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If you are interested in learning basics of spirituality but don’t want to read lengthy and profound scriptures, here is something exclusively for you. Following are the two serials being broadcasted on Doordarshan Network which will allow you to understand deep spiritual doctrines with the ease of watching a film. Awakening India Awakening India is a talk show based on life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda. The host calls up spiritual and management giants in front of young students with many career related queries, which automatically triggers up a wild but informative discussion. Inspiring events and quotations from Swamiji's life are also shown by means of animation and motion graphics. Originally the show was broadcasted on DD National on every Tuesday at 9:00 AM IST. The show runs in evening on DD Bharati. For more detailed information about the timing you may contact the team at awakeningindia(dot)dd(at)gmail(dot)com. Upanishad Ganga A Still From Upanishad Ganga The serial...

Out of numerous spiritual practices namely celibacy, renunciation etc., meditation due to its simplicity and health related benefits, has always been a topic of discussion even among non-spiritualists. Let’s dive into the depths of it with a rational approach for its significance and its benefits. Meditation as generally explained in dictionaries means brooding and deep thinking. But meditation is completely different from it. Instead of continuous thinking of a certain subject, meditation comprises of observing the subject only. Meditation is a continued state of concentration of mental rays on a particular subject. So, for proper meditation one must develop enough and prolonged concentration. But this doesn’t mean that those who do not have good concentration cannot attempt meditation. They too can meditate by continued practice. Their primary effort for meditation helps them to develop good concentration which acts as the foundation for meditation. Meditation helps us to expand our ...

As New Year is proceeding towards us we have started talking about resolutions. Resolutions are great way to bring positive changes in our lives. But resolutions alone cannot do. Haven’t we taken resolutions earlier? Aren’t we bound to take the same resolution again and again? So what is the reason of our failure? Resolutions we take, are a kind of goal we set for ourselves but we forget to adopt effective strategy to achieve it. So today we will talk about some sure shot ways to bring joy and satisfaction in our life through achievements we want. Though I am presenting this on the occasion of New Year, these are equally effective and applicable any time. So here are some points that I hope will be helpful: Identify yourself: It is very important to identify your true self, as all your activities, in one way or another, are related with your personality. Without answering questions like, “Who am I?”, “What significance my existence holds in this cosmic existence?” no person has become...

You are repeatedly trying to solve a mathematical problem, again and again. You fail every time. You leave it and go for other work. Suddenly while working an idea popped into your mind and you try to solve the same problem back using the new idea. And hurray! It is solved. What would you call this? Many call this the sixth sense or intuition. But I want to present another way to look upon this. When you repeatedly try to solve the problem, it creates some impressions on your mind and reaches up to your subconscious. Even when you leave the problem, your sub-conscious mind keeps on thinking for ways to solve the problem. And it suddenly comes up with a possible solution that you haven’t given a try. Now, if it is your own mind then why couldn’t you solve it when you where trying again and again to solve that problem. It is because, of your ego. Yes, this is also a subtle manifestation of ego itself. When your conscious mind i.e., you, keep on trying to solve the problem your sub-consci...

Question: What is the state of mind of an enlightened person? Answer: Someone has very nicely described enlightenment as the feeling of 'having done'. After enlightenment one feels like he has nothing left to be done. His purpose in this world feels to be fulfilled. He remains in bliss. He does not feel any need of interrupting any event. He becomes a real observer and enjoys everything. The state of mind is beyond words. Question: Beyond…? Answer: Yes, beyond. Psychiatrists call this state the state of super-consciousness. At this state the consciousness expands to encompass the complete cosmos by uniting it with the eternal supreme consciousness. The mind starts losing its identity and thoughts get transformed into intuition. At that state whatever appears into the consciousness is truth. This is the state where profound doctrines of scriptures appear. Sometimes the person remains completely thoughtless experiencing the Zero and at the next moment consciousness deal with ...

How to achieve enlightenment? Finally a post aiming at a topic that is most fascinating for believers and non-believers, followers and non-followers, practitioners and non-practitioners. Enlightenment is looked upon as the end of all troubles by majority of mass. Hence there is a craze among people to achieve enlightenment. Enlightenment is the state of pure and complete knowledge. This is a state where a person can see and understand everything without getting deluded by its appearance and modes of nature. Enlightenment enables you to understand things in their true perspective but one must understand that it is not the end of sufferings. Sufferings that come to a person due to his ignorance are obviously cut off after getting enlightened but sufferings that are already assigned for him as a result of his own past activities will surely come to the person. The difference will be that this time the person even enjoys those sufferings. Another big myth associated with enlightenment is t...

Idol worship is yet a topic of debate. The life of Swami Vivekananda demonstrates the deep insight into this topic. Before meeting his master, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, he was a member of Brahmo Samaj. His initial beliefs were shaped by Brahmo concepts, which included belief in formless God and deprecation of the worship of idols. But after meeting Sri Ramakrishna and seeing him spending hours sitting before the idol of Goddess Kali, he investigated the truth behind idol worship. His investigation under the light of guidance of his guru Sri Ramakrishna enlightened him of the true meaning and importance of idol worship which he in turn taught to Maharaja of Khetri later. When the king of Khetri heard of the growing fame of Swamiji, he called him to his court. Swamiji found that the king was against idol worship and considered those who follow idol worship inferior, he decided to change his view on this. Swamiji asked one of the court men to bring down a big portrait of the king from ...