Take a glass filled with a fizzy drink, maybe Sprite. What do you see on the surface? Lot of small bubbles that fizzle out in a few seconds. Govinda Dasa, a Bengali poet, has said that our life in this world is as temporary and insignificant as a bubble of water on a lotus petal. Hence, the scriptures tell…
Category: Knowledge
Manmade Illusion
Many times people visit amusement parks, stand in lines and pay so much money just to see a robotically-animated historical personality deliver a speech. Why do people stand in a line? All around them are so many people blinking their eyes, moving their hands and speaking. What’s going on inside…
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap
Life is so shallow, so superficial and actually very lonely when you have so much, but you don’t really know who loves you and who doesn’t, and who is using you. On the other hand, persons who are loved for their integrity and their compassion, are actually respected. There is substance and realness…
The Honeybee and the Fly
The honeybee flies from one flower to the next, drinking only the sweetness and the essence of the nectar of that flower without disturbing the flower in the slightest, and then going to the next flower and drinking the nectar there. So, we have much to learn from the honeybee; it is teaching us the… Continue reading The Honeybee and the Fly
Calm Caves
It is interesting how in both Eastern and Western spirituality great renounced persons would often perform their prayer and worship in the caves of the mountains. It is in the spirit of simplicity and renunciation—simplicity in that it’s completely natural, it is provided by God Himself. There is no need to…
Humility Means Honesty
Humility really means honesty. Humility simply means being truthful. What do we have to brag about? If God does not make the sun rise, what would you do? Did you create your brain? Did you create your eyes to
The Real Meaning of Religion
When we are asked to give our time to our spiritual development we do not have time; this laziness, this lethargy, is a demon; it is an enemy who from within our minds is…
The Quest for Truth
Sometimes it is said that man is a rational animal. Now, if you take away the rationality, man is an animal. Now, what does it mean to be rational? Rational means to be able to discriminate what is truth. If we do not live for the truth, if we do not live on the basis… Continue reading The Quest for Truth
Knowledge Comes but Wisdom Lingers
It’s a philosophical truth that whoever we are, there is always someone who can create great damage to whatever we have and whatever we stand for…