Perception: The Wayfinder
Ganesh Varadharajan explores how perception is our tool for understanding the world and ourselves but that clarity of perception depends on our connectedness with our true selves and not with the ego-personality.
Don’t Try to Love Yourself! Indian Yogi vs. New-Age Spirituality
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev tears apart new-age spiritual ideas like ‘loving yourself’ and ‘being compassionate to yourself’.
Living in a Faithless World
Dr Vineet Aggarwal discusses how perhaps what we need most in the world is to ‘keep the faith’.
A View from the Window and the Harmony of Spaces
What makes us linger in some spaces and not others? What gives harmony (and space) to spaces – both physical and mental? Beloo Mehra contemplates.
Book Review: Ten Sutras for a Great Life
Ranjan Bakshi gives us his views on a book about living a better life, ‘Ten Sutras for a Great Life’.
How to Be Happy? Try These 5 Things
Some quick tips for a happier life!
Remembering Annapurna
Beloo Mehra reminisces about her late mother who loved to cook and whose cooking fed not only the stomach but also the soul.
Attention! You’re Better than a Goldfish (Busting the Attention Span Myth)
Newsletter #4. Are our attention spans really deteriorating or is there just too much content on the internet and an incentive for the internet giants to promote marketing activity?
From a spiritual perspective, one might ask, who watches attention? How do we know that our attention is wandering? Obviously because something within us watches/witnesses attention and inattention. What is that? Are we not identifying with the wrong thing when we feel that we’re drifting when really it’s our attention that’s drifting? If we can observe our attention, then we’re not the attention but attention is just a tool we possess – a very intimate and powerful tool.
The Alchemy of Suffering and Freedom
In this artful piece, Shruti Bakshi and Subhash Kak contemplate the alchemy programmed into the game of life where suffering must be turned into freedom. The story of the churning of the ocean (Samudra Manthan) is used as a metaphor to understand the existential meaning of the suffering inherent life.
The ‘As You Like It’ Generation
Shakespeare couldn’t have had a clue that his one line would one day become a way of life! But is it wise to want life as you like it? LWP’s new LivLite section will showcase some light and casual musings on life such as this one so we can be reminded to not always take life so serious!
The Need for India’s Spiritual Light: invoking Sri Aurobindo’s vision
In our modern times of stress and uncertainty, India’s spiritual light is more needed than ever. This article revisits Sri Aurobindo’s vision which is chillingly relevant a hundred years on.
Social Media in a Spiritual Context
‘Spirituality’ and ‘social media’ are two words that don’t naturally sit well together for most people. In fact they would more likely be used in the same sentence only to point out the inverse relationship between the two in terms of popularity. But I’m here to put forth a very different view. I believe that social media, while it has wreaked havoc on human minds in many ways, also holds the potential to facilitate our spiritual evolution. Here’s why.
Tweeting our way to reform
As of May 2016, India ranked as the country with the second highest number of Twitter users (after the US) at 41 million users (as per Statista). For anyone with a healthy appetite for political discourse, this should come as no surprise as tweets have become almost synonymous with official public statements. As someone who…
The only way to deal with uncertainty
We humans don’t like uncertainty. In fact, in a way, all our civilisations have been built as an endeavour to reduce uncertainty – from the granaries of ancient times that helped deal with harvest uncertainties, to the modern day cell phone that provides more certainty about people and things you care about; from corporate structures to…