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Knowing When Enough Is Enough

Knowing When Enough Is Enough

Contentment is not having a great deal; it is knowing when we have enough. In Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa, a young scholar named Kautsa finished his...

13.10.2026 20

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Strength That Waits Unseen

Strength That Waits Unseen

Strength does not vanish when it is hidden; sometimes it waits, protected, for the right time. After twelve years in the forest, the Pandavas had to...

12.10.2026 20

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The Best Offering Is the Dearest One

The Best Offering Is the Dearest One

Worship is tested not by what we offer when it is easy, but by what we are willing to offer when it is not. According to a tradition retold in the...

11.10.2026 20

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The Fear That Weighs on the Body

The Fear That Weighs on the Body

Fear rarely stays in the mind. It settles in the body, and we begin to feel it as weakness, tension and even pain. Arjuna, the finest archer of his...

10.10.2026 20

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Running in Torn Spikes

Running in Torn Spikes

Resources can be borrowed or bought, but the belief to keep running has to be built from within. Gurvindervir Singh, a 25-year-old sprinter from...

09.10.2026 20

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Music as an Offering, not a Performance

Music as an Offering, not a Performance

Greatness is not measured by how many people applaud us, but by what we do with what we have been given. M.S. Subbulakshmi, whose voice made...

08.10.2026 30

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A Little Duty That Saves From Great Fear

Dharma is tested least in comfort and most in the last moments of our strength. In September 2026, on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Captain Smit...

07.10.2026 150

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The Boy Who Insisted on Seeing God

Vivekananda, before becoming a monk, was known simply as Narendra, a sharp, restlessly questioning young man thoroughly unwilling to accept matters of...

06.10.2026 30

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The Devotee Who Argued with God

Devotion, at its most honest and unfiltered, does not always resemble quiet, passive submission. Markandeya, destined from birth to die at the young...

05.10.2026 30

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The King Who Chose Truth Over His Throne

Some stories test not our physical strength or courage, but simply our willingness to keep a promise once honoring it becomes genuinely costly. King...

03.10.2026 30

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The Curse Spoken in a Moment of Anger

Sage Durvasa was known equally across the scriptures for his considerable spiritual power and his famously short, unpredictable temper. When...

02.10.2026 20

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Shedding Rivalry, Resolving Conflict

Rivalry, left unresolved for long enough, can quietly consume even the most accomplished among us, unless someone eventually chooses to end it...

01.10.2026 20

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The Devotee Who Fed God Before Herself

The Bhakti tradition often finds its clearest, most moving expression not in grand temples, but in small, ordinary acts of unguarded love. Andal, a...

30.09.2026 30

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The King Who Became a Sage

Some transformations are not sudden revelations, but the slow result of an entire lifetime spent in struggle. Vishwamitra was born a king, accustomed...

29.09.2026 30

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The Messenger Who Never Kept the Peace

Narada, the celestial messenger and constant traveller between worlds, was often mischievously blamed across the scriptures for stirring conflict...

28.09.2026 50

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Daiv Astro

Mesha | Aries: The week ahead helps you stay composed even when situations feel uncertain. Work can move smoothly, with tasks completed on time and...

27.09.2026 40

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Ordinary life could be Extraordinary

Not every spiritual figure we have heard of have renounced ordinary life.  Some of them did the Sadhana and transformed from within. Sarada Devi...

26.09.2026 40

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Feed People, Love People, Remember God

Some teachings arrive not through scripture, but through a life lived simply in front of us. Neem Karoli Baba, revered across India and known widely...

25.09.2026 40

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The Squirrel's Share of the Bridge

24.09.2026 30

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Karna, Who Gave Without Asking Why

23.09.2026 30

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Let Wisdom Come From Every Side

There is a verse from the Rig Veda that offers a prayer remarkably open for an ancient text: "Aano Bhadrah Kratavo Yantu Vishwatah", let...

22.09.2026 30

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Truth Wears Many Names

In a world quick to argue over whose faith, whose path, or whose interpretation of truth is correct, a verse from the Rig Veda offers a strikingly...

21.09.2026 40

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The Wealth That Cannot Satisfy

Yajnavalkya, a revered sage, once decided to divide his possessions between his two wives before renouncing worldly life. His wife Maitreyi asked him...

19.09.2026 40

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The Boy Who Won by Staying Home

Once, Ganesha and his brother Kartikeya were challenged to a race around the world, with the prize going to whoever completed the circuit first....

18.09.2026 50

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The Dog Who Was Never Left Behind

At the end of their lives, the five Pandava brothers and Draupadi began their final journey toward the Himalayas, renouncing their kingdom to walk...

17.09.2026 40

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The Throat That Held the Poison

When the gods and demons churned the cosmic ocean in search of the nectar of immortality, the first thing to emerge was not treasure, but a deadly...

16.09.2026 40

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The Question That Outlasts Death

We spend so much energy pursuing comfort and security, rarely pausing to ask what truly matters, until we're forced to and many times too late....

15.09.2026 40

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The Obstacle He Broke With His Own Hand

Today is Ganesha Chaturthi. Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, receives the first pooja, invoked before any undertaking begins, so that the path ahead...

14.09.2026 50

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Everything Belongs, Nothing Is Owned

We spend most of our lives accumulating, more wealth, more possessions, more recognition, quietly believing that what we gather becomes truly ours....

12.09.2026 40

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The Fire That Requires you to Sit Down Patiently

In our current life, we feel that acquiring wisdom is instant and much easier through social media by watching a reel or a video or reading a message...

11.09.2026 30

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The Self That Watches Itself

We live so entangled with our thoughts, our worries, our achievements, and our failures, that we often forget there is a difference between the mind...

10.09.2026 50

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The Limits of Self-Reliance

We live in a time that celebrates self-sufficiency, teaching us to solve every problem through our own effort, strategy, and willpower, often treating...

09.09.2026 60

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The Student Who Became the Wall of Water

In the ashram of Sage Dhaumya lived a devoted student named Aruni. One stormy evening, the sage noticed a breach in the mud wall holding back water...

08.09.2026 40

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The Bones That Saved the World

The Devas were losing their long war against the Demon Vritra, who could not be killed by any ordinary weapon. Only one thing could defeat him - a...

07.09.2026 40

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The Unlikely Journey of a Birth

Krishna - Teacher, Guide and the one most revered as God in our tradition did not arrive into the world the way we might expect greatness to begin....

07.09.2026 40

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ChummaIru: The art of simply being

People travelled from across the world to Arunachala, carrying questions that had troubled them for years - about the self, about suffering, about the...

07.09.2026 40

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Empty mind to receive the new

We take pride in what we know. Years of experience, qualifications, hard earned opinions about us built over a lifetime - we carry them like trophies...

07.09.2026 30

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