We all know quite well that the physical world we perceive is filled with countless phenomena. We look at them with wonder, perhaps not really understanding them. Every phenomenon is indeed an appearance; appearances can be mostly misleading. Take, for instance, the sunset where the sun seems to go downward…

Most recently, I was in a hospital setting for a medical procedure during which I had to restrain my physical movements for the sake of the procedure to run its course. To me, however, those restraints put on my physical body were so distressing that I felt like being in…

Since the time of antiquity, humanity has been struggling with the social, cultural, and ethical questions concerning homosexuality and gender non-conformity. Meanwhile, many people across the world reacted in response to these key questions by getting polarized mainly into two groups — one that supports and the other that opposes…

There remains a general tendency among the Indians, especially among those who live in America and European countries, to belittle India as backward. The idea of backwardness, presumably, stems from certain visible drawbacks that India faces today: population, poverty, and widespread corruption. …

A supreme thinker and a supreme spiritual scientist, Buddha influenced the world of thought like no other. He was the embodiment of the age-old wisdom of India — one who fulfilled its meaning and goal by crossing the river of life, more than twenty-five hundred years ago. That is, Buddha…

We’re living in an age of a cultural cancer — a major fallout from the norms and values of life — causing as a result enormous tear to the very fabric of our life. We are also in an era where the value of human life, or any life for…

Life is a gift of nature, and we’re required to live it wisely. Living wisely means living by the rules of life: the universal laws of nature. Undeniably, nature is our first “Mother” who supports all of us by providing for all our needs throughout our lives — from our…

The coronavirus pandemic has caused the entire humanity to pass through a turmoil the like of which we’ve never seen before. And it continues to dominate the world by turning it upside down, affecting lives everywhere. …