Spiritual

IntroductionAfter Nasadiya Suktam, I was looking at materials for Hiranyagarbha suktam, Ratri suktam etc, but could not devote enough time. From nowhere Mrityunjaya mantra came in and fascinated me, though I have heard it many times before. I also landed up at Aitreya Upanishad and Sankara’s commentaries on it as written by one Sitarama Sastri (1923 ... [full story]

IntroductionIn my previous article on Gayatri, I had discussed about how Gayatri Mantra explains the Big Bang and the expansion of Universe.In my article on AUM, I had explained how AUM maps to standard model of Universe as it is known today.During the course of that discussion, I had written about the seven lokas, which are ... [full story]

Introduction I had already written an article on AUM from a scientific perspective, mapping AUM to Universe through particle physics and states of matter. This article is about Gayatri Mantra. Gayatri Mantra is held next to AUM in most hindu scriptures. It is one mantra that is common to many sects of Hinduism. All seers and ... [full story]

Death and life are two polarities of  the same energy Life is in living. It is not a thing, it is a process. There is no way to attain life except by living it, by being alive, by flowing, streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, philosophy, theology, it ... [full story]

Today, schizophrenia is a normal condition of humans. It may not have been so in the primitive world, but centuries of conditioning, civilisation, culture and religion have made man a crowd — divided, split, contradictory. One part goes one way, the other part goes in a diametrically opposite way. So it is almost impossible to keep ... [full story]