Celebrating the Eternal Teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji My connection with Guru Nanak Dev Ji goes back to my childhood. I was born in a Hindu family, and when I was a 6-7-year-old boy, I used to see my father going to a nearby Gurudwara in Panipat. My father had a very strange job. […]
Author Archives: Chaitanya Keerti
It was yesterday — or perhaps 50 years ago — when Osho, the Enlightened Mystic, made a prophecy that now feels chillingly accurate. He foresaw that the next fifty years would be a turning point in human history. On one side, he said, there would be madly destructive politicians. On the other, just a handful […]
In such a space of deep relaxation–he disappeared as an ego and became one with cosmic consciousness, as the mystic saint Kabir describes: Bund Samani Samund Me, So Kat Heri Jaye. The drop disappeared into the ocean. Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, the awakened one.
These tantalising words could be good for sexual liberation, but can it be described as Tantra. I don’t want to be so judgemental as to condemn them, because the modern practitioners of Tantra would argue: This too is Tantra. It is a good beginning of Tantra.
One of the wisest enlightened mystics of the last century, J. Krishnamurti, whose birthday is on 11th May, was often asked: What role has emotion in life? And one of the open sessions, compiled in “The Book of Life” answers: How do emotions come into being? Very simple. They come into being through stimuli, through […]
Many Sadgurus, the true masters, especially the Zen masters discouraged this tendency of the lethargic attitude of the meditators and taught them to work as meditation.
“The biggest danger is not the virus itself. The really big problem is our own inner demons, our own hatred, greed, and ignorance”, says Yuval Noah Harari, tweeting on the COVID 19 pandemic. The viruses visit us every now and then in every century and do kill us–sometimes many of us and sometimes not so […]
Currently, our human world is passing through a very serious period of despondency and death, all because of novel coronavirus spreading like wildfire around the world. At the time of writing this article, it was being reported about USA, the greatest superpower in the world, by New York Times, the largest circulated daily newspaper: Faced with the grim prospect […]
In one of the reports about the study, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, was a review of evolutionary evidence for the so-called “male warrior hypothesis”.
On his visit to USA, The Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi became emotional while answering a question at Facebook town hall. The question was pertaining to hardships his mother faced while raising him. He said in an emotional but proud voice that his mother Heeraben Modi raised him and his siblings as a single […]