Uttishth Bhārat

Let us relive the life of a village, moving and progressing at its own pace and passion. A hath yogi welcomes the Surya with an arduous Namaskar while his learned guru offers his prostrations to the Kaal bhairav . ____________________________________        ( A Vigrah of 'Bhairav' found @ Karnataka - Hoysala Dyansty ) ____________________________________ Children gather under a tree for their morning lessons while the Garbha - grha of the temple sings the praise of Bhairavi . A young man sits in the Mandapam of the temple and does magic with his fingers . Entire village full of energy and vigour hopes of a great day ahead. A young lady named Pushpachandrika , somewhere deep inside the jungle, strikes a chord on her  Veena as the deers and hare encircle her.  ____________________________________ ( A 16th - 17th century painting of a lady playing the 'Been'. ) ___________________________________ The yogi sits down with his Ektara to chant the glor

This is a story of a psychologist unhappy with his job and grieved by the condition he sees around him. He is in conversation with someone, perhaps the author. A psychologist, an analyst, and an M.D., he was plump, with a large head and serious eyes. He had come, he said, to talk over several points; however, he would not use the jargon of psychology and analysis, but would keep to words with which we were both familiar. Having studied the famous psychologists, and himself been analyzed by one of them, he knew the limitations of modern psychology, as well as its therapeutic value. It was not always successful, he explained, but it had great possibilities in the hands of the right people. Of course, there were many quacks, but that was to be expected. He had also studied, although not extensively oriental thought and the oriental idea of consciousness. “When the subconscious was first discovered and described here in the West, no university had a place for it, and no publisher

“When I use the word 'global problem', aren't you as a human being, whether man or woman, representative of all mankind? Please understand this question; this is a very serious question - aren't you, as a human being, representative of all humanity? Because your problems are the problems of every other man - economic, social, moral, private, personal. And whether he is an American, or Russian or Chinese or this country, your problems are shared, are common to every man because you suffer, you are anxious, uncertain, insecure, confused, caught up in a world of utter insanity, madness. This is the problem of every human being in the world. There is fear of death. They want to find out what is meditation, how to go beyond and be utterly free of all fear, to find out the full significance of existence. And to find out also a way of living that is true, not hypocritical. This is the common problem of every human being in the world and so you represent the common fac

The crisis is not in economics, politics, religion, but the crisis is in our consciousness - why we are, what we are after thousands and thousands of years - that's where the crisis is. And merely to solve the economic crisis or the political crisis or the brutality of ideologies and wars, it's not only there but it's much deeper. So we are going to enquire first, because they're all related, all problems are related to each other, they are not separate. If we can solve one problem completely, then we have solved all other problems because there is no separate problem. Let us start from the beginning, from the point which we call ‘past’. Can we say that we are the past? It is so because the same past meets ‘present’ to modify it into ‘future’. If I am self-centered today, I will surely be the same tomorrow. Also was I the same in late past. So, can we say that what we refer to as past, present and future are essentially the same? Then there exists no psychologi

"There were four people – Somebody, Anybody, Everybody and Nobody. A task was to be done by Everybody. But he thought Somebody would do it. Somebody thought Anybody could surely do it. In  this game, Nobody did it." ____________________________________ Once we have realized that we ourselves are solely responsible to our deeds and the makings of this world, we can safely try to go deep into the cores of our existence. In this journey, there is no ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ world. It’s like a tide going out and coming in. So it's our responsibility, not to change the society but to see in our journey which we are going to take together, whether in that very movement of taking the journey there is a possibility of changing ourselves fundamentally, a psychological revolution, not a physical revolution. So let us go together. Let us illustrate this with an instance – The scientific innovations of mankind have enabled it practically to feed each and every one on this planet. St

The Sufi Bayazid says this about himself:   “I was a revolutionary when I was  young and all my prayer to Almighty was- ‘Give me the energy to change  thy world.’ ”  “As I approached middle age and      realized that half my life was gone without my changing a single person , then I asked- ‘Give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. Just my  family and friends, and I shall be content.’ ”   “Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, I pray- ‘give me the grace to change myself.' Had  I prayed for this right from the start I should not have wasted my life.” ____________________________________ Right from the beginning we should make certain things very clear: this should be a serious dialogue, it is not an intellectual or emotional entertainment. Also one may point out; we are not trying to do any propaganda for any ideals, for any beliefs, for any conclusions, for any concepts. Together we are going to be aware sensitively, without any prejudice, w