Charlie Chaplin said that our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. In our culture, there is a …
If words come out of the heart, They will enter the heart, But if they come from the tongue, They will not pass beyond the ears. / Suhrawardi, Persian philosopher and mystic NEW BOOKBlooming of Consciousness
Quantum physicists Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg studied the Vedas and Upanishads. Heisenberg said that quantum theory will not look ridiculous to people who have read Vedanta. He told Schrödinger that during the time he was developing the quantum theory he visited India, where he also met with Rabindranath Tagore with whom he …
More and more people are aware of the state we’re in. Man is becoming a kind of robot – feelings don’t matter, what is important is that his reason is working impeccably. Some individuals choose various ways of getting out of this rather horrifying situation. What kind of future will we choose? “Man is condemned …
In sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the living, conscious and spiritual universe was replaced by the cosmos which functions as a machine. Nature became a mechanism that could be manipulated, exploited and destroyed. This deterministic and mechanistic interpretation of the world which is called the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm describes a cosmos and all living beings as a …
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An elephant was brought to a dark building By Indians, so they could hold a viewing, So lots of people would come just to see – They rushed into the darkness eagerly It was impossible to see it there, So people groped to feel it everywhere: One man’s hand brushed its trunk – he said, …
Today, the meaning of freedom is rather distorted. Our culture in particular makes us believe that we have immense freedom. Johann W. von Goethe said that no one is a greater prisoner than the one who mistakenly believes he is free. Freedom is a characteristic of the inner being – the consciousness. When I’m not …
Wise men say that when we get angry and cannot control ourselves, we pollute the atmosphere around us.The following story tells of what happens when we get angry. Every day, a wise man went down to the river Ganges to take a bath. On one such day, he saw a group of family members shouting …
Wise men, who have attained true wisdom, say that desires are the ones that keep us anchored to this world. We grasp after sensual pleasures and material objects. The roman poet and philosopher Lucretius said that “so long as the object of our desire is wanting, it seems more important than anything else; but later, …