Why do people use harsh words and become abusive? We know the answer and yet do not know because we keep our tongues wagging. Read more

The greatest achievement in one’s life can be said to have come through if one succeeds in developing a loving heart and mind. And, the word ‘love’ is perhaps the most beautiful and meaningful word in the English dictionary. Read more

Perhaps the human brain is the most complex thing one can think of on this planet. Therefore, understanding it too becomes as difficult. We know very little of its working. How to keep it in “high gear” by rescuing it from the lows it goes into quite often can’t be in everybody’s easy grasp. Read more

We live a life that is not free of joy and suffering. That means we are still struggling to get out of the life cycle that necessarily means we are caught in a vicious circle of never-ending misery. Read more

Most of us pray; and I suspect even the so-called atheists pray or would have done at one time or the other in their lives. Because, as the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said, the function of the prayer is not to influence God but to change the nature of the person who prays so that he/she can create a better world to live in. Read more

There are books that you would love to read; and, if possible, love to follow the path shown in them. One such book is Joyful Path of Good Fortune, written by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a Tibetan monk and renowned meditation master, living in the UK. It promises to lead you to the path of enlightenment. Read more

One must always be on the way to self-improvement; or else one is no better than an animal. The need for constant thinking on ways and means to be better every day can’t be overemphasised. Read more

There is nothing wrong with Nature’s creation of anyone of us or any other living being. Mystery and suffering exist only in the mind. Read more

It is more in our nature to be happy and not in sorrow; but the reality is the reverse: We are more in sorrow than in happiness. That is because we are too lazy to act and maybe even ignorant of the circumstances and hence not in a position to deal with the circumstances. Read more

Many of us are aware that rituals and rites are unscientific and “unsound”, and yet we do indulge in them in some form or the other in our daily life. Even those who call themselves ‘not religious’ do have their own rituals to perform. Maybe, they are not aware of them because of having forgotten to do a ‘look within’ or because of ‘ignorance’. Read more