Mysorean

It was the year 1996. Hyderabad was the city. The then CM Chandrababu Naidu was on a Hyderabad beautification spree. One of the main items on his agenda was road widening. Too many encroachments and the roads had become too narrow for the growing volume of traffic. If he wanted investment to come into Hyderabad […]

I have had this debate with many people for long. I had always advocated tolerance towards all religions if not acceptance. But recent developments have left me and my faith in such a philosophy questioned. And as always, it is again Islam under the scanner.
More than the feeling of my philosophy being questioned I […]

An interesting article that discusses the co-existence of science and God in today’s world.

Is God Necessary?
C.S.RAMAKRISHNAN
Sri C.S. Ramakrishnan is a long-standing and close devotee and a former editor of The Vedanta Kesari.

Voltaire, whose massive scholarship and keen intellect are beyond question, used to say that if God did not exist it will be […]

Continued from Part III
Extending the from the types of “sukhas” quoted in the Gita, to the types quoted in the “Kathopanishads”. There are three types of “Ananda”s.

Vishayananda: Vishaya (Poisonous things) + ananda (Happiness) = Happiness that we find in doing mundane tasks referred to as poisonous things.
Bhajanananda: Bhajan (hymns sung in the praise of […]

This discourse was given on Sunday, August 13, 2006. In this article I have tried to include my learnings or my questions wherever possible.
How is the highest reality to be perceived? Knowing the ultimate reality is not similar to knowing something through your senses. It is something that is much beyond. And knowing it […]

My wife was supposed to do some puja today and the poor thing has no idea how to go about doing one. It’s the first time ever that she is conducting a puja on her own. I belong to the category of “What puja? Why Puja?”.
She came out of the Puja room, after completing […]

Continued from Part I
Achieving Divinity is:
To recognize the Eternal amidst the ephemeral
And to recognize that force or power that gives the fruit of actions
effortlessly alongwith grace.
This power to achieve Divinity is recognized by “Dheera“. Eternal peace is for those who recognize the underlying Unity.
“Dheera” is a very familiar word to one who is familiar with […]

After a long time I attended the discourse at Ramakrishna Ashram on Kathopanishads by Swami Atmashraddhananda. Here is a write-up of whatever I understood there. Swamiji started off with reading out the sloka and then started explaining it in his inimitable style of raising questions and answering them.
Those who have not known the (nitya in […]

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is both visionary and practical. At the dawn of the new millennium, he calls for a return to the timeless values common to all religious traditions as a means to resolving conflict in the world today. He recognizes that this begins with individuals who embody those values in their own lives. […]

Success in Life
There was a talk on “What is Success in Life?” by Swami Dayananda Saraswathi yesterday at K.L.N. Prasad Auditorium, Hyderabad. I will try to articulate the 40-minute speech here. The learned and well-versed Swamiji laced his speech with characteristic humour and made it sound quite down-to-earth. Though I felt he could have avoided […]