I’ve taken the Webster’s dictionary definition of Karma and split into separate lines for you to absorb: the residue generated by a person’s actions, its ethical consequences, carried across lives, determines the nature of the persons next life, believed in Hinduism and Buddhism.

Among all topics within spirituality, one of the most complex is Maya, the unreality or veil, which if we overcome, there is the ultimate truth and bliss. A disciple once asked Swami Vivekananda — “I have read all your lectures and books on Maya but I still want you to…

Every Vedantic philosopher will tell you that you are nothing but the consciousness (Atman) and a part of the Supreme. You are not the…

Are Faith and Rationality opposites? NO Whoever tells us that faith equals blind belief and Science equals rational and thereby concludes them as opposites are completely wrong. I have been perplexed in the past but the below clarity helped me and I can say with certainty that they are not…

This is a question that has plagued even the most faithful and asking this question does not make us an atheist. Mother Teresa refers to this in her writings where she questions the existence of a God as she is unable to see the suffering around her anymore. I speculate…

Have been through a process of Past Life Regression (PLR), where through hypnosis and a closely supervised intervention, individuals are able to access their past lives. People who experienced a near death experience talk about moving through a tunnel of very bright light before being pulled back to human…

A favourite book of mine, ‘Getting to Yes’ was about the Art of Negotiations, which clearly showed that kids are the best in negotiations because they don’t have fear to ask questions. No sacred cows or fear of looking foolish for asking something absurd. This is one of the…

Life as we know starts with breathing and ends when the vital energy stops. The second it stops, the body vacuum opens, temperature, water and all elements start to escape from the body and nothing is the same again. Prana (translated life force) is more than just the air but…

Jnana (Wisdom) yoga is one of the four classical schools, alongside Bhakti (devotion), Karma (action) and Raja (meditation), each offering a path to moksha (spiritual liberation) and self-realisation. Sanskrit for “knowledge” or “wisdom,” Jnana is the intellectual path of scriptures and self-study, considered to be one of the most…