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Food that has been cooked in this consciousness and which has become sanctified by the simple offering process purifies the mind of anger, greed, pride and envy and helps us to connect our existence with the Divine.
As a Hindu who espouses a non-dual worldview, I understand intellectually that God is on, in and of the field. But it wasn't until last Sunday, while watching the Super Bowl, that I was jolted out of my TV-induced zombie state to experience it.
Westerners have one day, Valentine's Day, dedicated to love. For the Bhaktas -- every day is Valentine's Day. Bhakti is the practice -- and it does take practice -- of unconditional love.
No matter how paganesque Hinduism might appear, it is not pagan in the sense attributed to the word by Abrahamic religions.
It wasn't until I worked on a film about the Bhagavad Gita that I realized it's everywhere. It has influenced so many things I already knew about.
It is thus ironic that so many do yoga as a mere physical practice. Practicing yoga this way leads to rebirth and suffering.
Should yoga come with a statutory warning? Practicing yoga can be injurious to health.
I have been privileged to visit two "Untouchable" villages while here on pilgrimage in India -- the first about four miles outside Bodh Gaya in Bihar province, and the other about four hours south of here, in the village of Dumri in Jharkhand province.
We need to give up our sectarian views and abandon the thought that only the people of my tradition have been blessed and that all others have been condemned.
Yoga is a holistic and spiritual system of living that is essential to the understanding and practice of Hinduism. What yoga is not is physical exercises alone.
The significance of such an approach to dialogues is not dependent upon whether both sides agree or disagree on a given issue; rather, that we are comfortable accepting these differences as a starting point.
Dharma Academy of North America scholars attempt to view the Indic religions on their own traditional terms, not just through the methods and categories of Western scholarship. It is now the largest additional symposium at AAR.
We need to discover ways in which technology can help facilitate our spirit of enquiry. What is the middle-path in the use of technology and how do we find it?
For those not well versed in the political spectrum of India, for comparison, having Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra speak on Kashmir is akin to having a panel on church reform that includes Christopher Hitchens and no clergy.
Yoga is satanic, says Father Amorth, "just like reading Harry Potter." Well, what do you expect from a destroyer of demons who sees his Church's child molestation scandal as proof that the anti-Christ has infiltrated its ranks.
About 15 years ago, after more than 25 years as a runner, I awoke one morning to incredible back pain -- as in, I couldn't get out of bed. Because I was in the habit of running, it never occurred to me to stop.
