Volume 20, Issue 4

By Soumitra Basu - Jan 15, 2013

We live in a world where we are constantly bombarded from all sides so that the concept of seclusion has become an anathema in our global village. The era of abject materialism and glorified hedonism impinges on our senses, moulds our perceptions, modifies our emotions, distorts our thoughts, customises our values and impersonalises our morality. No wonder, the global mindset is today ‘brainwashed’ by mobile phones, e-mails, sms’s, facebooks and the Internet. In this cataclysm of chaos, the average human being gets swept away to become:

By The Mother - Jan 15, 2013

I put the question to myself because the impression is that this transparence is transparent, but it is somewhat like nothingness, a nothingness that is full; all the same it is nothingness, one does not know. One does not know if it is a kind of higher tamas, or...

By Alok Pandey - Jan 15, 2013

There are two movements, seemingly parallel, that influenced the scientific mind of the 20th century. The first entered into the abyss of matter tearing one veil after another from the face of all that appeared to be substance and form. It explored the dumb depths to discover dark secrets. Incredible powers were found and harnessed for the purpose of improving man’s outer life. Amid the heart of the earth lay asleep the secret to dive and fly. Its energy could be used to drive huge machines, give light or destroy the world entirely. Amazing drugs were discovered that sped straight through specific parts of the body to heal or harm. The far became near, the dumb began to speak. Even death’s army appeared to be receding as the siege of science put everything under the control of material laws and processes. The mystery and charm of life appeared to be lost except for a thin substratum of quantum quarks spinning in an empty void. It was hoped that having understood this, nothing more would remain. The ocean was fathomed, the bowels of earth plundered, the sky scanned. What more could be left, except for stretches of endless silent star studded space, and this too would speak some day at the command of man? All life seemed soon to be reduced to mechanical formulae. But not quite.

By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2013

Tamātmastham yena paśyanti dhīrā steṣāṁ sukham sasvatim netasreṣāṁ

By supplied by Sushila Melvani - Jan 15, 2013

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