Category: Art of Living

Art of Living Spirituality

Another Example of Selfless Service (Nishkaama Karmayoga): Vaidya Narayana Murthy, a Living Legend

May 18, 2014
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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 […]

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Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee: What can they Teach Us?

May 18, 2014
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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 […]

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An Extra-ordinary Indian

May 11, 2014
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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 […]

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Shallow Pockets, Large Hearts…

May 8, 2014
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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 […]

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Serving Selflessly with Detachment (Niraasakta and Nishkaama Karmayogi)

May 8, 2014
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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 […]

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Teachings of Swami Chinmayananda

May 8, 2014
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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 […]

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Art of Giving

May 6, 2014
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“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 […]

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Cute Little Stories of Love, Life and Care…

May 4, 2014
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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 […]

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Things Aren’t Always What They Seem…

April 24, 2014
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Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room. Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel […]

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When Your Hut is on Fire…

April 17, 2014
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The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store […]

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