There is a Buddhist saying, “Don’t push the river. It will travel at its own pace anyway.” For the purpose of spiritual evolution, it helps to envision time as a river, though we should not measure it chronologically, as we do now, but in terms of lessons learnt on the spiritual path towards immortality […]
Narayana Murthy, no, we are not talking about our well known IT czar from Benagluru, but this lesser known person from the same state, Karnataka, India, excels in helping thousands of patients ailing from different diseases, from kidney stones to heart diseases to different kinds of cancers. Popularly known as Vaidya Narayana Murthy, around 60 […]
The Dead Sea is really a Lake, not a sea. It’s so high in salt content that the human body can float easily. We can almost lie down and read a book! The salt in the Dead Sea is as high as 35% — almost 10 times the normal ocean water. And all that saltiness […]
Truly Selfless (Nishkaama Karmayogi) We still have a few good human beings around who are doing some yeoman service without expecting anything in return… God Bless Such Souls!!! “I don’t feed beggars. They can look after themselves. The mentally ill won’t ask anyone for food or money,” says N Krishnan who has been […]
They aren’t your regular well-heeled citizens or Pg 3 persons who give away a minuscule percentage of their large earnings to charity (preferably when there’s a camera around). Some of these givers earn barely enough to keep their families going, but are incredibly generous with their time and money. Maharashtra (India) 1) Whenever […]
Billionaire’s Secret Charity He wears a $15 watch, flies economy class and does not own a house or car. For years, few guessed that Chuck Feeney was one of the world’s biggest philanthropists, secretly giving away his billionaire fortune. Born in New Jersey during the Depression to a blue-collar Irish-American family, Feeney co-founded […]
1) If I rest, I rust. 2) No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that have passed. 3) The tragedy of human history is that there is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts and luxuries. So we are comfortably and luxuriously miserable!!! 4) In life we […]
“Rivers do not drink their own water, nor do trees eat their own fruit, nor do rain clouds eat the grains reared by them. The wealth of the noble is used solely for the benefit of others!” In nature, the sun, the rains, the trees, the spring and the rivers work in a rhythm […]
There is an interesting anecdote concerning the Buddha. Lord Buddha’s directive to his disciples was: “Be a light unto yourself.” King Prasenajit came to see the Buddha. He saw a large number of bhikshu-s (monks) bowing to him, saying Buddham Sharanam Gacchami (I surrender to the feet of Buddha). Prasenajit found a contradiction in […]
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child: The winner was a four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little […]
