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
Assessing Inter-Faith Assemblies
By Sri Sri Sri Balagangadharanathaswami In 1993 in Chicago, The Parliament of the World’s Religions met again, 100 years after
BOOKS
KIDS’ KORNER AT LAST! BOOKS THAT TEACH BOYS AND GIRLS VALUES BUT DON’T BORE THEM TO DEATH By Tara Katir,
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