In America, one of the biggest holidays of the year is Thanksgiving. The feast is in honour of the first good harvest after the pilgrims came to the new land. In theory, this holiday is a beautiful one. The idea of gathering to give thanks, gathering on behalf of the bountiful harvest God has provid...
We in India are celebrating 25 years of Indo-ASEAN relations which has a history of over two millennia. Among other cultural aspects, the epic stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata play a key role in building cultural bridges across countries of this region. The Ramayana does not only belong t...
Sadhvi Bhagawati SaraswatiPresident, Divine Shakti FoundationThe telephone poles, windows of cyber cafes and restaurants, and walls of the ashrams are plastered with signs advertising every form of yoga imaginable -- from the traditional, standardized and internationally renowned Iyengar tradition t...
State of MindAs our car pulled into the driveway, my father checked the mailbox. “Did it come? I gasped excitedly. The year was 1986, and I had been waiting in breathless anticipation for the past two days. I knew that the results of my black belt test had been mailed and my heart plummeted into m...
I acknowledge the presence of the President of the session Dr. H. P. Kanoria Ji, Dr. Tathagata Roy, the Governor of Tripura and Madame Rosalia Arteaga Serrano, the former President of Ecuador, and the very distinguished ladies and gentlemen who have gathered here. I particularly acknowledge the pres...
The Abahon magazine in collaboration with the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RMIC), Golpark, Kolkata, and the SREI Foundation recently organised a day-long programme to commemorate the 125th year of the Chicago Speech by Swami Vivekananda and 150th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita. Th...
Indian culture is the oldest culture of the world. It is, undoubtedly, the most influential culture of the world. The ideological glory of Indian culture could be well assessed from its long and successful journey through the last five thousand years. Indian culture has stood the test of time and ha...
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a proponent of the Bhakti movement. He was the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. The philosophy of Sri Chaitanya is called achintya-bhedabheda-tattva which is simply described as inconceivable oneness and difference. The oneness is in quality and the difference is in...
गेनचित्तस्यपदेनवाचांमलंशरीरस्यचवैद्यकेन।योपाकरोत्तंप्रवरंमुनीनांपतञ्जलिंप्राञ्जलिरानतोस्मि॥– I bow with my han...
Firstly, I thank Dr. Hari Prasad Kanoria, his charming wife Champa Devi Kanoria and their entire family for organising this splendid confluence for the last ten years. It has been my privilege to be present at each and every one of these conferences. It is the greatness of the Indian Constitution t...