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Kulbir Kaur teaches sociology at Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, Delhi University

Mystic Mantra: Let's embrace truth

The true path of realization can never be coloured by false rituals and superstitions.

21 Sept 2018 12:33 AM IST

The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced free travel in government buses for women on Raksha Bandhan. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Mystic Mantra: May this bond tie us together!

The word rakshaâ€ means protectionâ€ while bandhanâ€ is a tieâ€ or a relationship which bindsâ€.

25 Aug 2018 5:33 AM IST

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A perfect bhel-puri of desire, betrayal, sex

Domestic violence, acid attack, purdah system witch hunting, environmental issues are presented in a drama form in the...

19 Aug 2018 12:31 AM IST

Sikhism, being a practical religion, denounces renunciation and believes in householders way of salvation. (Photo: Representational Image/AP)

Mystic Mantra: A childlike devotion

Bhagat Dhanna's hymns are included in the Guru Granth Sahib under Asa and Dhanasari measures.

26 July 2018 6:20 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Consoler of the mind

The central theme of the Bani is to understand the way of salvation and how to be a brahmgiani, or the enlightened one.

18 Jun 2018 5:41 AM IST

Bhagat Kabirs compositions are included in the Guru Granth Sahib. Of all the 15 bhagats mentioned in the sacred Granth, Kabir contributed the maximum number of hymns. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Mystic Mantra: When ocean merges into the drop

Kabir, a 15th century Indian saint, was a poet, social reformer and a revolutionary.

8 May 2018 12:59 AM IST

Baisakhi has acquired a special significance in the Sikh tradition. (Photo: Representational image/AP)

Mystic Mantra: Baisakhi Harvest, happiness, holy

Baisakhi is celebrated all over the country since it marks the ripening of the rabi harvest.

14 April 2018 6:05 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Show endurance in adversity

Guru Nanak gave Bhai Lehna a new name, Angad , which means a part of one's body.

14 March 2018 1:50 AM IST

Ramananda criticised observances of rituals, especially when heart is devoid of love and pure conduct.

Mystic Mantra: Creator resides within self

Ramananda, a fourteenth century Vaishnava devotional poet sant, was born in 1366 in Allahabad.

23 Feb 2018 2:13 AM IST

Seva of the poor and needy is regarded as the greatest virtue of an ideal Sikh.

Mystic Mantra: Service before self

Bhagat Puran Singh was born in 1904 in Rajeval village in Ludhiana district of the Punjab.

26 Jan 2018 1:54 AM IST

Mystic Mantra: Gurparsad The grace of God

Guru Nanak gave the foremost importance to the conduct and character of a person.

20 Dec 2017 2:35 AM IST

The ninth Guru, also known as Hind ki Chaddar (protector of Hindu religion), was born at Amritsar in AD 1621. He was a man of learning, a renouncer (of vices) as well as a warrior.

Mystic Mantra: Guru Tegh Bahadur Protector of dharma

Guru Tegh Bahadur's calm, meditative nature reflects in his Bani, preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib.

24 Nov 2017 6:49 AM IST