Bhikhaiji Rustom Cama, better known as Madam Cama, was born in Mumbai on September 24, 1861 to Jaijibai Sorabji Patel, wife of an elite Parsi businessman Sorabji Framji Patel, four years after India’s first attempt to freedom in 1857 (known as the First War of Independence) at Navsari (present-day...
Compassion – Karuna is the first of the fundamentals of human Dharma established by Gautama Buddha. Compassion is that feeling, which incorporates Maitri, the friendliness in it. It is contradictory to depicting Daya –pity on someone along with a feeling of superiority over him. Let us consider ...
Divided into eighteen chapters and well equipped with a total of seven hundred verses –Shlokas, the Shrimadbhagavadgita is a unique philosophical treatise dedicated to the absolute and eventually committed to the all-round development of man making his life meaningful. Every verse, and every word ...
“Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for every human being to become perfect even as God is perfect. It is necessary for us all to aspire after perfection, but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescr...
Our country India, the largest democracy of the world, is moving towards completing seventy-five years of its independence from British colonialism. We are getting ready to celebrate the diamond jubilee of our country’s independence. The contribution of women of the country, who constitute a...
Indian culture is based on Sanatana values. The Sanatana values are eternal and functionally unifying; therefore, association with these values is absolutely necessary. These values are all-timely, ever-relevant and welfaristic. Humanity cannot escape from these Sanatana-eternal values as thes...
Indivisible Totality – Universal Unity is the only eternal truth. The “Veda” is made from the Sanskrit word “Vid”, which in its singular form literally means knowledge. Associated words like “Vidit” (known), “Vidya” (knowledge), “Jnani” (scholar) are also used for attaini...
Even after the diversity of colours, food items, diets, languages, dialects, practices and behaviours the whole human race is one. Essentially interdependence is a truth associated with all lives including humankind. Interdependence on one another is a clear indication of utility, purpose and ...
Tirthankara Mahavira (599–527 BCE), was the Twenty-Fourth and the last Tirthankara of currently known Jain tradition –Dharma and philosophy, at the core of which is Ahimsa –non-violence, the essential condition of life and its continuity. Rishabhadeva – Rishabhanatha, Adishwara or Adin...
Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956 AD) is a name, which dwells in the hearts of crores of Indians and holds the tag of being the Chief Architect of the Indian Constitution. Dr. Ambedkar’s entire life was devoted to the upliftment of the underprivileged and down-trodden in various form...