Prarthna Saran, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Mental hygiene

The physical hygiene of a daily bath , clean hands, spanking clean kitchen, food cooked hygienically, is a common feature. Many homes lay a...

Mental hygiene

The physical hygiene of a daily bath , clean hands, spanking clean kitchen, food cooked hygienically, is a common feature. Many homes lay a...

Sanyas, a joyous mental renunciation

Sanyas is neither tailor made nor barber made! This garment is of the mind. Saffron cloth is a mere fence around a barren field...

Sanyas, a joyous mental renunciation

Sanyas is neither tailor made nor barber made! This garment is of the mind. Saffron cloth is a mere fence around a barren field...

Sanyas, a joyous mental renunciation

Sanyas is neither tailor made nor barber made! This garment is of the mind. Saffron cloth is a mere fence around a barren field...

Values in religious teachings

What meaning can life or freedom have if it destroys us morally, socially and spiritually? In our mad chant of secularism we have outlawed...

Values in religious teachings

What meaning can life or freedom have if it destroys us morally, socially and spiritually? In our mad chant of secularism we have outlawed...

Values in religious teachings

What meaning can life or freedom have if it destroys us morally, socially and spiritually? In our mad chant of secularism we have outlawed...

Hinduism, a liberal science of life

Hinduism is a religion that does not limit itself to the rigid dictates and commandments of a single text book (welcome to the library),...

Hinduism, a liberal science of life

Hinduism is a religion that does not limit itself to the rigid dictates and commandments of a single text book (welcome to the library),...

Hinduism, a liberal science of life

Hinduism is a religion that does not limit itself to the rigid dictates and commandments of a single text book (welcome to the library),...

Change as a positive value

Change is the only unchanging law of the universe. The wheel of change, ( kaal chakra) is represented as the Sudarshan Chakra on the...

Change as a positive value

Change is the only unchanging law of the universe. The wheel of change, ( kaal chakra) is represented as the Sudarshan Chakra on the...

Change as a positive value

Change is the only unchanging law of the universe. The wheel of change, ( kaal chakra) is represented as the Sudarshan Chakra on the...

Play for the joy, not the trophy

Success means different things to different people. When we achieve society’s idea of success, we feel we are successful. Mostly people live their whole...

Play for the joy, not the trophy

Success means different things to different people. When we achieve society’s idea of success, we feel we are successful. Mostly people live their whole...

Play for the joy, not the trophy

Success means different things to different people. When we achieve society’s idea of success, we feel we are successful. Mostly people live their whole...

Perception, our reality

Old European pubs and taverns hung a picture of TWO drunkards, drink in hand, with the caption ‘We Three’. The third being the one...

Perception, our reality

Old European pubs and taverns hung a picture of TWO drunkards, drink in hand, with the caption ‘We Three’. The third being the one...

Perception, our reality

Old European pubs and taverns hung a picture of TWO drunkards, drink in hand, with the caption ‘We Three’. The third being the one...

Pussy Cat Vedanta: Game goes on

Placed at the pinnacle of evolution, the homo-sapient man is fitted with a manufacturer’s wonder: the intellect. To use this wonder equipment as opportunity...

Pussy Cat Vedanta: Game goes on

Placed at the pinnacle of evolution, the homo-sapient man is fitted with a manufacturer’s wonder: the intellect. To use this wonder equipment as opportunity...

Pussy Cat Vedanta: Game goes on

Placed at the pinnacle of evolution, the homo-sapient man is fitted with a manufacturer’s wonder: the intellect. To use this wonder equipment as opportunity...

The teacher and the taught

The delicate beauty, the simple elegance, the flaming orange stem offsetting the white starlike form of this softly fragrant flower has inspired man to...

The teacher and the taught

The delicate beauty, the simple elegance, the flaming orange stem offsetting the white starlike form of this softly fragrant flower has inspired man to...

The teacher and the taught

The delicate beauty, the simple elegance, the flaming orange stem offsetting the white starlike form of this softly fragrant flower has inspired man to...

Nature worship in Hinduism

Nature is referred to as “Mother” in many Hindu texts. We understood long ago that what nature provides in her mysterious ways, is better...

Nature worship in Hinduism

Nature is referred to as “Mother” in many Hindu texts. We understood long ago that what nature provides in her mysterious ways, is better...

Nature worship in Hinduism

Nature is referred to as “Mother” in many Hindu texts. We understood long ago that what nature provides in her mysterious ways, is better...

Fire: Symbol of Lord

Havans, yagnyas, wedding rituals and other ceremonies generally use a lighted fire pit as the holy altar of the Lord. It is worshipped and...

Fire: Symbol of Lord

Havans, yagnyas, wedding rituals and other ceremonies generally use a lighted fire pit as the holy altar of the Lord. It is worshipped and...

Fire: Symbol of Lord

Havans, yagnyas, wedding rituals and other ceremonies generally use a lighted fire pit as the holy altar of the Lord. It is worshipped and...

House of God radiates peace

“When the Lord is omnipresent, why should I visit a temple? He is with me, here, right now.” A logical protest! Omnipresent does not...

House of God radiates peace

“When the Lord is omnipresent, why should I visit a temple? He is with me, here, right now.” A logical protest! Omnipresent does not...

House of God radiates peace

“When the Lord is omnipresent, why should I visit a temple? He is with me, here, right now.” A logical protest! Omnipresent does not...

Dharma Patni is a friend and guide

Worldwide different words are used to denote the word “wife”. It is Hinduism alone that translates the word as “dharma patni”, proclaiming thereby a...

Dharma Patni is a friend and guide

Worldwide different words are used to denote the word “wife”. It is Hinduism alone that translates the word as “dharma patni”, proclaiming thereby a...

Dharma Patni is a friend and guide

Worldwide different words are used to denote the word “wife”. It is Hinduism alone that translates the word as “dharma patni”, proclaiming thereby a...

Thought is the mother of action

The Ram Charit Manas says that the devatas panicked when Ramji was to be coronated, for their wish to see the destruction of the...

Thought is the mother of action

The Ram Charit Manas says that the devatas panicked when Ramji was to be coronated, for their wish to see the destruction of the...

Thought is the mother of action

The Ram Charit Manas says that the devatas panicked when Ramji was to be coronated, for their wish to see the destruction of the...

Dress or address is not my address

We are neither the dress (our body) nor the address (our identifications with the body). This dress and address is an illusory identity. Vedanta...

Dress or address is not my address

We are neither the dress (our body) nor the address (our identifications with the body). This dress and address is an illusory identity. Vedanta...

Dress or address is not my address

We are neither the dress (our body) nor the address (our identifications with the body). This dress and address is an illusory identity. Vedanta...

The contrast in Ram and Krishna births

The formless infinite , all pervading reality ,concretising itself into a human form for the protection of the good and the destruction of evil...

The contrast in Ram and Krishna births

The formless infinite , all pervading reality ,concretising itself into a human form for the protection of the good and the destruction of evil...

The contrast in Ram and Krishna births

The formless infinite , all pervading reality ,concretising itself into a human form for the protection of the good and the destruction of evil...

Bottle in the Ganges

Swami Chinmayanandaji generally sat outside his cottage in the evening at Sidhabari, Himachal, for informal Satsang with the devotees. On one such beautiful evening,...

Bottle in the Ganges

Swami Chinmayanandaji generally sat outside his cottage in the evening at Sidhabari, Himachal, for informal Satsang with the devotees. On one such beautiful evening,...

Bottle in the Ganges

Swami Chinmayanandaji generally sat outside his cottage in the evening at Sidhabari, Himachal, for informal Satsang with the devotees. On one such beautiful evening,...

If I.N.D.I.A. does not win, will it let India win?

SC collegium endorses permanent judges for Gauhati High Court

Consider regularization of teachers: Court

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