Amrit Sadhana

May 19, 2011
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Holiday for the mind

It’s holiday time and everyone must be looking for a good holiday package.

Tell it from within

Sheila asked her colleague to review her proposal before she sent it to the prospective client. He read it and simply looked at her. Sheila said nervously, “You don’t like it, do you?” What happened?

Why are we corrupt?

The report released by Transparency International ranks India as one of the most corrupt nations in the world. No Indian is surprised at this because we don’t need an international agency to show us a mirror to our own reality. We live with this pain daily.
One of the biggest causes of corruption is greed and power which usually thrive in societies where ethical and moral standards are weak and where punishment is lenient (punishing authorities play an important role in perpetuating or discouraging corruption).

The business of prayer

There are millions of people praying day in and day out. In fact, religion is usually understood as an act of prayer. We can see all the religious places full of devotees putting up their demands to the deities or bargaining with god about their health and wealth. The bottomline of their prayer is: “You fulfil my desires and I will do something for you”.

Pick a path with a heart

Before you embark on any path, ask the question: Does this path have a heart? Sounds crazy? How can a path have a heart? Isn’t “the path” an inanimate object, to be trodden and then forgotten? Yet, this is the question a mystic called Don Juan would ask his disiples, says Carlos Castaneda, a sorcerer and writer from Peru.

Sunday’s celebration of Parliament’s completion of 60 years — first at special sittings of the two Houses and then at a joint sitting in the Central Hall — were entirely understandable, even inspiring

The third US-India Strategic Dialogue is only a few weeks away. To prepare the ground for a meaningful set of talks US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was recently in the country.

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