Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

We all have our varying understanding of life. And most often than not, this understanding stems from popular metaphors that we heard while growing up. These metaphors offer as a source of guidance, motivation and encouragement.

Here are three of the most prominent ideas from the Orient that might help us enrich our lives and inspire us!

Here’s a story, trying to establish the master’s role, as told by Ramakrishna.

Mahabharata was written ages ago and yet it continues to overwhelm us with the amount of wisdom it carries in each word. This epic is revered not only because of its poetic grandeur but also because of the deep philosophical lessons that form its very foundation. In this article, we share 5 important life lessons from the text.

Running your mind 24×7 isn’t always the best thing for you. Let’s see how!

One of the hardest things in life is to relieve someone of their services or to put in millennial language, to fire them. We experience this difficulty because we want to be seen as good by others and telling someone that they are fired will not get us such a response. So how do we find a way out of this dilemma?

Instead of always indulging in your desires, learn to set limits on them “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”– John Stuart Mill Appreciate the little things in life for a more fulfilling experience “The secret of happiness, you see is not found in […]

One day, while cleaning the household, the female head of the family decided to have this flute thrown away. “Why should we bother keeping it anyway? Who wants to play it even?”, she said to herself. And within seconds, the instrument found itself lying on the road outside.

Let’s see what the ancient Greek Philosopher had to say about life!

Now coming to the heterodox category, we have the materialists or Carvakas, Jainas and Buddhists. Unlike the orthodox schools, the members of these philosophical systems do not believe in the authority of the Vedas.