Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari Hindus around the world recently celebrated the auspicious occasion of the Festival of Light, Diwali.I wish you all Happy Diwali, Happy Deepavali! We are all beings of Light going through our human experience. We are a light, luminous soul, wearing our body! And yet there is another gift that we humans have, and […]
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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Mar
Mar
It may sound a bit strange, but then how else do you see yourself, how do you see your own face, your own eyes? You have always seen your self through the eyes of others, and as a result your life has always been focused on receiving compliments and appreciation from others.
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Jan
Jan
The Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet , Miguel De Unamuno, is perhaps best known for his book the tragic sense of life (1913). In this he writes that all consciousness is consciousness of Death (We are painfully aware of our lack immortality) and of suffering.
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Jan
Jan
As 2021 approaches and we say good-bye to the unprecedented year of 2020 we see a New Age is crawling toward the dawn of a new civilization. Especially after the Coronavirus humans all over the planet are awakening to a simple understanding that life is not all that appears on the surface. Facebook, twitter, and […]
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Dec
Dec
As difficult as detachment from the world is detachment from the self, a form of humility opposed by a culture that instead worships self esteem. It is a contemporary axiom that lack of self esteem is the root of all evil, especially social evils such as violence, delinquency and academic under achievement, and that strong self esteem is the solution to all problems both personal and social.
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Nov
Nov
We take it for granted that we see things as they are and rarely question that opinion. We spontaneously assign intrinsic qualities to things and people, thinking ” this is beautiful, that is ugly,” without realising that our mind super imposes these attributes upon what we perceive.
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Aug
Aug
Celebrating the Eternal Teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji By Swami Chaitanya Keerti 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 […]
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Jul
Jul
You are just like a child who is sent back to the same class again and again until he passes his grades. We tell him he will not be allowed into the next class until he completes this one.
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Jun
Jun
In 1945, within months of his liberation from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Viktor Frankl wrote the book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’. The book not only explored the horrors and suffering that Frankl endured in the camps but majorly, it wanted to answer the question: what makes life worthwhile and meaningful? Here are some heart touching lessons from Man’s Search For Meaning’.
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Apr
Apr
In a better arranged society, we would not only celebrate the lawyers and the doctors but also those who have the ability to soothe, to reassure their fellow beings in times of crisis or fear that their feelings are valid and that there is light at the end of the tunnel, provided one shows the […]