Library:Tata Institute of Social Sciences,Guwahati

  The original name of India, Bharat, means: ‘To delight in light, wisdom.’ For centuries, Indians have held knowledge in the highest regard...

  Most people reach a stage in life - typically in their forties, fifties or sixties - when they have accomplished a lot and fulfilled many ...

  Zen says Buddhahood is not somewhere far away. You are just sitting on top of it. You are it!... It has already happened. Nothing has to b...

  Touching blooms tossing in the morning breeze, chasing butterflies, screaming and laughing C an grown-ups get back their childhood long lo...

  Avijit Pathak writes: Amid the tyranny of the clock time and calculation of ‘productivity’, he showed how to live in the here and now “Whe...

  Why carry around the burden of unpleasant remembrances or guilt? Nearly six decades ago, a professor in a Walt Disney comedy bequeathed im...

  An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates Tragedies, it is often said, are great levellers. True to the same, the COVID-19 pandemic...

  Continue treading through life, even if we are alone Occasionally, I go for a walk in a park. As I start walking on a cemented path, surro...

  It is because we do not give a thought to how short life on earth is that we run after things that have a temporary charm. Our attachment ...

Calendars & New Years Human measurement of time has been dependent on earth’s rotation on its axis that gives us our day and night, ...

Virus Scare & Economy Global markets saw a free fall as the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus Covid-19 as a pandemi...

The Season Of Lent This is the holy season of Lent. The universal Church offers a 40-day reflective period. It’s time to look deeper wit...

Gates Protect Us Traditionally, a city guarded itself by installing a fortified gate at its entrance. The gate kept out foes and let in ...

Overcome Suffering I am often asked how to end suffering. You are so focused on action that you don’t realise that action born out of ig...

Churning for The Butter Satsang, the company of spiritually minded people, either in the form of actual get-togethers where spiritual di...

No Need To Grieve Steve Jobs once said, “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And y...

Don’t Close The Doors Of Your Thinking! Whenever low self-esteem and depression raise their ugly heads in us, it is a good idea to boost...

Finding The Key To Happiness And Success What is the key to success and happiness in life? To live a life of your choice, you need to st...

The Need to Find Clarity I don’t know what God is, nobody knows — but mystics have an image that there is a supreme entity and that thro...

Ramakrishna As Lighthouse  He was perpetually in divine ecstasy of sachchidananda in Samadhi. The consequential gospel of Sri Ramakrishn...