Positive Mental Attitude A positive mental attitude results from a life dedicated to self-improvement and service. With a personal commitment to doing your best today, you don’t have to be so much concerned about tomorrow. You can be confident that good things will happen and be equally confident that if trouble comes you will have the strength and skills to cope, take control and then conquer. You are tough. You stay...

Karma and Liberation In Indian philosophy, the sum total of one’s actions, good or bad, that are attached to the soul as it transmigrates, each new body (and each event experienced by that body) being determined by previous karma. The law of karma is one of “cause and effect.” It works in the scientific world as well as the moral world. These unwritten karmic laws are universal and we can but...

Freedom versus Destiny   Freedom means right of individuals to act as they choose. In this sense, it is frequently called “individual liberty”. The term is also employed in connection with the achievement of sovereignty by a people; when so used, it is called “national liberty”. Although in these traditional senses liberty may be specifically civil or political, the modern concept further connotes a generalized body of rights, such as the...

Time is Relative We all know that above title is both true, and not true. We even have phrases that tie into this fact, like, Time flies when you’re having fun.” Sometimes a minute appears to be an hour while sometimes an hour appears to be a minute. The intensity depends on how much you like or dislike an activity you are involved in. Chatting on Internet could fly away your...

Rajasthan Rajasthan has had a glorious history. It is known for many brave kings, their deeds; and their interest in art and architecture. Its name means “the land of the rajas”. It was also called Rajputana (the country of the Rajputs), whose codes of chivalry shaped social mores just as their often bitter and protracted feuding dominated their politics. From this same sandy tract the world heard the bangs of India’s...

Life After Death The Afterlife is an area of human consciousness we all enter upon leaving the physical world at physical death. Throughout history we’ve questioned if there is a life after death. Along the way, our religions and various philosophers offered beliefs and opinions to answer this commonly asked question. However, many of the answers contradict each other making it hard to figure out. “Belief in life after death is...

Wisdom Speaks in Silence What you learn is of interest of your teacher and what you know is of interest to yourself, but the knowledge you put to use is of interest to all mankind. Knowledge unharnessed is but idle vanity and an affront to the Gods.” Take for example, the word, silence. Silence means the absolute stopping of all thought processes in our wakeful state. Nature, as we all know,...

World Human Rights Day –  December 10   Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December. The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of human rights. The commemoration was established in 1950, when the General Assembly invited all states and interested organizations to celebrate the...