http://www.boloji.com Boloji is the world's biggest Articles Database. en-us Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:00:00 GMT Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:41:01 GMT http://www.boloji.com/specials/rss.xml Indian Solutions ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) ideas@ekant.com (Ekant Solutions) http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12578 Why am I not an atheist That is because I am not an agnostic. I find the premise of an agnostic funny I haven t seen something so I won t believe in it. This is half baked science. I haven t seen Mars so I reject that it exists 09-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12578 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12572 Lord Krishna s Pranks 08-Aug-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12572 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12474 There is no human activity which is not useful to society. Many modern uninformed self-proclaimed rationalists and the like say seers sages monks like spiritual persons are not useful to the society. They even criticize them to be lazy fellows. 21-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12474 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12471 I have always been out of love and hardly in it. When people say I am in love I m not quite sure. We can be in love every moment with our work nature family and friends anything and anyone. We can be in love with our pets cats or dogs. In fact we can be in love with our enemies as well. There are people practicing this precept and they are not only good Christians but they may not be Christians as well. 20-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12471 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12382 Sant Mat is science of God. But before experiencing the soul in the laboratory of body it is utmost important to know self for the realization of God. It is the scientific method of entering within to realize the kingdom of God that is within you in this life now. 01-Jul-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12382 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12348 All over the world and in every civilization large number of cases has been reported about ghost sightings poltergeist incidents production of materials from thin air out of body experiences and other paranormal phenomena. Quite a few can be thought of as trickery or sleight of hand-type events but majority of these phenomena have remained a mystery. 18-Jun-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12348 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12320 Every human life is a work of art in its own way a beautiful verse an enchanting song a melodious music a charming and cheering drama a pleasant action a refreshing bliss a comforting peace fragrance of silence. The lives of eminent human beings are all these. 09-Jun-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12320 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12289 You should follow only good conduct of mine and not otherwise - This is the basic premise on which Hinduism was created and developed. And this is the premise that makes Hinduism different from many other religions which insist on the finality of their commandments supposedly ordained by their Gods although in fact expounded by the founders of those religions and interpreted by the future religious leaders to suit their convenience . However due to long subjugation of this country under dogma-based peoples many practices in this country have also become more faith-based than reason-based. 30-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12289 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12267 The word Devi itself is bliss-giving. That word is Divine. Divinity Illumination light knowledge are synonymous with the word Divya from which the word Devi is derived. Devi is personification of Peace bliss and silence. She is energy-personified. She dwells as our psychic energy together with all forms of energy. She carries and also sees to it that all functions and deeds are carried on in the universe 27-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12267 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12228 The journey of life can never be detached from what could be called the unique mix of paradoxes and realisations. While scriptures and innumerable religious texts guide us there is nothing to explain each creature s set of bittersweet experiences on this planet. 09-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12228 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12205 The term I denotes human consciousness. Human consciousness is awareness of human mind. I is not a term denoting any of an individual individual s body self-consciousness the social status age gender etc. I is the unoccupied awareness or pure consciousness in the individual in the Jagrat Sishupti wakeful sleep consciousness state when peace bliss silence and oneness or non-duality is experienced. I is not a person a thought a sense an experience or an understanding. 30-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12205 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12150 This work attempts to summarise the central metaphysics of Superultramodern Science and Philosophy. 16-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12150 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12149 This work attempts to describe my Ultimate God Paradox the paradox that God exists but He is uncreated and unnecessary. 16-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12149 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12030 Ego forms and their identification 16-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12030 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12019 Religion and spirituality are not one and the same. One can follow a religion and may not be spiritual. 11-Mar-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=12019 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11953 I recently had a delightful conversation with Lord Krishna the eighth incarnation of Lord Maha Vishnu. The conversation has been in a dialogue form and the same is presented below. 28-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11953 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11946 I recently had a delightful conversation with Lord Krishna the eighth incarnation of Lord Maha Vishnu. The conversation has been in a dialogue form and the same is presented below. The conversation did not take place in a particular order 26-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11946 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11935 . 10-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11935 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11923 The word Siva is synonym for Knowledge. Sivaroopaat jnaanamahaha tvatto muktim janaardanaakaaraat Sikhi roopaat eiswaryam bhaaskaraat aarogyam bhavanti saambakruta soorya stotram Purport We obtain knowledge from Siva liberation from Vishnu wealth from Subrahmanya and health from Sun 20-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11923 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11904 Faith is a sublime state of human mind. It is a state of mind free from the rigors of logic and reasoning. It is a state of experience and understanding too. Faith creates insight straight away. Intuition which is beyond and transcends logic originates from and leads to a state of understanding experience and faith. As science students we know that the element iodine directly becomes gas or vapor skipping the phase of liquid transforming from the solid phase. The process is called sublimation. 15-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11904 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11900 There are some commonalities amongst all religions and one of them is the belief in Karmaphal - that every person has to face consequences of one s actions either in this life or in the afterlife . Good deeds are rewarded and bad ones result in punishment either here or hereafter. This is not to say that good and bad deeds are similarly defined in all religions or the amount and mode of rewards and punishments for particular deeds are same in all religions. 14-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11900 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11892 spirituality in its essence fake spirituality misinterpretation of spirituality by self-proclaimed gurus hijacfking Indian spirituality are discussed. 13-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11892 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11877 Truth and Reality are distinguished compared and contrasted. 11-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11877 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11874 Bhakti Devotion is the most profound human emotion that merges the individual s identity with the Divinity. Bhakti has many definitions. 09-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11874 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11871 Yoga is currently a very popular pastime. Many gurus and many systems of yoga are presently in vogue. Many innovative titles are given to their respective methods of yoga by yoga teachers. Before trying to enter yoga and practice it you need to know what exactly yoga is. Indian spirituality is replete with many systems of thought about God and mind. 08-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11871 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11869 I retain a referential perception of the location I am aware of being in the various streets in the neighbourhood the people I know the greater extent of the city and so on to the starry sky. The referential perception in idea form of things and circumstances that are out of sight is not strictly speaking objective but serves as objective even in the sense of a being given to know the true state of things persons and circumstances such as they are referred presently to be. 07-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11869 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11866 Cognitive sciences often rediscover philosophical analyses taxingly. A better policy would be first to learn what philosophy can teach us and then move on to experimentation and model-building within the scope of positive science. In this article an attempt is made to combine the ideas of mind existing and revealed in ancient Indian wisdom contained in the Gayatri Mantra Upanishads Advaita philosophy and Sabdabrahma siddhata. Also the possible application of such a combination in the fields of cognitive sciences artificial intelligence and physiological psychology is hinted. 06-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11866 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11858 The idea of mind its origin structure function and cessation as revealed in the ancient Indian thought is presented. 05-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11858 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11850 Talking about meditation and hence calming the mind has become the necessity of modern life. Many meditative techniques are in vogue currently intending to help humans to cope up with stresses and strains associated with modern life and life-styles. Many traditional meditation techniques are presently popularly encased in modern phrases. Attempts to calm the mind will be fruitful and give desired results if meditation is performed with knowledge about mind and its vagaries and also about the nature of meditation process. 03-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11850 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11847 Time plays a significant influential and useful role in our lives. Our daily routine is time-based and time-bound. The origin being and cessation of things objects events thoughts and life systems are time-related. All natural man-made and man-initiated processes take place according to Time and its Passage. In all disciplines of learning Time has a prominent role to play. 02-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11847 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11832 Human beings gain knowledge of the objective world through the five sensory organs. While the objects of perception are insentient the mind is sentient and hence emotionally reacts to sensory perceptions in the form of likes and dislikes joy and sorrow. Hence the mind is responsible for the pleasantness and troubles that beset human beings 31-Jan-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11832 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11724 Lord Lakshmi always resides in a place that is free of clutter. Clutter results in abundance of negative energy. So if you wish to have Goddess Lakshmi besides you ensure that your home and office are neat and clean and devoid of any unwanted clutter. 23-Dec-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11724 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11678 Religion is believed to be the foundation on which unity integrity cohesion peace happiness and progress of any society and welfare of the individual in this world and hereafter depends. Within a given space of time and parameters all religions serve that purpose to a considerable extent. However beyond those boundaries a conflict between these objectives and reality arises because the religious faith is often elevated to the status of being God-sent permanent and inviolable. With intent to keep that conflict suppressed religions often do not permit any questioning on its beliefs on the ground that the faith is not a matter for questioning. 30-May-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11678 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11555 Revelations from an omnipotent and omnipresent yet unknown God form the very basic foundation of almost all the religions in this world. If we define religions as paths towards realization of God we find it interesting to note that the paths are as uncertain and vague as the objective itself. The concept of an external God the reward and punishment variety is almost completely illogical and dead. We do not need anymore proof for an outright rejection than the ever increasing cases of violence deaths injustice and atrocities all around us. 22-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11555 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11440 Man is imperfect in every aspect of life - physical strength span of life fulfillment of desires knowledge of the world and control over nature. This awareness of imperfection descends the moment the life begins. And so does the craving for absolute strength life fulfillment and control. Despite all evidence to the contrary the truth that there does not exist any Absolute excepting the Law Of Continuous Change is rarely realized and more rarely accepted. And the existence of this Law of Change itself negates the existence of any Absolute . 04-Dec-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11440 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11351 Man is an inquisitive animal. The quest of the ultimate truth is an innate desire of human nature. But the greatest fallacy and possibly also the comic-tragedy of human life is its almost unshakeable belief in the existence of a superior being having a form or formless who is supposed to keep record of our actions as well as to control our lives. What is baffling that most of us are not ready to logically argue on this subject and many are ready to sacrifice their wealth pleasure leisure and even life on this God . This rigid belief in God gives succour to many persons during their hours of tragedy and provides mental strength to face the hardships but has also been the cause of constant and vast tragedies in personal and social lives. 11-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11351 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11343 Desires trap us why have them. They are the seeds of sorrow why sow them why water them at the cost that brings you pain more than pleasure. When it comes to have fruits you know I know how sour they are The sweetness we long to cherish is within us the ever flowing fountain of love and mercy is in all of us. 19-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11343 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11270 Literature provides an excellent spiritual philosophical scientific and cultural perspective about the Existence of God . The writings of philosophers the preaching of saints and experiments by scientists provide a lot of material for unending debates between theists and atheists. But the marvels of the universe and life within with the ignorance of man about their functioning does point towards an omnipresent omnipotent and omniscient supernatural power which controls all that happens around and between us. 31-Jul-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11270 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11210 We live in a world which is made up of assumptions conceived on past circumstances interpretations limited to our level of understanding perceptions based on inexperience tenets established on untested facts Why 18-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11210 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11169 Everything in this mundane existence is under movement or subject to change. The universe Sanskrit equivalent Brahma meaning which expands endlessly is ever expanding. The galaxies are moving. The new stars are born and the olds are extinct in the black holes. The planets are moving around the star. The matter is transforming itself into the state of energy. 03-Jul-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11169 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11154 Basavanna wrote poems full of abstract thought and content. Visual arts have seen the growth abstractism in the present century. Abstractism is defined as what the artist creates without following any set of rules about the visual arts. It can be said the artist works from his or her imagination or subconscious. The inner self finds expression. 04-Jul-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11154 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11087 Who doesn t want to be free Freedom Moksha here means free from all worldly desire a level or state at which it is supposed that you can perform your desired action at your will without any impediment. This complete freedom and liberation Mukti of man and society is not achieved after death. Freedom or final emancipation or liberation has been called a Purushartha aspiration or a desirable action that every person or society must try to attain in his or her life itself. It is the ultimate goal of human life journey according to Holy Scriptures. Modern managers also try to attain this Purushartha to some extent when they talk about optimization of their organizational goal. 11-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11087 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11052 This is about the life reality of life. In its nude state life is just miserable. Only existence which is much different from life is real. It is only permanent. It only dwells forever. 30-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=11052 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10985 Pleasure and pain these two things have completely surrounded the human life. Everyone experiences both of these things. 14-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10985 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10979 To be oneself is the greatest achievement that can ever a human being have. Somewhere there lies some basic mistake in our total approach towards life where achieving something is promoted as the goal of life. I wonder why there should be some achievement or some goal in our life Cannot we remain happy as we are 14-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10979 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10936 Bahinabai is a powerful example of a saint who struggled between dharma duty and devotion bhakti and marriage and the love of God despite many trials and tribulations. While other female saints of the bhakti movement renounced their homes refused marriage or left their undesired husbands she successfully realized God and uniquely reconciled these two Vedic ideals in the process. Little wonder that this flame of the17th-century bhakti movement is celebrated as both the ideal bhakta and the pativrata one dedicated to her spouse in Maharashtra where she was born lived and died. 04-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10936 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10869 It was an eye-opener when someone told me that I am in a world of my own creation. Though he was taking me to task for a questionable doing I realized that he was cent percent true. All tangible and intangible items in my world are my own which I have acquired through my own five senses and same is the case with all living beings. Anything can make sense to me only if I am aware of it in the first place. And everything in my world cease for me when I am no more. 19-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10869 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10868 Believers say that god created the universe whereas the atheists say that it has come up by chance. Although logically devoid of emotion god and chance convey the same human ignorance about how this beautiful cosmos came about. But what distinguishes the two in practice is the element of purpose. When an atheist discovers a deep purpose in life his chance becomes god. God or chance is therefore our choice depending upon our own mental states. We generally oscillate between them before maturity. 19-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10868 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10854 Man is just like a palace where there are so many slaves but the master - self has gone out. Such is the condition of man. Every slave...every thought that passes by you becomes master for certain duration. Again some other thought attacks conquers and becomes master The real master is either asleep or gone for a long journey and has not come back and it has been so long... 17-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10854 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10846 A lot of research has been done on the body - human body animal body plant body. The body has two states. It is just like matter and energy two states of same things They are - vital body and physical body. 15-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10846 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10766 These are the main states of our mind. In every state the mind works in different manner And each state is significant. This also explains how even the dreams are very helpful authentic real. 31-Mar-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10766 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10693 The truth of evolution is absolute and it is universal. Evolutionary process is an uninterrupted phenomenon applicable to everything. Evolution is taking place every second in all living beings and because of that in the associated non-living environment too. Though God is everywhere at everytime the concept of God is man-made and it has also undergone evolution. It is very interesting to analyse the different concepts of God and see how it has evolved over the ages into the level of Ishvar the omnipresent and omnipotent energy that is devoid of any characteristics nirguna and hence beyond any man-made definition. 14-Mar-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10693 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10687 This is real concept of being free This is moksha as per the hinduism 13-Mar-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10687 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10556 Mind can be considered as the greatest problem faced by human beings. We generally consider mind as the greatest gift. Only human beings are able to think so profoundly. Only human beings have developed such subtle feelings. It is always said that the greatest gift that humanity has got from god is his mind. 14-Feb-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10556 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10554 The Alekh cult which is also known as Mahima Dharma Religion of Glory is fast acquiring the character of a religion in certain parts of central India drawing followers from the masses and as well as from the elite groups. It is said to have been originated in the later half of the 19th century from Mahima Gosain the glorious saint who lived in the Kapilas Hill located in the erstwhile feudatory state of Dhenkanal in Orissa. Like all other religious reform movements of the time it emerged as a protest movement against the evils of Brahmanism. 13-Feb-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10554 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10514 There was a session about Krishna in our college named Krishna- As He Is . I was also one of the speakers in it. I expressed my views about Krishna as I interpreted Him. 06-Feb-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10514 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10505 Was Andal the well-known South Indian Vaishnavite Saint the only female among the twelve Alwars of Tamilnadu someone real or a creation of Perialwar s own poetic imagination 04-May-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10505 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10472 During Christmas time almost all the shopping centers and malls in Delhi and the National Capital Region wear a dazzlingly prosperous look most of the shops are decorated with colored lights Christmas trees cut-outs of Santa Claus tinsel shiny glass balls and what have you. This newly received makeover builds up an atmosphere of conviviality and enjoyment as a result footfall increases shops are busy and business looks up as it normally does during all major festivals. 28-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10472 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10432 Bhakti was as much about defying challenging social inequality as about faith. No reason to wonder then that women and untouchables are visible throughout the history of bhakti. One of the bhakti movements of early modern times 13th century is Warkari. To that Warkari tradition belonged one more great female saint this one from Alandi in Maharashtra. 22-Oct-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10432 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10415 The God Delusion is a best selling book by Richard Dawkins. A must read for anyone with a slightest literary inquest. 11-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10415 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10406 When scantily clad women of the 21st century are frowned upon she dared to go around naked in the 12th century Who was this dauntless woman This was the young defiant vibrant one and only Akka - respected elder sister of the world Akka Mahadevi of Karnataka. 16-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10406 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10297 The idea legend and concept of Lord Ayyappa is a typical one in Hindu Sanatana Dharma HSD that symbolically reflects the entire spectrum of its own evolution to the heights of Advaitic thoughts. The story of Lord Ayyappa is very interesting and how it connects the ancient with contemporary provides the best indications about the inbuilt auto-reformation process that is present within the most progressive rational and secular religion available to mankind. Lord Ayyappa comes literally into the midst of the modern world as a renewed version of Sastha who is a product of the natural synergy of Haran and Hari. 10-Dec-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10297 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10281 Both science and spirituality are dealing with the same truths same laws and same divinity. Both are focusing themselves on the same thing. The beauty of spirituality is that it believes in thoughtlessness and that s why the ultimate truth can be received more often by a mystic than a scientist. 05-Dec-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10281 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10259 In the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh is located the shrine of the Madhava saint Sri Raghavendra Swamy. The river Tungabhadra flows close to the river. The saint attained moksha in the Brindavan in Mantralayam. It is believed that he walked into the Samadhi alive and is still seated in the yoga nidra pose to bless the millions of devotees who throng his shrine. 12-Dec-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10259 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10249 The most important thing is the religion which will lead its follower to such a position that he does not need to follow the religion is the true religion. Unification of religions is the most irreligious thing that can ever happen 26-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10249 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10128 . 21-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10128 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10120 Hanuman 01-Feb-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10120 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10116 An organized campaign orchestrated by the organized religions to establish the irresistible delusion regarding an external God that is far removed from all of us is growing day by day. There are powerful forces at play with vested interests to prevent ordinary mortals from realizing the simple fact that there is no such entity as God who is working full time to monitor our activities. There is no God who can give us rewards and punishments. Those who are constantly driving this point into the mind of the poor and vulnerable are doing a great disservice to their own selves. Evolution of man to superman has been stunted by this sort of selfish deeds of a few thousands among the six odd billion humans. 20-Nov-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10116 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9892 Lal Ded was one such poet saint of Kashmir who lived in early fourteenth century. At that time Kashmir was home to bhaktas of Shiva and Vishnu to Islamic Sufis as also to followers of Tantric Buddhism. Lalla s poems are a reflection of all these influences but ultimately express her own veneration and self-realisation culminating from her meditations and yogic discipline. Her poems though a vocalization of her spiritually intense experiences instantly appealed to the masses because she spoke in the common metaphor of her day. Greatly respected even today her deep effective sayings continue to inspire scholars and lay people alike in the valley. She is lovingly known by many names - Lal Ded grandmother Lal Lalleshwari Lalla the yogini Lal Arifa. 09-Jan-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9892 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9670 For me the central premise of Bhakti is God is everywhere always. Are we prepared to unconditionally accept without any ifs buts perhaps etc. this premise God is everywhere always Unconditional acceptance of this premise has far reaching implications 03-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9670 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9602 When any religion is started or rather to be more precise when any religion is established by followers of any enlightened master the very beauty or the very essence disappears. Each and every religion was very wonderful when the master who was behind it was alive. Then the disciples try to organize the religion make a foundation or some trust out of it. In this process the very beauty is lost. But if we have a look there are a very few religions which have prevented themselves from falling in this trap. Zen comes out to be one of the such religions. 21-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9602 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9586 From the earliest recorded times till date human beings have communicated with what they have regarded as the force of all forces. Praying to forms elements mythological characters great human beings ancestors spirits concepts etc has given them a sense of solace and courage the prayer of the animist offers the same comfort that the prayer of a non-animist does the prayer of a Muslim is as powerful as the prayer of a Hindu the prayer of a rich man is on par with that of a poor one. Prayer appears to be a great leveler of mankind all are equally rewarded all are equally treated. 19-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=9586 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=8797 . 04-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=8797 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=8649 In our Hindu culture lighting a lamp denotes dispelling away darkness. The lamp is in most Indian languages called as Jyoti .When we pray to Goddesses by lighting a lamp the belief is that we will be richly rewarded with tremendous prosperity. Married women or girls of marriageable age are always advised to light a lamp and pray for the welfare of their family pray for marriage to a good boy pray for motherhood. In reality it is said that Goddess Rajarajeshwari resides in the lamp she represents the combined form of Durga Lakshmi and Saraswathi. 04-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=8649 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=8368 Today stress has become an inevitable part of our lives. There are several training programs on stress management. There are meditation sessions. There are the satsangs or the bhajan sessions. There are techniques to relax your mind. All these techniques require you to assiduously persevere. Sometimes even if we are physically strong but mentally unfit it can still affect our health adversely. 30-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=8368 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7919 One of the famous novels in Tamil Manam Uruguthe highlights how the relationship between an individual and his guru enhances the quality of life of the individual and how it eventually leads to his overall development. For those who ask why we need a guru in the first place my answer would be Why do we need to go to temples if we have a temple within the house 04-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=7919 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6796 . 07-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6796 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6702 Youths of today are seen to be more inclined towards spirituality but are they centered They need to steer clear of distractions and move towards self-realization and discovery. 09-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=6702 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1573 We all have ideas and beliefs we live by. Some were taught to us and others we picked up along the way. Some we have no clue as to where they came from and yet we still accept them as a part of us... And still others seem to come from out of the blue as if a gift from the heavens... This little story is about one of those. A belief I hold dear that had to have been shipped from some other place and planted in my heart... It was taught to me in the central plains on an early fall day..... 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1573 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1569 As regards the origin of God my own idea is that having realized the limitations of man his weaknesses and shortcoming having been taken into consideration God was brought into imaginary existence to encourage man to face boldly all the trying circumstances to meet all dangers manfully and to check and restrain his outbursts in prosperity and affluence. 15-Jun-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1569 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1564 This is a question that has been asked by everyone at least once in their lives. It is an age old question since the time when man could think reason and use his intellect. It is usually first asked in adolescence when teenagers are beginning to make sense of this world and their place in it. Then it is asked again when they are trying to decide what to do with their lives. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1564 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1560 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1560 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1556 The Diaspora of the Dalai Lama and the Buddhists of Tibet accomplished the release of two great wellsprings of energy that were frozen in China. First the Dalai Lama was freed from the confines and isolation of Potala. Is not the attainment of Wisdom for the sake of sharing it with the world This Dalai Lama had attained the level of wisdom that only an entire world could contain. Tibet alone could no longer serve as a large enough vessel for his wisdom. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1556 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1553 Religion We make war in the name of religion and that proves us the greatest of hypocrites ever Religion is meant to teach us peace and take us from the turmoil of life to the bliss of God. Yet in the name of this very blissful God we inflict turmoil and misery on fellow humans We ignore the very foundation of religion all religions the universality of GOD . God is by it s very nature omnipotent and omnipresent it - for God is neither man nor woman . If that is the basis of all our religious beliefs we have to acknowledge that our so called enemy is also imbibed with the spirit of the same God as us. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1553 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1548 . 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1548 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1544 . 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1544 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1541 Millions have perished and millions have been wounded and left homeless. Tsunami has shown its lethal power. Somehow due to unknown reasons India has remained in the ire of nature. We have been suffering consistently due to natural calamities. One after another deadly blows are being given to the nation. Whenever we are trying to rise our head we are given a blow. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1541 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1534 Water. Vital essential both inner and outer thirst. More than just its mineral combination a kind of metaphor of existence of what we is ... and we are it. Tirtha. Sacred. We thirst for what we are. Sip it gulp it and see its existence in every thing. Water the plants and see how they thank you. Ripening budding blossoming bursting into green shinings. And curious birds looking to sip and bathe at sunset. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1534 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1532 It does not take a lot of imagination to wonder if thought is a form of energy that has an even shorter periodicity and much higher frequency than light And I am not limiting myself to just the conscious forms of thought but also the flash that we know as intuition the whispering of our soul 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1532 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1529 What are we to make of the passage in Matthew about the three wise men who followed the star to the baby Jesus in the manger We know individual stars don t move like that low across the sky. What s more a star can t serve to locate a single town like Bethlehem let alone some manger on a back street in that town. We need to find a way to tell the same story in a way that makes sense to us today so it can strike deep again into the fabric of our lived religious experience releasing into our daily lives the potentiality contained within the story to deepen our capacity for that experience and render it more authentically available to us. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1529 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1527 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1527 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1524 Why is it when we talk to God we re praying but when God talks to us we re neurotic 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1524 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1520 Joy and sorrow come and go like seasons. You cannot stop their flow just like you can t stop the flow of seasons. What is needed is that we adjust to the visitor that is with us at the moment - whether it is joy or sorrow pleasure or pain shadow or light sunshine or rain. All these shades of existence help us grow. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1520 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1516 A rhetorical question arises then Why if so many similarities exist cant sub-divisions among religions if not all religions across the board break down the barriers that exist among them and become one 09-Apr-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1516 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1514 It goes without saying that language is a response to needs that arise from contacts with objects. It s subjective too. Suppose it was the other way around one that was modeled for the world to fit in Just think. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1514 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1508 From a scientific standpoint however it would be interesting to note that the relationship between brain activity and meditation has been extensively investigated during the last three decades. The popular view today is that meditation produces a type of relaxation not sleep. Which is one reason why the classy method has become one of the many ways to teach people patients how to relax. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1508 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1506 For thousands of years religious dogma and tribal superstitions kept scientific thinkers in a locked box. Many outspoken scholars were executed because their scientific findings were looked upon as heresy. It is only in the past two hundred years that free academic study of science was allowed to flourish unhindered by ancient religious doctrines. 06-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1506 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1501 As civilizations progress there will be many systems manipulating the consciousness of people. The development of these systems and other things that we form as part of our progress the objects of civilization are based on reasoning. Reasoning is inherently weak because it is based on perception conviction and motivation. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1501 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1498 Spiritual or religious states all over the globe are often equated with light. However this maybe one primal fact remains our spirit is created not by light but by sound. Hence the vintage expression In the beginning was the word or sound in the form of divine speech. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1498 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1492 He gave this thought to us the oasis the salvation and goal. He led us to the oasis to experience the quenching of interminable miseries of suffering and toil. Some believe some don t. Some see some haven t. The oasis doesn t have to have been reached to know it is there. The approach the satisfaction and the movement beyond is key to our existence. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1492 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1487 Breath has often been touted as the vehicle that must be tamed must be controlled in order to enter this region of light . Much has been made of the rhythms of breath of invoking the energy channels within the physical realm and of coupling those with patterns of breathing that activate more energy paths so that ascension of spiritual consciousness may begin. As we focus on our breathing and through it see how it controls our mental processes one can hardly miss that the experience is somewhat alike driving a car. 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1487 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1484 Intelligence is now on a race with its by-products artificial intelligence computer intelligence and robotics. The peril posed by them is subtle. What is important today is foresight which is essential for intelligent stewardship. It holds the key for our longer-term survival. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1484 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1481 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1481 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1467 Do you know how a lion walks After taking a certain number of steps it looks behind weighs the path it has trodden and then goes ahead. And how does a donkey walk Grazing all the grass on its way and never looking behind. The question is how do we walk 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1467 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1462 The Qur an is to Islam what the Torah is to Judaism the Bible to Christianity and the Gita to Hinduism. I believe that the Qur an has three basic themes. In this paper I show the importance of the Qur an to Muslims and in the process attempt to capture the essence of the Qur an through the critical reading of three Surahs 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1462 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1459 Our life defines it Yet we long for it we think about it we try to visualize it and we philosophize about it. We all have it in us to be one with God. We fail to notice it because we are so blinded by the matrix. We think that it is too high a goal for us and take comfort in what we are familiar with. 19-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1459 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1451 What once required long stretches of time to accomplish began to move in moments. A blink of the eye was not adequate any longer to serve as a short enough unit of time bringing on the need for creating newer and smaller units of time mankind had never imagined before. As a crystallized symbol of the revolution the shiny emblems of progress of accomplishment adorned in ever-evolving and such eye-catching forms became the norm of the day. 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1451 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1450 Legalism is a great way to bring order to a disturbed society in turmoil. But it would definitely not suffice nor last in an ordered and peaceful society as Legalism condemns the arts and the pursuit of anything other than agriculture. A peaceful free society needs the arts to flourish otherwise stagnation and frustration sets in and eventually leads to rebellion. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1450 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1446 This theory is concerned with the nature of karma a Hindu concept based on cause and effect. We are used to hearing of karma in terms of good and bad but this is a misconception. Good and bad are concepts unique to our situation and based solely on survival in this world that which promotes survival is considered to be good and that which threatens it is considered bad. Certainly we can attach ideas of good and bad to it but it has nothing to do with the nature of karma itself the soul will always survive. Karma is desire the force of life. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1446 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1440 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1440 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1436 Whatever changes cannot be true. The world as we see it today is not the same as was in the past and would not be the same in future as well. Hence the world cannot be real. It can be labeled as illusive reality or relative truth at best. There is one permanent unchanging Reality or Existence behind this changing universe. It is the essence or substratum of all beings things and phenomena. 03-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1436 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1433 . 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1433 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1427 Everything is in a process of change and is constantly evolving. Permanence is that which is a complementary aspect of impermanence and the Tao is beyond both those concepts. Hence the Tao cannot be captured by humanly definitions language concepts and thoughts. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1427 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1418 Human suffering has meaning. It reinforces our belief in god for in our happiness we tend to forget about him. Atheists are busy like existentialists in finding a solution to misery. Yet they only have to look around to see that human suffering is a challenge that can be overcome. The great sages of the world have already found the solution to it all. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1418 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1411 We all know something about our conscious mind. At least we can make certain presumptions about our consciousness. Consciousness for most of us is the fact of the awareness or our thinking feeling and doing. Although the reactions to the stimuli may differ from person to person or even in the same person from time to time the fact that everyone is capable of reacting is taken as a sign of consciousness. These conscious acts are sometimes termed as conscious mind. 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1411 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1407 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1407 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1402 Birth is an occasion for joy. Contrarily death is attended with grief. But birth and death are like two sides of a coin. They are inseparable. Death like a shadow stalks behind a person from the moment he is born. In other words death is inevitable. Mortality is the most certain certainty on earth. Though we know we shall die we are blessed to be ignorant of when or how we shall die. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1402 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1401 Youth of today who have inborn desire to seek fulfillment and freedom in life who are inclined to serve others out of sheer force of selflessness who have least attachment to sense pleasures and who have curiosity to know God should come together 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1401 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1396 This page attempts to discuss scriptures religions and their synthesis 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1396 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1394 Allegory is a statement which carries a meaning different from the literal one such as the creation of the Universe in six days. All revealed Scriptures have this trait in common that they are heavily allegorical. It is our mistake that we take them to be literally true. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1394 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1389 . 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1389 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1382 Complete freedom moksha is contingent upon self-knowledge atma- gyam and renunciation vairagya or virakti . It is imperative to be aware of one s capacities so as to embrace an appropriate role within which renunciation and freedom become imaginable. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1382 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1377 Religious Christians Jews and Muslims live by the word of God in their holy books. They fear hell and damnation and the wrath of God. Their reasoning and logic states that acts such as murder jealousy anger and revenge are deadly sins that human beings commit and if they do not repent they will burn in hell. 06-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1377 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1371 Some days the river flows with an urgency of it s own capturing everything in its path bowling over trees and saplings raking in logs and debris with a ferocity and vengeance. These days the riverwatcher smiles and lasts as long as possible out on the pier enjoying the power and swing of the marker buoys the clap and lap of the waves in rhythmic harmony. To view the river on these days is to hear the river speak to feel the mist and rain and to know the watcher and the river are alive and well. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1371 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1364 Nature destroys the negative tendencies but in a very evolutionary and positive manner. The progress or evolution of species takes place by branching. Hence whichever branch gets into a dynamic equilibrium with the surroundings survives grows and prospers. The other branch which could not get into equilibrium with the surrounding forces simply dies off and with it that branch of the species. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1364 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1358 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1358 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1349 The circular growth of science has reached its peak the pointer must come downward again. However new tangents would be drawn to the circle that would once again point upwards as the offshoots for further progress. Thus we would always find two tendencies in every branch of knowledge one of the progress and the other of decline. Religion and spirituality are no exceptions to this rule. 01-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1349 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1343 Lack of knowledge of its quintessence has reduced religion to a hackneyed concept and it has become responsible for all factionalism sectarianism and parochialism. It is a formalistic approach to religion which is causing problematic situations. Too much attention is paid to forms dogmas and rituals while ignoring its metaphysical content. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1343 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1339 During these troubled times when religious polarization seems to have become the order of the day nationally as well as internationally it is imperative that we ask ourselves two fundamental questions What is religion And what is its purpose 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1339 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1335 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1335 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1333 Revelations are intuitive and subjective. They reflect the seekers own knowledge and convictions. Moreover the modes of revelations too varied from prophet to prophet. God Himself addressed Moses while Muhammad was assigned an angel who was invisible to others. Some saints experienced it in their dreams. Then we have a history of divinity bestowed on idols rivers and trees by men. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1333 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1327 . 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1327 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1320 For the record I was raised in a Christian home and both of my parents were ordained hellfire and brimstone Pentecostal Ministers. Still I could never get into the concepts of Heaven and Hell. I couldn t figure out how they had anything to do with a daily loving relationship with my creator. Then one day I got down on my knee s I thought it was important at the time and I said a prayer 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1320 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1315 For an ordinary reader of life the notion of Appearance and Reality is ingrained since birth through rituals and mythologies. Believing in the aim and purpose of life and Cosmos sets us apart from other animals that do not seem to bother about an afterlife. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1315 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1284 Your passion shows you the way to be happy powerful and ever shining. It shows you the way to become and bloom into who you really are. Passion is what you were born to do. Passion is the path that takes you to the true purpose of your life. When you suppress your passion you are denying your truth and your true self. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1284 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1279 . 01-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1279 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1271 New vision is spiritual vision. From animal to human from human to spiritual the vistas enlarge accommodating everyone in their larger scope of vision. No one will be left behind everyone manifests the same consciousness of Spirit some with more clarity others as the personification of ignorance. The block of granite prompts you to go beyond itself remaining the milestone on the royal path. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1271 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1269 To attempt to excel in the allotted or chosen role or field of activity is Yoga. Thus one focuses on spiritualization of the self the family and consequently the whole society by imbibing higher values in one s character. The basic value is selflessness Ethics and morality are based on one principle that is of renunciation and selfless service. 01-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1269 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1267 The spiritual ascent is from the least evolved state of consciousness to near perfect state after which the mind itself will cease to be and there will remain only non-dual experience. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1267 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1021 Hindu philosophy abounds in concepts that have potential for interpretation at all times in line with the expansion of human knowledge. Moksha and Nirvana are two such concepts that have always fascinated mankind especially to those in search of Absolute Truth. My own understanding of these terms in very trivial terms is as follows. Attaining Moksha is like reaching a state of permanent bliss in the course of this current life itself and Nirvana is something like an eternal escape from the cycle of births deaths. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1021 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1020 We all have our favorite metaphors. Our views on life encapsulated into nice and tidy little sayings. With metaphors we can say paragraphs about our personal opinions in just a few short sentences. And our personal favorites can often say more about us then were willing to admit to ourselves. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1020 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1015 Man has been meditating or engaging in other consciousness altering processes since his very early dawn. The search for supra-sensory experiences seems to be as old as man and the drive that motivates it one of his innate drives. How else do we explain the fact that consciousness altering processes are part of not only every religion and cult but also of every tribe however primitive it is 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1015 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1012 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1012 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1010 There is only one difference between the certified mad and the sacred mad. The former has no control over his her mind and the latter has chosen his her course with the greatest deliberation. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1010 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1009 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1009 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1007 Haven t we all forgotten the importance of living Real Living Where we can enjoy each moments of our life and take the good and the bad in it s own stride. Aren t we all too much into trivial matters and petty thinking and driven by insatiable greed We are whizzing past life in hurried pursuits And we have in the process lost out in the holistic meaning of life In the pursuit of the unattainable driven by an acquisitive attitude we loose out in the meaning of real living and do not enjoy and cherish what we have with in our grasp. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1007 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1003 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1003 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1002 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=1002 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=999 Each one of us is born with a unique genetic makeup which provides a basic template for our general behavior. This behavior is further modified by the surroundings that one encounters in life. These interactions especially in early life imprint powerful memories in our brain. Our mind is nothing else but the total sum of our lifetime memories. These memories which provide the makeup of our mind govern our actions. Thus we react to events and circumstances according to this makeup. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=999 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=998 Intuition to most people sounds much like a mystical force even a monumental gift. However according to a new study intuition is a sort of background sense a sense of how things should work with its facts hidden in the brain. Of logic. And more than all that a personal power. A power which every human being is endowed with although not all of us are aware of its immense possibilities or uses. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=998 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=994 Muhammad believed that only Islam submission could bring all the misguided people back into the fold of the glory of One God Allah. Islam preaches absolute submission or resignation to the will of God. 03-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=994 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=992 But if God was indeed so complete then why did it want to see itself Why did it have to create This is a question that haunts most spiritual traditions. All Gurus and Masters have their own take on this riddle. Some say it is God s nature to create and so it happened while others say that God was all knowledge but lacked experience and creation was a means to feel this bliss. Some others claim that God is beyond the realm of reasoning and therefore this is a useless question anyway. Finally some even disassociate themselves from this hypothesized happening completely and proclaim - God decides and we obey why is not for us to ask. 30-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=992 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=990 Does God exist is the most popular question in our mind. Whenever I sit alone I try to find the answer to this question and every time I get more and more confused. Today I will try to get answer by steps. So let s start from the origin of the universe. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=990 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=988 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=988 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=987 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=987 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=985 Plan your thoughts with burning desire while keeping feelings with healing detachment. Don t stop dreaming. Ambitions are seeds to great revolutions. Just add a dash of detachment to whatever you do. That is the secret. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=985 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=983 Brain is not only a receiver but also transmitter of thought packets. With practice of Sanyam or Yoga we can tune our brains to receive knowledge and thought packets at will and to send them to others. This sending and receiving of thought packets is governed by the strength of concentration. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=983 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=982 . 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=982 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=980 Most of the times almost of all devotees worshippers and ordinary people get a doubt if at all God exists If he is there why he is not seen nor he is listening to the devotees frantic calls to help. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=980 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=978 Billions of years and light-years this cosmos is difficult to conceive and a good interpretation is still harder to come by. Nevertheless it out there majestically spread over infinite time and space. Perfect to the point of madness. But is it purposeful 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=978 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=976 Dictionaries define a fundamentalist as one who believes in the literal interpretation and the infallibility of the Bible as if fundamentalism were unique to Christianity alone. This definition may be modified someday but the problem of fundamentalism will continue to torment us. 06-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=976 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=974 Five questions to ask yourself before you become enlightened. 04-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=974 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=972 In essence prayer means asking or expecting something from a higher authority while worship means offering or giving something to it. Most of the time God or Self is taken as the higher authority and thus most prayers concern with the religious or spiritual aspects of life. 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=972 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=971 Where is God s Perfection This article attempts to explain just that. 03-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=971 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=967 Is God a Zero In the beginning there was Nothing. Space was great void. Time stood still. Who or what is God It is an eternal question to which the great religions of the world have provided different answers but nothing definite. Variously described the Original Sourced the Uncreated the Absolute the Almighty the First Cause etc. God is something that remains beyond the comprehension of human mind. 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=967 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=966 Without taking the medicine by just repeating the name of the medicine no malady can be cured. Likewise without practical perception and experience by merely repeating the words of sacred texts no one can attain salvation 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=966 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=964 . 06-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=964 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=962 . 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=962 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=959 The question of creation has fascinated humankind throughout the ages. Where do we come from How did life begin Almost every human culture told or tells a creation story the need to do so seems to be a universally human phenomenon. We need to understand our origin nearly as much as we need to eat and breath. 30-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=959 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=957 . 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=957 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=954 A symbol in its true sense is not a conventional sign it is the finite expression of the infinite the only means to evoke and convey realities which cannot be expressed directly. These realities are conceived as concepts first. However a concept cannot be formulated without appropriate symbolism. A concept cannot be authenticated without corresponding symbol. Secondly nearer a symbol to the concept in quality and quantity higher is its acceptance as the ideal. This leads to a peculiar situation the highest symbol now may be confused with the concept principle itself Thus Christ does not remain a symbol of God He becomes the God. 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=954 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=952 The basis of universal religion is not conversion to one faith or creed but the acceptance of every religion as the path to the same Truth. To conclude acceptance and not mere tolerance of every sect and every religion as a true path for self-realization can alone be the basis of universal religion. 31-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=952 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=950 Consider the evolution of consciousness as the ultimate goal in the evolution of physical form. Is there a consciousness backdrop that is helping life organize to greater complexity In a multidimensional Universe are higher dimensions helping organize life on the lower physical plane This is a key concept that needs to be examined when discussing theories of God a higher consciousness that purportedly rules over life-forms. 10-Feb-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=950 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=949 In the Chir-haran-lila Lord Krshna confiscates the external layers which camouflage the soul. Our various desires keep the soul bound to the physical realm. To cut these bonds and free the divine soul Krupanidhan came to remove the last vestiges of duality from the very subconscious of the gopies. The soul is neither male or female. It is neither great or small. It is sinless and pure. It is all knowing and eternally free. Temporarily it is bound in the body by illusion and self imposed ignorance. Lord came only to remove these illusions and remind the soul that it is above it all. In all his Lilas Krshna has attempted to awaken the soul and let it realise its destiny. 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=949 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=948 It is not unlikely that you my esteemed reader of the instant article will be travelling someday in a train on the relatively obscure Sahebgunj loop of Indian railways connecting Bihar through the districts of Burdwan and Birbhum of West Bengal. As is natural for your scholastic bend of mind and your never satiated urge for more knowledge you are keen for a quick visit to Santiniketan known world over as a place of learning with a marked difference made famous by Gurudev Rabindranath the first Nobel laureate of Asia and his illustrious father Rishi Debendranath Tagore. 19-Sep-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=948 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=946 Comes a time when it becomes hard to ignore that words that begin as wisps and slivers straight from the soul become corny and cliche When the temple sheds its divine glow and from underneath the veneer dreary walls of a tavern begin to emerge glaring mockingly at one it is hard not to feel bitter or betrayed When the priest must ultimately pass in front of the all-revealing Light of reality and wisdom and must pay the price of transparency it is hard not to feel that that rain-drop and those first-rain-on-the-ground-smells were all a dream ... they were illusions 30-Aug-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=946 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=944 Our belief in God or our non-belief in God should not upset our belief in our self. I feel very strongly there is nothing like believing in oneself. 01-Apr-2012 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=944 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=926 . 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=926 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=924 All religions agree on two vital points. First God or Brahman is unknown and unknowable second humans are accountable for their actions. In other words a moral law pervades life. How when and where we get our reward and punishment is the essential difference among various religions apart from language and rituals. 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=924 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=918 . 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=918 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=910 . 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=910 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=907 . 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=907 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=899 . 13-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=899 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=893 Very closely related to Cypripedium the lady slipper orchid Calypso is a genus with only one species palearctic in distribution. The same little orchid Chris found in the woods of Washington State is reported to extend all the way south to Arizona in the mountains of the western United States. It surprised me to find that such a widespread orchid had been put on a list of plants facing the danger of global extinction. The problem is that orchid enthusiasts dig the little plants up from the forest and take them home to their garden where they usually die. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=893 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=890 From my experience I can honestly say as an omnipresent God that I have never lost a friend however many friends have lost my company ... More so in recent years as I talk more freely about the genuine way to live life on earth to a more unapproachable modern sculptured human world heading towards polluted or nuclear extinction. I find it bizarre that I hear many people say they want peace yet they continue to wage war to find it rather than finding me 06-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=890 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=887 Smriti lay tossing and turning in her bed. She was not awake but she was not in deep sleep either. In fact she was dreaming. She was having a dream within a dream. In her dream she had woken up with a shock finding herself in a public area right in the middle of a market place completely naked. She was aghast. People were jeering at her. She looked here and there but nowhere could she see any of her clothing. She tried to hide her body placing her hands over sensitive parts but to no avail. If she hid this part she was exposed there. And in this struggle she woke up with very anxious over her state. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=887 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=884 Prior to the developments of human knowledge mentally man was in total darkness and was living under the spell of fear. Fear of darkness disease death lightning thunder storm volcanic eruption formidable animals and so on made him surrender to them and worship them for mercy and survival. Those objects of fear became Gods. In fact Gods and temples are the products of fear only. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=884 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=880 Adi Shankaracharya has authored a beautiful poem called Kaupeena Panchaka also known as Yati Panchaka in which he reflects the feelings of the Buddha we hear expressed in this dialogue. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=880 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=877 We are what we think we are. We are what society wants us to believe is our identity. We are seekers of approval as long as we live in society. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=877 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=875 Just as we turn to the program vendor when a software we install doesn t work when human nature fails us we must ask the nature vendor to provide us with one that works properly. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah the Creator is a force of love and wants to bestow His love. Hence He created in us a desire to receive delight and pleasure. As a result all our choices aim to increase our pleasure or decrease our pain. 07-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=875 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=874 Of all parts of Nature only man puts his own interest before the needs of the system. Kabbalah shows how we can operate according to the altruistic laws of Nature which in Kabbalah is the same as God. 07-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=874 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=872 Islam means submission to the will of Allah. It is a perfect way of living one s life peacefully simply and reasonably providing solutions for all problems and aspects of life. Islam needs to put forth no reasons and justifications before the true Muslim. Unfortunately various groups and sects of people have attacked this great religion. It has become the most misunderstood religion in the West. There is thus a need to understand some of the concepts behind this mighty religion 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=872 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=868 As everyone around us is busy exhibiting his or her professional success pretentiously we are becoming more and more susceptible to replicating the professional decisions of others. Infatuation with travelling global competition parental pressures especially in the developing world and availability of numerous novel choices to the untrained mind may be some of the other distractions in selecting work according to our own aptitude. Besides even if one has a well-defined area of interest some skills may have turned obsolete in this age due to unavoidable influences such as automation and outsourcing. 14-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=868 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=858 Concept of God is the very basis of every religion but it differs vastly between religions. As an integral part of our journey towards salvation the different religions have defined God to be of different type and kind. There must be a concept of God in every religion and without it everything about its beliefs and rituals would be meaningless. In all religions God is omnipotent and omnipresent. The difference lies in its other features. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=858 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=854 There are religions and religions and there are philosophies and philosophies connected with them. Invariably all religious philosophies are cantered around the concept of Ishwar. But has any seen this Ishwar How can we see or feel Ishwar I am sure there are no convincing answers to all such inconvenient questions. Billions and billions of human beings have lived here in this planet before us and probably billions will follow us. Many divine personalities belonging to different regions races and religions have claimed to have seen or felt or realized Ishwar but none of them could show Ishwar to another individual. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=854 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=845 Alexander Ashoka and Akbar are the three celebrities enjoying the title of the great for right wrong or no reasons in our part of the world. While the first one was a cruel invader and the second one a clear native the third one was a hybrid though he tried to be more of a native but belonged to lineage of invaders . All three have made their own contributions to history that have impacted the life of ordinary Indians and continues to produce social aftershocks even today. Inclusion of one each from Hindu Christian and Muslim communities in the Indian great-trio seems to be yet another handiwork of suicidal secularism propagated by the dominant folk of leftist-historians in India. Though debatable whether it is mandatory to agree with these worthless historians let us leave the trio as such for the sake of saving our time. But it is definitely warranted to search for more greats and even the greatest from our own history. I find no better candidate than Bhakta Prahlad to be anointed as the greatest. 05-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=845 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=837 It is paradoxical that the very faculty which raises us to the level of humans from being mere animals is also the foremost impediment in realizing our own divinity. This is the message repeated by enlightened beings time and again be it Shiva Buddha or Patanjali drop the mind. But how can something that elevates us to consciousness stop us from reaching the super-conscious state It doesn t seem logical. The answer lies in the mind itself. It is in fact absurdly logical. By its very nature the mind collects questions analyzes dissects and even fabricates information. The tool most often used is logic which again is a creation of the mind. 07-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=837 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=832 I have always been a deep skeptic in spiritual matters. Nevertheless I am curious and ceaselessly search for genuine spiritual books and spiritual leaders. Approaching spiritual institutions with a barren mind can be dangerous. It can be worse than drug addiction. In the latter a therapy may save you while in the former a late realization of futility can snap your senses. As Schopenhauer says-If you approach any new idea or ideology with a vacuum mind it gets sucked into you. So one needs to have certain degree of exposure to spiritual thoughts before seeking a spiritual guru. 03-Oct-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=832 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=829 n a passage titled the Kingdom of Heaven in Heart at Work by Jack Canfield and Jacqueline Miller Thich Nhat Hahn says We do not have to die to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In fact we have to be fully alive. When we breathe in and out and hug a beautiful tree we are in Heaven. When we take one conscious breath aware of our eyes our heart our liver and our non-toothache we are transported to Paradise right away. Peace is available. We only need to touch it. When we are truly alive we can see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=829 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=826 n a passage titled the Kingdom of Heaven in Heart at Work by Jack Canfield and Jacqueline Miller Thich Nhat Hahn says We do not have to die to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In fact we have to be fully alive. When we breathe in and out and hug a beautiful tree we are in Heaven. When we take one conscious breath aware of our eyes our heart our liver and our non-toothache we are transported to Paradise right away. Peace is available. We only need to touch it. When we are truly alive we can see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. 28-Aug-2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=826 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=821 Propounded by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras Yam is aimed to lead a disciplined life. It is useful and effective in maintaining an ideal social order. 03-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=821 http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=818 As God almighty who exists in multi-dimensional guises of intelligent energy I am everyone s friend on earth but most people no longer recognize me as their friend so I guess I am not so mighty ... Well that is because it is not my intent to make anyone do what he or she does not want to do. 06-Sep-2011 04:00:00 GMT http://www.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=818