Another elephant
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Middle-class people of my generation (I was born in 1966) have seen constant improvement in our material wealth over our lifetime. We have gone from lower middle-class to upper middle-class and in some cases to the rich. Our children, who…
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The elephant in the room
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Read more: The elephant in the roomI was talking to a young man yesterday and we got talking about tradition and modernity. He is a sensitive young man who has got a book of poetry published and his work is in the area of product design.…
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Reading Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kaala – Report
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Read more: Reading Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kaala – ReportWhat: Retreat at SIDH campus at KemptyWhen: May 2nd to 6th, 2022People: Around 20 participants from Bareilly, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Vizag.Idea: Reading, contemplation and discussion on ‘Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kaala’ can perhaps show us a…
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Reading Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kaala
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Read more: Reading Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and KaalaWhat: Retreat at SIDH campus at KemptyWhen: May 2nd to 6th, 2022Idea: Reading, contemplation and discussion on Dharampal’s visionary book ‘Bharatiya Chitta, Manas and Kaala’ can perhaps show us a direction to move forward as a conscious Indian who is…
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‘Bharatiya Chitta, Manas aur Kala’: Seminar No. 1
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Read more: ‘Bharatiya Chitta, Manas aur Kala’: Seminar No. 1The 3-day seminar on Dharampalji’s ‘Bharatiya Chitta, Manas aur Kala’ that was jointly organized by SIDH and IGNCA (Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts) finished yesterday evening. This was the first part of a series of 4 seminars on various…
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Unfamiliar wisdom
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Read more: Unfamiliar wisdomSometimes it is useful to temporarily shift out of our traditional ways of looking at the world and see it from a different perspective. The following are excerpts from the ‘Tao Teh Ching’ a 2000+ year old foundational Taoist Chinese…
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The end of the European age
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Read more: The end of the European age“John Michael Greer is a widely read author, blogger, and astrologer whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society.” – From the ‘ecosophia’ blog I have been reading the weekly blog posts of…
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Short videos
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Read more: Short videosWe have been thinking of recording short 10-15 minute conversations for our YouTube channel. The idea is to situate these conversations in the broad areas in which we want to work (As listed on the homepage of our website at…
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Homeschooling FAQ
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Read more: Homeschooling FAQOur three children studied at home. Homeschooling as it is called was not very popular when our children were small and my wife and I did a lot of hectic activity trying to make it work for us. This activity…
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I Am That
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Read more: I Am ThatWhen you look at spiritual literature, it seems to me that, even though the message may be the same, different books seem to work for different people. ‘I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’ worked for me when I…
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Is there an Indian way of thinking?
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Read more: Is there an Indian way of thinking?This is the title of an interesting essay by A.K. Ramanujan, poet, scholar, linguist and translator. The main idea can be summed up with the following quote from the essay: “Cultures have overall tendencies — tendencies to idealise, and think…
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Four Seminars on Dharampal’s work
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Read more: Four Seminars on Dharampal’s work“We the educated elite of India are wary of any attempt to understand the Indian mind. . . . Deep within, we, the elite of India, are also acutely conscious of this highly elaborate structure of the Indian mind. We,…
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