A Cure for Schools
BY ANIL SHRIVASTAVA “MUSAFIR” The recent Colorado killing of 13 high-school students by two deranged students has made our parents […]
Quotes & Quips
"WE BELIEVE WE ARE NOT IDOL WORSHIPERS. WE ARE IDEAL WORSHIPERS." Swami Sidheshwaranand, of the Ramakrishna mission, challenged in 1947
Vedanta in Latvia?
More than 30 years ago, Latvian-born Rudite Emir, 59, received a mystical poem by Rabindrinath Tagore translated into her native
Letters
DYING IN DUBAI I have been informed by our authorities that the news item Stranded at Death (Briefly, Nov. 98)
Life, the Great Experience
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI At one time or another in life, each of us has had similar experiences of temptation.
Diaspora
HEALTH Toxic Bindis Alarmed by stories of Indian women developing the disfiguring skin disease leucoderma on their forehead, India’s Industrial
Hinduism: a Blessing For the World
BY SWAMI YOGANANDA GIRI The planetary situation today, above all in the West, is unencouraging: intolerance, violence, abuse and other
The Ageless Path of the Preceptor . . .
THE GURU-DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP remains, as it has for thousands of years, the bedrock of Sanatana Dharma. Without it, say the
Defender of Vedas
“As when a fire is lit with damp fuel, different clouds of smoke come forth. In the same way from
Compassion Hospital
India is a land where advanced medical services are unavailable or too expensive for many who need them. Now Sri