Navratri: Going back to the source

Guruji writes about the meaning of Navratri in today’ DeccanHerald.
Navaratri means the new night or the nine nights that give deep rest to the body, mind and soul. As it takes nine months in our mother’s womb before we are born, we take these nine days to go back to our source. ‘Nava’ means [...]

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Celebrating Silence

Work keeps me away from the Navratri celebrations in the Art of Living Ashram this year round. Words fail me to describe what it means to be at the Ashram during this nine days. Last year I was fortunate to be at the Ashram doing the advanced meditation course. The atmosphere, the yagnas, the chantings, [...]

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On Samskara

Rajesh has a beautiful story that illustrates the power of Samskara. Eknath Easwaran writes about Samskara in his book “The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living”. He says:
Put simply, a samskara is a compulsion, a rigid, automatic response to life which we think of as a permanent part of someone’s character. But the samskara itself is [...]

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Guruji’s address at Financial Express!

[Via Finacial Express], Sri Sri RaviShankar’ address to Indian Express staff. Reproduced below.
Sri Sri Ravishankar has been winning over ever diverse adherents to his Art of Living mode to spiritualism. He dropped by for tea with the Indian Express Group reporters and editors – with the promise of a special 15-minute meditation [...]

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The need for a second salt satyagraha!

We are held to ransom by our own ignorance and our unwillingness to stand up and fight for rights. The Right to Information act issue being one such incident. There are several other issues that face us and it is our unwillingness to ask questions, demand answers that have led to a deterioration in the [...]

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Justice finally

The High Court strikes down Act on temples.
Regarding the provision in the Act, which makes it mandatory for a notified temple to contribute 5 per cent of its total annual income to the “Common Pool Fund”, regulated by the Endowment Commissioner, the court said there cannot be compulsion only for Hindu temples to provide assistance [...]

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