Spiritual

Braving the breeze, the icy waters of sangam and serious concerns over their health because of the polluted water of the river Ganges, thousands of devotees went ahead and had a bath on the auspicious days as the sun enters the Tropic of Capricorn. The devotees include the royalty of Hindu sages of the 14 major akharas, among numerous others, will take their Shahi Snaan past midnight, into early hours ... [full story]

Justice Gupta Commission investigating into the allegation of artificial Shiv Lingam at Amarnath Cave Shrine in Kashmir has given a clean chit to the Amarnath Shrine Board saying that the board had in no way tampered the natural Ice Shiv Lingam. The report which was presented to the Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt. General (Retd) S Kinha also said that no tampering of any nature of the Holy Shiv Lingam ... [full story]

Amid widespread criticism, the Shirdi's Sai Baba Trust has apparently postponed their plan to install a Rs 22-crore gold throne for the idol of the saint. The Sai Baba Trust in Shirdi had decided earlier this month to replace the present silver throne of Sai Baba idol with a Rs 22-crore gold throne. The trustees claimed that a devotee has offered to share a major portion of the financial burden. [full story]

Today, schizophrenia is a normal condition of humans. It may not have been so in the primitive world, but centuries of conditioning, civilisation, culture and religion have made man a crowd — divided, split, contradictory. One part goes one way, the other part goes in a diametrically opposite way. So it is almost impossible to keep oneself together. The whole effort of Zen is how to drop this ... [full story]

Death and life are two polarities of  the same energy Life is in living. It is not a thing, it is a process. There is no way to attain life except by living it, by being alive, by flowing, streaming with it. If you are seeking the meaning of life in some dogma, philosophy, theology, it is the surest way of missing life and its meaning. Life is not somewhere ... [full story]