Spirit

Before you read any further, take a quick inventory of last week. Were you pushing hard — deadlines, decisions, driving yourself — and then...

Every major English translation of the Yoga Sutras renders brahmacharya as “celibacy.” Patanjali wrote it in the 2nd century CE, and the word has...

The 16th-century Sanskrit text called the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana describes something precise happening in the body: a dormant energy stored at the base of the spine,...

I stared at a candle every night for two weeks. No phone, no music, no timer — just a flame at eye level in...

Somewhere around 1000 BCE, a Vedic sage looked at the human body and saw not biology but architecture. The body, he concluded, was a...

In recent decades, global interest in Eastern practices—such as yoga, qigong, and meditation—has surged. Among these, Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) holds...

For the modern person, time is a scarce resource or simply numbers on a smartphone screen. However, if we look into ancient Vedic texts...

Beyond Material Possessions: Rethinking Wealth Through the Lens of Hindu Wisdom In the modern world, money often determines success, security, and even a person’s worth....

The Buddha’s Gesture Several decades ago, a major controversy erupted over A.K. Ramanujan’s essay “The Three Hundred Ramayanas.” Right-wing critics accused left-leaning scholars of reducing...

The gratitude jar is a physical practice: you write something you are grateful for on a small piece of paper and put it in...