“Bring me the two most precious things in the city,” said God to one of His Angels; and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird. “You have rightly chosen,” said God, “for in my garden of
The happiness which the subject experiences in its connection with the object is due to a temporary pressing down of the rajasic and the tamasic activity of nature, and the sympathetic character experienced between the mind and the object outside. This condition will suddenly
Charaka said The root cause of the derangement of all is unrighteousness or adharmsa. That arises from misdeeds from a previous life or this life, but the source of both is pragya aparadha (intellectual error) [unrighteousness]… When the heads of
One friend has asked, “There is so much corruption, so much bribery, so much favoritism going on in the present capitalism! Do you support this as well? This bribery, this corruption, this favoritism is not because of capitalism. Its causes
The Bhagavad Gita lays a lot of emphasis on the impact of gunas on the human mind. It says,“karmanah sukrtasyāhuh sāttvikah nirmalah phalam, rajasas tu phalam duhkham ajñānam tamasah phalam”. (Chapter 14, Shloka 16) “They say that the fruit of
It is important to note that certain balance between all three guans is important for healthy and balance life. Therefore a tamsic food or tamsic activity is not necessarily bad and sometime may be required to treat certain disease or
The Triguna Energy Quotient (TEQTM) is structured as a personality test designed to discover one’s guna composition. This personality quotient is derived from attributes of these gunas as given in chapter 13 to chapter 18 of Bhagavad Gita. After more
For both, humans and animals, living in a group makes sense because there are many more beings to provide vigilance and defence, mating is easier, help is available, heat is conserved better. Ants and bees have become paragons of a
You can’t buy experience and wisdom in the super market but the company of noble, learned and experienced people guarantees their free supply in abundance. Sage Charaka and other contemporary Rishis, being aware of unruly tendencies of the mind, laid
