By Viloo Homi Adajania There are spiritual teachings on how to cultivate, for instance, the virtues of patience and tolerance, but ultimately, we learn by trial and error. We can refer to books and read everything there is to learn about religions, philosophies and spiritual practices. But learning alone is of no help. Even […]
Why do bad things happen to good people? They happen because of their ‘Karma’. What do we exactly mean by karma? Is it a punishment? Is it a reward? No! It is payback through divine intervention, a universal method of checks and balances. It is divine-mathematics – a ‘spiritual law of cause and effect’. It […]
The etymology of the word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin root word ‘religare’ which means to unite or to join. To join or unite what? Obviously, Man with God and more importantly, man with man. Has any religion in world history managed to do that? In fact, most wars have been fought in the name […]
Has there been a time when you have woken up and known that something was not going to be right? Or maybe that today was going to be a very important day in your life? People have told me in hindsight that they did not feel ‘right’. They were anxious, on edge, not being able […]
Apart from prayers, there are several ways of connecting with God, and spirituality is the highest form. Mystics call it the short-cut to God. Spirituality is anything that nurtures your inner-self (soul, atma, spirit, ruh, etc.) Religion is only one of the paths of spirituality. Singing (or hearing) bhajans or church-choirs is another path and […]