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An anthropologist who had been studying the Xhosa people of Africa, was leaving to return home when he had a revealing experience, which he narrated. While waiting for his ride, he decided to play a game with the little children who milled around him. He...

Keeping good company is as important as life. It enhances the quality of life, thinking and the soul’s quest for Atma Nirvana. Keeping good company has many virtues. The Puranas often speak of the benefits that one can derive through Satsang. It can transform your...

Manusmriti has references to Brahmins tasting meat as part of Vedic rituals. But there are no references that they consumed meat as food. Just after restrictions were imposed on slaughter of cattle across India, a relative of mine quoted the Manusmriti to argue that Brahmins...

Man Who Traded Worldly Wealth for Eternal Bliss He moved to Australia as a teen to live a life of luxury only to return, renounce the world and become a monk at 30 By the time Amit Sharma had turned 26, he owned a multi million...

Where the greatest war Kurukshetra took place? It is said in the texts that 80% of the fighting male population of the civilization was wiped out in the eighteen days Mahabharata Kurukshetra war. Sanjay, at the end of the war went to the spot where the...

Why Do We Go To Temple and How Does It Help Us? There are thousands of temples all over India in different size, shape and locations but not all of them are considered to be built the Vedic way. Generally, a temple should be located...

Perception, Ego & Reality Here we are trying to explore our Perception and Ego. Go through the below words, and the video in the bottom.  We suffer from a hallucination, a false and distorted sense of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the...

The significance of mantras in Spiritual awakening Mantra means a sound, a certain expression or syllable . Today, modern science sees all existence as reverberations of energy and different levels of vibration. Where there is a vibration, there is bound to be a sound. Therefore...

Speaking Truth, directs to God Realization! Always Speak Truth... The Mundaka Upanishad proclaims boldly: Satyameva Jayate - Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. This is because only by being honest with ourselves and with others, we can clean the dirt of the imperfections driven by ego...

Why Did Swami Vivekananda Die So Young? Underneath the passing of every evolved soul such as Swami Vivekananda, there is a greater spiritual reality hidden, which we ordinarily do not grasp. Swami Vivekananda, one of India's greatest teachers of Vedanta Philosophy, left his physical body on...