While other religions lay down a set of commandments which must be uniformly followed by all human beings, Hinduism advises each soul to act based on his or her Swadharma(inner law). This is a nice story by M.S. Srinivasan which illustrates this principle. This story appeared in the recent...
I got, however, very little out of my study, as Percival had only given a translation of the Tamil proverbs, and had given no hints as to their meaning. So in those days I got no insight whatever into the real household proverbs, but had almost to rest satisfied with the many ...
One day, when Ma was doing Satsang at Kashi Ashram, one of her Bengali disciples asked her –Mother, I pray to my Deity and ask for something. But it seems that God is cruel. What are the means to make prayer more effective? Ma– What do you ask God in your prayer? Disciple– I...
for Anandamayi Ma and I realized that law, equity, convention - everything was against me. I deserved to be turned out of the compartment as a trespasser. However, I was not; on the contrary, I overheard the sweet voice of a Bengali lady - "Leave Baba (Father) alone; he is so ...