The aspirant for personal growth, even after advancing long on the path, is always vulnerable to unforeseen, unexpected occult attacks. Paradoxically, some of these occult attacks may result when the inner being xpands to such a great extent that, together with positive vibrations, negative vibrations also enter the being and, in the absence of an integral control, one can involuntarily succumb. Read more...

Growth

Tapasya and Surrender: The Paradoxical Process of Self-Transformation

Manoj Pavithran

When considering the concept of tapas, a Sanskrit word often translated into English as austerity, we perceive an active will of concentrated effort. Conversely, the term ‘surrender‘ evokes the notion of a profound receptive passivity. How do these seemingly contradictory movements, one active and the other passive, converge in the process of our self-transformation? A simple analogy to facilitate their integration is to envision surrender as the bridge connecting the human tapas to the divine tapas. Read more...

Insight

Fatigue and Work

Nolini Kanta Gupta

Fatigue, it is said, comes from overwork. The cure for fatigue is therefore rest, that is, do-nothing. But the truth of the matter is that most often fatigue is due not to too much work, but rather too little work, in other words, laziness or boredom. Read more...

Think it Over

Meaning: Meaning?

Sushmita Mukherjee

Our earthly existence, our day-to-day living, is filled with and formed of, hugely, the pursuit of Meaning — of what not, meaning of words, meaning of happenings, etc. Perhaps, this search has manifested and is still manifesting as various branches of ‘academic disciplines.’ And all this search for meanings, leading perhaps invariably to the search for the meaning of one’s own being, now finds Meaning in search of its own meaning: Meaning seeks itself, seeks the meaning of its continuance as an eternal ‘present continuous’. Read more...