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Jan 21

Meditate for a better future

No sooner I get into the process suggested to calm my overtaxed mind, I get into sleep mode. Obviously, when...

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Jan 21

Fine art of living well

If you wish to enjoy a game you are playing, in the first place, you need to be conversant with...

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Dec 20

Let Guru be your guide

Picking up threads from the previous issue, let us first have a look into the construct and chemistry of mind....

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Dec 20

Let Guru be your guide

Picking up threads from the previous issue, let us first have a look into the construct and chemistry of mind....

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Dec 20

You can write your destiny

“How much control we have on our destiny?” Asked a student during my astrology class. Well, the answer is ‘no...

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Dec 20

Fix your habits early in life

Habits die hard. You may stive to get over them, but you won’t be able to hold it for long...

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Dec 20

Set your priorities right

Perception drives a being, which sets the terms of how you set your dream destination, steer through the course of...

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Dec 20

Mind balance is the key

Someone concerned about not been able to contain his wavering mind and habit tendencies, despite serious efforts towards that end,...

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Sep 20

Living in a giving mode

One day, sense of reasons dawned upon a feuding couple, when they came together seeking guidance on how to improve...

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Sep 20

Let things happen naturally

Parents of a daughter, worried about undue delay in her marriage, came asking the other day: “My daughter has already...

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Sep 20

Know your own self for success

Life is paradoxical. It is full of contradictions. The living world with all its enormity and diversity, where every being...

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Aug 20

Mind-trends of twins vary

Couple of years back, a lady came seeking guidance on how to improve her relationship with husband, which had become...

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Aug 20

Keep a check on yourself

Someone under acute stress came asking the other day: “Sir, in the last four years my business has gone for...

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Aug 20

Change for a better future

The world is subject to continued change. Every moment, energy dynamics of the cosmos keeps varying widely, and with related...

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Aug 20

Know self for a better future

We are all born with a sense of freedom ingrained in our mind. So, unless otherwise forced by circumstances, one...

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Aug 20

Awareness is Godliness

The takeaway from the previous issue is that we are all an inseparable part of a unified organism, where no...

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Jul 20

Existence is God

A great majority of people believe in the existence of God, which different philosophies perceive in their own ways. By...

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Jul 20

The call of Lord Shiva

Society is subject to continued churning, which impels change in our thought process, priorities, and societal dynamics. The pace of...

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Jul 20

Unlock the mind to heal

Lockdown is being gradually eased out. People are trying to resume normal activities, but the problems confronting us are yet...

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Jun 20

Don’t stigmatise eclipse

On the eclipse day, last Sunday, from early morning, I was flooded with calls from all those seeking to learn...

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Jun 20

The effect of an eclipse

We will be witnessing Annular Solar Eclipse today. For more than a fortnight, the so called self-acclaimed arbiters of people’s...

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Jun 20

Freewill can reshape destiny

Having shared the construct of mind and its operative mechanism as detailed in the previous issue, I will now give...

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Jun 20

Awareness for mindpower

Continuing from where we left last week, it comes out that ‘Freewill’ serves as a double-edged sword. If, on one...

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Jun 20

Freewill Versus Fate

It is in human nature to look towards a better tomorrow. So, invariably we begin life with high hopes and...

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May 20

Be live to collective obligations

Pursuing Dhyana, we have already seen how mind becomes free from all thought imprints, thus becoming free from all limitations...

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May 20

Contextual Meditation – A self healing process

Since ancient times, 112 methods of attaining the state Yoga are known. Meanwhile, a good number of new methods, improvised...

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May 20

Dhyana for self-empowerment

Moving on from lessons in how to relax and then detoxify the mind, in the previous issues, it’s time now...

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May 20

Be alert to live mindfully

It is time now to see how we can reinvent the mind to come out with its wholesome power, which,...

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Apr 20

Detoxify your mind

To continue from where we left in the previous issue, let me now relate a story believed to be associated...

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Apr 20

Turn isolation into opportunity

We have been homebound for more than 3 weeks now. Those working from home would be fully engaged as usual,...

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Apr 20

Implications of distant planets

Nobody, not even doctors were aware of coronavirus before it trapped the whole world into its fold. Only after pandemic...

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Apr 20

Be ready to combat evil forces

The first calling of the present pandemic is not to panic. Should you panic, you may lose your sense of...

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Mar 20

Revive age-old hygiene tradition

The whole world is faced with a panic situation because of Corona virus scare. With over 175 countries in its...

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Mar 20

Watch Your Thought Process

A woman worried about her marriage prospects given her advancing age came asking the other day: “I will be touching...

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Mar 20

Maintain a realistic perception

Someone in his mid-sixties, came seeking answer to his pointed questions: “Sir, as on date, professionally, I am doing well...

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Mar 20

Ill-framed mind can derail you

I was sitting in a party with six others around a table. One of them raked up the issue of...

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Mar 20

Decoding Shiva: Existence is God

Picking up threads from the previous issue, it is now time now to see how creation chain moved forward on...

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Feb 20

Lord Shiva: Existence Personified

Last Friday, Hindus celebrated Shivaratri dedicated to Lord Shiva, popularly seen as one amongst the God-trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and...

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Feb 20

You can write your life anew

Picking up threads from the previous issue, let us now look at the premise on which destiny is formed. That...

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Feb 20

Astrology and Destiny Indications

A professor of Philosophy came the other day looking for what lies in store of his habitually errant daughter’s destiny....

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Feb 20

If we resolve, we can change

My secretary ushered in a seemingly gangster character in my chamber, making me wonder what he has come for. “How...

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Jan 20

Habit tendencies can derail venture

Picking up threads from the previous issue, let us now look at prognosis of the young man’s endeavour since his...

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Jan 20

Overcome your habit tendencies

A couple of years back a young man came asking just one question: “Can my dream of making it big...

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Jan 20

Better to be practical than perfect

There was self-created disorder at the ‘Primal source’, earlier in a perfect equilibrated state, which when gravitated, differentiated energies got...

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Dec 19

The Legacy of 2019 we carry forward

It’s time to say goodbye to the year 2019. That makes imperative, a look into the premise that the country...

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Dec 19

No shortcuts to fixing problems

A couple of months back someone called me to check on longevity prospects of one of his friends he had...

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Dec 19

Correct your own weaknesses

It is in human nature to improve one’s lot, which tempts one to look towards a better tomorrow. So, invariably...

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Dec 19

God helps those who help themselves

“I am god loving. I pray every morning before I set out for work, and again before I retire for...

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Dec 19

Personality match in matrimony

Parents of a young girl, keen to get her married soon, after lot of search pinned down on a guy,...

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Nov 19

The key to a better tomorrow

A valued reader of this column has confronted me with questions that deserve attention for the sake of clarity of...

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Nov 19

Stay alert to keep mind in shape

The festive season is now over. Austere measures observed during the festivity would have brought in a sense of sanity....

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Nov 19

Greed-based Karma will derail you

Festive season is yet not over. It ends up today with conclusion of Chath festival, observed in Bihar and the...

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Oct 19

Deepawali is to rejuvenate the self

At the outset, I wish the valued readers a very happy Deepawali and a prosperous life during the year ahead....

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Oct 19

Watch your thought patterns

Perception drives a being. It encompasses all aspects of our working-self. It offers us with the window-frame through which we...

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Oct 19

Check your child’s behviour early

A worried father, concerned about his erratic son, came asking the other day: “What is in store of his destiny?...

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Oct 19

Durga guides us how to use energy

At the outset, let me greet the valued readers on the solemn occasion of Shardeya Navaratra, dedicated to Mother Goddess...

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Oct 19

Take charge of your actions

Someone holding a high position in an international organisation is off and on confronted with upsetting situations at works and...

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Sep 19

Empower our mind for success

A young graduate, having failed to taste success at many qualifying examinations for different jobs, came asking the other day...

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Sep 19

Watch over your karma

Having followed last two issues of this column, another regular reader came up with an interesting question: “Sir, you have...

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Sep 19

God helps those who help themselves

A regular reader of this column could not digest the observation made in the previous issue: “There is no scope...

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Sep 19

Be grounded for a smooth run of life

A girl having entered her forties and yet not married, would naturally be a concern for parents. One such helpless...

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Aug 19

Success calls for addressing fault lines

Someone in late fifties going through a very difficult phase in life came with a host of questions: “Sir, I...

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Aug 19

Let love play the game changer

The other day an old man worried about his bullish grandson came asking: “What is in store of his destiny?...

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Aug 19

Rein in monkey mind for success

Invariably, human minds, unless otherwise consciously reined in, behaves like a wild monkey that is randomly and unmindfully jumping from...

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Aug 19

S’iva is all about inclusiveness

Picking up threads from the previous issue, let us now see how Lord Śiva, engages with multitude of existences forming...

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Jul 19

Lord Shiva: the symbolic Universal Guru

The whole of Shravana month, immediately following Gurupurnima, is dedicated to Lord Shiva, believed to be the Universal Guru. Those...

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Jul 19

Guru helps one becoming self-empowered

Every Ashadha Purnima, which fell on 16th July this year, is marked as Guru-purnima in the annual Hindu calendar. Following...

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Jul 19

Self-correction checkmates Saturn’s wrath

Whenever reality confronts myth, usually the latter is found to have the first laugh. The reason plain and simple is...

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Jul 19

Keep up with time to evade Saturn’s wrath

Picking up threads from the previous issue, it comes out that no individual planet deserves to be termed as a...

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Jun 19

Don’t fear Saturn’s Sadhesati or Dhaiya

Last Saturday, I got stuck in traffic jam at a place where the road is quite wide and therefore, usually...

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Jun 19

We must not take depression lightly

All actions on our part are primarily guided by cause-effect chain, the implication of which gets stretched on to the...

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Jun 19

Life is nothing but paradoxical

Life in its usual run is subject to twists and turns – sometimes pleasant and at other times full of...

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Jun 19

Marriage offers opportunity to evolve

A woman under acute stress, not knowing how to salvage her troubled personal life, came seeking guidance the other day....

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Jun 19

Beware of personality disorder

A worried mother came looking for destiny prospects of her son: “When is my son’s career breakthrough due? He is...

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May 19

Organised mind ensures success

A young man not been able to get through qualifying examination for admission into a business school, grudgingly came asking...

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May 19

Orderly Mind for Better Tomorrow

A south Korean who consulted me sought two clarifications against my observation on his chart: “Is being ambitious and dreaming...

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May 19

Watch Your Mind to Ward off Evil

A lady concerned about continued struggle in her husband’s life, came asking the other day: “What is wrong in his...

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May 19

Of Habit tendencies and Stress

Recent annual Gallup poll suggests that 55% of Americans are subject to stress, anger, and worry, compared to the global...

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Apr 19

Habit tendencies may cost us dear

Picking up threads from the previous issue, it comes out that the young man had the tendency to conduct in...

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Apr 19

Guru-Disciple Dynamic

Guru-disciple dynamic The other day, someone came asking: “Can a Guru change a person’s samskara – inherent mental tendencies?” Well,...

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Apr 19

Let things happen when naturally due

Last year, a lady worried about her younger sister’s marriage, came asking: “Some pundits say that my sister’s marriage is...

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Sep 18

Astrology for Human Resource Development

Summing up the discussion in the previous issue, it comes out that on no count astrology can be termed as...

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Sep 18

Free your Mind of all Preconditioning

The world is a projection of one’s mind. The way mind envisions, ideates, discriminates, articulates, and wills upon is how...

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Sep 18

Explore and Clean Clouded Mind

A regular reader of this column put up an intriguing question: “At times, my heart tells me to do something,...

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Sep 18

Educative Import of Ganapati Symbolism

Every puja in Indian tradition begins with Ganapati worship. For, He is perceived to be Vighnavinashaka (remover or all obstacles)....

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Sep 18

Discriminate intelligence, the true empowerment tool

Having had a taste of the thin dividing line distinguishing the law of destiny and that of karma, it is...

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Sep 18

You, Karma and destiny

Laws of karma and that of destiny are often confused as being one and the same. No wonder, as they...

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Sep 18

SHED YOUR EGO FOR PEACE

Sense of freedom is ingrained in human construct, which one is always keen to exercise as a matter of right....

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Sep 18

CHECK THE SEEDS OF GREED

Almost three years now, it is a rare occasion when one or the other scandal would not be occupying centre...

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Sep 18

YOUR FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS

Human beings are driven by their innate desires, laid down deep in the inner realms of mind in the seed...

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Sep 18

NATURE AND LAW OF KARMA

Going by the hypothesis of Indian philosophy, a singular force – the force of consciousness – remains the driving spirit...

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