The mystic feels real and present, even ever present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations.
– SRI AUROBINDO

Rishi literally means one who sees the Truth, or the Absolute Reality.  For seeing the Truth, or rather experiencing it, eyes are neither necessary nor sufficient. [...]

The word, SAMADHI has to be understood. It means coming to a state of absolute equilibrium, coming to a state of absolute balance. The word comes from Sanskrit. And Sanskrit is one of the languages in the world which has words with profound meaning. Not just dictionary meaning, but with existential meaning. Other languages have [...]

The word harmony means when a person is at complete agreement or peace with himself and nature. To attain complete harmony, a person has to be in complete agreement and peace with himself, which is known as internal harmony and also in complete peace or agreement with Nature, which is known as external harmony.
How does [...]

The great saints are so strong in their magnetism that they can change you by their mere presence. The company you keep plays a crucial role, for the people in our lives are the most important aspect of our environment. I remember a man who got into a mood and decided he didn’t want to [...]

Dharma is the epitome of pure love. The world believes that love is possible only between the like-minded. In the case of a Guru-disciple relationship, there is a categorical difference between the two. The disciple is identified with his body and is a slave of his mind, while the Sadguru is beyond body identification and [...]

Adi Deva Namasthubhyam Praseeda Mama Bhaskara
Divakara Namsthubhyam Prabhakara Namosthuthe:
Ratha Saptami or Rathasapthami is a Hindu festival that falls on the seventh day (Saptami) in the bright half (Shukla Paksha) of the Hindu month Maagha. It marks the seventh day following the Sun’s northerly movement (Uttarayana) of vernal equinox starting from Capricorn (Makara). It is symbolically [...]

The once-in-a-144-years mega event, the Maha Kumbha Mela, is here. We dig out some legends associated with the Kumbha Mela and its esoteric meaning

The Mahakumbha. This is your chance to attain moksha. It’s now or never, because only once in 144 years do you get to see this unique combination of the spiritual energies. [...]

Action without vision creates division. Vision without action is imagination. Vision with action leads to transformation, says Swami Tejomayananda, global head of Chinmaya Mission.  When the vision of oneness, a higher vision, is absent it creates divisions in the family, company, community, nation and the world. Self-importance is the cause for divisions at any level. [...]

Our spiritual identity is defined by our soul. Not only has this been vividly described by wide-ranging ancient scriptures, but individual experiences of near-death events and of alternate healing techniques like past life and spiritual regression also reinforce the existence of our spiritual being as soul.

Our soul is the formless life force, the consciousness, that [...]

How can we understand Brahmn through our limited senses?
Physics or western science deals with the external universe. According to Vedanta, there are two things: one is the object and the other is the subject. ‘I’, the conscious entity, is the subject and the world that I see, is the object. Science deals with the external [...]