Towards Dharmic Capitalism
The question of money and wealth is perhaps the most vexing of all issues confronted by those who aspire for a more conscious way of life. Money has a subtle …
Sri Aurobindo And India’s Destiny
Pencil drawing of Sri Aurobindo by The Mother, 1935
A day will dawn when people of all classes in my country will band together …
The Restoration of Sri Ram And Beyond
The establishment of the foundation for the Ram Janmabhumi Temple at Ayodhya yesterday was a profound symbolic victory for Dharma: it was the culmination of a 490-odd years struggle for …
Building Economy the Indian Way
Between 1-1700 AD, India was consistently one of the largest contributors to the world economy, her contribution ranging between 32% and 25%. It is during this period that India was …
Rebuilding the Hindutva Narrative
Hindutva as Dharmic Resistance
The future, in many ways, will be a deep and intense battle of all dharmic forces against the forces that threaten to disrupt and destroy dharma, anywhere …
Rebuilding The Hindutva Narrative
There are a few fundamental characteristics that define Hinduness or Hindutva. We would do well to begin with these. Let me call these the mool-siddhantas or fundamental principles of Hindutva. …
The Chinese Crisis & The Dharmic Perspective
The Chinese threat to India is far from over. Though China and India have now agreed on a gradual and verifiable disengagement along the LAC, the Chinese have not relinquished …
Mahayuddha, The Great Battle
A dharma yuddha, unlike other battles fought on the ground, is mostly invisible and inaudible, it is waged in the depths of consciousness and engages ancient unseen forces that have …
Agni Purusha, Being of The Fire
Creating The Future & The Power of Belief
There are those who are not content being what they are or doing what they are doing. You can make them out quite …
Great Hindu Mystic
The religious culture which now goes by the name of Hinduism … gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal …
Hindutva and the Hindu Rashtra
Bharat Mata, Painting by Abanindranath Tagore
“Hindutva is indicative more of the way of life of the Indian people. It is not to be …
India’s Potential to Help the World
H.H. the Dalai Lama said during the last Kumbh Mela in Haridwar that “India has great potential to help the world.” He added that already as a youth in Lhasa …
Hinduism And The Universe
Did we ever notice that only Hinduism mentions the universe? The reason is that only Hinduism knows about the vast dimensions and the huge timeframes of the universe of which …
All Religions Are Not The Same
Hindu Dharma Has a Scientific Temper
There have been many attempts to define the Hindu Dharma, or more appropriately, Sanātana Dharma throughout the modern era. Most notably, the Supreme Court defined it as a …
Hindu Dharma is Nearest to Scientific Concept of Time
2. Time Concepts
“Time is the interface between Science and Religion” — Dr. CK Raju
The biggest difference and that which makes it impossible for the Eastern and Western cultures to meet at a midpoint …
Logic System in Hinduism – How it Differs From The West
3. Logic Concepts
The assertion that Hinduism is different from the Middle Eastern Religions of the Book is further fortified by the different ways in which they approach logic.
All Middle Eastern Religions follow the …
Hindu Epistemology With Its Pramāṇa (Proof) System Is Closest To Science
Reliable Means of Gaining Knowledge
4. Epistemology or Means of Knowledge
प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि
pratyakshānumanāgamāh pramaṇāni
Direct perception, inference, and evidence of background knowledge, …
Hindu Cosmology Is Unique In the Comity of Religions
5. Cosmology in Hinduism
Cosmology is that part of a Religion, or of a Spiritual system like the Eastern Oṃkāra Dharmas, which defines its view of the Universe and the way human beings interact …
Hindu Theory of Death Aims At Liberation
Shiva the Destroyer doing the Dance of Death, Tandava
6. Eschatology (Theory of Death)
This story from Kaṭha Upanishad is a broad …
Indic Resurgence
Towards An Indic Resurgence Based on Sanatan Dharma
The political and cultural narratives in India are changing — the signs and indications are everywhere. While the leftist-liberal narratives struggle to …
Sanatan Dharma
Excerpts from the Uttarpara Speech by Sri Aurobindo
(30 May 1909)
When you go forth, speak to your nation always this word, that it is for the Sanatan Dharma that they …
A Hindu Upsurge
Part One
There is undoubtedly a Hindu upsurge in the country today. But whether we seize the tide at its flood and use it to bring about a spiritual renaissance or …
Hinduism and Sanatan Dharma
Part Two
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion, it is the universal religion which embraces all religions. … This is the one religion that …
Aspects of Indian Nationalism
Part Three
Indian nationalism, since the early years of the Indian renaissance, has undergone various mutations. K. D. Sethna, one of the finest scholars and thinkers this country has produced in …
Aspects of Modern Culture
Part Four
The culture of money is obliterating all other cultures; even spirituality itself has become a commodity that can be sold and bought and even mass-produced during weekend retreats in …
Secularism
Part Five
The one country in the world that has been traditionally hospitable to the followers of all religions has now to learn lessons in secularism in its new form. Secularism …
The Higher Hinduism
Part Six
There are two Hinduisms; one which takes its stand on the kitchen and seeks its Paradise by cleaning the body; another which seeks God, not through the …