Opinion

  =============================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Wednesday 16, June 2024. 05:30. 3573.  1.# Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of India ( Bharatham )  "Upanishads , Bhagavad Gita & Sanathana Dharmam" Chapter 9: The Vision of Life which is the Culture of India-5. Swami Krishnananda. Post-31. ================================================================================ Chapter 9: The Vision of Life which is the Culture of India-5. There is a humorous anecdote. Two trekkers went up to the mountains. They got lost, and wanted to know which peak they were standing on. They opened a map. “Do you know where we are standing? Which is this peak? Do you know where we are?” asked one trekker. “I will tell you. Look at that peak over there. There we are standing,” the other trekker said, pointing to a peak in the distance.   What is this? How can he say that he is standing on a peak that is so far away from him? The mental str...

=============================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Sunday 16, June 2024. 05:30. 3573.  1.# Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of India ( Bharatham )  "Upanishads , Bhagavad Gita & Sanathana Dharmam" Chapter 9: The Vision of Life which is the Culture of India-4. Swami Krishnananda. Post-30. ================================================================================ Our life is a great involvement, and many a time our involvements look like a mess, heaped up one over the other. “I have got so many involvements and so many things to do,” people sometimes complain. Now what are these many things? As in the case of a medical diagnosis, as in the case of a scientific experiment, the so-called manyness—the muddles and the so-called chaotic involvement—has to be dissected into its basic essentials. Even if a person has twenty symptoms, it is essential for the physician to know what these twenty types of manifestation of the illness are, h...

  ================================================================================ 1.#Opinion : Friday  03,  May 2024. 05:30. 3510.  1.# Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of India ( Bharatham )  "Upanishads , Bhagavad Gita & Sanathana Dharmam" Chapter 9: The Vision of Life which is the Culture of India-3. Swami Krishnananda. Post-29. ================================================================================ Mother-in-laws are mostly very hard on daughter-in-laws. They tease them and harass them very much because the mother-in-law is very jealous of a new entrant into the house taking hold of things and achieving ownership, as it were. It seems one day a mother-in-law had gone for a bath in the river nearby. Her daughter-in-law was there in the house. A beggar came and said, “Ma, give some biksha.” “Get out from this place!” the daughter-in-law said. “Get out. Nothing doing. Go!” The man went. On the way he saw the mother-in-law coming after her bath. From ...