Alok Pandey

By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2021

There is often an idea that spiritual life is antagonised to the worldly material life of man. This divide is at times seen merely as an extension of the opposition or so it seems between idealism and practicality. However this is only one side of the story. The other side is that, far from opposing each other the spiritual and the material are two aspects of one Existence and can fulfil rather than cancel each other This article tries to build the bridges between the two.

By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2020

Conceptions of God are not just religious matters but a matter of everyday living. We may not call it God but simply the idea of what is the source of all things. This search for a lost reality is interwoven in man’s fabric of life. Yoga explores it in its own unique way. Yet in the process it can and does enrich all other areas of human activity such as science, art, psychology, religion and philosophy.

By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2019

The last few decades have seen an increasing interest in yoga not only as a tool for health but also for a deeper understanding of human nature and its complex psychology. Here, we have a first look at the profound effect of yoga on our psychology. But first we need to understand ‘yoga’, its evolutionary potential for the individual and the collective, its scientific nature, above all, its possibility of transforming our human nature.

By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2018

The evolutionary journey has its own dangers and perils. It is full of the unpredictable as our past and present formation of nature adapts to the new. Nature tries and tests our limits, creating a number of sub-types and abortive sub-species before finally yielding the old and arriving at a new poise. It is this we seem to be passing through now.

By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2017

Mankind seems to be trapped in a never-ending series of problems where each solution brings fresh problems in its wake. Despite all our advancements and achievements, we stand on the threshold of self-destruction. A closer look however reveals that this very threat, this crisis may well help us force open a hitherto unseen inner door and we may emerge suddenly in a new dimension of consciousness. At its bottom this crisis seems to be an evolutionary crisis where we have to either take courage and faith to cross the inner chasm towards the New or else fall back on our old ways but only for the worse. The first signs however indicate a new emergence and although the battle between the new and the old is far from over, at least a few human beings the world over are taking the first infant steps towards a new humanity of tomorrow.