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Mystic Mantra: While you are asleep!

The famous scientist Thomas Edison believed that his deepest insights originated from the sweet space between conscious and unconscious states.

11 Sep 2018 12:15 AM

If you become conscious, evolution or any change cannot happen without the necessary energy.

Mystic Mantra: The potential of kundalini

The word “kundalini” generally refers to that dimension of energy, which is yet to realise its potential.

07 Sep 2018 7:14 AM

One of the Indian mystics who celebrated divine love and syncretic devotion was Maulana Hasrat Mohani. In his own words, he was a Sufi mo’min (Sufi believer), ishtiraaki Muslim (secular Muslim), Aashiq-e-Rasool (lover of the holy Prophet) and at the same time, a Krishna bhakt (devotee of Krishna). (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Hasrat’s syncretic spirituality

Through his mystic poetry, Hasrat dedicated beautiful tributes of love and devotion.

06 Sep 2018 7:56 AM

The feeling of being separate makes one violent. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Beyond violence

Feeling separate from the ocean is fiction, and feeling one with the ocean is the reality.

04 Sep 2018 12:31 AM

God or guru, revel in the happiness of their disciples and expect nothing in return.

Mystic Mantra: Where there’s bhakti, there’s Krishna

Bhakti or devotion is the medium for communicating and conjuring the pure consciousness or Krishna within.

03 Sep 2018 12:10 AM

The Bhagavad Gita classifies knowledge according to three different visions.

Mystic Mantra: True education, true knowledge

Elimination of all false notions is the true purpose of knowledge.

01 Sep 2018 2:52 AM

Life is really short and it is only when we are at peace with ourselves and the world that we can find the tranquility we need in order to remember God and contemplate the realm of cosmic powers. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: The symphony of faiths

Most of the misunderstanding about various religions is primarily because we have devalued spiritual values that underline them.

30 Aug 2018 12:24 AM

Mystic Mantra: No space for ‘I’ in Sufi doctrine

One of the most striking aspects of the female Sufis is the certainty expressed in their relationship with God and His love for them.

28 Aug 2018 12:49 AM

Osho has devised many methods which can be used for transforming anger.

Mystic Mantra: Do not manage anger

Anger and sex are the primal instincts found in all species, not only in human beings.

27 Aug 2018 12:25 AM

Raksha Bandhan, basically a Hindu festival, signifies a “knot of protection”. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Mystic Mantra: May this bond tie us together!

The word “raksha” means “protection” while “bandhan” is a “tie” or a relationship “which binds”.

25 Aug 2018 5:33 AM

Sometimes in life we go through good times and at other times, difficulties. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Declare independence from worry

One of the best ways to declare independence from worry is to trust in God.

24 Aug 2018 5:47 AM

You have to understand the central cause of conflict and sorrow and then dissolve it and not merely look to the outside for peace. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: No-Mind — The Door to the Divine

The jump happens spontaneously without effort and without conflict.

23 Aug 2018 12:51 AM

At the biblical “Day of Atonement” the community recognised its’ sin and made amends by sacrificing two goats — one “for the Lord”, the other as “scapegoat”. (Photo: PTI)

Mystic Mantra: Goats and scapegoats

The Ibrahim/Abraham story narrates that Allah/God merely wanted to test his faith by asking him to sacrifice his son, Ishmael/Isaac.

21 Aug 2018 12:58 AM

Neither will we be able to live happily in this lifetime, nor will we be at peace after death due to lack of progress in our spiritual journey and path. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Manners maketh man

Shrewdness, show-off, degrading others, display of ego, etc, should not be a part of our behaviour.

20 Aug 2018 5:37 AM

If you are happy with the creation and are willing to settle with it, you are materialistic. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: An omnipresent Almighty

Any question about existence is simply meaningless because all questions are limited.

17 Aug 2018 3:46 AM

The moment you become completely free, you have to make your own decisions.

Mystic Mantra: What is real freedom?

Viewing the present chaos rampant in the name of freedom it will be useful to go into the depth of the true meaning of freedom.

14 Aug 2018 12:22 AM

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Mystic Mantra: The price of righteousness

A society’s morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are, the more it hurts to touch them.

13 Aug 2018 12:35 AM

It is held in Sufism that kashf and ilham (divine unveiling or inspiration) are bestowed on the saints as an immense spiritual force through which they express their divine love, wisdom or knowledge in prose or poetry. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Mir Dard’s divine poetics

Dard believed that mastering the art of expression is a God-gifted skill and a mark of “manhood” (adamiyat).

09 Aug 2018 6:48 AM

Loneliness in the modern world of instant connectivity is a totally paradoxical problem and is certainly a matter of concern. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: The loneliness and happiness

Today’s scenario is that India is also on the path of becoming more and more affluent and less and happy.

07 Aug 2018 1:04 AM

Let’s shun what Pope Francis calls the “terror of gossip”, and, instead share our dreams of a peaceful, prosperous planet for us all, and our Mother Earth! Begin with peace as a premise, not a conclusion. (Photo: File)

Mystic Mantra: Lest we forget

Today, our countries and communities are drowning in cesspools of hatred and hostility that easily erupt in lynching, shooting, bombing or war.

06 Aug 2018 12:38 AM

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