Deepak Sarma

Professor of South Asian Religions and Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University

By performing the play of the pilgrim, does the Indian-American elementary school student inadvertently become the oppressor? Or confirms the oppression? Or conforms to the oppressor?

Frank Fitzpatrick

Multi-Platinum Selling Record Producer, Grammy-Nominated Songwriter, Social Entrepreneur and Award-Winning Filmmaker

Music is one of our most powerful gateways to connect to our spiritual nature -- our divine source -- the unseen, as well as to the universe around us and those other divine beings that inhabit it with us.

Roger Housden

Author, Speaker, Writing Coach

He swung into our line of vision, swiveling his wheelchair around finally to face us in his spacious living room, his back toward a large window with a vista onto the Pacific Ocean in Maui. Ram Dass was beaming, joyous.

Pratik Dattani

Chairman of UK-based City Hindus Network

The Hindu community faces the challenge of spending less time being issue-driven, and more time developing an ecosystem that young Hindus consider as relevant for the future.

Anju Bhargava

Founder, Hindu American Seva Communities

As we struggle to bring a change, we find -- individually and collectively -- no one can really do it for us. We, as empowered Hindus, have to bring the social change within our own communities.

Deepak Sarma

Professor of South Asian Religions and Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University

I weep for the families and friends for those immediately affected and for those whose lives and memories have forever changed. But I worry, especially after incite-ful rumors that automatically point the finger at (an) international terrorist(s), who, is/are in the imaginations of those easily deluded, brown-skinned.

Anju Bhargava

Founder, Hindu American Seva Communities

Neil Davey, a junior at Montgomery Blair High School, eloquently describes his struggles as he contemplated seva, his motives to serve and the resulting fruits of his action.

Scott Manley

Hindu Writer, Minister and Teacher

This material world is endlessly mutable. Our acquaintances, friends and even family are like straws in the ocean, which come together temporarily, and are then separated eternally by the waves of time. Why are we so attached to these temporary bodily relationships?

Manoj Jain, MD MPH

Physician and Writer

Through his historic and humble decision, Pope Emeritus Benedict makes it clear that in life there is a purpose higher than being one of the most powerful people in the world, and that purpose is becoming one with the self and with God.

Brian Penny

Guys in skinny jeans seem to have misunderstood what it means to get in a girl's pants...

Yoga means something different to every student. Ask 10 yogis what drew them to their mat, and you'll get 10 answers (many are loooong, mine included...

Rajiv Malhotra

Author, 'Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism'

If the Vatican would drop claims of exclusivity over religious truth, and reexamine dogmas such as the Nicene Creed, it would pressure other denominations of Christianity to follow suit.

Scott Manley

Hindu Writer, Minister and Teacher

Karma-ypga, jñāna-yoga and dhyāna-yoga are all occupational duties of the body, of the mind, of intelligence. But real occupation is the soul's surrender to Krishna, because the soul is eternal. The body and mind are not eternal.

Mark I. Pinsky

Author, 'A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed'

Some of Payne's readers may themselves be shocked by some of the explicit sex in Cobalt Blue, yet she is determined to use the Hindu concept to make her point.

Alanna Kaivalya

Founder, The Kaivalya Yoga Method

While the problem with yoga is that it is devoid of myth, its redemption lies in the fact that it will accept fully any myth we bring to it. When we find the mythologies that most resonate with us, we can use them as the container to hold our unfolding practice.

Scott Manley

Hindu Writer, Minister and Teacher

If someone claims to be a spiritual person, and that is indeed the most important thing in their life, because it has changed their life for the better, and they know it could do the same thing for others, why would they be such misers that they don't share that with others?

Anju Bhargava

Founder, Hindu American Seva Communities

We ask what Swami Vivekananda asked: Are you unselfish? If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.