Enlightenment Stories: A Love Saga Ending at the Buddha’s Feet

By – Usha K Kent It is a mistake of history that ahimsa, deeply rooted in Vedic traditions, is attributed and associated with Jainism, Buddhism and Ajivikas, whose beginning go back more than 2500 years. These offshoot faiths of Hinduism emerged in an India riven by intense political rivalry between small kingdoms and tribes each of whom wanted More...

Master, How will I know if I have surrendered or not?
The Master replied, ‘This question itself will disappear. Then you will know you have surrendered.’ This question, whether you have surrendered or not, will disappear. You will have no doubt about whether you More...

The Saga of the Naked Monks
By – Ma Nithya Swaroopapriyananda In English, there’s an old cliché often quoted in times of war and violence used to cool hot tempers and prevent a physical fight: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” More...

Ramayana story: Jatayu sacrifice in fight with Ravana!
In Ramayan, Jatayu was a very old vulture bird. When he met Ravana, he was very old. He was the King of the vultures but not very strong that time. He saw that Sita matha was in trouble and she was calling. Jatayu More...

What kind of incentives and measurement systems could we devise to encourage internal entrepreneurs and nurture a varied portfolio of opportunities – Q & A with Paramhamsa Nithyananda
In our series “Q & A with Masters”, we are bringing one another important question that a spiritual person and a business man at same time may face this situation in his life. Paramhamsa Nithyananda, an More...

Traditional Tales – Who Are You, Child?
On the banks of Ganga lived a rishi in a hut and performed spiritual austerities. Madhavaselva was the king of Madhavapuri. He had gone to the forest for hunting that day. After having hunted for a long while in More...

The happening of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa – Birth and Beyond
The blessed hour for which Khudiram and Chandra were anxiously waiting at last drew near. In the early hours of the morning of February 18,1836, Chandra gave birth to a boy whom the world was to know afterwards More...

Death is the greatest suffering. If you surrender, if you welcome, it becomes a great Master to you.
Death is the greatest suffering. If you surrender, if you welcome, it becomes a great Master to you. If you welcome it with a mood of surrender, anything in your life will change its quality. Whenever you resist More...

Mahadeva’s Kitchen – The Hindu Bhaga Shastra
About early 2015, the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Adheenam in Bengaluru, South India, made a surprising discovery – the existence of a Vedic age cookbook, revealed by Mahadeva himself – the Bhaga Shastra, or textbook More...

4 Step Process to Living Life Powerfully – Isha Upanishad Series
We experience life as a series of problems to which we need to find solutions. More often than not, the solutions end up raising a new set of problems to be dealt with. Is there a way to operate in this world More...