Tag Archives: Spirit

THE POISON OF HUBRIS

by Naresh Jotwani

A couple of days ago, Keshav Vaze wrote a comment, which we posted here. This post is a follow up on the last part of Keshav’s comment. The post is also, in essence, a speculation on why someone may fail to consider Dharma in his actions.

Quoted below is the last paragraph in Keshav’s comment, on which this post takes a different view:

Unless the society accepts the tenets that ‘Good is good in itself. There is no one sitting in judgement. There is no reward nor punishment: neither in this birth nor in the next birth’, the society will land into this problem.

Co-editor R. Srinivasan (‘Srini’) has also contributed greatly to this post, through discussions held over the phone.

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Help someone in distress … But HOW?

by Ashok Saraf, Tapasya Kollimarla, Keshav Vaze, Jayram Daya, Naresh Jotwani

Distress can be of different kinds. It may arise due to material needs not being fulfilled, or from situations beyond one’s control, such as acts of nature. Distress may be due to a man-made situation, like a conflict or an accident. Or it may arise from  emotional stress, such as fear of failure, loss of a near one, illness, heart-break or a negative emotion.

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HARMONY OF MIND, BODY, SPIRIT

by Jayram Daya, Guest author

Preface: Here our good friend Jayram Daya shares with us the story of a deeply personal journey of recovering his health. On this journey, he discovered the huge importance of attaining full harmony of mind, body and spirit. Further along the same journey, he discovered the unity of all existence.

It is truly a remarkable story! Pain is turned to gain!

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