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Muslims are required to perform wudu in preparation for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Quran.

Mystic Mantra: Wudu in Islam cleanses mind, body & soul

Muslims have a contractual relationship to God that is manifest through the body.

04 Oct 2019 12:23 AM

For Plato, the physical, yet mindful body echoed our frontiers with the inhabitant soul. (Representional Image)

Mystic Mantra: The soul is the fount of conscious awareness

It is this reality that establishes the pristine role of our conscious awareness in the working of our mind, body and soul.

16 Jul 2019 12:52 AM

We do not endeavour to explore our latent talents — perish at the thought of passion in the first place. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Soul dance and balance

Agreed that we are all endowed with our own distinctive personalities — they are as unique as our signature, or fingerprint.

09 Apr 2019 4:58 AM

Saints say that nature has designed man to leave his physical body at will, transcend to higher spiritual planes, and then return to the body. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Man! Know thyself

Man is composed of body, mind (intellect) and soul.

21 Feb 2019 3:44 AM

People's eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious. (Photo: Pixabay)

Movement of your eyes may reveal your personality

This research has tracked and measured the visual behaviour of people going about their everyday tasks.

28 Jul 2018 3:47 PM

Eventually one day when we get spiritually enlightened we would experience and realise that we were bound to dreams and got liberated from dreams. Nothing was real and nothing is real. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Be aware: Life is a state of dream

One can straight away achieve this enlightened state if one can constantly remain aware, all the time, of being in a dream state.

09 May 2018 1:06 AM

The mechanics of the meditation process is that of connecting the soul within us with the current of light and sound as a method of travelling out of the physical body.

Mystic Mantra: Inner spiritual regions

Mystics and saints speak of the soul as being of the same spiritual essence as God.

09 Mar 2018 5:15 AM

Lord Krishna has said in the Gita that “the last thought of a person would be based on his attitude and behaviour which he has practised during his life time”.

Mystic Mantra: The soul’s journey

Childhood is spent in ignorance, youth/middle age in lust then how one can remember God during old age and at the time of death?

10 May 2017 5:13 AM

We need a burning desire to find out who we really are. We need a yearning to know our true selves.

Mystic Mantra: Let’s expand our vision

There was a time when people believed the world was flat, until explorer proved the world was round.

30 Mar 2017 12:57 AM

If the dying person feels the need to resolve something, by offering an apology, it’s best to address it.

End is a beginning

While death can be scary to many — it is a door to another journey, a mere transition.

16 Mar 2017 12:20 AM

Meditation opens up a whole new world for us. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Let’s tap into our soul

The soul is nearer to us than we think and is aware of our day-to-day, mundane existence.

14 Feb 2017 1:33 AM

The Bhagavad Gita (15.8) says “…just as the breeze carries the fragrance from the flower, the jiva is carried from the body.”

Mystic Mantra: Make dharma your friend

There is no more birth or death for the individual soul that has realised his true self.

07 Jan 2017 7:16 AM

Our soul is immortal and some of these words are imprinted on us across lives.

The power of vows

Our vows are charged with several intense emotions, which we carry with us — beyond time and space.

24 Nov 2016 4:20 AM

The swaroop of atma

Sant Ashtavakr had pointed out that while shastra brings a civilisation to its end, shaastra make a civilisation.

18 Nov 2016 6:42 AM

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