Category: thinkers

  • Mahavir Jayanti – Om Namo Arihantaanam

    Lord Mahavir was the twenty-fourth and the last Tirthankara of the Jain religion. He was born on the 13th day of the rising moon of Chaitra, in either 599 BC or 615 BC (depending on religious tradition). It will be celebrated on March 27th 2010. According to Jain philosophy

  • The Three Pillars of Hindu Thought

    Swami Vivekananda was a great teacher of the Vedas and Vedic thought, and of the Upanishads in particular. His lecture on the Vedanta (Lahore, 1897) outlined several key concepts of Hinduism and clarified a lot of misconceptions regarding the Vedas and the Upanishads. The theme of the Upanishads can be viewed as an attempt to…

  • Jnana Yoga – Role of the Guru

    Truth achieved through meditation and self-realization is different from truth imparted from outside. Ultimately, what is revealed in the scriptures, what is thought out by the mind and what is realized by the spirit through service and meditation must agree. We start our spiritual life with faith, then comes knowledge, followed by experience. How can…