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A month before my 67th birthday, which happens to fall this weekend, I was being wheeled into the theatre for stents implantation in the heart. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Of arteries, stents and God

For the rest of us though, the question is, if one should or need really wait for stents to receive better flow of God’s presence and love?

03 Aug 2018 5:27 AM

Yoga is to join the jiva with Brahman. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Yoga — The discovery of our own true self

Vedanta talks about the joining of the individual being with the supreme.

31 Jul 2018 12:17 AM

Joining the Clarist Convent in 1928, Annakutty took the name of “Alphonsa” and spent much time in prayer and penance. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Little Anna’s greatness

Being from a wealthy family, as was customary at that time, Annakutty’s aunt began seeking rich suitors for her to be married.

29 Jul 2018 6:13 AM

Sikhism, being a practical religion, denounces renunciation and believes in householder’s 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 Jul 2018 6:20 AM

The brain is like a computer which performs many functions. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Inventions of God

As the mind creates new ideas and new inventions to change and improve the world, it thinks it is the doer.

24 Jul 2018 6:37 AM

When we enter silence, we enter the emptiness wherein the distinction between self and other, while not obliterated, is transcended. (Photo: AFP)

Mystic Mantra: A quiet cheer for solitude

Solitude is the path to the realm of silence. Silence is the universal matrix, the vacuum that makes fullness possible.

23 Jul 2018 12:33 AM

Most of the time we run out of fear in an perceived painful situation even though the real situation would not have been so painful.

Mystic Mantra: Knowledge is the key to happiness

In most of the cases your fear will be found to be imaginary and if it is a real snake then also it will run away fearing attack.

19 Jul 2018 6:29 AM

Everybody needs this extra shot of inner strength to move through the upheavals of modern life. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra: Meditation in the Thai cave

The Thai boys evidently got their inspiration from their coach who was meditating every day for an hour.

18 Jul 2018 2:58 AM

Thai rescue team members walk inside a cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach are trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, Thailand.

Mystic Mantra: The undying hope and survival

World cups come and go every four years, but an incident that keeps the whole world on pins, comes but seldom.

17 Jul 2018 5:28 AM

When we’re speeding along, we violate our own natural rhythms in a way that prevents us from listening to the real throbs of life.

Mystic Mantra: Chasing an illusory bliss

Hold fast to life, but not so fast that you cannot let go; we must accept our losses and learn how to let go.

16 Jul 2018 12:35 AM

The walking was a kind of meditation, a walking meditation — just as Zen people do walking meditation.

Mystic Mantra: The art of meditation

We need to learn the art of meditation in our busy life — participating in everything can be a meditation.

06 Jul 2018 12:36 AM

The relevance of human and moral values in determining social balance is hardly heard nowadays.

Mystic Mantra: The price of human progress

Life is full of agonising trials and we feel so lonely and alienated because no one belongs to any one.

05 Jul 2018 6:32 AM

Mystic Mantra: Finding faith through doubt

Despite the fact of being a great apostle of Jesus, Thomas earned another, though not a complimentary epithet, of being the “doubting Thomas”.

03 Jul 2018 5:47 AM

It is good to remember that tension has nothing to do with anything outside, it has something to do with your inner turmoil.

Mystic Mantra: Understanding tension

Even the stars and planets are bound together in the space by the tension, the force called gravity.

02 Jul 2018 5:42 AM

Mystic Mantra: The earliest Sufi woman

When Gabriel (the angel of revelation) brought down the first revelation to the Prophet, he began trembling with great fright and worries.

30 Jun 2018 5:39 AM

Kabir describes it as unmani avastha — a transcendental space beyond mind.

Mystic Mantra: Kabir — The Christ of the East

Kabir introduced ulatbaansis (upside-down verse) to express the inexpressible just like Zen Koans.

29 Jun 2018 7:33 AM

In order to progress on our spiritual journey within, we need to overcome anger, lust, greed, attachment, and ego. (Representational image)

Mystic Mantra: Saving natural beauty of soul

Ego arises from pride of our transitory attainments: pride of wealth, worldly knowledge, and power.

26 Jun 2018 1:00 AM

Mystic Mantra: Khusrau — A true son of soil

Amir Khusrau is remembered as one of the founders of the syncretic traditions of Hindustani culture.

23 Jun 2018 6:02 AM

A woman can wear a hijab as a sign of modesty, yet still embrace all of the rights and opportunities enjoyed by Western women. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Mystic Mantra: Nothing veiled about the hijab

Muslim women choose to wear the hijab as a way of showing self-control, power and agency.

22 Jun 2018 1:04 AM

Mystic Mantra: Forgetting that God is maya

Deeming the unrealistic world as real and considering Parmatma and self as to dual entities is Maya.

21 Jun 2018 12:42 AM

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