The real liberation or nirvana or meaning of salvation as explained by Adi Sankaracharya, Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, Lord Krishna etc is one and the same. This physical world, which consists of the inert objects like Sun, Moon, Stars Air, Earth etc., is not the world, … Read more
The Lord never interferes in any one’s wish. Even to His devotee He says, “If you are hungry, eat the food and think about Me“. He never forces anything on any body. The detachment should be spontaneous. He wants natural love from you and not the … Read more
There are several religions and there are several scriptures corresponding to these religions. We must fix a scripture as the primary standard so that other scriptures can be standardized with reference to that. The other scripture also becomes standard with reference to which some other scripture … Read more
Many of us know that the basic scriptures of the Hindus are the Vedas, just as the Bible is for the Christians and the Koran for the Muslims. But not many of us are aware us to what their value is, and their relevance is in … Read more
The Vedas we know contain eternal truths, and of all the truths, the knowledge of god or Atman is the most important one. Swami Vivekananda says ‘ the Vedas should be studied through the eyeglass of evolution. They contain the whole history of the progress of … Read more
At every stage of civilization, people have relied on symbolic expression, and advances in science and technology have only increased our dependence on symbols. An essential part of the ancient arts of the Orient and Western medieval traditions, symbolism underwent a twentieth-century revival with the study … Read more