Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita has become part of school studies in Gujarat starting this year. Other states in India ruled by the Bhartiya Janta Party are likely to follow the Gujarat lead in instituting Hindu religious beliefs among the students in their early years. The introduction of ‘moral education’ through studies in Gita in…
THE CASE FOR WORLDWIDE ABOLISHING Of THE ARMED FORCES AND DISMANTLING OF ARM FACTORIES
In this article, I’m not going into the genesis of the Russia-Ukraine war. Neither do I debate if ‘de-Nazification’ in Ukraine carries any rationality. Or Ukraine battles the Russians to save its democracy. And around in the region from the onslaught of Putin’s autocracy. But to briefly re-portray the very nature of war and the…
Lord Krishna in “Stri-Vesha”
One of Lord Krishan’s many Leelas is that of “stri-Vesha”, dressing up in woman’s clothing. This can be seen in temples, songs, and paintings. Some stories say that the ‘Gopis’ exhausted by Krishan’s pranks, dressed him up as a girl to “punish him. To their surprise Krishna enjoyed it. In other stories, Radha and Krishna…
Kamadeva, the Hindu god who arouse Lord Shiva’s love for Parvati
This god shoots love darts – but no, it’s not Cupid Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid aiming his arrows of love at unwary humans’ hearts seem to be everywhere. The Cupid that Americans see splashed across greeting cards and chocolate boxes began life as a…
Mindfulness Meditation In Walking
What is walking meditation? Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, walking was not simply a way to get from one place to another, or an activity to be reserved for a perfect forest path. It could be a profound contemplative practice putting people in…
I too believe in God!
By Balkrishna Sama, a poet from Nepal
GETTING INVOLVED WITH MINDFULNESS
Staying in an environment exclusively reserved for the self leads towards an experience called mindfulness. Residing in this environment are the present moments connected to what one is doing, cohering internally with one’s own body and mind while keeping an absolute awareness of breath’s inhale and exhale flow. Mindfulness is the idea of being present…
HOW RELIGIOUS VIEWS GET EMBEDDED:
In religion, most people do not read the fundamentals of the scriptures. But they gather their religious knowledge or information thru a third party, like sermons or lectures from priests or religious leaders. It can be biased or prejudiced. But this is where the mindset of religious views gets embedded that often stays lifelong or…
