
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow beings.” –Mahatma GandhiThis concise statement encapsulates the vision of the Mahatma regarding ‘development and sustainable peace’. Further, this statement, as I believe, contains, more or less, the e...
Banda Singh Bahadur (Childhood: Lachhman Dev; lifetime: 1670-1716 AD), a great warrior, a true Sikh and a distinguished Khalsa commander, was born on October 27, 1670 AD to Ramdev, a poor farmer of Rajauri, Poonch (Jammu and Kashmir). His mother’s name was Sulakhani Devi.Lachhman Dev, who was inte...
Education, which is imbued by values and inspires one to indulge in righteous acts –Sadachar, can be the true Shiksha according to its basic spirit. Such education can get one realize his responsibilities towards the humanity; thus, to pave the way to Vishwa-Shanti –world peace. Hence, a to...
Human beings are among the most prominent creatures in the universe, granting them a unique standing in the grand scheme of the divine order. There are two reasons for the superiority and special status of a human being in the Jagata (or Jagat –universe in macro perspective). Firstly, it is the pr...
What is Yoga? In very short, from the basic viewpoint of Patanjali (the proponent of Yoga, a major branch of Indian philosophy and the author of the Yogashastra –Yogasutra), Yoga is the process of merging oneself into the One Indivisible Whole through concentration of mind. Yoga is, thus, th...
In its known history of thousands of years, India has maintained the status of an iconic nation in the world. The Indian civilization is one of the oldest civilizations on the planet Earth. The footprints of this civilization speak for the basic character of Indian people in ancient times. People’...
“If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. It is the fundamental law of Nature, without exception, that Nature produces enough for our wants from day-to-day; and if only everybody took enough for himself and nothing more, there woul...
Mental haze, synonymous with the words like ambiguity, doubt, suspense and uncertainty is not an unusual state. It is, in fact, a normal state. It is a situation of duel in the human mind. In the entire human history, not a single human being remained unaffected by this state. Greatest ones like Gau...
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel always remained bound to constitutional and democratic values. History has borne witness to his commitment to these principles. Similarly, Vallabhbhai Patel was a born Satyagrahi –a seeker of Truth. It was in his nature to launch Satyagraha –the pursuit for Truth, t...