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In a world that rarely pauses, stress and anxiety have quietly become part of our everyday vocabulary. We wake up already thinking of what lies ahead. Messages, meetings, responsibilities, expectations. Even in moments of rest, the mind continues its chatter. While modern tools offer support, the wi...

Bodies are dropped like old clothes

Verse 22: Vasamsi Jirnani: Clothes become old and weak and people of the world abandon them and take up new - very new clothes. In the same way people give up their old bodies and collect new bodies. The Atma, like the Purusha, is free from modifications.

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Just like the best commentary on the Bhagavad Gita is the Gita itself, the best way to understand Swami Chinmayananda’s outlook towards women is to look at his actions and words. Swami Chinmayananda’s contribution to women empowerment lies in how he re‑framed womanhood as a spiritual identity rather...

Chennai, 1958 – imagine a room full of women gathered for their first Devi Group. This was at a time when India's women's movement was still focussed on legislative rights (Hindu Code Bill debates, property rights, education & a lot more we didn't have access to). This was a historic moment, alb...

Purusha is unborn and eternal

The Purusha, know O Arjuna is indestructible. He is unborn and eternal. How can one kill that Purusha and how is death possible for him?

Know O Arjuna, the Purusha has no modification of destruction. Nityam or eternal means it does not go through any modifications such as...

Many of us have heard the term Sanatana Dharma, yet find it difficult to put into words what it truly means. Is it a religion we follow, a philosophy we study, or a way of living we slowly grow into? Sanatana Dharma is, at its heart, an ancient understanding of life itself. It is the oldest known co...

Neither kills nor gets killed

If you think that I am killing Bhishma and the others in this battlefield and I am the killer, that thought is illusory. How?

Verse 19: The one who knows himself as the killer of the Self, and the one who knows himself as the one, being killed, both do not know that the S...

Sanskrit - Gateway to the ‘Middle/Balanced’ Path for the Middle Aged

The ‘Middle Age’ is that peculiar time period in the life of an individual where the youth is starting to fade away and old age is starting to come in. Some of the challenges of an individual in the middle age are as under:

• The middl...

The ‘Youthfulness’ of Sanskrit for the Youth

Swami Vivekananda has rightly said “Youth is the best time. The way in which you utilize this period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of you.” The youth today, indeed have within them the dynamism, creativity and energy, whic...

Sanskrit – The Yogic Health Booster

There is a famous saying "Health is Wealth." And how rightly so in today's times! The level of stress and anxiety especially among youth has greatly increased and their health is deteriorating. Ordinarily, a health practitioner/doctor would pres...