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To find our soul, we need to spend some time daily in meditation.

Mystic Mantra: Finding time to dig out the treasure

The happiness that we think can be attained through outer wealth is illusory.

11 Jan 2019 6:04 AM

Mystic Mantra: Protect India’s many mother tongues

When compared to rich countries like the UK, Germany, France or Spain, India appears poor in economic terms.

10 Jan 2019 6:58 AM

Instead of creating the necessary inner and external atmosphere around us where the right kind of situation can happen, we always look for something else which could make that happen. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Are superstitions real?

It simply depends on how sensibly, intelligently, and with how much awareness you walk and look at life around you.

09 Jan 2019 5:09 AM

A spiritual seeker should always try and maintain that peace, instead of choosing to do something that might disrupt his peace. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The boy & the wolf — Lessons from a fable

When someone gets angry, he does so, as by using anger he had witnessed in his past, that people had taken him seriously.

08 Jan 2019 7:01 AM

Mystic Mantra: Sense of humour — A new approach to religion

The religions all over the world need to go through a deeper transformation if they want to survive and grow.

07 Jan 2019 1:07 AM

Create a new self-image which is subtle but tremendously forceful. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: A powerful way to transform yourself

All others have built images according to whatever kind of patterns or external situations they fell into.

05 Jan 2019 12:05 AM

In the Bhagavad Gita, Shri Krishna states that if we wish to transform ourselves, we have to change our vision of life.

Mystic Mantra: Ensure that the new year is a happy one

Bhagavan speaks of three kinds of visions. The tamasika vision is characterised by laziness, lack of ambition and aspiration.

04 Jan 2019 12:10 AM

Freedom is the basic value from which spring forth all others. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: The song of freedom

The price of freedom, it is said, is eternal vigilance.

01 Jan 2019 6:28 AM

Originally the intention behind celebrating the New Year was moving with the rhythm of nature. (Representational Images)

Mystic Mantra: Renew yourself every moment

There are a number of new years even in India according to the various cultures and systems.

31 Dec 2018 6:41 AM

A spiritual process essentially means everything that you are, happens consciously — your experience of life is determined by you. (Representational Images)

Mystic Mantra: The significance of cleanliness

Everything that we perceive through our sense organs can either create filth or wellbeing within ourselves.

28 Dec 2018 12:05 AM

Mevlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi gave a wonderful method of meditation for such a centering to happen. (Representional Image)

Mystic Mantra: Meditation for the inner centering

It is a Sufi whirling meditation — learning the art of whirling consciously and settling into consciousness.

27 Dec 2018 7:42 AM

Mystic Mantra: Long-awaited love

A white Christmas is naturally possible only in the northern hemisphere.

24 Dec 2018 12:08 AM

Christmas is an occasion when we must give a thought to understand the meaning of “Christ”.

Mystic Mantra: The true spirit of Christmas

To celebrate Jesus Christ’s birthday is a moment of great joy.

22 Dec 2018 12:05 AM

Sikh history is replete with incidents of martyrdom and the Sikh gurus set the example for the Sikhs by sacrificing their life. (Representational Image)

Mystic Mantra: Four sahibzade, four martyrs

A martyr is one who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce his faith.

21 Dec 2018 12:05 AM

This part is far more important than the star, the Christmas tree, making cakes, buying new clothes, exchanging presents or indeed Santa Claus.

Mystic Mantra: Produce abundant spiritual fruits

It is really this part of the spiritual preparation, that the Christians are advised to do in this ongoing season of Advent.

20 Dec 2018 12:47 AM

It is interesting to see how Arjuna’s anguish and depression were turned into a yogic state.

Mystic Mantra: Arjuna’s anguish becomes yoga

Yoga is essentially a union, goes on uniting the fragments of one’s personality and integrating them as the whole.

18 Dec 2018 12:19 AM

Life’s gifts are precious and abundant — but we are too heedless of them. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Truths to live by

We should never be too busy to deprive ourselves of the wonder and the awe of life and should be reverent of each drawing day.

17 Dec 2018 12:08 AM

A spiritual person however, takes to begging because he wants to drop himself. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Begging - A tool for growth

When someone stretches his hand in front of you, if you feel it is being misused, you can refuse and move along.

15 Dec 2018 6:51 AM

Meditation has numerous benefits for our physical and mental well-being. (Representional Image)

Mystic Mantra: Stress-free living

People are turning to meditation as a solution for the emotional and mental strains of life.

14 Dec 2018 12:10 AM

Mystic Mantra: Bill Gates and the new awakening

Osho, the enlightened mystic of modern times, made meditation the central point of his spiritual teaching.

13 Dec 2018 12:05 AM

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