Volume 24, Issue 3

By Alok Pandey - Oct 15, 2016

Evolution is the most happening event in the world. It is the oldest script of life as well as the most recent. But with the coming of the human being, evolution has taken a different sense. It is possible now to evolve consciously, to do our acts more purposefully and live meaningfully. These are some of the issues being touched as we move through the winding pathways of the human evolutionary journey.

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2016

We all agree that freedom is the most cherished thing in life though paradoxically, we are all bound in some way or other, willingly or unwillingly to some object or circumstance, even to some value or ideal. In a way we are not even born free, the new born is not a tabula rasa, there are genetic endowments and temperamental characteristics which later will be joined by family traditions and cultural roots and will be worked upon by ecological variables and social factors.

By Mira Prabhu - Oct 15, 2016

What’s the one thing we humans can never ever get back? Yes, it is time, precious time. To bring this awareness sharply to mind, Buddhists teach a simple three-point meditation on the inevitability of death: 1) that death is certain; 2) that the time of death is uncertain; and 3) that when we die, we can take nothing with us but our state of consciousness. Practising this analytical meditation regularly can work wonders in leading us to liberation. It also gets rid of the endless crud clogging our spiritual arteries — so we can focus on our greatest passions instead of a thousand-and-one paltry affairs that won’t matter a whit as we approach the final curtain on this lifetime..