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ARTArticleLead a Wise LifeLead a Wise Lifern(Vinod Anand)
What really matters in the end, said Gautama Buddha, is, “How well did you love; how fully did you live and how deeply did you let go?” All the three are golden rules of wise living.ARTArticleLearn to live in GodLearn to live in Godrn[Vinod Anand]
The great saints are so strong in their magnetism that they can change you .L. by their mere presence. The company you keep plays a crucial role, for the people in our lives are the most important aspect of our environment.
I remember a man who got into a mood and decided he didn’t want to be around people anymore. So for some weeks he avoided all spiritual gatherings.ARTArticleLearn to Live with NatureLearn to Live with Naturern(Vinod Anand)
Each one of us is very special and each one of us is trying his best to survive. You might ask: ‘In what way am I special?’ Or, ‘what makes me unique’? ‘What is the best strategy I should adopt to survive?’
However, your worries about yourself and your lack of abilities are not what should occupy your mind. Ask only one question, “Who am I? How do I know myself?” When you ask this question, then all self-doubts will vanish. When we are not interested in knowing our own selves, we waste time on many things.ARTArticleLet Us Be KindLet Us Be Kindrn(Vinod Anand)
Take the everyday scenario of a traffic jam in the city. When cars are piled up and tempers run high, two auto-rickshaws coming ‘from different directions practically touch each other.
Each wants to claim right of way and neither wants to budge and relent. That leads to heated arguments and the drivers so easily come to blows. What would happen if both would be prepared to let the other go first? That would immediately defuse the situation and help ease the jam, instead of obstructing traffic for even longer periods.ARTArticleLife and Death are InterconnectedLife and Death are Interconnectedrn(Vinod Anand)
When you begin to realize the relationship of life and death, the old model of who you are starts to expand. As your old model dies something new happens.
You begin to experience directly the living truth of dying and being reborn again in each moment. When you live in the moment, then death is just another moment.ARTArticleLife Changing Benefits of Red Light TherapyRed light therapy is an extremely effective treatment for a wide variety of conditions with a great deal of science backing it. Once only used by NASA, the US Navy, doctors, and dermatologists it’s now available in spas, chiropractor’s offices, as well as in the home.ARTArticleLife has Both Limitations and AchievementsLife has Both Limitations and Achievementsrn(Vinod Anand)
Life has Both Limitations and Achievements
A Muslim youth of my acquaintance, born in a village and madrasa-educated, can speak two foreign languages fluently -Arabic and English - without ever having studied for a university degree.
I asked him once to tell me the secret of his unusual success. He uttered a single word: “Junoon” or madness, meaning that if you have unflagging determination to achieve your target, you will certainly do so.ARTArticleLife Is Always A Choice, As All Things AreEach morning when you get out of bed and face the new day you immediately have an important choice to make: What will be your attitude during this day – the current day of your life? Will you face this day optimistically (in a positive way) or pessimistically (negatively)?
In short, be sure to pause long enough to look around you and then do your best to consciously decide to choose an attitude that is positive. Regardless of what happened to you yesterday or last week …your choice about your attitude for this day, that is, for this one day, is purely and simply all yours.ARTArticleLife Success And Survival Lessons Taken From Yossi Ghinsberg And His Amazing Amazon Adventure"Yossi Ghinsberg was lost in the Amazon for 20 days and learned many lessons about our inherent ability to survive and tap into our true instinctual selves."
While in Puerto Rico, my wife Michelle and I had the privilege of seeing Yossi Ghinsberg. We'd never heard of Yossi before, but we became instant fans. Yossi shared his story about being lost in the depths of the uncharted Amazon for 20 days -- without food, equipment, or companionship and in the midst of the rainy season.ARTArticleLiterature Connotes Spirit of WelfareLiterature Connotes Spirit of Welfarern(Vinod Anand)
The real significance of the word sahitya or literature is inherent in the word itself for the characteristic of literature is ‘to move together’, keeping abreast of life. Literature is no invention of the superficiality of social life, nor is it the colourful spell of any fantasia.
Rather it is the portrait of real life — an exte
al expression of the internal recesses of the mind — a bold and powerful expression of the suppressed sighs of the human heart.ARTArticleLive and let LiveLive and let Livern[Vinod Anand]
Are you taking someone’s life without even being aware of it? You might be doing just that, as the following true-life story illustrates.
A father was telling his graduate son what career the young man should pursue. The son listened to what his father had to say and then, very respectfully, replied, “You’ve lived your life and now you want to live mine.
That is, while you’ll get to live two lives, yours and mine, I’ll get to live no life at all. Why do you want to take my life from me?”ARTArticleLive in the Present MomentLive in the Present Momentrn[Vinod Anand]
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not “this moment’. Is this not a fact? Psychological time is a mental disease. Look as its collective manifestations.
They occur; for example, in the form of ideologies or any nationalism, or rigid religious belief systems, which operate under the implicit assumption that the highest good lies in the future and that therefore the end justifies the means.ARTArticleLONELY LIFELONELY LIFErn(Vinod Anand)
India, along with China and Brazil, has recorded the fastest growth of single-person households. Purvaja Sawant asks Eric Klinenberg, the author of ‘Going Solo: The
Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone”, why urban dwellers the world over are choosing to live alonerARTArticleLook at the life in a new WayLook at the life in a new Wayrn[Vinod Anand]
Truth can be likened to a pyramid— its pinnacle gives the highest expression of truth, while its broad base gives strength and stability. I’ve been amazed by the number of people in India who tell me that they don’t believe in God, and then go onto demonstrate that they do.
They can’t get away from it— it’s part of their upbringing. They don’t necessarily define God in terms of somebody who is blue and plays the flute. The thought, however, of an infinite consciousness is so ingrained in them that it’s impossible for them to reject it.ARTArticleLooking at Life and HappinessLooking at Life and Happinessrn(Vinod Anand)
Each of us wants some peace and happiness in life. Still, happiness often evades us. “Is there a simple, straightforward roadmap to get happiness and peace in life,” I asked Swami Paramarthanandji in Chennai. He replied, ‘Reducing PORT is the best way’.ARTArticleLove is Basic in LifeLove is Basic in Lifern(Vinod Anand)
The world exists just because love still exists on earth. If this one divine quality left the world, then there could be no existence on earth. Let us love the root of the tree.
Then we shall see that the branches, the leaves and the foliage of the tree also feel our love. Love is the secret key that allows a human being to open the door of God.
Where there is love; pure, divine love, there is fulfillment. What is love? If love means possessing someone or something, then that is not real love that is not pure love.ARTArticleLust: A Form of LoveLust: A Form of Lovern(Vinod Anand)
Those who try to understand God through the intellect alone, arrive at some cold and dry concept which misses the very essence of divine nature.
It is true that God is infinite knowledge, existence, power and bliss, but true understanding comes from knowing His essence as infinite love.
In the ‘beyond state’ from which the entire universe springs and into which it ultimately merges, God is ete
ally infinite love.ARTArticleMake gratitude a family value this ThanksgivingThanksgiving is right around the corner now. Friends and families are planning and gathering for the day. Is it going to be turkey, or goose, or maybe we'll even try turducky! How many side dishes this year? Remember last year we forgot the broccoli! Do we really have to have candied yams and mashed potatoes and stuffing? Who's going to make the pumpkin pie?ARTArticleMaking Scents of Feng ShuiAs human beings, we are emotionally impacted by scent. In fact, our sense of smell is considered the only sense that evokes a purely emotional response. Research indicates that smells are not filtered through the part of the brain that ruminates or analyzes, but rather thru the part that responds and operates without conscious thought. It is reported that our responses to smell take place within 10 seconds after exposure – with no thought process involved. We react and then think.
Our olfactory sense is the oldest of the five senses.ARTArticleManifest Goals and Dreams, Improve Outcomes and Thrive with Covert HypnosisYou may have heard the saying, “No man is an island”; this includes you. This implies that it is a must to have cooperation with others in order to achieve your stated goals or dreams. If you desire to have cooperation from a group, let’s say a bank board, which you are hoping will fund your small business idea, then having all the persuasion tools you can at your disposal is necessary to achieve your goal, dream or job.
The art of persuasion has many key factors involved in order to accomplish what it is that you want to achieve. Persuasion can be ethical or unethical.ARTArticleManifest the Higher Self withi
YouManifest the Higher Self withi
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We all have a higher Self within; we were born with it. However, most neither are we aware of it nor do we act from it. It remains dormant, but survives only to manifest at the right opportunity.
Sometimes we get a fleeting glimpse of the Self when we spontaneously act out of unconditional love. Recall a sudden wave of empathy that engulfed you at the sight of a man shivering in the cold that prompted you to give him clothes; picking up a wounded animal on the road; the deep sense of fulfillment on rescuing someone in trouble.ARTArticleManifest the Higher Self withi
YouManifest the Higher Self withi
Yourn[Vinod Anand]
We all have a higher Self within; we were born with it. However, most neither are we aware of it nor do we act from it. It remains dormant, but survives only to manifest at the right opportunity.
Sometimes we get a fleeting glimpse of the Self when we spontaneously act out of unconditional love. Recall a sudden wave of empathy that engulfed you at the sight of a man shivering in the cold that prompted you to give him clothes; picking up a wounded animal on the road; the deep sense of fulfillment on rescuing someone in trouble.ARTArticleMind is the Greatest Gift of GodMind is the Greatest Gift of Godrn[Vinod Anand]
Mind is the greatest gift we have. All our activities are controlled by the mind. In the Bhagwad Gita, Krishna says that controlling the mind is more difficult than subduing the wind.ARTArticleMOVIES AND YOUR CHILDMOVIES AND YOUR CHILDrn(Vinod Anand)
Movies are one of the major influencers of the youth today. Instead of devising ways to restrict your child’s movie viewing, find ways to help your child get inspired and learn about, different topics through their favorite movies here...ARTArticleNew Mind in the New WorldNew Mind in the New Worldrn(Vinod Anand)
The companions, the relationships, the work, the ideas and the beliefs and the dogmas that we hold have produced a monstrous world, a world of conflict, misery and perpetual sorrow. We accept it as normal condition, we put up with it day after day; we never inquire into the necessity, the urgency of a revolution that is neither economical nor political but much more fundamental.ARTArticleNOTHING LIKE MEDITATIONNOTHING LIKE MEDITATIONrn(Vinod Anand)
You are standing in awe in front of a painting. You are getting lost in this labyrinth of shapes and forms, until you are no more. And yet, you are more yourself than you have ever been before.
If you’ve ever experienced this, you know that art of any kind can induce meditation. Vallabhacharya argued that the ego can transcend through bhava or feelings.ARTArticleOne should be Loyal to RelationshipsOne should be Loyal to Relationshipsrn(Vinod Anand)
Dear XYZ, if I remember correctly, the last time you met me was at... when was it? Was it at a wedding or a birthday celebration? Perhaps it was at someone’s prayer meeting. How much time did we spend together and what did we say to each other?ARTArticleOne should be Religious but not a HypocriteOne should be Religious but not a Hypocritern(Vinod Anand)
Unlea
ing or de-conditioning is how J Krishnamurti defined his initiation on the path of spirituality in the true sense. As much of our learning is the result of our conditioning which has already taken us away froth our true Self, this is what most of us need to do.
This calls for deep thinking to avoid colossal waste of time and energy in first learning and then unlea
ing what has been learnt.ARTArticlePatience Leads to Positive AttitudePatience Leads to Positive Attitudern(Vinod Anand)
Rome was not built in a day. Every masterpiece requires efforts to make things perfect. However, in some cases, despite all sincere efforts, the art simply remains art; it does not become a masterpiece.
This can lead to frustration, low self esteem and reduced se1fconfidence. The path to success or achieving a goal is never easy. Every task or goal has its unique challenges and roadblocks.ARTArticlePay a Close Attention to what is Happening NowPay a Close Attention to what is Happening Nowrn(Vinod Anand)
It often surprises me when people say they intensely dislike cooking; I wonder if it is because they think it is too complicated or if they are often in a hurry to get it all done with.
Though something to keep us alive and well, cooking is, above all, an art and a practice. We give it our time and attention; we revel in our tools — our ingredients and also our basic cooking implements.