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"The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you." Veda Vyasa, Valmiki, Patanjali, and Ramana had one thing in common. Other than the fact that they were learned men from India, the other thing that bound them all was the word 'Maharishi'. Maharishi, a title...

"Ultimately, life is neither suffering nor bliss, it is what you make out of it." Sadhguru sets us free with this empowering thought. He says all human experiences are generated from within and if we learn to live consciously we can define and mould our lives towards happiness. And he has been...

"Life on this planet, every single living being is leading towards happiness. Happiness for themselves, for their loved ones and for everything around them. But the most interesting thing about happiness is when a member of your family is unhappy. If a family member is unhappy the neighbourhood...

"Bend it like Baba Ramdev", "The Breathing Baba", "The Man who Revolves his Stomach," "The Indian Yogi who Winks, "The Funny Indian Yogi" … are just a bunch of the many names he has been tagged with. We have had yoga masters and yoga maestros for centuries. Baba Ramdev will forever be known as...

That morning, like every other day, he woke up, had his breakfast, got dressed up for work and left. But that evening, instead of returning home, he boarded a train to take him away from all his daily certainties—the people he loved and from the wealth he owned. Leaving behind a...

"More important than what is behind you and what is ahead of you is what is In you. Seek it. Centered in it, act and live." Swami Chinmayananda reintroduced the world to Adi Shankaracharya's work, an Indian philosopher born in 700 AD who strengthened the roots of Advaita Vedanta in Hinduism. In...

Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru once wrote, "It is extraordinary that a person who spent 14 years of his life cut off from India became a brilliant champion of Indian nationalism based on the philosophic and spiritual background of Indian thought." And this is exactly what it is. It was...

ओशो यानी भगवान रजनीश अपने जमाने से 20 साल आगे सोचने वाला आध्यात्मिक गुरू जिसने अपनी समाधि पर लिखवा दिया था- 'Never Born - Never...

महर्षि महेश योगी, एक ऐसे धर्मगुरू की कहानी है जिसका दावा था कि इंसान ध्यान के बल पर पक्षियों की तरह आसमान में उड़...

सद्‌गुरु के व्यक्त्तित्व के कई सारे आयाम हैं... गुरु, दिव्यदर्शी, योगी, मित्र, बहुत से जाने-अनजाने विषयों के...

तमिलनाडु में जन्मे रविशंकर को ये नाम उनके पिता ने आदि शंकराचार्य से प्रेरणा लेते हुए रखा था. 17 वर्ष की उम्र में...

"...you realise that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it." Perhaps one of the ways to describe Paramahansa Yogananda is that he was an Indian monk who gifted Kriya Yoga to the world. There are other great things about him: that he was among the first...

"जीवन नदी की तरह सतत प्रवहमान है, लेकिन हम स्वेच्छा से अपना पृथक तालाब खोद लेते हैं और जीवन-प्रवाह से कट जाते हैं...

"Truth is a pathless land. Truth, being limitless cannot be organised, nor should any organisation be formed to lead people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. I have now decided to disband - The Order of the Star...

"The new man will be a mystic, a poet, a scientist, all together. He will not look at life through old rotten divisions. He will be a mystic, because he will feel the presence of god. He will be a poet, because he will celebrate the presence of god. And he will be a scientist, because he will...